Wiederspruchliche Pseudowissenschaft

according to the book by breathing in some weird manner you will cure any disease. You have to breathe through the nose, but not too fast, not too slow, not even normal. you could breath from one nostril depending on what your needs are. You could breathe enough, but even too much. Breathing will improve your sleep, sex life, cure your cancer and your rheumatoid arthritis. A perfect representation of the power of pseudoscience and some how single individuals by reporting they're experience of miraculous improvements try to sell something: courses, books, interviews etc. Exactly how the author got to this book. In summary: Quakery

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Atemberaubend

James Nestor hat mein Leben in der Woche des Hörens wahnsinnig bereichert. Es war so spannend, dass ich oft die gesamte Mittagspause raus bin um zu Hören und zu Atmen. Technisch ist das Buch ganz großes Kino, die verschiedenen Pulmonauten, der historische Kontext und die Wissenschaft werden so wunderbar verbunden, dass es immer eine Freude ist weiterzuhören. Es gibt keine Passagen die sich ziehen.
Leider fällt das Buch am Ende etwas flach. Die praktischen Implikationen des Gelernten werden sehr kurz abgehandelt, alles endet etwas schal mit dem Yogi-Prana und dem ungelenken Versuch es wissenschaftlich einzuordnen. Hier hätte man das Thema vertiefen oder weglassen sollen, in dieser Form schadet es dem Buch meiner Meinung nach eher.
Trotzdem ein Augen öffnendes Buch, das jeder gelesen haben sollte!

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A life saver and game changer

In 15 years of dealing with depression I have found nothing more helpful and practical than the methods described here.
On top of that:
Great overview, well written, fine journalistic approach.
I very much enjoyed the author being a seeker and sceptic both.
The book that made 2020 endurable and manageable.

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Da ist noch Luft nach oben. zwinkersmiley.

Das Hörbuch hör ich jetzt wohl öfters. wieder was gelernt. wird sofort umgesetzt. Luft geben ist seeliger als nehmen. Danke und bis bald!

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Breathing is totally underrated

I read this after I saw Joe Rogan post it on his podcast and I always knew I am not a good breather. After this book I finally manage to put together how the breathing techniques can influence our bodies and minds and more over that there are many different types of techniques that can each be used to induce a certain state.

Great book!

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Lange Rede kurzer Sinn

Obwohl das Buch auf ein sehr wichtiges Thema eingeht, ist es unglaublich voll mit unendlichen Geschichten/Beispielen, die eigentlich dazu dienen sollen die Info zu illustrieren/beweisen usw. Allerdings sind diese sowas von überflüssig und verdünnen den Inhalt immens. Wo man denkt hier wuerde schonmal die Schlussfolgerung reichen, hören die Geschichten gar nicht auf. Insgesamt ist es also 80% unnötiges Drumherum und nur 20% richtiger Stoff. Das hat mich sehr irritiert und abgelenkt, wollte das Buch sogar zurückgeben aber es ging nicht.

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Unfocused dancing between science and esoterics

That this book ends with a warning label, so they won't be liable says a lot. With the subject matter being so interesting and underresearched it felt really bad that the author elevated some new age gurus and quacks to the same level as revolutionary research and ancient wisdoms. It is a rather scattered overview into everything connected to breathing and I really feel there could have been a way better book, or books if he focused on one subject matter and dug deep than just glance over it.

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7h bro-science, repeating & unstructured content

One of those books that delivers an hour's worth of content, but is stretched out to ~7+ hours.

I love the core message, breath is important. But the audiobook is hard to listen to.

1. The content has virtually no structure. The author jumps from topic a to b and b to c and then back to a. New topics are opened up, but never conclusively closed. And so they are taken up again and again...
2. The content is repeated all the time throughout the book. Sometimes a small new piece is added, but usually not. Anyway, when the content starts to repeat itself, it gets boring and the mind starts to lose focus.... From crooked teeth, to yoga, to monks and back to bacteria and a little bit to O2/Co2 blood levels.
3. Tons of irrelevant anecdotes. Who cares if "that woman in a coffee shop" cures her diabetes. Or this guy sitting somewhere curing his asthma. I mean, good for them if they're not made up, but how does that help me? Where are the studies? Where's the evidence?
4. Anecdotes, hearsay, opinions and studies are mixed and treated as if they have the same value. But they don't.
5. The few studies that are cherry-picked are barely named and summarized in a few words, rather than providing a conclusion that allows outsiders to know who, what and why. And opposing sides are never presented.
6. Overpromising: The author blames breath for everything from heart disease to cancer to diabetes and more. Dude, relax, breath is important, but there is more than one factor that controls your system.... And even if breathing has a positive effect on all aspects of the organism, it should always be mentioned that it is only one part of the ecosystem. This book gives the impression that you can do whatever you want as long as you keep your O2/Co2 balance in order. People with good breathing technique also get sick, and it is disrespectful to suggest that they only need to breathe better to cure their stage 4 cancer...

I found the author on youtube and watched some of his videos and found the topic super interesting. This book doesn't provide much more value than you will find in one of his ~1 hour videos.

If you want to give an outline about bacterias and evolution, okay. It doesn't help me in my daily life anyway, but maybe I can use it to make myself interesting on the next party.... Do that for a few pages and close the topic. I don't want to find "clues" and repetition across the entire book to increase the size of the book.

If you want to tell stories about random people with little to no scientific relevance, do it in one chapter. These stories should not be scattered throughout the book and detract from the content.

What I would have liked to see is a clear derivation, what is the point? Explaining the process from beginning to end and then also concluding the topic definitively.

And most importantly, how can I improve my breath? Give me 10 steps. What are the steps, how can I measure them, how can I know if I have improved? This content needs to be compressed, in one chapter. I don't want to look for breadcrumbs, and I don't want to filter out the 5% relevant parts from everything else.

If that relevant content is only an hour of legitimate running time, that's fine with me.

2/5 stars, because it is an important topic. But the audiobook itself, ...

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Very helpful

For a couple of years I wasn't able to breathe properly through my nose.
With the Wim Hof method and nightly mouth taping and trying to forcefully breathe through the nose all the time and all the other tips I can finally breath freely again!

(Sry for bad English)

Very interesting + fascinating.

I can really highly recommend it - gives lots of interesting insights into various different areas of science + the functioning of the human body.