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Informative and interesting on an aspect of our health we can all work on in our day to day lives. I got a little bored at times because I don't usually go for non-fiction audiobooks. However, every adventure and discovery he talked about was interesting. I especially liked the led breathing activities at the end. I also appreciated how the author made it very clear that he believes in science, vaccines, and antibiotics and that breathing is just another tool in our health kit.
I thought this book was really interesting! I learned a lot and am trying to incorporate some of the suggestions into my daily life.
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informative
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medium-paced
informative
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medium-paced
I do partly agree with the sentiment of some of the other reviewers that the arguments for certain breathing techniques sometimes felt too anecdotal, but my impression remains largely positive. Firstly, the anecdotes are hard to ignore: Wim Hof, freedivers, Swami Rama ... like how many superhuman feats do we need to see before we can hit that sweet p<0.05 /s? Also, if I had to guess, the science may be lacking because clinical research is biased to finding treatments to problems over their prevention (which most of us end up trying to figure out on our own: what to eat, how to exercise, etc.), and so the studies just aren't there.
Anyway, I think the main value that I got out of the book was learning about all the breathing techniques that are out there. Before this book, I only knew the most basic pranayama: Nadi Shodhana, but now I have a list of exercises to try! Maybe it'll help me set a new PR for my marathon time, or maybe it won't. But I'm curious to try, and the barrier to entry is literally free.
Also, I listened to this as an audiobook. James Nestor narrated his own book, and I think he did a great job!
Anyway, I think the main value that I got out of the book was learning about all the breathing techniques that are out there. Before this book, I only knew the most basic pranayama: Nadi Shodhana, but now I have a list of exercises to try! Maybe it'll help me set a new PR for my marathon time, or maybe it won't. But I'm curious to try, and the barrier to entry is literally free.
Also, I listened to this as an audiobook. James Nestor narrated his own book, and I think he did a great job!
I found a decent amount of the information in this book to be interesting and beneficial. Other parts of it seemed like anecdotal evidence. I listened to “Breath” as an audiobook, so that made the time pass faster. I’m not sure I’d have finished the book if I’d read a physical copy of the book. I think it would have dragged on too much.
As a warning, there are several places within the book that detail testing on animals—I had to skip past those sections.
As a warning, there are several places within the book that detail testing on animals—I had to skip past those sections.
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It started to feel like pseudoscience and a waste of my time.