Episode 3: James Nestor on his book Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art

On today’s episode of the Conscious Breathing Podcast I have fellow pulmonaut James Nestor. He is an author and journalist who has written for Outside Magazine, The New York Times, Scientific American and many others. In 2014 he released his best selling book Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science and What the Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves. It has received numerous awards. In his latest book Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, he explores the million-year long history of how humans have lost the ability to breathe properly and why we are suffering from such ailments as snoring, sleep apnea, asthma, allergies and a whole host of other maladies and how we can use breathing to explore the furthest reaches of our human potential.

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The Conscious Breathing podcast was created to explore how breathing plays a critical role in our health, relationships, Come with us on this journey where we extract the wisdom of experts from around the world into a unified understanding of breath and the role of carbon dioxide and oxygen in our health. The way we breathe can have a profound impact on our physiology which influences our relationships, sex life, energy levels, ability to concentrate, and remember and much more. We breathe between 10 to 20kg 20 to 40lbs) of air per day. Compared to food, we only consume about 1 to 2kg (2 to 4lbs) per day and water even less at We explore a large range of health topics with these guiding principles in mind.