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100 1  Nestor, James,|eauthor. 
245 10 Breath :|bthe new science of a lost art /|cJames Nestor. 
264  1 [New York, New York] :|bRiverhead Books, an imprint of 
       Penguin Random House LLC,|c2020. 
264  4 |c©2020 
300    xxii, 280 pages ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  The worst breathers in the animal kingdom -- 
       Mouthbreathing -- Nose -- Exhale -- Slow -- Less -- Chew -
       - More, on occasion -- Breathholding -- Fast, slow, and 
       not at all -- Epilogue: A last gasp. 
520    "No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how 
       resilient your genes are, how skinny or young or wise you 
       are, none of it matters if you're not breathing properly. 
       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.
       Science journalist James Nestor travels the world to 
       figure out what went wrong with our breathing and how to 
       fix it. Why are we the only animals with chronically 
       crooked teeth? Why didn't our ancestors snore? Nestor 
       seeks out answers in muddy digs of ancient burial sites, 
       secret Soviet facilities, New Jersey choir schools, and 
       the smoggy streets of Sao Paulo, Brazil. He tracks down 
       men and women exploring the science behind ancient 
       breathing practices like Pranayama, Sudarshan Kriya, and 
       Tummo and teams up with pulmonary tinkerers to 
       scientifically test long-held beliefs about how we 
       breathe. Modern research is showing us that changing the 
       ways in which we breathe can jump-start athletic 
       performance, halt snoring, rejuvenate internal organs, 
       mute allergies and asthma, blunt autoimmune disease, and 
       straighten scoliotic spines. None of this should be 
       possible, and yet it is. Drawing on thousands of years of 
       medical texts and recent 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"--|cProvided by publisher. 
590    LEASE 2020-08 
650  0 Breathing exercises. 
650  0 Respiration. 
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