"There are as many ways to breath as there are foods to eat," said one... instructor... Another diver told me that some methods of breathing will nou… - James Nestor

Seven books of the Chinese Tao dating... to around 400BCE focused entirely on breathing... Even earlier, Hindus considered breath and spirit the same thing, and described elaborate practices... to balance breathing and preserve... mental and physical health. ...Buddhists ...use breathing ...to lengthen their lives [and] reach higher planes of consciousness. Breathing... for all... these cultures, was powerful medicine.

They discovered that our capacity to breath has changed through... evolution, and that the way we breath has gotten markedly worse since the dawn of the .

I'd just recovered from pneumonia, which I'd also had the year before and the year before that. I was... wheezing, working, and eating... in a rut—physically, mentally [etc.]