" Now, lying here again, no matter how I try to relax and submit to this experiment, it’s a challenge. Every 3.3 seconds another blast of unfiltered, unmoistened, and unheated air enters through my mouth—drying my tongue, irritating my throat, and pissing off my lungs. And I’ve got 175,000 more breaths to go. "

― James Nestor , Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art