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Breath

the New Science of a Lost Art
Mar 09, 2021
A light read thanks to its optimistic (if, perhaps, naive) premise -- if you can manage to breathe your nose most of the time, you'll see big gains in physiological and cognitive function! Books like this, where the answers come easily and intuitively, make me scared that we have it all wrong: what if I'm ruining my health by not nose-breathing in quite the right way?? Nestor gestures at this concern and critique sometimes, once by admitting that athletes might gain only one percent in advantage over their mouth-breathing opponents, but that the extra one percent turns out to be crucial. For me, non-athlete as I am, I’m going to take solace in the body’s complexity and not beat myself up for the occasional mouth-breath. For readers inclined towards life hacks!