Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor

Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art

James Nestor

280 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction health science informative fast-paced

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300,000 years ago, Homo sapiens had bigger skulls. Cooked food meant our heads shrunk; alongside a growing brain, our airways got narrower. Urbanisation then led us to breathe less deeply and less healthily. And so today more than 90% of us breath...

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