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. In Breath, journalist James Nestor travels the world to discover the hidden science behind ancient breathing practices to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it.
Modern research is showing us that making even slight adjustments to the way we inhale and exhale can:
- jump-start athletic performance
- rejuvenate internal organs
- halt snoring, allergies, asthma and autoimmune disease, and even straighten scoliotic spines
None of this should be possible, and yet it is. Drawing on thousands of years of ancient wisdom and cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry and human physiology, Breath turns the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function on its head.
You will never breathe the same again.
O proizvodu
Format:
12,9 x 19,8 cm
Uvez:
meki
Broj stranica:
304
Biblioteka:
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Izdavač:
Penguin Books
Izdanje:
2021.
Upoznaj autora
James Nestor je autor i novinar koji je pisao za Outside Magazine, The Atlantic, National Public Radio, The New York Times, Scientific American i niz drugih časopisa. Njegova knjiga Dah: Nova znanost o izgubljenom umijeću disanja objavljena je 2020. te je postala trenutni bestseler i provela 18 tjedana na popisu najboljih knjiga New York Timesa u prvoj godini objavljivanja. Američko društvo novinara i autora proglasilo ju je najboljom knjigom u rubrici publicistike za 2020. godinu. Prevedena je na više od 30 jezika.
Njegova prva knjiga DEEP: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What The Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves (Duboko: Ronjenje na dah, odmetnička znanost i što nam oceani mogu reći o nama) objavljena je 2014. i osvojila je brojne nagrade. Nestor je svoja istraživanja predstavljao na Sveučilištu Stanford, u UN-u, kao i na više od 40 radijskih i televizijskih programa.
