Andrew Huberman· PhD
Learning & memory improves with nasal breathing.
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The evidence is convergent. Multiple independent sources reach the same conclusion, the underlying mechanism is well-characterized, and even the field's most cautious voices treat it as worth doing.
Learning & memory improves with nasal breathing.
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nasal breathing ought to help, extending or making your inhales more intense ought to help.
as a first protocol, I'd really like all of you to consider becoming nasal breathers while you're trying to learn, while you're trying to listen, while you're trying to wake up your brain in any way and learn and retain information, this is a powerful tool.
But there was a companion study that showed that the hippocampus, an area involved in encoding memories in one form or another was more active if you will and memory and recall was better when people learned information while nasal breathing, as opposed to mouth breathing.