THE PHENOMENAL INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE SHORTLISTED FOR
THE ROYAL SOCIETY BOOK PRIZE 'Who would have thought something as simple as changing the way we
breathe could be so revolutionary for our health from snoring to allergies to immunity? A
fascinating book full of dazzling revelations' Dr Rangan Chatterjee There is nothing more
essential to our health and wellbeing than breathing: take air in let it out repeat 25 000
times a day. Yet as a species humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly with grave
consequences. In Breath journalist James Nestor travels the world to discover the hidden
science behind ancient breathing practices to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it.
Modern research is showing us that making even slight adjustments to the way we inhale and
exhale can: - jump-start athletic performance - rejuvenate internal organs - halt snoring
allergies asthma and autoimmune disease and even straighten scoliotic spines None of this
should be possible and yet it is. Drawing on thousands of years of ancient wisdom and
cutting-edge studies in pulmonology psychology biochemistry and human physiology Breath
turns the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological
function on its head. You will never breathe the same again.
