Dr. Alok Kanojia

We don't really know.

But then some of this other stuff, like I think if people are not achieving what they want, what I encourage them to do is explore and be skeptical, right?

Like, don't just believe it, but try it, right?

So like, if you're doing cardiac coherence breathing, that's not a should be, right?

Alternate nostril breathing.

You know, do it regularly the way that you were taught and then do it for eight seconds for the inhalation, 32 seconds for the hold and 16 seconds for the exhalation.

Alternating nostrils.

Yeah, alternating nostrils.

There were certain things I would find in the yogic texts.

And then I ran into this exact thing where there's, I think they call it an ultradian rhythm, right?

That's that, oh, this is like a physiologic thing.

And so I lean towards the practices that were physiologically sound, that there's some evidence for it.

Cause I was like, I'm not gonna waste my time and like nothing's gonna happen.

I'm gonna do the stuff that at least I'll get a physiologic benefit.

And then as you go into advanced practices, like it's wild.

And the really scary thing is that

In my mind, there's a lot of this stuff is like scientifically valid, but it's really hard to study.

And then the really scary thing, the thing that bothers me the most is that I think there's a lot of stuff that's true that is not scientifically valid.

I really think it's kind of like beyond what science is capable of measuring, at least now and in the foreseeable future.

Spirituality.