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James Nestor

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“Yeah, lockdown in the US was in March. This book came out in June, right on the heels of it, which was absolutely... Bizarre to me and all of the research looking into breathing patterns, looking into nasal breathing, how that can help rehabilitate people with long COVID and with acute cases of COVID is very solid. And I still don't see anybody talking about this.”
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“Yeah, yeah. Some people thought I had planned that somehow. It was interesting. The first week the book came out, somebody criticized it for taking advantage of this pandemic without bothering to notice the book was printed and in warehouses six months before anyone had ever heard the word COVID, you know, and I worked on this book for years and years and years.”
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“There have never been like a huge study done on that, on humming and nasal breathing and the comic, and there never will be, right? No one's going to fund that. I can say anecdotally, absolutely. And if you look at the biochemistry, if you look at the physiology, if you look at all the functions of the nose, you can deduce. It seems very clear to me that you will be susceptible less to certain viruses, certain bacteria by breathing in and out of your nose.”
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“Yeah, and you can feel the vibration there. So somebody sent me this device like three months ago that they now have a device for people who don't want to hum that goes on your nose and hums for you. If that's going to help you hum, you can do that. But I've found it's just kind of easier to pick a song you like and hum that.”
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“So these are simple tricks you can do. They are free available for everyone. The humming also helps to calm the body down because we have the vagal nerve, right? Vagus nerve. Vagal tone is right along here. So when you hum, you're sending signals to the vagus nerve.”
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“Because of all of these different tissues They release nitric oxide and there is some science showing that this boost of nitric oxide can significantly help us defend more from viruses and bacteria, including colds. So breathing in and out through the nose. There is a lot of work in nitric oxide and COVID rehabilitation. Who knew we can produce so much of it in our noses? And if you hum, you can increase that to 15 fold. So humming, you're going to annoy everyone if you do this, increases that nitric oxide fifteen fold. And there was one study that showed this guy completely got rid of his rhinitis just by humming for about 10 minutes four times a day.”
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“There's nitric oxide, which is this miraculous molecule that plays an essential role in vasodilation, circulation, and more, and it kills viruses and bacteria. This all happens in the nose. This does not happen in the mouth.”
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“out through its nose, the only time that a horse starts breathing through its mouth is when it's sick. So that is a sign that it's sick. A horse running at a sprint is breathing through its nose. This is the organ we are designed to breathe through. And no one who has studied rhinology would argue otherwise. There are thirty different functions that the nose does for breathing. So not only does it help filter air out and heat air, but it helps capture moisture about 40% more moisture. So you don't have to constantly be drinking water. When I see people jogging and they are breathing through their mouth and they're carrying like four different water bottles, they wouldn't need those water bottles if they just learned to breathe through their noses because the body is designed to capture that moisture. That's what the nose does and all of those hairs do.”
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“Great question. How wonderful that we have a backup system in case anything happens to our noses that we don't suddenly die, right? So you can drink through your nose, right? It's really hard to do that, but you can, and it goes down to your stomach, but that doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. Just like with breathing, again, look at the animal kingdom. Look at a cheetah running at 100 kilometers per hour. How is it breathing”
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“I think the science is pretty clear on standing desks, convertible standing desks are really helpful to sit for part of that time to stand for part of that time whenever I'm on the phone, which is often I'm standing. So I just press a little button and I go back to standing. When you're standing, you're opening up your chest, these intercostals, you're opening up to allow yourself to naturally breathe deeper breaths. So you can do that sitting, but you just look kind of corny, like sitting like this all the time. So, I think that that's a good hack. I think that the science is very clear that every couple hours, I'm not very good at this. I'm trying to get better. Go for a walk for 10 minutes, take your call while you're walking around to reset”
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“If you start paying attention to your breathing, your posture is going to get better. It is hard to be leaning over like this and take a huge breath. Look what happens to your posture. A form dictates your breathing, your breathing dictates your form that was written in the Tao like twelve hundred years ago. So once you learn how this proper slow deep breathing works, your posture by virtue of that will get better.”
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“In more just by taking a slower, deeper breath. And just look to the animal kingdom for your guidance on this. We don't need any fancy animation to show us what proper breathing is. Look at a healthy dog sleeping. Look at a healthy infant, sleeping and breathing. Look at Indigenous cultures, how they sleep, how they breathe. You can't tell they're breathing. That's what healthy breathing is. It should not be perceptible. So when a lot of people hear about healthy breathing, they want to overdo it, right? I feel great If you look at a monk or someone who's a master breather, you cannot tell their breathing. It's so soft and so subtle. Just comes in and comes out, that is someone who is balanced, their nervous system is balanced, their breathing is balanced.”
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“Yeah, absolutely. It's an autonomic function. But by taking conscious control of that diaphragm, you can control your heart. You can control your blood flow. And that the diaphragm also does an incredible amount of work pumping blood into the heart and pumping lymph fluid throughout the body. So when you see people only using 5, 10% of their diaphragmatic movement, which is considered normal now, just moving the diaphragm this much, their hearts have to work so much harder to just pump blood, and their bodies have to work so much harder to pump lymph fluid, which you need to get rid of all that waste, right? The body likes movement. These fluids need to be moving. So just by taking a slightly deeper breath and exhaling a little more, you were able to help your heart rate out, which is why your heart rate will start to go down after a while. You're able to help your blood pressure in some cases. You're able to pump lymph fluid.”
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“It is straight up but relaxed at the same time. It is having a straight spine. I know once you learn this, it just, it makes you neurotic after a while. That's the first thing to really notice how you're sitting. When we get stressed out, when we're answering emails, we're over a laptop. I spend so much of my life doing this. Then we also have a stress response, which further reduces our ability to breathe properly. We start to breathe too much. We start holding our breath, then we breathe too much. Our posture is like this. So everything is conspiring to make us really poor breathers. And this isn't some far-flung hypothesis I have. It's basic biomechanics of how the body works.”
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“And breathing like that. We can live this way. Doesn't mean we're healthy. We can live on three pieces of pizza every day, right? We have enough calories to do that. It doesn't mean we're healthy. So that's the number one thing. You can sit in a chair properly. Breathe right, but it takes some effort. If you look at indigenous cultures again, look at how they're sitting, look at their spines. Like it's a beautiful thing. They're sitting in a way that is conducive to proper breathing, any statue, any ancient statue. Look at the posture.”
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“If you're just breathing into your chest, you have to breathe way more breaths. The reason is so much of that area you're bringing that air into does not participate in gas exchange. It does not soak up that oxygen that's in the air. So most of us spend most of our days like this.”
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“You aren't able to breathe properly. That means you're only breathing into your chest. You weren't accessing all of this other area.”
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“Of what the diaphragm is. Sure, the diaphragm is this umbrella shaped muscle that sits underneath the lungs. The lungs are just like two balloons. They don't inflate themselves. They need the diaphragm to come down. It creates a vacuum and air comes into the lungs. When we exhale, that diaphragm pushes up and pushes the air out of the lungs. So that's how we breathe. It's not the lungs doing the work. The lungs are just these fleshy bags, right? It's that diaphragm descending, creating a vacuum. Air comes in, and that diaphragm ascending, lifting back up and pushing that air out. So you need proper diaphragmatic movement in order to breathe properly. When our bodies aren't allowing us to do that, when you're sitting on a bus or sitting on a plane for twelve hours at a time and you're seated like this,”
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“Absolutely. Yeah, and we could go through a few of these things. When you're sitting, as I said, eight hours a day, I try to stand at the standing desk as well, you are inhibiting your ability to breathe properly. So I'm sitting forward in this chair right now. Even if I wanted to take a deep breath, it's really hard. I have to struggle to do that because my diaphragm, which is right underneath the lungs, is unable to descend properly to allow for that proper inhale.”
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“Asthma is genetic, so Mennonite and Quakers who aren't around any technology, right? They have point five percent of their population has asthma. Meanwhile, in the US, ten percent of the population has asthma. So obviously the environment has so much to do with our health, and it absolutely affects our breathing for all the things I mentioned earlier. How are you sitting? How are your stress levels? How are you sleeping? How are you working out? All of these things will weigh upon how healthy you are able to breathe.”
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“I learned that we didn't need breathwork classes hundreds of years ago. We already had bodies that were able to breathe properly. We were living in an environment that supported healthy breathing. I love Lieberman's work, by the way. I've learned so much from them, including a lot of the stuff on skulls and breathing. So I learned a lot, a lot from him. You know, people say, well, how do you know that? We can't go back in time. What you can do is look at indigenous cultures, which is what Lieberman and so many other people have done. And they found they don't have problems with their feet. They don't have problems with their backs. They don't have heart disease. They don't have asthma. Why is it that Mennonites, these are these groups in the US that live this very traditional lifestyle, right? So some people say that”
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“We all do, yeah, and I'm not a perfect breather. You're not a perfect breather. Like, it's hard to find a perfect, perfect breather, just like it's hard to find someone that eats perfectly every single meal. And that's probably not the person you ever want to hang out with anyway.”
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“Taking simple steps. I believe that everybody can become a better what is considered a good breather, and these steps are free and they're available for everybody. If you look at the percentage of the population who is breathing dysfunctionally, I've heard different percentages from different people. Respiratory therapists who do this all day long to elite trainers of Olympians, they say ninety five to 99% of the people that they see are breathing dysfunctionally. So it's basically everybody. Some people, obviously there's a curve to that. There's an asthmatic with panic attacks that is breathing very dysfunctionally. And then there's an athlete who can push through the pain and win that competition, but is still breathing dysfunctionally. So there's an arc to that”
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“My mouth was so dry, and my sleep was so bad I was so tired after sleeping nine, ten hours a night I was so tired and the data proved that as well. So it got really bad by the tenth day we were in really bad shape. And again, I want to mention like so many people, especially during allergy season, are plugged up for months at a time and they don't realize the damage they're doing to their bodies and brains by being this way.”
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“Was the first few days, so I did this with breathing researcher and breathing therapist Anders Olsten from Sweden. He was the only person that would do this. And he flew from Sweden on his own dime to try to understand this. He had been talking about nasal breathing for ten years, right? And so he said, okay, I want to put this to the test. I want to see if I'm right or wrong. So the first few days, we're kind of laughing. I was like, how bad did you sleep? You know, and we were comparing, we went from zero snoring to full-on snoring and sleep apnea within a couple of days. And so we were comparing and kind of showing off how sick we were. But then after about a week, we saw three days ago, like I wasn't able to sleep at night and I was dreading every single night going to sleep because you're.”
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“But it was awful, awful. And I'm so happy I never have to do that again at the same time. I feel so sorry for people who do not realize that their noses are stuffed up, who have been living this way for years and don't understand that this is their main source of their issues with migraines, sleep problems, and more.”
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“Terribly was awful. So just to let people know, this was an experiment in which for 10 days we had our noses plugged up. And then for another 10 days, we had all of that stuff released from our noses and we were almost exclusively nasal breathing. Everything else in those 10 day periods was exactly the same. We ate the same foods. We walked the same number of steps. We exercised the same. So exactly the same. And we did scientific studies and took a bunch of data before, during and after. We were collecting data three times a day as well, looking at what was happening to our bodies, our sleep, our inflammation, and more. And we knew this wasn't going to be pleasant, but I didn't know it was going to be this bad. Like it was really, not trying to be over dramatic.”
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“There would be problems doing it because he knew what damage could be caused by becoming a mouth breather. And so after all this, I just kind of gave up and then I had an idea. I said, well, what if I did it? We did it. Doesn't, you know, it's just two people, but that was the maximum we were allotted. And he said, okay, but he had no money for it, so we had to pay for this experiment at Stanford, which was not the cheapest thing I've ever paid for in my life. But I wanted to know. I'm writing about mouth breathing, writing about all the problems, I'm writing about my subjective experience of how it transformed my life becoming a nasal breather. I wanted to see that experience. dictated and documented in data by machines, and that's why we did it.”
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“I didn't want to do this experimental myself. I really did not want to do it. No one else was going to do it. Really? There had never been a human trial of nasal breathing versus mouth breathing for this amount of time. And I was talking to Jayakar Nayak, who's the chief of rhinology research at Stanford, the top of his field. And I said, we know what happens to animals when they breed this way. We know all the deleterious effects of mouth breathing on kids, on adults, on old people, on sleep, on athletic performance. Why can't you test this? Let's get a big group of people and test this. He said, it'll never happen. We're not going to find funding. And he thought ethically.”
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“You're causing undue inflammation to your body, you're causing nervous system dysfunction, you're in that sympathetic state, which after a while will trigger a bunch of autoimmune issues. So so many of these things, not exclusively are related to breath, they are exclusively related to diet, exercise, sleep, and breath. You can eat all the right foods, you can sleep eight hours a night, you can exercise all you want if you are not breathing right, you will always be sick. And I've heard that six years ago by a researcher, I believe it more now than I ever have.”
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“Show me a list of the top diseases, and they're all related to it, even diabetes. Who would have thought that the onset of diabetes could be triggered by poor breathing habits at night? But that is exactly what researchers have found, because if you are choking on yourself all night, as so many people do, You aren't resting, you aren't entering stages of deep sleep, which means your body never restores and your body is going to break down. So researchers have known this for fifty years, there are scientific studies showing this over and over again. So that's just with diabetes and metabolic issues, autoimmune issues for the same reason. You're constantly breathing like this, stooped over.”
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“in the last few hundred years. And one of the problems with breeding is that our facial structure does not allow us to breathe in a healthy way anymore, and it did hundreds of years ago, and we know that from the skeletal record.”
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“Your body is not doing this correctly by default. What has changed is this modern environment is conspiring to make us sick. And I don't think that that is an exaggeration at all. If you look at the way we sit all day long, if you look at the way we work, if you look at the way we eat, if you look at the way we sleep, of all the pollution, noise pollution, air pollution, we're surrounded by, this is why we are so sick. It is the environment, the human body is so well equipped to live a healthy life, which is why indigenous cultures, the few left, they don't need to go to a cardiologist or a pulmonologist or a dentist. They have straight teeth. They breathe perfectly. They don't have all of these problems that we have today. So these are diseases of civilization. The vast majority of problems we contend with, we have”
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“Breathing is something that just happens and how wonderful that is that we've evolved to not have to think about every breath we take that would be a real problem. But that doesn't mean we can't take conscious control of our breathing and then elicit different effects from our body. So we have adopted habits according to our breathing from our environment, from the way we sleep, from our mouth structure, and more that are not the best habits to have for breath. So the reason why people spend so much time doing breath work and rehearsing slower breathing, lower breathing, breathing through the nose is to reset a natural habit so that you don't have to think about it. I mean, I don't want to have to constantly be checking in on my breath throughout the day. I want that to be automatic, but that takes a lot of time to get back to that healthy state to make it unconscious.”
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“There's so much we don't know about breathing and also about the limits of the human body Want to learn more about this? I want to experience this as well, not diving down that deep, but I want to access more of what I've been given because I think we've been sold pretty short on what our limits are and what we should be doing and shouldn't be doing. But I think our bodies are much more potential than that.”
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“Yeah, it's so funny as you go through life. There are some experiences that you have that you have no idea that you are opening a completely different door and you're just going to be walking through that door for the next decade. So that's what happened in Greece. Didn't really know anything about it. Go out there and just have my mind blown. I mean, you have these people who are at the surface of the water take a single breath of air, one breath. And dive down one hundred twenty meters on a single breath of air and come back up five minutes later and go. Get out of the way for the next competitor. So you watch them, the water's very clear there, right? It goes down visibility is 150 meters. You watch them just disappear into nothing the size of an ant and then completely disappear into the ocean and come back. And I said, my God”
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“I do not have opinions as a science journalist. I am a filter. So my job is to talk to absolutely everybody, and especially when people, doctors tell me, oh, don't talk to those people. They don't know what they're talking about. Those are the first people I'm going to talk to. So I talk to everybody and try to synthesize what I've learned the truth according to all of these different cultures, all of these different ways of learning, and put that in a book that the general public can understand. So I have my own personal views on it, but I try to keep my personal views out of what I write.”
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“Breathing at this certain pattern, so it obviously released something in me. And when I mention this to doctors, I went back, they said, oh, you had a fever. Oh, you know, the room was too hot. Oh, you were covered in blankets. All of that was false. There was something else deeper happening. And they didn't understand it from their medical training. So I tried to get answers elsewhere, and that's what I spent years doing.”
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“That one session completely blew my mind. So it had all of the hallmarks of flakiness and new ageiness, you know, all the people flowing clothes. There were some headbands. I said, good God, what am I doing here? There's a lot of this stuff in San Francisco, so I'm kind of used to it, dream catchers, all that. And it wasn't until I sat down and started actually got rid of all of that, all those problems in my brain that were making me resist really giving myself to this practice got rid of that, started breathing. And I read about this at the beginning of the book, but I completely sweated through my t-shirt. It was not a warm room. It was quite cold in there. Sweated through my t-shirt. There's sweat marks on my jeans. My hair was sobbing wet. And this was from sitting in a corner of a cold room.”
2023-09-07 · The Diary of a CEO · The Breathing Expert: Breathing Through Your Mouth Can Cause ADHD, Diabetes & Child Sickness! (Must Listen): James Nestor · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I was mouth breathing a lot when I was working out. I was always mouth breathing when I was jogging. I was mouth breathing, doing karate, mouth breathing, surfing. And I noticed at night, I could not remember a time when I did not go to sleep with a huge glass of water by my bedside. I would wake up numerous times throughout the night. My mouth was very dry, very pasty in the morning. I thought this was completely normal. I also noticed that when I was working out at really high levels, I would start to wheeze a bit. Like I could hear myself breathing. And I thought this was normal. And whenever I talk to people about it, they said, oh, welcome to old age. This is what happens when you get older. And I didn't think that that was a good reason to be breathing so dysfunctionally. But it really took someone else to point it out for me to understand that maybe there was a problem there and maybe I should fix it.”
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“Able to get over the respiratory problems I had. I don't write about this in the book because I didn't want to make my experience be indicative of everyone else's experience, but all the issues I had completely went away 100%. And so I started looking into this more just personally, what else I could learn about breathing and how it could benefit me for athletic performance, for sleep, and more, and noticed that my health was changing in all the right ways over and over again when I was adopting different habits. So that was more than ten years ago, actually. That was probably twelve years ago. And then I started writing about free divers, start free diving myself and learning the limits of breathing and how you can do things that are supposed to be scientifically impossible by harnessing the power of your breath. And that's what really got me interested as a science journalist.”
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“It was a number of things that happen personally, professionally, over a number of years. I never set out to write a book about breathing. I mean, what a boring subject, right? Until I start having breathing problems. I came back year after year. I surf a lot in San Francisco. So I was getting bronchitis. I was getting pneumonia, mild pneumonia. It was nothing to worry about. I'd go to my doctor. I'd be given a pack of pills and sent on my way. This kept happening year after year until a doctor friend of mine was looking at me without having a drink and she's like I think there's something going on with your breathing it's a breathing you know this is just something we do automatically it's nothing I considered she's like oh you might want to go to a breath work class and I went to a breathwork class and it completely blew me away on a number of levels I was able”
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“Levels over 800 into a thousand can have serious issues with cognitive and physical functions. I've been recording our CO2 during this interview.”
2023-09-07 · The Diary of a CEO · The Breathing Expert: Breathing Through Your Mouth Can Cause ADHD, Diabetes & Child Sickness! (Must Listen): James Nestor · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“99% of the people are breathing dysfunctionally. They don't realize the damage they're doing to their bodies and brains by being this way. Look at the way we sit all day long, the way we sleep, the way we eat. The modern world is conspiring to make us sick, diabetes, asthma, metabolic, and autoimmune issues, anxiety, even ADHD. Experts said it is 100% related to your breathing at night especially. Really? Bad breathing habits are a recipe for disaster, which is what has happened for so many kids today. So if you're a parent and if you can hear them breathing when they're sleeping, this is a big red flag. But I believe that everybody can become a good breeder and these steps are free. You can do this while we're seated here. So the first thing is to...”
2023-09-07 · The Diary of a CEO · The Breathing Expert: Breathing Through Your Mouth Can Cause ADHD, Diabetes & Child Sickness! (Must Listen): James Nestor · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You can exercise all you want. Eat all the right food. Sleep eight hours a night if you are not breathing right, you will always be sick”
2023-09-07 · The Diary of a CEO · The Breathing Expert: Breathing Through Your Mouth Can Cause ADHD, Diabetes & Child Sickness! (Must Listen): James Nestor · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT