James Nestor

And not every aspect, but many aspects, many aspects that people would not suspect.

So it can change our athletic performance, vastly improve it.

It can allow us to sleep better.

It can allow us to think better, have better sex, if you're into that kind of thing.

A whole bunch of other measurable improvements to our lives, and nobody's really thinking about it.

We don't think about it because we've evolved not to think about it, which is great.

I mean, if we had to think about every single breath we were taking all the time, how awful that would be.

But it works in the background and the problem is we develop really bad habits and those habits start working on the background and we don't notice that those negative breathing habits are affecting how often we get headaches, how tired we are, the amount of cavities that we're getting, on and on and on.

And so people just don't think about it because they don't need to.

But if they would start to and start taking conscious control of this, we know it has vast improvements.

Is that why you call it a lost art?

It's a lost art, yeah, because ancient cultures, you look back in ancient Hindu cultures, ancient Chinese cultures, even ancient Native American cultures, they all celebrated breathing as a medicine.

This was something they really focused on.

It was as essential as the food you were eating or the amount of exercise you were getting.

Yeah, because it really is a diet for your lungs.

It's a diet.

We get most of our energy from air.

Not from food and not from drink, from air.

I can prove this.

If you hold your breath for six minutes, you're going to go unconscious, right?