Breath Summary

Breathing is as important as what we eat or how much we exercise. It is the missing pillar of health - there are 30 pounds of air that passes through our lungs every day and 1.7 pounds of oxygen our cells consume. 

In a nutshell, this is what we learned.


  1. Shut your mouth and breathe through your nose

    1. Mouth-breathing is terrible and chronic mouth-breathing is worse. 

    2. The body is not designed to process raw air for hours at a time, day or night. 

    3. Some side effects of mouth-breathing - fatigue, irritation, testiness, and anxiety, the horrid breath and constant bathroom breaks. 

  2. Exhale longer - Get the air out of us before taking a new one in. 

  3. Chew 

    1. We can influence the size and the shape of our mouths and improve our ability to breathe at virtually any age. 

    2. Your diet should consist of the rougher, rawer, and heartier foods. 

    3. Always have your lips together, teeth slightly touching, and tongue on the roof of the mouth.

  4. Breathe more, on occasion 

    1. Breathing heavily for a short, intense time is profoundly therapeutic. 

    2. Conscious heavy breathing teaches us to be the pilots of our autonomic nervous systems and our bodies, not the passengers.

  5. Hold your breath - this approach is theoretical, and needs to be rigorously tested. If it's true, it could explain how slow and steady breathing therapy works.

  6. How we breathe matters 

    1. The perfect breath - Breathe in for about 5.5 seconds, then exhale for 5.5 seconds. That’s 5.5 breaths a minute for a total of about 5.5 liters of air. 

    2. Practice this perfect breathing for a few minutes, or a few hours. There is no such thing as having too much peak efficiency in your body. 

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