Breath: New Facts About the Lost Art

You will no longer be able to breathe as you did before!
It doesn't matter what you eat or whether you exercise. Your body type and level of intelligence do not matter if you don't know how to breathe properly.
For health and well-being, nothing is more important than breathing. It seems like a simple process: inhale—exhale, 25 thousand times a day. But humans as a biological species have lost the ability to breathe correctly, and this has dire consequences for us.
Journalist James Nestor travels the world to find out what went wrong and how it can be fixed. He looks for answers not in pulmonary laboratories, but in dusty excavations of ancient graves, in secret Soviet research institutes, in choir circles in New Jersey, and on smog-filled streets in São Paulo. Nestor meets with people who possess secret knowledge based on ancient breathing practices like pranayama, sudarshan kriya, and tummo, and together they subject established notions about breathing to scientific scrutiny.
Modern research shows that even small changes we make in the process of inhalation or exhalation can dramatically improve athletic performance, rejuvenate internal organs, eliminate snoring, asthma, autoimmune diseases, and even straighten a spine affected by scoliosis.
Referring to ancient medical texts that are thousands of years old and the latest research in the fields of pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry, and human physiology overturns our usual notions of breathing as a basic biological function.