The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
By changing your pattern of breathing, you can very quickly change what your brain is capable of doing. ... And the great news is we can control our breathing and, in doing so, control our mental health, physical health, and performance.
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Bookmarking — the dossier-vs-overview split is the right call. Most of the time I want overview; sometimes I want receipts.
Would love a "what would change this verdict" RSS feed. Sign me up if it exists.
However, despite everybody's knowledge that breathing is essential to life, I don't think that most people realize just how important how we breathe is to our quality of life. And that includes our mental health, our physical health, and what we call performance, that is, our ability to tap into skills, either physical or cognitive, in ways that we would not be able to otherwise if we are not breathing correctly.
Changing the way that you breathe, emphasizing inhales or exhales or keeping them the same will change the way that your brain works, how alert you are, and how well you function in anything.