James Nestor - Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art

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Connor Beaton

Society & Culture, Mental Health, Self-improvement, Relationships, Health & Fitness, Education

4.8 • 591 Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

For our 300th episode, I wanted to cover something so common we take it for granted, and so critical we can’t live without it: breathing. Most of the time, it’s something we do unconsciously, but how we breathe and what we’re taking in are critical. We don’t really give it a lot of thought, but James Nestor is dedicated to changing that. When he and I sat down to talk about the nature of breath, the amount of info and insight he had blew. me. away. We cover the bleeding edge of science on breathing. From the subtle (but chronic) effects of Upper Airway Resistance Syndrome, Jame’s personal experience of how we evolved for nasal breathing (not mouth breathing), to some easy ways you can optimize your own breathing technique. As always, share your takeaways with me! Leave a rating or review! James Nestor is an author and journalist who has written for Scientific American, Outside, The New York Times, The Atlantic, and more. His latest book, Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, was released May 26, 2020 by Riverhead/Penguin Random House. Breath was an instant New York Times bestseller and will be translated into more than 15 languages in 2021. Nestor’s first book, Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves, was published in 2014 and was a finalist for the 2015 PEN/ESPN Award For Literary Sports Writing, an Amazon Best Science Book of 2014, and more. Nestor has appeared on dozens of national television shows, including ABC's Nightline and CBS Morning News, and on NPR. He lives and breathes in San Francisco. Connect with James Website: www.mrjamesnestor.com Instagram: @mrjamesnestor Facebook: facebook.com/mrjamesnestor Twitter: @mrjamesnestor Are you looking to find your purpose, navigate transition or fix your relationships, all with a powerful group of men from around the world? Check out The Alliance and join me today. Check out our Facebook Page or the Men's community.Subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify For more episodes visit us at ManTalks.com | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter Did you enjoy the podcast? If so please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. It helps our podcast get into the ears of new listeners, which expands the ManTalks Community Editing & Mixing by: Aaron The Tech See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Man Talk Show, Training for Men, Answers for Women.
0:14.2	I'm Connor Beaton.
0:15.5	And today joining me is James Nestor, who is the author of a book called Breathe. I've been wanting to interview him
0:23.0	for a while, and today's podcast is going to be all about breathworks. Let me tell you a little bit
0:26.9	about James. He's the author and journalist who has written for Scientific America, Outside
0:33.0	Magazine, The New York Times, The Atlantic National Public Radio, Surfers Journal, the San Francisco
0:39.7	Chronicle, and more. He spent the last several years working on a book called Breathe,
0:44.7	The New Science of a Lost Art. It released through Riverhead and Penguin Random House on May
0:51.2	26 and 2020, so just earlier this year, and was an instant New York Times,
0:55.8	Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times, Sunday London Times, top 10 bestseller.
1:01.3	This book explores the million-year-long history of how the human species has lost the ability
1:07.7	to breathe properly and why we are suffering from a laundry list of
1:13.3	snoring, sleep apnea, asthma, autoimmune disease, allergies, all because of our ineffective
1:20.3	and inefficient breathing modalities. James ended up traveling the world in an attempt to figure out
1:26.7	what went wrong and how to fix it.
1:28.7	The answers, as he would discover, weren't found in pulmonology labs, but in the muddy digs of
1:35.0	ancient burial sites and secret Soviet facilities, New Jersey choir schools, and the smoggy streets
1:42.8	of Sao Paulo. So we're going to talk quite a bit about
1:47.1	this, about this book, Breathe, but we are specifically going to talk about some of the research,
1:54.4	some of the incredible experiences that James had along the way. And this book is going to unpack
1:59.0	a few different breathing techniques, specifically on this episode. We're going going to unpack a few different breathing techniques,
2:02.5	specifically on this episode, we're going to talk about a few different breathing techniques
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