The New York Times
How to Enhance Your Run With Diaphragmatic Breathing
4 min · · If you’re not using your diaphragm efficiently, you’re not getting the most out of your workout, experts say. · Shared by 74, including Jane
VICE
The Secret Health Benefits of Humming
3 min · · Experts explain why the simple act of humming is so good for the human body. · Shared by 249, including Jane, Marsha Collier
Knowable Magazine
The vital crosstalk between breath and brain
10 min · · The rhythm of respiration influences a wide range of behaviors, as well as cognition and emotion. Neuroscientists are piecing together how it all works. · Shared by 372, including Miguel Angel Escotet, Jane, Howard Getson
NPR
Daily 'breath training' can work as well as medicine to reduce high blood pressure
4 min · · Research finds five to 10 minutes daily of a type of strength training for muscles used in breathing can help anyone reduce or prevent high blood pressure. The training can also help elite athletes. · Shared by 1250, including Jane
The Guardian
‘I feel totally seen’: John Crace on how guided breathing soothed a lifetime of anxiety
7 min · · After 65 anxious years, trying every conceivable treatment and therapy available, just one session of breathwork was all that was needed to calm a troubled mind · Shared by 14, including Jane
Refinery29
Breathing Is Hard, Apparently!
5 min · · Not to add another thing to your plate, but apparently most of us (like up to 80%) breathe too shallowly, which can make us feel stressed and exhausted — we're not getting in enough air, after all.… · Shared by 986, including Jane
The New York Times
A Covid Test as Easy as Breathing
7 min · · Scientists have been dreaming of disease-detecting breathalyzers for years. Has the time for the technology finally come? · Shared by 97, including Daniel Kraft, MD, The Indian Express, Jane, Virginia Hughes, Craig Brown, PhD
TED Talks
Feeling anxious? The way you breathe could be adding to it
6 min · · Breathing could be an overlooked key to finding more calm and peace in your life. Here’s why and how you can start experimenting with your inhalations and exhalations. · Shared by 380, including Stephanie A Kowalski, Carly, Neil Hart 💙, Jane, Amicitia
HowStuffWorks
Why Breathing Through Your Nose Is Best
4 min · · We've probably all been breathing wrong our entire lives. Why is that? Experts suggest we should focus on breathing through our noses and most of us don't. · Shared by 85, including Loudt Darrow, Jane
The Guardian
Are breathing techniques good for your health?
8 min · · The market is flooded with books and classes claiming ‘breathwork’ can help with mental health, sleep and even Covid-19. But experts are not convinced · Shared by 183, including Liv 😷, Jane, Jo Hemmings 🇺🇦
The New York Times
Looking at Masks and Respiratory Health
8 min · · Even without a mask as an impediment, many people breathe in ways that compromise their well-being. · Shared by 77, including Jane
The Cut
I Now Suspect the Vagus Nerve Is the Key to Well-being
5 min · · “Stimulating” it leads to calmness, but how and why? · Shared by 76, including fnord, Eithiriel DeMeré 🏴🥀🏳️🌈, Jane, Andrei Luca
NIH
The physiological effects of slow breathing in the healthy human
14+ min · · Slow breathing practices have been adopted in the modern world across the globe due to their claimed health benefits. This has piqued the interest of researchers and clinicians who have initiated… · Shared by 4, including Jane
The Guardian
Seven ways to improve your breathing
2 min · · It may be instinctive, but stress, anxiety, posture and a host of other factors can affect the quality of our breathing · Shared by 78, including Jane
The Guardian
How to take the perfect breath: why learning to breathe properly could change your life
7 min · · It is claimed that ‘breathwork’ can help improve our sleep, digestion, immune and respiratory functions, while reducing our blood pressure and anxiety. All of which, in the midst of a pandemic, sounds… · Shared by 389, including Marsha Collier, Liv 😷, Bernhard Huessy, Jane, Neil Hart 💙, Niklaus Gerber, Brad Brooks
NPR
How The 'Lost Art' Of Breathing Can Impact Sleep And Resilience
4 min · · While researching his book, Breath, James Nestor participated in a study in which his nose was completely plugged for 10 days, forcing him to breathe solely through his mouth. "I felt awful," he says. · Shared by 273, including Liliane Ferrari ™, Jane, Fern, Matthias Lampe, Lee Keyes, Liv 😷, Chris Kresser