Breath : the new science of a lost art
Nestor, James2021
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300,000 years ago, Homo sapiens had bigger skulls. Cooked food meant our heads shrunk; alongside a growing brain, our airways got narrower. Urbanisation then led us to breathe less deeply and less healthily. And so today more than 90% of us breathe incorrectly. So we might have been breathing all our life, but we need to learn how to breathe properly! Here, James Nestor meets cutting-edge scientists at Harvard and experiments on himself in labs at Stanford to see the impact of bad breathing. He revives the lost, and recently scientifically proven, wisdom of swim coaches, Indian mystics, stern-faced Russian cardiologists, Czechoslovakian Olympians and New Jersey choral conductors - the world's foremost 'pulmonauts' - to show how breathing in specific patterns can trigger our bodies to absorb more oxygen, and he explains the benefits for everyone that result.
Main title:
Breath : the new science of a lost art / James Nestor.
Author:
Nestor, James, author
Imprint:
UK : Penguin Life, 2021.
Collation:
280 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: New York: Riverhead Books, 2020.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780241289129 (pbk. :)
Language:
English
Related title:
Breath [electronic resource] : The New Science of a Lost Art
Subject:
BRN:
5044221
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Castelnau Library | Adult Non-fiction | 613.192 | In-transit from Twickenham Library to Castelnau Library (Set: 21 Aug 2023) |
| Hampton Library | Adult Non-fiction | 613.192 | In-transit from Twickenham Library to Hampton Library (Set: 18 Dec 2023) |
| Teddington Library | Adult Non-fiction | 613.192 | Onloan - Due: 17 May 2024 |
| Whitton Library | Adult Non-fiction | 613.192 | Available |