James Nestor: The Lost Art of Breath
The Chase Jarvis LIVE Show
Chase Jarvis
4.8 • 641 Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2020
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
One of the most essential functions for health and wellbeing of a human is just breathing. Breathing air. In and out. In fact, we do this 25,000 times a day. Yet, as today's guest James Nestor will share, a wide majority of us have lost the ability to breathe correctly wreaking havoc on our health. But all is not lost. Modern science agrees, that even the smallest adjustments in the way we inhale and exhale can have dramatic downstream positive effects.
James Nestor is a journalist who has travelled the world to find out what is going on with our breathing. He has written for Outside, Scientific American, The Atlantic, Dwell, The New York Times, and many other publications. I first discovered his work with his book Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves which was a finalist for the 2015 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing, an Amazon Best Science Book of 2014, and more.
What James has learned about the breathe to help with anxiety, asthma, sleep apnea, physical & mental performance, even rejuvenate internal organs, reverse auto-immune diseases, strengthening the immune system and so much more. Can't wait for you to dig in.
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| 0:00.0 | One of the most essential functions of the health and well-being for human is breathing. |
| 0:11.5 | Breathing air, just in and out. |
| 0:14.8 | If you didn't know better when I told you, you'd do that 25,000 times a day. |
| 0:19.7 | It might be a shocker. |
| 0:25.9 | And yet, as our guest in this upcoming show here on the Chase Jarvis Live show on Creative Live, we'll share. We've basically lost the ability to breathe |
| 0:31.3 | correctly. And it has serious implications. And right now, you're probably saying, well, I can breathe |
| 0:36.7 | just fine, Chase. Thank you. I know how to breathe. And here I am. But the reality is that, and modern research |
| 0:44.9 | agrees that making even the tiniest adjustments in the way we inhale and exhale can have |
| 0:51.1 | dramatic downstream positive effects. It can jumpstart athletic performance. |
| 0:55.6 | It can rejuvenate internal organs. |
| 0:58.6 | It can fix scoliosis. |
| 1:01.8 | Okay? |
| 1:02.2 | This is science. |
| 1:03.1 | This is not something I'm making up. |
| 1:04.7 | It can also halt snoring, asthma, reverse autoimmune diseases, and even, well, I'll let you listen to the episode to find out what else it can help transform. |
| 1:16.0 | And this is an amazing episode. |
| 1:17.7 | And my guest today is James Nestor. |
| 1:21.2 | He is a journalist who's traveled the world to figure out what went wrong with our breathing. |
| 1:26.1 | And the most important part of |
| 1:28.5 | this podcast is how you, the listener or the watcher, the listener in this case, can fix it. |
| 1:36.0 | I first came into contact with James' work when he wrote about free diving, renegade science, |
| 1:41.5 | and what the ocean tells about ourselves. Because I was fascinated with surfers' ability to hold their breath really deep, or really |
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