Why Changing How You Breathe Can Transform Your Health, with James Nestor

Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet. I'm producer Mia Sorrenti. Each of us takes on average 25,000 breaths a day, yet as a species we have lost the ability to breathe correctly, and this has consequences for our health. That's the argument of bestselling author James Nestor, who has travelled the world. to explore how ancient cultures use breathing as medicine to help heal the body and calm the mind.

Today's episode is an extract of our recent live event on how changing your breathing can transform your health. James Nestor, who is a science journalist and author of the best-selling Breath, The New Science of a Lost Art, was joined by Dr. Rada Mogul, live at the Royal Geographical Society in London to answer your audience questions. Let's join the discussion now live at the Royal Geographical Society. Thank you, James.

Well, on behalf of all of us, thank you so much. Because I think in this era of wellness, health and well-being, I'm sure everyone in the audience can relate, things have just become so complex or they seem quite complex. And I think what you've done is bring health back to the fundamentals, but also bring it back to the fact that we've all got a tool. inside us that we can use to help us every single day, which I think is is absolutely fascinating. So you obviously said that you started this journey because of respiratory issues that you were having.

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