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without first speaking with your doctor. Now, let's head to the show. Hello, everyone. Today I spoke

with James Nestor, author of The Great Book, Breath, and we build this case regarding how important

healthy respiration is.

This isn't an episode on Wim Hof for some of the more intense practices that you may have

heard regarding breath.

But rather here we go into the importance of nasal breathing, the importance of lung capacity, and how a data set from the

Framingham study found that lung capacity predicted all-cause mortality.

We also provide some simple exercises you can do to improve the tonality of the musculature

that dictates the patency of your airway, as well as a few other fun

usings on diaphragmatic release, how some Indian tribes monitored their infants for proper

breathing, and a few other choice select breathing techniques.

And we really build upon this case, which I hope you're paying paying attention to which is the quality of your breathing is very important and one flag will throw up

for you if you snore then this is definitely an issue you want to look more into

because it's like driving your car with the e-break on it was a great conversation with James. I hope you enjoy it. I also hope you

will leave the podcast, a review in iTunes if you've been finding this show helpful. It really

helps us reach more people with the good work that we're trying to do. Okay, and now we will go

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