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The Breathing Cure: Develop New Habits for a Healthier, Happier, and Longer Life with a Foreword by Laird Hamilton Hardcover – July 27, 2021

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NOSES ARE FOR BREATHING, MOUTHS ARE FOR EATING

“Many people believe that taking a deep breath increases body oxygenation. The opposite is the case.” — Patrick McKeown, bestselling author of The Oxygen Advantage

Imagine a breathing technique that can increase oxygen uptake and delivery to the cells, improve blood circulation, and unblock the nose. Perhaps it can help open the airways of the lungs, enhance blood flow and oxygen delivery to the brain, improve sleep and bring calmness to the mind. It might even restore bodily functions disturbed by stress, build greater resilience and help you to live longer. You might think this description sounds farfetched. But it isn’t.

The Breathing Curewill guide you through techniques that embody the key to healthy breathing and healthy living. McKeown’s goal is to enable you to take responsibility for your own health, to prevent and significantly reduce a number of common ailments, to help you realize your potential and to offer simple, scientifically-based ways to change your breathing habits. On a day-to-day basis, you will experience an increase in energy and concentration, an enhanced ability to deal with stress and a better quality of life.

The essential guide to functional breathing, learn techniques tried and tested by Olympic athletes and elite military. Clear your blocked nose, stress and relax your nervous system, improve lung function, prepare for competition and more. For use at home, in professional/amateur sports, by breathing instructors, dentists, doctors, physical therapists, strength and conditioning coaches, Pilates and yoga teachers, and anyone interested in health and fitness – from everyday wellbeing through to sporting excellence.

Breathe Light: experience optimal blood circulation, peak oxygenation, maximal exercise performance, relief from respiratory symptoms and the best sleep you ever had.

Breathe Slow: stress is a risk factor in 75 to 90 percent of all human diseases. Discover and apply the breathing rate scientifically proven to stimulate relaxation, reduce high blood pressure, boost your immune system, maximize HRV and improve blood glucose control.

Breathe Deep: physical and emotional balance comes from within. Learn how to strengthen your diaphragm muscle to achieve greater endurance and resilience, calmness of mind, focused concentration and ease of movement.

From the bestselling author of The Oxygen Advantage, The Breathing Cure: Exercises to Develop New Breathing Habits for a Healthier, Happier, and Longer Life
covers new, ground-breaking topics such as how breathing techniques can support functional movement of the muscles and joints; improve debilitating conditions such as diabetes, epilepsy, lower back pain, PMS and high blood pressure; how the nasal breathing technique can be a weapon against influenza and related infections especially Covid-19; and last but not least, help you to enjoy deeper sleep and improved intimacy.

Tap into your innate resilience. Fire up your potential. Enhance your health.

BREATHE BETTER NOW!

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Praise for The Breathing Cure: Exercises to Develop New Breathing Habits for a Healthier, Happier, and Longer Life by Patrick McKeown

“My quest for correct breathing led me to Patrick McKeown and his clinical work with over 8,000 people, ranging from medical patients to elite athletes. I appreciate the value of ‘feeling’ things and learning through experiencing, but Patrick's scientific explanation of what is happening in the body when I nasal breathe as opposed to mouth breathing truly helped me understand how to use my breath as a tool to support my health and boost my performance. Patrick's passion for breathing education comes out of his own personal experience. Even though he himself was an extremely dysfunctional breather and an asthmatic — he was told by his doctors that he would be on medication and limited in activities for the rest of his life — he cured himself through breathing practices. I truly appreciate that Patrick's teaching empowers people to be proactive in supporting their own good health. Patrick simply explains the importance of nasal breathing and balancing respiratory gases to create better health and mitigate illness, chronic disease and injuries. If breathing and the breath is the essence of life, and it is meant to be intuitive, then how do we find our way back to the basics? Patrick makes this a comprehensive journey that anyone can use and share with their friends and family.”

—LAIRD HAMILTON, surfing icon, founder of Extreme Performance Training (XPT), and New York Times bestselling author of Liferider

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Praise for The Oxygen Advantage: Simple, Scientifically Proven Breathing Techniques to Help You Become Healthier, Slimmer, Faster, and Fitter by Patrick McKeown

“Patrick McKeown, breathing trainer and author of The Oxygen Advantage, recommends breathing through your nose…It’ll feel weird, but within a few weeks, you’ll notice you can exercise longer and don’t tire as quickly.” — Dr. Oz, bestselling author of YOU: THE OWNER'S MANUAL and THE GOOD LIFE

The Oxygen Advantage is one of the best books that I have read this entire year... one of my favorite books in the world actually" Ben Greenfield, author of New York Times bestseller Beyond Training

“McKeown introduces readers to The Oxygen Advantage, an innovative but complex breathing technique that purportedly improves overall health… McKeown’s confident attitude should help his book appeal to a wide audience.” — Publishers Weekly

“I’m an NFL wide receiver and my Bolt Score was 13. Three weeks later it’s 30 and improving; running has gotten so much easier. I’m in better shape for another opportunity because I’m so much better at the simple act of breathing. It really does add up!” — Jay Wisner, NFL Free Agent

"The Oxygen Advantage: the hottest book on the market for understanding breathing and breathwork.” — David Jackson, School of Calisthenics podcast

The Oxygen Advantagehas helped my Olympians become more aware of their breathing. We practice nasal breathing during foam rolling, warm ups, cool downs and during certain prescribed exercise. I would highly recommend The Oxygen Advantageto any coach looking to get any additional benefit for their athletes.”— Andrew Kacsor, Head Strength & Conditioning Coach for the KRS Vanke Rays

“Mastering one of the most powerful mechanism in our body can have a tremendous impact on both well being and performance. Because we breathe 24/7, breath training is potentially endless. I have been looking for a technique that could effortlessly trigger diaphragmatic breathing to improve the mind/ body connection. Moving towards the 2021 Olympic Games in Tokyo, we have now integrated the Oxygen Advantage breathing techniques into our daily training and recovery.”— Julien Billaut, Australian Canoeing and the New South Wales Institute of Sport Canoe Slalom High Performance Coach

“I have taken the Oxygen Advantage Instructor course and can’t say enough good things about it! I have been taping my mouth for my strength training sessions as well as my Tactical training. I have been playing with the knowledge Patrick McKeown has so willingly shared and began experimenting with my team. The conditioning results have been exceptional but I expected that based on what I learned in the course. Using Oxygen Advantage for the reduction of stress in SWAT and other High Stress Law Enforcement activities is what I am most interested in now and I have a lot to work with thanks again to Patrick McKeown. For those out there who are considering taking the course do yourself a favor get off the fence and do it. Money well invested in your health!”— Joey Williams, Patrol Lieutenant, SWAT Commander Responsible for Training, Berkeley, CA 

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Humanix Books (July 27, 2021)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 434 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1630061972
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1630061975
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.5 x 9 inches
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Patrick McKeown is an international breath expert and Oxygen Advantage® founder. He has provided breath training to improve breathing, sleep, anxiety, resilience, concentration and chronic illness since 2002.

Patrick is the founder and Director of Education for Oxygen Advantage®, which teaches functional breathing for resilience and improved sports performance. There are currently more than 3,000 trained Oxygen Advantage® instructors across 50 countries.

To date, Patrick has written ten books about breath training, including ‘The Breathing Cure’and the three Amazon category bestsellers: ‘Close Your Mouth’, ‘Asthma-Free Naturally’, and ‘Anxiety Free: Stop Worrying and Quieten your Mind’. He also wrote ‘The Oxygen Advantage’ which is considered a foremost source on breathing for exercise performance and is currently translated into sixteen languages.

Patrick's professional memberships include ‘Fellow of The Royal Society of Biology’ and ‘The Academy of Applied Myofunctional Sciences’. His work was published in ‘The Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine’.

Patrick’s work has featured on the BBC, USA Today, Ted Talks, the New York Times, the Times(UK), Men’s Health Magazine, Women’s Health Magazine, Dr Oz Magazine, Mercola and Mind Body Green website. Patrick hosts ‘The Oxygen Advantage® Podcast’ and has featured as a guest on many other podcasts, including Ben Greenfield’s ‘Life’, Dave Asprey’s ‘The Human Upgrade’, ‘Scott Caney Investigates’, Dr Jay T Wiles ‘Mindhacker’s Radio’, Dr Rangan Chatterjee’s ‘Feel better, live more,’ the Happy Pear Podcast and many more.

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Customers find the book's breathing exercises helpful for improving their health and vitality. They appreciate the clear explanations and practical exercises that are effective. The exercises help strengthen their core muscles and reduce neck and back pain. Readers praise the author's knowledge and experience on the subject.

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Author is highly knowledgeable on the subject and has used many, or all, of the different breath works he recommends to solve his own asthma.I found the text to be readable and easy to understand.1998 was his defining year. You can do the math.🤣He heads has his own practice and helped thousands of people from all walks of life, from children to advance ages. His books, include ‘Oxygen Advantage’.Life changing! And all it requires is to breathe in and out of the nose, if it is possible.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2021
    Patrick McKeown's latest book The Breathing Cure Tips for a Happier, Healthier, Longer Life builds on his previous nonfiction book The Oxygen Advantage, which I reviewed not too long ago. If you haven't read that book or my review, that's okay. You will easily grasp his latest book and why it's unpretentiously called The Breathing Cure. This is a book for literally everybody who can read.

    I feel like my review of the former book lays a solid foundation for this review, but. I've also learned much more or at least understand his message even more now.

    It first needs to be understood that nearly all of us are overbeathers. Babies are not, but they soon learn the bad habit of breathing too much and often through their mouths. This happens during times of great stress or when our nostrils are congested. McKeown advises that we keep breathing through our noses and they won't become more congested and inflamed. This is what I do in the very rare times my nose is congested. I am a nose breather at all times.

    The typical number of breaths per minute is twice as much as necessary or healthful. When breathing so much the breath is usually quite shallow, from the chest, and audible as well as noticeable. Your breath should be light, slow, and deep (lsd).

    You may wonder why we need breathing re-education. It's so simple, right?

    Not really.

    I have to be conscious of my breath much of the time to make sure I'm not overbreathing, a yogic lifestyle that not only helps me to stay calm, think clearly, and process my feelings in a mature way, but it also distributes oxygen to my muscles, fills up my lungs, exercises my breathing muscles so I have more energy, and prevents neck and back pain as it strengthens my core.

    Nasal breathing, which is what we're designed to do, creates tolerance of carbon dioxide. It is the mixture of oxygen and carbon dioxide (CO2) that allows us to function properly. Disordered breathing happens when we are not tolerant to carbon dioxide caused by shallow overbreathing.

    McKeown starts out this book explaining the science and how he was an overbreather and asthmatic until his early twenties when he discovered the Butekyo method for proper breathing.

    With breathing exercises clearly explained and shown, he very significantly helps us to improve our CO2 tolerance through the practice of breathholding that simulates high altitude training. Not only will this help other asthmatics, but people with panic attacks, anxiety, nasal congestion, insomnia, diabetes, depression, and even sexual dysfunction. Pregnant women, forced to overbreathe, must use caution, but women with PMS can benefit from the breathholding practice.

    I still practice breathholding every morning and night. A breathhold on the exhalation after a slow, deep inhalation is best when held for 40 seconds. I'm still not quite there, but I have an incomplete spinal cord injury with poor posture too..

    I also still lightly tape my mouth at night so my jaw doesn't fall open and I wake up refreshed.

    Let me end by explaining that strenuous exercise will not exercise your breathing muscles. Usually an athlete breathes through their mouth and this causes muscle fatigue, exhaustion, pain, cramps, and sometimes injury. It is only through temporary oxygen deprivation that our breathing muscles (diaphragm, lungs, scalene) are exercised to become more efficient. McKeown has helped Olympians improve their performances.

    I hope you'll check out McKeown's books and start changing your life for the better! There's so much more info in the book, such as the importance of nitric oxide created by proper nasal breathing to protect you from viruses like COVID-19.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2024
    Author is highly knowledgeable on the subject and has used many, or all, of the different breath works he recommends to solve his own asthma.
    I found the text to be readable and easy to understand.
    1998 was his defining year. You can do the math.🤣
    He heads has his own practice and helped thousands of people from all walks of life, from children to advance ages. His books, include ‘Oxygen Advantage’.
    Life changing! And all it requires is to breathe in and out of the nose, if it is possible.
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    Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2024
    Author is highly knowledgeable on the subject and has used many, or all, of the different breath works he recommends to solve his own asthma.
    I found the text to be readable and easy to understand.
    1998 was his defining year. You can do the math.🤣
    He heads has his own practice and helped thousands of people from all walks of life, from children to advance ages. His books, include ‘Oxygen Advantage’.
    Life changing! And all it requires is to breathe in and out of the nose, if it is possible.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on July 9, 2022
    Working with the exercises and have found mistakes and made improvements. Enjoyable book.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on October 6, 2024
    Great book
  • Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2023
    The information in this book should be taught in public schools. Wanna change your life? Change your breathing. This book will show you how.
    8 people found this helpful
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  • Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2024
    my breathing was terrible bad mouth breather was wrecking my health. never realized how important breathing correctly is. great book to get you on track to breathing right
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  • Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2024
    2 thumbs up
  • Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2022
    I learned about this book during a Dave Asprey podcast in which Mr McKeown was a guest. I was impressed by his presentation, and ordered the book. Sadly, it is a "nerdy" book, and very boring to read. I am by no means denying the great CONTENT of this book nor the author's qualifications/training skills, but criticising THE WAY IN WHICH this book was WRITTEN. It gave me flashbacks of the tedious high school physics book with boring graphs and a lot of black ink. Even the illustrations are lame and in black ink, so the eyes don't get a break from seeing black. It would have been much more enjoyable if the author would have listed the exercises first, in a fun and casual way, so after readers got the idea, they could dive depper into the "science" and the boring graphs, if they chose to do so. Great content, expressed in the most boring and painstaking read I can imagine.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic book
    Reviewed in Canada on October 22, 2023
    Wow the information in the book is not only crazy relevant but also you will learn so many things even if you are in the Health domain.

    5 starts without a doubt. Highly recommended
  • Cristina Belard
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excelente livro
    Reviewed in Spain on April 8, 2023
    Excelente livro
  • A. Lucas
    5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Book
    Reviewed in Australia on January 5, 2022
    This is a fantastic book and the most detailed expose of the author's methods in retraining breathing. That said, the book also suffers from 2 problems that could have been avoided and are out of place in a serious book. The book does not have an index. That reduces the usefulness of the book. It also does not contain the references cited throughout the book. You have to go to the book's website to download the references. Eventually, the website will disappear but the book will remain and no one will be able to explore the reference material or follow up on areas of interested highlighted by the references. No serious work should suffer from those 2 problems.
  • lorraine lingley
    5.0 out of 5 stars Another great book on breath!!
    Reviewed in Canada on October 2, 2021
    I love Patrick McKeown!! His books are informative and very easy to read. They are life changing.
  • Radim Cechvala
    3.0 out of 5 stars Somewhat tediously repeating one aspect of breathing, some good examples for breathing practice
    Reviewed in Australia on September 21, 2024
    There are much better books out there on breathing, this one has variety of scientific studies but they seem to repeat throughout the book.

    Try instead

    "Breath" by James Nestor for interesting read and more accessible techniques to improve your breath

    THE SCIENCE OF BREATH: BY YOGI RAMACHARAKA for more depth on breathing and some very powerful breathing techniques for the further study of breath