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181 " Without fear, survival was impossible, or, at minimum, extremely precarious. "
― James Nestor , Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
182 " The most effective and safest blend they found was a few huffs of around 7 percent carbon dioxide mixed with room air. This was the “super endurance” level Buteyko found in the exhaled breath of top athletes. "
183 " The techniques they used varied, but all circled around the same premise: to extend the length of time between inhalations and exhalations. The less one breathes, the more one absorbs the warming touch of respiratory efficiency—and the further a body can go. "
184 " The mold he was about to take would be used to fit me with a Homeoblock, an expanding device Belfor invented in the 1990s. "
185 " Inhale to a count of 4; hold 4; exhale 4; hold 4. Repeat. "
186 " Respire fundo’ não é uma instrução útil”, escreveu Meuret. Prender a respiração é muito melhor. "
187 " They sat on him until he transmogrified back into a human. "
188 " Fortunately, diving down hundreds of feet is not required. Any regular practice that stretches the lungs and keeps them flexible can retain or increase lung capacity. Moderate exercise like walking or cycling has been shown to boost lung size by up to 15 percent. "
189 " Hof’s version of Tummo "
190 " Finding the best heart rate for exercise is easy: subtract your age from 180. The result is the maximum your body can withstand to stay in the aerobic state. Long bouts of training and exercise can happen below this rate but never above it, otherwise the body will risk going too deep into the anaerobic zone for too long. Instead of feeling invigorated and strong after a workout, you’d feel tired, shaky, and nauseated. "
191 " Catlin realized that nobody really knew about the Mandan, or other Plains tribes, because no one of European descent had bothered to spend time talking to them, researching them, living with them, and learning about their beliefs and traditions. "
192 " Fifty percent of the modern human population would show this “malocclusion” within the first generation of switching to soft and processed foods; by the second generation, 70 percent; by the third, 85 percent. By the fourth, well, look around. That’s us, now. Some 90 percent of us have some form of malocclusion. "
193 " the most important aspect of breathing wasn’t just to take in air through the nose. Inhaling was the easy part. The key to breathing, lung expansion, and the long life that came with it was on the other end of respiration. It was in the transformative power of a full exhalation. "
194 " Schroth spent five years doing this. At the end, she’d effectively cured herself of “incurable” scoliosis; she’d breathed her spine straight again. Schroth began teaching the power of breathing to other scoliosis patients, and by the 1940s she "
195 " Schroth continued to expand her lungs and improve her own breathing and form throughout her life. This former scoliosis patient, "
196 " Nobody seemed to get sick, and deformities and other chronic health problems appeared rare or nonexistent. The tribes attributed their vigorous health to a medicine, what Catlin called the “great secret of life.” The secret was breathing. "
197 " Morton Collection, named after a racist scientist named Samuel Morton, who, starting in the 1830s, collected skeletons in a failed attempt to prove the superiority of the Caucasian race. "
198 " The subject of intrigue was Carl Stough, a choir conductor and medical anomaly who got his start in the 1940s. Of all the pulmonauts I’d come across over the past several years, Stough was the most elusive. "
199 " Oxygen, it turned out, produced 16 times more energy than carbon dioxide. "
200 " Nasal breathing alone can boost nitric oxide sixfold, which is one of the reasons we can absorb about 18 percent more oxygen than by just breathing through the mouth. "