Sublime

Having never seen a dentist or doctor, the tribal people had teeth that were perfectly straight—“as regular as the keys of a piano,” Catlin noted.32 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 secre

I found a library’s worth of material. The problem was, the sources were hundreds, sometimes thousands, of years old.

Seven books of the Chinese Tao dating back to around 400 BCE focused entirely on breathing, how it could kill us or heal us, depending on how we used it. These manuscripts included detailed instructions on how to regulate the breath,

cutting-edge research into a biological function.

The Worst Breathers in the Animal Kingdom

I’m hoping that I too can reverse whatever damage I’d done in the last ten days, and the past four decades. I’m hoping I can relearn to breathe the way my ancestors breathed. I suppose I’ll see soon enough. Tomorrow morning, the plugs come out.

my questions about breathing. I went to

They discovered that the optimum amount of air we should take in at rest per minute is 5.5 liters. The optimum breathing rate is about 5.5 breaths per minute. That’s 5.5-second inhales and 5.5-second exhales. This is the perfect breath.

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