That’s what these researchers discovered. The missing pillar in health is breath. It all starts there.

To gain focus and balance the body and mind, I followed a technique called surya bheda pranayama, which involves taking one breath into the right nostril, then exhaling through the left for several rounds.

McGee’s awareness of alternative treatments began when a friend mentioned a short feature on someone named “the Ice Man” on Vice TV, the news and culture network. That night McGee tried Wim Hof’s heavy breathing technique. “For the first time in a long time, I slept peacefully,” he told me. He signed up for Hof’s ten-week video course, and within