Caption: Nestor participates in a breath study under Dr. Jayakar Nayak of Stanford's Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery Center in September 2018. (Submitted by James Nestor) ...

I wore my mouth tape every night for three weeks, and once I’d gotten over the guilt about single-use products going straight ...

Nestor's latest book, Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, delves into the science and culture of breathing. "Breathing has actually deteriorated over the past few hundred years," he said.

“Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art” by James Nestor, Riverhead Books, 2020, 280 pages An entire book about breathing? Inhale, exhale, what more is there to it?

Nestor explains that the breath has long been a focal point for cultural and religious practices — particularly by the Greeks and Buddhists, Hindus, and some Native Americans — and says that over the ...

In fact, humans have been freediving for thousands of years, mainly to gather food and resources from the ocean floor. For ...

Science writer James Nestor’s Breath helps the reader breathe like never before. It is by following a tough breathing regime that the author could get his four hours of daily snoring reduced to ...

James Nestor. Riverhead, $28 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7352-1361-6 In this fascinating “scientific adventure,” journalist Nestor (Deep) follows the clues that connect breath to health.

Nestor explains that the breath has long been a focal point for cultural and religious practices — particularly by the Greeks and Buddhists, Hindus, and some Native Americans — and says that over the ...