Andrew Huberman· PhD
And the answer of course is (in most cases) to breathe through one’s nose.
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And the answer of course is (in most cases) to breathe through one’s nose.
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What you find is that the correct pattern of breathing is going to involve two things. First of all, nasal breathing, because of the resistance it provides through the nose that we talked about earlier, is going to deliver more oxygen into your system. You're going to be able to generate more air pressure to fill your lungs. That greater air pressure is going to take longer to exhale. So already we're increasing the amount of time that each breath is going to take. And also what you find is that people that are breathing in the proper healthy manner, that is, that are balancing oxygen and carbon dioxide in the proper ways, are also taking pauses between breaths.