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The Breathing Cure

Develop New Habits for a Healthier, Happier, and Longer Life
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The Breathing Cure by Patrick McKeown offers practical techniques to transform your breathing habits and improve your overall health. Drawing on scientific research and methods used by Olympic athletes and elite military personnel, it addresses common complaints such as blocked noses, stress, and poor sleep. Learn to breathe light for enhanced oxygenation and performance, breathe slow to reduce stress and boost immunity, and breathe deep to strengthen the diaphragm for greater endurance and calmness. The book also explores how breathing impacts functional movement, chronic conditions like diabetes and high blood pressure, and even recovery from respiratory infections including Covid-19.
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Ideal for health-conscious individuals, athletes, and anyone seeking to reduce stress, improve respiration, and enhance wellbeing. Also suitable for health professionals, fitness instructors, and therapists interested in practical breathing exercises to support patient or client care.

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The Breathing Cure will guide you through techniques that embody the key to healthy breathing and healthy living. McKeown's goal is to enable you to take responsibility for your own health, to prevent and significantly reduce a number of common ailments, to help you realise your potential, and to offer simple, scientifically-based ways to change your breathing habits. On a day-to-day basis, you will experience an increase in energy and concentration, an enhanced ability to deal with stress, and a better quality of life.

The essential guide to functional breathing, learn techniques tried and tested by Olympic athletes and elite military. Clear your blocked nose, stress and relax your nervous system, improve lung function, prepare for competition, and more. For use at home, in professional/amateur sports, by breathing instructors, dentists, doctors, physical therapists, strength and conditioning coaches, Pilates and yoga teachers, and anyone interested in health and fitnessβ€”from everyday wellbeing through to sporting excellence.

Breathe Light: experience optimal blood circulation, peak oxygenation, maximal exercise performance, relief from respiratory symptoms, and the best sleep you ever had.

Breathe Slow: stress is a risk factor in 75 to 90 percent of all human diseases. Discover and apply the breathing rate scientifically proven to stimulate relaxation, reduce high blood pressure, boost your immune system, maximise HRV, and improve blood glucose control.

Breathe Deep: physical and emotional balance comes from within. Learn how to strengthen your diaphragm muscle to achieve greater endurance and resilience, calmness of mind, focused concentration, and ease of movement.

From the bestselling author of The Oxygen Advantage, The Breathing Cure: Exercises to Develop New Breathing Habits for a Healthier, Happier, and Longer Life covers new, ground-breaking topics such as how breathing techniques can support functional movement of the muscles and joints; improve debilitating conditions such as diabetes, epilepsy, lower back pain, PMS, and high blood pressure; how the nasal breathing technique can be a weapon against influenza and related infections especially Covid-19; and, last but not least, help you to enjoy deeper sleep and improved intimacy.

Tap into your innate resilience. Fire up your potential. Enhance your health.

Breathe Better Now!

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Readers applaud McKeown’s clear, scientific explanation of how nasal breathing improves health and athletic performance. His personal journey from dysfunctional breathing and asthma to wellness adds authority and inspiration. The book empowers readers to take control of their health through simple, evidence-based techniques, making complex physiology accessible and actionable for a wide audience.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781630061975

Publisher: Humanix Books

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 27 July 2021

Country: United States

Imprint: Humanix Books

Illustration: Illustrations

Contributors:

  • Foreword by Laird Hamilton

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 228.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 275

About the Author

Patrick McKeown (Galway, Ireland) has helped thousands of people to substantially improve their sports performance and overall health by incorporating simple, medically proven principles and exercises into their lives. In 1997, after graduating from Trinity College in Dublin, McKeown applied the work of Dr. Konstantin Buteyko to address his lifelong asthma, soaring stress levels, and sleep-disordered breathing. In addition to running workshops throughout his native Ireland, each year he gives workshops in North America, Europe, and Australia on maximizing one's life's potential through breath.

McKeownprovides international instructor breathing re-education and training to address a variety of health conditions including sleep issues and asthma through ButeykoClinic.com; and for resilience and improved sports performance through OxygenAdvantage.com.

The author lives & works in the Galway, Ireland metro area.

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