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Named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR A fascinating book, full of dazzling revelations. --Dr. Rangan Chatterjee This book is awesome. Most people have no idea how to do breathing exercises and how beneficial they are. Over the last few weeks I've been using the methods I learned from his book and I can tell you there are absolutely some real benefits to be had from this. . .I really enjoyed this book. --Joe Rogan on Instagram I highly recommend this book. --Wim Hof on Instagram A fascinating scientific, cultural, spiritual and evolutionary history of the way humans breathe--and how we've all been doing it wrong for a long, long time. I already feel calmer and healthier just in the last few days, from making a few simple changes in my breathing, based on what I've read. . . . Our breath is a beautiful, healing, mysterious gift, and so is this book. --Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Big Magic and Eat Pray Love James Nestor's perfectly timed book looks at what is known through research and what is known by experience - often his own painful experience - as he submits to experiments and breathwork techniques to learn more about something we typically take for granted. Reading this book, I gained both a greater appreciation for my respiratory system and a personal-best long-distance run (breathing through the nose = greater endurance)! --NPR With his entertaining, eerily well-timed new book, James Nestor explains the science behind proper breathing and how we can transform our lungs and our lives. . . . The book is brisk and detailed, a well-written read that is always entertaining, as he melds the personal, the historical, and the scientific. --The Boston Globe "It's a rare popular-science book that keeps a reader up late, eyes glued to the pages. But Breath is just that fascinating. It will alarm you. It will gross you out. And it will inspire you. Who knew respiration could be so scintillating?" --Spirituality & Health "Breath provides a new perspective of modern day technology and how we've unknowingly abandoned the answers we've always had. James Nestor artfully brings back what modern society has walked away from by combining ancestral techniques and new age technology in one elegant book." --Scientific Inquirer.