James Nestor | Learning How to Breathe for Health
The Emma Guns Show
Emma Gunavardhana
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2020
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
James Nestor is a journalist and author and his new book Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art is all about the importance of breathing correctly, something you may think you're doing by default but might be shocked to learn is something you may be doing wrong...
In this conversation James and I explore the topic of breathing via the most recent scientific research and data, the history or breathing and also James' own experiences with breath research.
The Wim Hof breathing video mentioned in the show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tybOi4hjZFQ&t=2s
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| 0:00.0 | Little things, like taking a shortcut through the park on your way to work each day can make a big difference |
| 0:16.0 | to your mental health. Find your little big thing |
| 0:27.0 | little big thing at every mind matters. Hello, hi and welcome. I am your host Emmagan Awardner and in my nearly 20 year career as a beauty and health writer I have |
| 0:44.6 | interviewed a lot of people supermodels entrepreneurs authors celebrities and doctors and |
| 0:49.7 | many of these conversations had a real impact on me and I'd come away feeling inspired, |
| 0:54.7 | excited, informed and really empowered. |
| 0:57.4 | And at the back of my mind I'd always think, I wish I could just publish the tape so people |
| 1:01.3 | could really feel that conversation. |
| 1:04.0 | Well on this podcast you get to feel the conversation. |
| 1:06.7 | I talk with experts, guests and a few friends who I hope will inspire, inform and empower |
| 1:11.4 | you and maybe also challenge you whether you're looking for |
| 1:14.5 | self-help self-improvement beauty advice health insights business know-how or just |
| 1:19.1 | some good old-fashioned life advice and a bit of a laugh. It's all here. |
| 1:23.0 | Welcome to the show. |
| 1:26.7 | Listeners, I am so delighted to bring you this episode of the podcast |
| 1:31.0 | with James Nesta. |
| 1:32.4 | James is the author of the |
| 1:35.0 | new science of the book Breath, the new science of a lost art |
| 1:38.0 | and when I first picked up the copy of this book |
| 1:42.0 | I didn't really genuinely know what to expect. |
| 1:45.1 | I hope you've probably heard me talk about breathing techniques and breathing therapy and |
| 1:50.6 | the benefits of breath with people like Dr Wong and Chatterjee and Dr Andrew |
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