Breath

It doesn't matter what you eat, how much you exercise, or how skinny or young or wise you are—if you're not breathing properly, none of it matters. The key to our health and well-being is in our ability to breathe: take air in, let it out, repeat 25,000 times a day. Our species has lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences. Journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it. He tracks down men and women exploring ancient breathing practices like Pranayama, Sudarshan Kriya, and Tummo, and teams up with pulmonary tinkerers to scientifically test long-held beliefs about how we breathe.