Editors
CLEARING THE AIR
COMMENT
Lynne McTaggart and Bryan Hubbard
We do it every day without thinking—in, out, on average 7.5 million times a year. And we think that if we just get the air into our lungs, it doesn’t matter which way it comes in.
But new evidence suggests we’re doing it all wrong. If we’re to achieve optimum health, we need to take in far mor e oxygen than we ordinarily do, and we need to make sure that it gets into places it’s just not reaching.
The main reason we’ve got an oxygen deficiency has to do with the very way we breathe. With all the stresses of modern life and hours spent hunched over computers or phones, our breathing has become too quick and too shallow.
But as Celeste McGovern reports in our cover story this month (page 26), the greatest problem has to do with the almost universally accepted idea that breathing through your mouth is equivalent to breathing through your nose.