James Nestor
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Well, here's the trick with these things.
Like we don't need another box to check every day.
You know, we got to, Oh, did I get my protein?
Did I sleep by eight hours?
Did I walk 20 minutes?
All of that.
What you want to do is to practice these things.
techniques enough, right, that this becomes your new default.
This becomes your unconscious breathing.
That can take a couple of months to do.
They found some researchers here were helping 9-11 victims, you know, 20 years ago.
When was it?
20, 24 years ago.
And they had this terrible condition called ground glass lungs because they inhaled all of these pollutants, right, when the towers went down.
And nothing worked for them.
Pharmaceutical drugs didn't work, nothing worked, except this practice was more effective than anything else because it allowed air to circulate properly in the lungs and allowed them to expel all the crap in their lungs.
So not only mentally are you sharper, are you calmer, is your nervous system downregulated to a healthy spot, but also physically it can help your lungs be healthier.
So the guy who started doing this, Richard Brown, is right down the street from us here.
He's at Columbia.