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Breath by James Nestor
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Hmm. An interesting look at breathing (how very much of human culture has treated it as important, how we in the modern West don't, and what difference scientists have shown it can make). Some really interesting stuff in here when it's actually evidence based, especially on why it's important to breathe through the nose and into the abdomen, both of which I've heard a lot but never thought much about. And 'email apnea' is clearly a thing (when your attention is skittering around the internet and you gasp for breath and realise you've not been breathing properly for some time.

There's an awful lot of fairly unlikely assertions in here, eg breathing through the left nostril affects a different nervous system than breathing through the right one which...I'd like a bit more explanation on how that works, honestly. Lots of subjective responses as well. But clearly breathing requires a bit more attention than I've hitherto given it, anyway. Engagingly written, also, with lots of humour and some really interesting case histories.
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