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Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or strong you are, none of it matters if you are not breathing properly.
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, causing its readers to never breathe the same again.
“A fascinating scientific, cultural, spiritual and evolutionary history of the way humans breathe, and how we’ve all been doing it wrong for a long, long time.” -- Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Big Magic, Eat Pray Love, and Committed