Caleb Fleming

“Another Japanese study in humans from 2013 found that mouthbreathing delivered a disturbance of oxygen to the prefrontal cortex, the area of the brain associated with ADHD. Nasal breathing had no such effects.”
― James Nestor, Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art

“Shall man’s basest desires receive the fullest measure of gratification, and his purest aspirations starve for lack of sustenance?”
― Og Mandino, University of Success: From the bestselling author of The Greatest Salesman in the World

“Dr. Christian Guilleminault, a sleep researcher at Stanford, found that children who experienced no apnea events at all—only heavy breathing and light snoring, or “increased respiratory effort”—could suffer from mood disorders, blood pressure derangements, learning disabilities, and more.”
― James Nestor, Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art

“More than sixty years of research on living systems has convinced me that our body is much more nearly perfect than the endless list of ailments suggests,” wrote Nobel laureate Albert Szent-Györgyi. “Its shortcomings are due less to its inborn imperfections than to our abusing it.”
― James Nestor, Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art