How to Actually Breathe

02/25/20 • 29 min

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Is modern life making many of us breathe ‘incorrectly’ and can changing your breathing technique lower your stress?

Tim Samuels puts a horizontal form of breathing to the test. He hears from ‘The Iceman’ Wim Hof, who claims the comforts of life (and clothes) have made us too soft - which is bad for our immune system and minds.

An emergency doctor reveals how breathing techniques allow him to perform at his peak when a life and death case comes in.

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Is modern life making many of us breathe ‘incorrectly’ and can changing your breathing technique lower your stress?

An emergency doctor reveals how breathing techniques allow him to perform at his peak when a life and death case comes in.

For extra content, videos and a regular newsletter go to www.bbc.co.uk/allhailkale

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