James Nestor
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2020.
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"No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how resilient your genes are, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you're not breathing properly. There is nothing more essential to our health and wellbeing than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat 25,000 times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences. Science journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure...
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2014
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From the bestselling author of Breath, a "fascinating, informative, exhilarating" voyage from the ocean's surface to its darkest trenches (Wall Street Journal)
New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • An Amazon Best Science Book of 2014 • Scientific American Recommended Read
Fascinated by the sport of freediving—in which competitors descend great depths on a single breath—James
...3) Breath
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A New York Times Bestseller
A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2020
An Amazon Best Science Book of 2020
"Breath" is not merely an audiobook about our most basic biological function. It turns the conventional wisdom about breathing and explains how the billions of molecules getting into our body with each inhale become the building blocks for our bones, muscles, blood, brain, and organs, and how all these minor changes work upon our health...