Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
暫譯: 呼吸：失落藝術的新科學

Nestor, James

Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
  • 出版商: Riverhead Books
  • 出版日期: 2020-05-26
  • 售價: $1,510
  • 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $1,435
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 304
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 0735213615
  • ISBN-13: 9780735213616

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No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you're not breathing properly.

There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat 25,000 times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have 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. The answers aren't found in pulmonology labs, as we might expect, but in the muddy digs of ancient burial sites, secret Soviet facilities, New Jersey choir schools, and the smoggy streets of S o Paulo. Nestor tracks down men and women exploring the hidden science behind 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.

Modern research is showing us that making even slight adjustments to the way we inhale and exhale can jump-start athletic performance; rejuvenate internal organs; halt snoring, asthma, and autoimmune disease; and even straighten scoliotic spines. None of this should be possible, and yet it is.

Drawing on thousands of years of medical texts and recent cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry, and human physiology, Breath turns the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function on its head. You will never breathe the same again.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

無論你吃什麼、運動多少、身材多麼纖瘦或年輕或聰明，如果你呼吸不當，這一切都毫無意義。

對於我們的健康和福祉來說，沒有什麼比呼吸更重要：吸入空氣，呼出空氣，每天重複25,000次。然而，作為一個物種，人類已經失去了正確呼吸的能力，這帶來了嚴重的後果。

記者詹姆斯·內斯特（James Nestor）環遊世界，試圖找出問題出在哪裡以及如何修正。答案並不在我們所期待的肺病學實驗室中，而是在古老墓地的泥土挖掘、秘密的蘇聯設施、新澤西的合唱學校以及聖保羅的霧霾街道中。內斯特追蹤那些探索古老呼吸法背後隱藏科學的人們，如 Pranayama、Sudarshan Kriya 和 Tummo，並與肺部改造者合作，科學地測試我們呼吸方式的長期信念。

現代研究顯示，即使是對我們吸氣和呼氣方式進行輕微調整，也能啟動運動表現；使內臟再生；停止打鼾、哮喘和自體免疫疾病；甚至矯正脊柱側彎。這一切本不應該可能，但卻是實現了。

《呼吸》（Breath）基於數千年的醫學文獻和最近在肺病學、心理學、生物化學和人體生理學方面的前沿研究，顛覆了我們對這一最基本生物功能的傳統認知。你將再也無法以同樣的方式呼吸。

作者簡介

James Nestor has written for Outside, Scientific American, The Atlantic, Dwell, The New York Times, and many other publications. His book Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves was a finalist for the 2015 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing, an Amazon Best Science Book of 2014, and more. Nestor has appeared on dozens of national television shows, including ABC's Nightline and CBS's Morning News, and on NPR. He lives and breathes in San Francisco.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

詹姆斯·內斯特曾為Outside、Scientific American、The Atlantic、Dwell、The New York Times及許多其他出版物撰寫文章。他的著作Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves曾入圍2015年PEN/ESPN文學體育寫作獎，並被評選為2014年亞馬遜最佳科學書籍等。內斯特曾出現在數十個全國電視節目中，包括ABC的Nightline和CBS的Morning News，以及NPR。他在舊金山生活並呼吸。

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