How to Breathe for Optimal Brain Performance | James Nestor & Jim Kwik

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Published 2021-05-05
Breathing affects everything in your life from our focus, concentration, mental energy, vitality, immune system, and so much more. Yet, we may not be doing it the right way.

Today, we have a breathing expert on our Kwik Brain show, James Nestor. He is an author and journalist who has written for Scientific American, Outside, The New York Times, The Atlantic, and more. His latest book, Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, was released May 26, 2020 by Riverhead/Penguin Random House. Breath was an instant New York Times and London Sunday Times bestseller, translated into more than 30 languages in 2021.

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Show notes:

0:00 Intro
2:22 Why is breath so important
4:21 Breath & Immune System
6:32 The mindset toward breathing
8:33 The lies about breath
11:11 Breathing techniques
22:11 Cold therapy
24:27 The power of humming
27:30 Breathing for anxiety
32:20 Breathing dysfunctions
36:05 About James Nestor

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All Comments (21)
  • @JimKwik
    Subscribe so we can stay in touch and learn together. 🧠
  • @AhmetKaan
    🙏 5 Things to Never Do in Rush: 1) Giving away your trust 2) Making big desicions 3) Judging someone's character 4) Falling in love 5) Eating your food
  • @BrunoLuke
    Been watching, listening, and paying attention to all of predictions and forecasts since early Covid. He hasn't disappointed yet 👌
  • @drSamovar
    im becoming a `'humming monk`'......i hum on long walks, sometimes 2-3hrs.....i started doing it up the hills, and im clearly less winded at the top when adding humming....but then its so enjoyable, i just keep humming.....after 20min or so, your chest is vibrating in a way that begins to feel like its pulling you along, like an extra battery or energy source.....good stuff....
  • @mohamedhadi6291
    My daughter used to breathe from the mouth till she was five years old. She was always sick with colds and running rose 24/7. She couldn't even drink anything without getting coughing and something throwing up. We were New in America and I have to keep talking back and forth to the hospital. Then I found a very nice doctor at children's hospital who was black and he me to go to ENT doctor and check. The ENT doctor said that my daughter's ears were blocked and her nose ednods swallen bad and she needs tubes in her ears and remove of the ednods. A black doctor at children's hospital operated her and put tubes in her ears. After a week my daughter color changed from pale to shinning brown. He fallen hair started growing and she wasn't snoring and struggling breathing at night anymore. It's was a transformational and very remarkable thing. I thank God and those doctors that help my daughter.
  • @mytube-10
    20:47 he begins the steps for the breathing technic followed by a demonstration 24:42 benefits of humming💚💛 26:50 what Whim Hoff does thru out his day (how much breathing time and hummin
  • @Peter_Loh
    I have always been finding a way for me to stay aware of my own breath throughout the day and this really hits me alot. Realizing how different variation of breathing methods affects the way our body functions and what is the techniques that we could utilize during different circumstances really makes a big different for me to really look at my breath, stay aware about it and cooperate it with my activity. I feels that having a clear plan on doing my breath really helps me to stay focused. Thank you very much Jim for making videos like this for us. I really belief that this short 30mins has the potential to change my life in a big way.
  • Thank you so much for these beautiful tips regarding breathing. Thank you Jim for assisting us to live our best so we can help others as well.
  • Wow I'll never think of breathing the same way again, learned so much from this episode, thank you so much.
  • I use your work is with my students from pre school - grade 12th thank you for all this brilliant knowledge that you are prepared to share!
  • @1MissLibs
    4 in, hold 7, exhale 8, inhale 4, hold 7, exhale 8. For sleeping
  • @444NRG
    Thanks Jim for introducing this great man. Breathing is a tool, Osho taught me a lot about breathing.
  • @lisengel2498
    Humming - I love that - gives a wonderfull feeling of floating into bliss 🎶🧡🎵
  • I've always had some weird breathing rythm and felt like no one understands how negatively that influences on my day to day life. Looking forward to hear some smart words from you in this video. ❤
  • @cheninmadden
    One of my favourite books of all time....blew my mind🤯
  • @ericab9050
    Thank you Jim!!!! Much love from 🇿🇦
  • This is the second time I've seen this man journalist For Pete's sake announce him properly l HOLD UP HIS BOOK so we have a visual n narrator introduce yourself n that it's a podcast YouTube is fantastic n new t me This was most helpful f me as I kept passing out n sort or figured that my brain needed more oxygen ALSO I put the tape over mouth I slept much better n stopped passing out Thank you so much James Podcaster HOLD UP THE BOOK.n let ur guest speak, the other podcast or talked way too much n never into James or showed the book