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Besides social media accounts, hhpfoundation has populated their site with: • Time course of perceptual, cognitive, physical and physiological responses to a single non‐sleep deep rest session in physically active young adults • Harnessing Breathing Techniques to Enhance Athletic Performance for CMBT Athletes | Alex Butschies • Nasal and oral breathing modes reconfigure brain network dynamics between stabilizing integration and promoting fragmentation - Scientific Reports • Embodied breathing habits Aligning breathing mechanics with respiratory chemistry | Peter Litchfield & Sandra Reamer • Slow breathing impacts inter-organ dynamics modulating brain function and risk behavior: Neuron • Effects of intentional breathing practices on cognitive function: a systematic review protocol • Cardiorespiratory fitness and risk of mental disorders and dementia: a systematic review and meta-analysis - Nature Mental Health • Walking with controlled breathing improves exercise tolerance, anxiety, and quality of life in heart failure patients • Brief intermittent intense exercise as interoceptive exposure for panic disorder: a randomized controlled clinical trial | Frontiers • The Exchange Breathing Method for Seizure Intervention: A Historical and Scientific Review of Epilepsy and Its Evolving Therapeutic Paradigms • Know Your Nose: A Narrative Review of the Developmental and Functional Impact and Importance of the Nose, Nasal Breathing and Techniques on Health and Emotional Wellbeing • Deep Rest: An Integrative Model of How Contemplative Practices Combat Stress and Enhance the Body’s Restorative Capacity • Slow Diaphragmatic Breathing for Chronic Migraine Prevention and Treatment: A Case Report • The Impact of Resonance Frequency Breathing on Measures of Heart Rate Variability, Blood Pressure, and Mood • High ventilation breathwork practices: An overview of their effects, mechanisms, and considerations for clinical applications • Vagus activation by Cold Face Test reduces acute psychosocial stress responses • Shared breath of joy enhances empathy through breathing synchronization • Beyond 0.1 Hz: Distinct affective and cardiac responses to slow and super-slow-paced breathing • Dynamic Interactions Between Musical, Cardiovascular, and Cerebral Rhythms in Humans | Circulation • Synergistic and distinct effects of expansive posture and nasal breathing on psychological and physiological self-regulation in adolescents • I was sceptical about breathwork so I did my own research | Psyche Ideas • The science behind panic attacks and what you can do to manage them • Breathing CO2 May Help the Brain Clear Toxic Proteins in Parkinson’s Disease • Cardiorespiratory fitness is associated with lower anger and anxiety and higher emotional resilience • At 82, he’s as fit as a 20-year-old. His body holds clues to healthy aging. • Exploring the physiological limits of aging: a case study of the male 50-km world record in the 80+ age category • Open Mouth Posture Syndrome (OMPS): Classification - PMC • Etiology, Triggers and Neurochemical Circuits Associated with Unexpected, Expected and Laboratory Induced Panic Attacks • The vital crosstalk between breath and brain • Regulation of Cerebral Metabolic Rate • A Randomized Clinical Trial Reveals Effects of Mindfulness and Slow Breathing on Plasma Amyloid Beta Levels • Breathing Interventions Improve Autonomic Function, Respiratory Efficiency and Stress in Dysfunctional Breathing: A Randomised Controlled Trial - PMC • Strange Mechanisms: How, Exactly, Do We Breathe? • What happens to your body during a panic attack? • How the Breath Guides Memory | Nautilus • An alternating breathing pattern significantly affects the brain functional connectivity and mood states | Frontiers • How Breathwork Became the New Meditation • Conscious breathing appears to synchronize brain and body activity • Abnormal breathing patterns and hyperventilation are common in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome during exercise • HPA axis, respiration and the airways in stress—A review in search of intersections • Central nervous system control of breathing in natural conversation turn-taking • Heart Beat: Music May Help Keep Your Cardiovascular System in Tune • Singing at 0.1 Hz as a Resonance Frequency Intervention to Reduce Cardiovascular Stress Reactivity? | Frontiers • The A52 Breath Method: A Narrative Review of Breathwork for Mental Health and Stress Resilience • Acute nasal breathing lowers diastolic blood pressure and increases parasympathetic contributions to heart rate variability in young adults | American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology | American Physiological Societ • Resting-state Functional Connectivity During Controlled Respiratory Cycles Using Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging - PMC • Resting-state Functional Connectivity During Controlled Respiratory Cycles Using Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging • A meta-analytic review of anger management activities that increase or decrease arousal: What fuels or douses rage? • The overtraining syndrome - Dr. Phil Maffetone • Unexpected Cardiovascular Oscillations at 0.1 Hz During Slow Speech Guided Breathing (OM Chanting) at 0.05 Hz | Frontiers • Deep, Slow Breathing: An Antidote to Our Age of Anxiety? • Unlocking deep relaxation: the power of rhythmic breathing on brain rhythms • Brief slow-paced breathing improves working memory, mood, and stress in college students • Ancient Breathwork Meets Modern Neuroscience, Offering Psychedelic Therapy Without Substances, Study Finds • Breathing Rhythm and Pattern and Their Influence on Emotion - PMC • Brief structured respiration practices enhance mood and reduce physiological arousal • This often-ignored smartwatch health metric can help you manage stress • Effect of HEPA Filtration Air Purifiers on Blood Pressure: A Pragmatic Randomized Crossover Trial • Bruce McEwen, PhD: Q&A on Your Body on Stress • The energetic cost of allostasis and allostatic load • The surprising power of breathing through your nose | BBC • Frontiers | Influence of CrossFit and Deep End Fitness training on mental health and coping in athletes • The physiological effects of slow breathing in the healthy human | Breathe • Autonomic Tone as a Cardiovascular Risk Factor: The Dangers of Chronic Fight or Flight • Amygdala-driven apnea and the chemoreceptive origin of anxiety • Everything I Thought I Knew About Nasal Congestion Is Wrong • A simple breathing exercise enhances emotional control, new research suggests • The effect of breathing exercises on adults' sleep quality: an intervention that works | Frontiers • Yogic Bellows, Neural Sparks: Unravelling the Neurophysiological Mechanisms of Kapalbhati—A Systematic Review • Breathing Right… or Left! The Effects of Unilateral Nostril Breathing on Psychological and Cognitive Wellbeing: A Pilot Study • Humans have nasal respiratory fingerprints | Cell • Breath Tools: A Synthesis of Evidence-Based Breathing Strategies to Enhance Human Running • Jamieson Webster’s Elegant Meditation on How We Breathe | New Republic • Physiological and Genetic Adaptations to Diving in Sea Nomads • Air Hunger in Anxiety: Causes, Symptoms, and Strategies for Relief • Your Brain Loves Deep Breathing, Science Explains Why - Neuroscience News • The Nose Knows: A Case for Nasal Breathing During High Intensity Exercise — Adam Cap • Impact of exhaustive exercise on autonomic nervous system activity: insights from HRV analysis • The Breathing IQ: an anthropometric index of diaphragmatic breathing efficiency • The Interplay of Breath and Emotion A Novel Cardio-Respiratory-Cortical-Limbic Network Framework • A Cardiologist’s Advice: Emotional Intelligence Can Protect Your Heart • Impact of the warm and calm breathing pattern on delivery outcomes in pregnant Chinese women: a retrospective cohort study - Scientific Reports • Decreased CO2 saturation during circular breathwork supports emergence of altered states of consciousness - Communications Psychology • Physiology, Acid Base Balance • HHPF Newsletter Signup Link • Elite Athletes Use This Underwater Breath Technique to Boost Athletic Performance • HRV Is The Health Metric We Should All Be Tracking In 2025 • Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback Training Can Improve Menopausal Symptoms and Psychological Well-Being in Women with a Diagnosis of Primary Breast Cancer: A Longitudinal Randomized Controlled Trial • The effect of slow breathing in regulating anxiety - Scientific Reports • Breath: James Nestor’s Book on How We Breathe May Inspire Clinicians • Donate to Support HHPF Research • Breath, Buffers and Performance | David Beales MD • Effect of dry dynamic apnea on aerobic power in elite rugby athletes: a warm-up method • The pupillary respiratory‐phase response: pupil size is smallest around inhalation onset and largest during exhalation • Chronic psychic stress can cause metabolic syndrome through mild hypercapnia • Why We Meditate | Harvard Gazette • Intermittent Hypoxic Training as an Effective Tool for Increasing the Adaptive Potential, Endurance and Working Capacity of the Brain • Breathing Practices for Stress and Anxiety Reduction: Conceptual Framework of Implementation Guidelines Based on a Systematic Review of the Published Literature - PMC • Four weeks of slow-paced breathing: a longitudinal, randomized, placebo-controlled study of the autonomic nervous system | Current Issues in Sport Science (CISS) • Slower respiration rate is associated with higher self-reported well-being after wellness training - Scientific Reports • Do hold your breath: on the benefits of conscious breathing | Aeon Essays • Nasal nitric oxide and regulation of human pulmonary blood flow in the upright position • How Does Pranayama Work? The Science of Breath Retention (Kumbhaka) • Oxygen—A Critical, but Overlooked, Nutrient | Frontiers • How to calm your mind with breathing, according to science • View of Could Nasal Breathing During Exercise Inhibit the Development of Cardiac Fibrosis and Arrhythmia Associated with Endurance Training? • Breathing Practices for Stress and Anxiety Reduction: Conceptual Framework of Implementation Guidelines Based on a Systematic Review of the Published Literature • Influence diagram of physiological and environmental factors affecting heart rate variability: an extended literature overview | PMC • Healing Irritable Bowel Syndrome with Diaphragmatic Breathing • Meditation is more than either stress relief or enlightenment • How the Dive Reflex Protects the Brain and Heart • A breath of fresh air: Perspectives on inhaled nutrients and bacteria to improve human health | Advances in Nutrition • HHPF Ambassadors — HHPF Website 2024 • Do Unexpected Panic Attacks Occur Spontaneously? • Want to (Legally) Boost Your Endurance? Try Holding Your Breath. • Ultra-slow mechanical stimulation of olfactory epithelium modulates consciousness by slowing cerebral rhythms in humans - Scientific Reports • Your Breath is Your Brain’s Remote Control • Humans without a sense of smell breathe differently | Nature • Better Chemistry Through Breathing: The Story of Carbon Dioxide and How It Can Go Wrong • Baduanjin exercise: A potential promising therapy toward osteoporosis | Frontiers • When somebody loses weight, where does the fat go? British Medical Journal • How breathing and metabolism are interconnected | Ruben Meerman | TEDxBundaberg • Breathwork for Wellbeing, Longevity, and High Performance | Brian Mackenzie on Finding Mastery • Improved exercise ventilatory efficiency with nasal compared to oral breathing in cardiac patients | Frontiers • Effects of conscious connected breathing on cortical brain activity, mood and state of consciousness in healthy adults - Current Psychology • Type 2 diabetes can cause lung disorders, new study finds | Imperial College London • Do peripheral chemoreceptors in the carotid body serve as sites of glucose sensing? • Speaking under pressure: Low linguistic complexity is linked to high physiological and emotional stress reactivity • Osteoarthritis patients exhibit an autonomic dysfunction with indirect sympathetic dominance • Brain Waves Synchronize when People Interact • Can breathing exercises reduce Alzheimer’s risk? | USC School of Gerontology • Frontiers | Breathing, postural stability, and psychological health: a study to explore triangular links • James Nestor: Breathing Heals - The Purist • Ready, set, focus: Finding calm in a storm through the power of breathing • Athletic Breathing Patterns for Different Situations - SH//FT • Neural Correlates of Non-ordinary States of Consciousness in Pranayama Practitioners: The Role of Slow Nasal Breathing • Why Air Hunger Is Slowing You Down | Alex Hutchinson • Physiological Factors Associated with Unsatisfied... : Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise • Effects of brief remote high ventilation breathwork with retention on mental health and wellbeing: a randomised placebo-controlled trial - Scientific Reports • Is It Better to Breathe Through Your Mouth or Nose During Exercise? | Outside Magazine • Donate to support the Health & Human Performance Foundation • Vagus activation by Cold Face Test reduces acute psychosocial stress responses - Scientific Reports • How your breathing can help you run faster with less effort • The Origins of Anxiety and Your Breath | Leo Daniel • Why Learning to Control Your Breath Will Change Your Life | Inside Hook • Respiratory Physiology, the Brain, and How to be Better Today Than You Were Yesterday • Nasal Breathing: Could Breathing via Our Noses, Rather than Mouths, Lead to Gains Across the Board? • How to Mimic Altitude Training at Sea Level | Inside Hook • Can Overbreathing Cause Osteoporosis? | The Breathing Diabetic • The Nose Knows: A Case for Nasal Breathing During High Intensity Exercise | Adam Cap • Medicine: Carbon Dioxide for Breath | Time Magazine 1932 • Optimize Cycling Performance and Recovery Through Breath | Gravelstoke • What is aerobic vs anaerobic exercise? | Runners World • Meditation Experience is Associated with Increased Structural Integrity of the Pineal Gland and greater total Grey Matter maintenance • Epinephrine vs. norepinephrine: What to know • Amygdala-driven apnea and the chemoreceptive origin of anxiety | Justin Feinstein Ph.D • Negative Responses to Stress | Marco Altini Ph.D • CO2 Tolerance and Breath Control Training: The Basics | Morgan Hoestery • All You Need to Know About Training with Heart Rate Variability | Alan Couzens • Can Yoga Breathing / Pranayama Concepts Be Reasonably Extended to Conventional Endurance Training? • Predicting stress in first-year college students using sleep data from wearable devices • How Deep Breathing Opens Up the ADHD Brain • Correlation of sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system activity during rest and acute stress tasks • Breathing not-so-easy: Can meditation and ice baths really set your mind and body free? • The Effect of Deep and Slow Breathing on Retention and Cognitive Function in the Elderly Population • Effect of rosary prayer and yoga mantras on autonomic cardiovascular rhythms: comparative study • Yoga, Oxygen and Respiration | Luciano Bernardi MD • A healthy heart is not a metronome: an integrative review of the heart's anatomy and heart rate variability • HHPF YouTube Channel • Decreased CO2 saturation during Circular Breathwork supports Emergence of Altered States of Consciousness • Sports Bra Restriction on Respiratory Mechanics during... : Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise • Physiology, Diving Reflex | StatPearls • The Effect of Slow-Paced Breathing on Cardiovascular and Emotion Functions: A Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review | Mindfulness • Acute nasal breathing lowers diastolic blood pressure and increases parasympathetic contributions to heart rate variability in young adults • Respiration modulates sleep oscillations and memory reactivation in humans - Nature Communications • The heart rate secret: what it reveals about our health – from sleep and alcohol to fight or flight | The Guardian • Influence of the breathing pattern on the pulmonary function of endurance-trained athletes - Scientific Reports • Air Hunger: A Primal Sensation and a Primary Element of Dyspnea • Dreaming while awake: The beneficial effects of yoga Nidra on mental and physical recovery in two elite karate athletes • Walking with controlled breathing improves exercise tolerance, anxiety, and quality of life in heart failure patients: A randomized controlled trial • Effect of coherent breathing on mental health and wellbeing: a randomised placebo-controlled trial | Nature Scientific Reports • This Was the Year of Breathing Through Our Noses | GQ Magazine • Slow breathing for reducing stress: The effect of extending exhale • A Practical Guide to Resonance Frequency Assessment for Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback • Nasal nitric oxide in man • Deep Breathing Practice Facilitates Retention of Newly Learned Motor Skills - Scientific Reports • Heart Rate Variability and Exceptional Longevity • Respiratory function in healthy long-term meditators: A cross-sectional comparative study • Everything I Thought I Knew About Nasal Congestion Is Wrong | The Atlantic • The role of reciprocity in dynamic interpersonal coordination of physiological rhythms • Influence of CrossFit and Deep End Fitness training on mental health and coping in athletes • "Shut Your Mouth and Save Your Life:" Being Remarks on Mouth-Breathing, and Some of Its Consequences, Especially to the Apparatus of Hearing: A Contribution to the Ætiology of Ear-Disease • Classical symphonies may lead to synchronized physical responses • Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment: Effects on Mitochondrial Function and Oxidative Stress • Restricted nasal-only breathing during self-selected low intensity training does not affect training intensity distribution • Detecting stress in college freshman from wearable sleep data|psyarxiv.com • A framework of transient hypercapnia to achieve an increased cerebral blood flow induced by nasal breathing during aerobic exercise • Yoga with Jake | Tanya Bentley interview • The Paradox of Listening to Our Bodies | The New Yorker • Effects of conscious connected breathing on cortical brain activity, mood and state of consciousness in healthy adults • Mouth-breathing: Why it’s bad for you and how to stop | BBC Science Focus • Strong humming for one hour daily to terminate chronic rhinosinusitis in four days: A case report and hypothesis for action by stimulation of endogenous nasal nitric oxide production • Effect of aerobic exercise, slow deep breathing and mindfulness meditation on cortisol and glucose levels in women with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a randomized controlled trial • Effect of breathing exercises on oxidative stress biomarkers in humans: A systematic review and meta-analysis • Pranayama: What It Is, Benefits, Plus 7 Sequences To Try | @mindbodygreen • Checking Email? You’re Probably Not Breathing | NY Times • Is Nasal Breathing Better for Exercise? | Washington Post • Respiratory feedback in the generation of emotion • Brain Power with Alternate Nostril Breathing | Fire Engineering • Perceived Time Expands and Contracts within each Heartbeat | Cell • Shut Your Mouth and Save Your Life | George Catlin | Internet Archive • Are there any parts of the human body that get oxygen directly from the air and not from the blood? • Can slow breathing guard against Alzheimer's? • The Science behind Breathing in Yoga | Mithu Storoni MD PhD • How a scientific attempt to demystify Buddhist meditation yielded astounding results | Aeon Videos • A Cardiologist’s Advice: Emotional Intelligence Can Protect Your Heart - Mindful • There’s a Scientific Reason Why Water Is So Calming | Markham Heid, Medium • Increased net water loss by oral compared to nasal expiration in healthy subjects | Rhinology International Journal • How You Breathe Can Affect Your Skin's Hydration Levels | mindbodygreen • The Tortoise and the Hare | Cell • The Integrated Brain Network that Controls Respiration • Your Breath is Your Brain’s Remote Control - Mindful • Brain Waves Synchronize when People Interact | Scientific American • Breathing for Health Benefits | US News | Jake Panasevich • “Why We Meditate: The Science and Practice of Clarity and Compassion • The Effects of Intermittent Hypoxic Training on Anaerobic and Aerobic Power in Boxers | MDPI • Do hold your breath: on the benefits of conscious breathing | Aeon magazine • Brains Might Sync As People Interact — and That Could Upend Consciousness Research • The Thin Line Between Waking and Sleeping in Athletes: A Call for Yoga Nidra in the Sporting Context • Modulating heart rate oscillation affects plasma amyloid beta and tau levels in younger and older adults - Nature Scientific Reports • Age-Related Differences in Cardiac Autonomic Control at Resting State and in Response to Mental Stress • Out-of-the-blue panic attacks aren't without warning: Body sends signals for hour before • Regulation of Cerebral Metabolic Rate - Basic Neurochemistry • Rest and digest: The parasympathetic nervous system | Livescience • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Metabolic Disorder in Disguise? • Somatic experiencing: using interoception and proprioception as core elements of trauma therapy • The Overtraining Syndrome | Dr Phil Maffetone • Aerobic, Breathing Exercises Tied to Faster Concussion Recovery | Medscape • Do peripheral chemoreceptors in the carotid body serve as sites of glucose sensing? | The Physiological Society • Yoga and pain: A mind-body complex system | Frontiers • Breathwork May be Accessible Alternative for Anxiety Treatment | Mad in America • A new hypothesis on vascular calcification: the exhausting buffer syndrome (EBS) | Andras Sikter MD • 5-minute breathing exercises can improve your mood and reduce anxiety | Washington Post • Targeting autonomic nervous system as a biomarker of well-ageing in the prevention of stroke | Frontiers in Aging & Neuroscience • Modulating heart rate oscillation affects plasma amyloid beta and tau levels in younger and older adults - Scientific Reports • People Naturally Sync Their Bodies, Breathing — and Skin | the Cut • Effect of a slow-paced breathing with heart rate variability biofeedback intervention on pro-inflammatory cytokines in individuals with panic disorder - A randomized controlled trial • Just Breathe | NY Times • Human Brain Is Divided on Fear and Panic | Department of Psychiatry • The positive effects of combined breathing techniques and cold exposure on perceived stress: a randomised trial - Current Psychology • HHPF Literature Review Volunteer Application • How you breathe affects your brain | Greg Miller @bigthink • Cardiac vagal tone: a neurophysiological mechanism that evolved in mammals to dampen threat reactions and promote sociality | Stephen Porges • Breathing Rhythm and Pattern and Their Influence on Emotion | Annual Review of Neuroscience • How Slow, Deep Breathing Taps Into a Natural Rhythm in Our Bodies • Breathwork Interventions for Adults with Clinically Diagnosed Anxiety Disorders: A Scoping Review | Brain Sciences • How Your Heart Influences What You Perceive and Fear | Jordana Cepelewicz Quanta Magazine • What Happens When You Breathe | Brooke Jarvis • Hyperventilation Syndrome: A Common Problem often Missed | Morton Travel MD • The Fascial Breath | Bruno Bordoni DPT, PhD • Surviving Combat: The Effects of Predator Stress on Brain and Body | Shane Omara PhD • Respiratory Diaphragm Function: Understanding the Muscle that Powers Breath | Tuneup Fitness • Brief structured respiration practices enhance mood and reduce physiological arousal | Cell • Effect of breathwork on stress and mental health: A meta-analysis of randomised-controlled trials - Scientific Reports • Real-time MRI image of natural chest movements | Max Planck Institute • Control of Breathing | Respiratory Muscles | Merck Manuals • Differential Carbon Dioxide Sensitivity in Childhood Anxiety Disorders and Nonill Comparison Group • Minute ventilation/carbon dioxide production in patients with dysfunctional breathing • How your breathing can help you run faster with less effort | Lisa Buckingham - Runners World • Chronic psychic stress can cause metabolic syndrome through mild hypercapnia | Andras Sikter MD • What Does Heart Rate Variability Mean? • What anxiety does to our breathing | Horizon Magazine • Effect of rosary prayer and yoga mantras on autonomic cardiovascular rhythms: comparative study | Luciano Bernardi • Investigation on the Effect of Oral Breathing on Cognitive Activity Using Functional Brain Imaging • Singing at 0.1 Hz as a Resonance Frequency Intervention to Reduce Cardiovascular Stress Reactivity? • Amygdala-driven apnea and the chemoreceptive origin of anxietyAmygdala-driven apnea and the chemoreceptive origin of anxiety | Justin Feinstein Ph.D • How Breathing Shapes Our Brain - Neuroscience News • The vagus nerve: Everything you need to know | BBC Science Focus • Remembering the Connection: Respiratory Alkalosis and your Patient's Symptom Catalogue - Leon Chaitow • Navy SEAL Kaj Larsen's Guide to Becoming a Better Swimmer | Inside Hook • Breathing can affect the cleansing of the brain | Science Norway • Respiratory influence on cerebrospinal fluid flow – a computational study based on long-term intracranial pressure measurements • The vital crosstalk between breath and brain | Knowable magazine • Beyond mindfulness: Arousal-driven modulation of attentional control during arousal-based practices • Take a Breath: The Effects of Respiration on Brain Activity | Grey Matters Journal • Breathing Exercises for Improving Your Mood | John Douillard • Slow Breathing and Hypoxic Challenge: Cardiorespiratory Consequences and Their Central Neural Substrates • In touch: Cardiac and respiratory patterns synchronize during ensemble singing with physical contact | Frontiers in Neuroscience • Effects of a randomised trial of 5-week heart rate variability biofeedback intervention on mind wandering and associated brain function • Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Diaphragm: From Normal to Pathologic Findings • Benefits from one session of deep and slow breathing on vagal tone and anxiety in young and older adults | Nature • Embodied Breathing Habits - Aligning Breathing Mechanics with Respiratory Chemistry | Dr Peter Litchfiled & Sandra Reamer • The challenge of meeting energy demands during acute hypocapnia | Dr Andras Sikter • Origins of vocal-entangled gesture | Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Review • Is Oxygen the Answer to Long Covid? | Wired • Breath-holding physiology, radiological severity and adverse outcomes in COVID-19 patients: A prospective validation study • THE CALORIE COUNTER Evolutionary anthropologist Herman Pontzer busts myths about how humans burn calories—and why • Breathing through the nose aids memory storage | Science Daily • Ready, set, focus: Finding calm in a storm through the power of breathing | Air Force Medical Service • New Evidence of Breathing and Body/Mind Balance | Leon Chaitow • The influence of the respiratory cycle on reaction times in sensory-cognitive paradigms | Nature • Can decelerated breathing confer health benefits? | Physics World • Hyperbaric oxygen therapy improves neurocognitive functions and symptoms of post-COVID condition | Nature • Are You an Overbreather? Balance CO2 + O2 for Mood Support | Dr. John Douillard, DC, • There’s a Scientific Reason Why Water Is So Calming | Markham Heid • Slow-Breathing Curriculum for Stress Reduction in High School Students: Lessons Learned From a Feasibility Pilot | The Health and Human Performance Foundation • Immediate impact of yogic breathing on pulsatile cerebrospinal fluid dynamics | Nature • Quantifying resilience of humans and other animals | PNAS • Pranayama Redefined: Breathing Less to Live More | Robin Rothenberg • A Probable Etiology and Pathomechanism of Arousal and Anxiety on Cellular Level - Is It the Key for Recovering from Exaggerated Anxiety? | Andras Sikter MD • Squeeze the beat: Enhancing cardiac vagal activity during resonance breathing via coherent pelvic floor recruitment | Josef Martin Tatschl • World-first Israeli study shows oxygen therapy can dramatically reduce PTSD symptoms | The Times of Israel • Breathwork: The Science behind the Good Vibes Zandra Palma MD • Amazon Smile Setup link to Support the Health and Human Performance Foundation • Respiratory Physiology, the Brain, and How to be Better Today Than You Were Yesterday | Kate Pate PhD • Mind over matter? Alex Hutchinson explains the role of the brain when it comes to the limits of human endurance • Electrical pulses to the back of the neck found to restore breathing after opioid drug use • Importance of screening breathing patterns in athletic populations | Ritsumeikan University • Brain Power with Alternate Nostril Breathing | Claire Diab and Dennis Boyle • A Cardiologist’s Advice: Emotional Intelligence Can Protect Your Heart | Jomathan Fisher • Take It Easy: Too Much Exercise Frazzles the Vagus Nerve | Christopher Bergland • How Does Pranayama Work? The Science of Breath Retention (Kumbhaka) | John Douillard • Can We Prescribe Resilience? | J. Eric Vance, MD • How Slow, Deep Breathing Taps Into a Natural Rhythm in Our Bodies | Timothy Meinch for Discover Magazine • Unseen scars of childhood trauma | Amanda B Keener for Knowable Magazine • Hyperventilation and anxiety state | Dr. Claude Lum, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine • Breath chemical markers of sexual arousal in humans | Nature • EEG signatures change during unilateral Yogi nasal breathing | Nature • Does the Wim Hof Method Cause Tinnitus? | Scott Carney • Breathing, the Immune System and Cold Exposure | Jaap Verbaas PhD • Effects of low-level inhalation exposure to carbon dioxide in indoor environments: A short review on human health and psychomotor performance • The physiological effects of slow breathing in the healthy human • Respiratory rate predicts outcome after acute myocardial infarction | European Heart Journal • Humans Can Fight Viruses By Breathing Deeply –Harvard Study Shows How it Works • pH of Soul: How does Acid-Base Balance Affect our Cognition? • New part of the body found hiding in the lungs | Live Science • Introduction to Aviation Physiology | Federal Aviation Administration • How Anxiety Fuels Your Anxiety | Robert Roy Britt @mediumelemental • Respiratory Rhythm, Autonomic Modulation, and the Spectrum of Emotions: The Future of Emotion Recognition and Modulation • What Happens When You Breathe | Brooke Jarvis @thenewyorker • Slow Breathing - So Simple, So Complex | Dr Luciano Bernardi • Amygdala-driven apnea and the chemoreceptive origin of anxiety | Justin Feinstein PhD • Reading on a smartphone affects sigh generation, brain activity, and comprehension | Nature • Should You Breathe Through Your Mouth or Nose During Exercise? | Susan Lacke @outsidemagazine • Implementing Mobile HRV Biofeedback as Adjunctive Therapy During Inpatient Psychiatric Rehabilitation Facilitates Recovery of Depressive Symptoms and Enhances Autonomic Functioning Short-Term | Josef Tatschl • Spinal CSF flow in response to forced thoracic and abdominal respiration • The Implications of the Diving Response in Reducing Panic Symptoms • Multisystem Consequences of Impaired Breathing Mechanics and/or Postural Control | Mary Massery • Can You Warm Yourself with Your Mind? The human body generates its own heat. Some people can adjust the thermostat | The New Yorker • Can Yoga Breathing / Pranayama Concepts Be Reasonably Extended to Conventional Endurance Training? | George Dallam and Carol Foust • People Naturally Sync Their Bodies, Breathing — and Skin • The Way You Breathe May Affect Your Skin's Hydration Levels — Experts Explain | MindBodyGeen • Deep slow nasal respiration with tight lip closure for immediate attenuation of severe tics | Journal of Clinical Neuroscience • Packing, bathing, miracles and crisis at the Malvern ‘Water Cure’ • Elite Athletes Use This Underwater Breath Technique to Boost Athletic Performance | Kells McPhillips • The Science Behind Breathing in Yoga | Mithu Storoni • Mouth-breathing: Why it’s bad for you and how to stop | BBC Science Focus with James Nestor • Earth inhales and exhales carbon in mesmerizing animation • Are We “Brain Washed” during Sleep? | Boston University • Breathing Alters Perception | Jon Leiff MD • Breathing MRI from the Max Planck Institute • This Simple Breathing Technique Could Help Fend Off Illness and Ease Stress | Shape • Glucose, insulin, and the carotid body chemoreceptors in humans | Jacqueline K. Limberg • Pain and Anxiety impact Breathing on a Cellular level | Salk Institute • Breath Training for Surfers | Cris Mills • People with heightened anxiety have altered perceptions of their breathing | PsyPost • Interoception of breathing and its relationship with anxiety | Neuron • The Thin Line Between Waking and Sleeping in Athletes: A Call for Yoga Nidra in the Sporting Context | Frontiers in Psychology • Understanding and Rehabilitating Unbalanced Breathing | Leon Chaitow • Breathing-based meditation decreases posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms in U.S. military veterans | Journal of Traumatic Stress • Education Suspended Podcast |The Behavior of Breathing - #22: Dr. Matt Dewar • What’s the secret to holding your breath? | Alice Roberts • Deep Breath Video Can Calm a Child in 1 Minute | Stanford Project on Adaptation and Resilience in Kids • Deep breathing for children by SPARK Lab at Stanford University (full) • What Does Rehab Look Like for Covid Long Haulers? • People synchronize heart rates while listening attentively to stories | Cell Press • Yoga Pranayama in Western Fitness and Healing With Emily Hightower | Ed Harrold • Just Breathe: Building the case for Email Apnea | Linda Stone • Energy, and How to Get It | Nick Paumgarten • Donate to support the Health & Human Performance Foundation Breathe for Teens • Nasal Breathing: the Secret to Optimal Fitness? • How to Breathe Your Way to Better Recovery | Phil White • Brains Might Sync As People Interact — and That Could Upend Consciousness Research | Discover • Introducing Social Breathing: A Model of Engaging in Relational Systems • Stress, Anxiety, CO2 Tolerance and Teens | Scott Russell • GOOD BREATHING, BAD BREATHING | Peter M. Litchfield, Ph.D. • The surprising benefits that come from breathing entirely through your nose | USA Today • Breathing pattern disorders and physiotherapy: inspiration for our profession • How Music Can Literally Heal the Heart | Scientific American • Harnessing Breathing Techniques to Enhance Athletic Performance for CMBT Athletes • Deep, Slow Breathing: An Antidote to Our Age of Anxiety? | Discover Magazine • The Role of Carbon Dioxide (and intracellular pH) In the Pathomechanism of Several Mental Disorders - Are the Diseases of civilization caused by learnt behavior, not the Stress itself? • Origin and Pathomechanism of the Diseases of Civilization Hypothesis | Andras Sikter • Neurophysiological model of altered states of consciousness induced by breathing techniques • Slow nasal breathing selectively modifies state of consciousness in healthy humans: a psychometric study • Change Your Posture By Breathing | Melanie McConnell • Analogy between classical Yoga/Zen breathing and modern clinical respiratory therapy • Dysfunctional breathing and reaching one’s physiological limit as causes of exercise-induced dyspnoea • Is panic disorder a disorder of physical fitness? A heuristic proposal • Exercise Intervention for Individuals with Dysfunctional Breathing: A matched controlled trial • Hyperventilation: A Possible Explanation for Long-Lasting Exercise Intolerance in Mild COVID-19 Survivors? • The Myth of Synchronized Breathing | Alex Hutchinson • How controlled breathing helps elite athletes – and you can benefit from it too • A Probable Etiology and Pathomechanism of Arousal and Anxiety on Cellular Level - Is It the Key for Recovering from Exaggerated Anxiety? • Slow Breathing, so simple – so complex | Dr. Luciano Bernardi • Keeping the Breath in Mind: Respiration, Neural Oscillations, and the Free Energy Principle • Take a Deep Breath Stress can throw your body into overdrive. Your breath can help slow things down | American Physiological Society • Children slept over an hour more with mindfulness training | Stanford University study • Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Diaphragm: From Normal to Pathologic Findings 2020 • 5-minute breathing workout lowers blood pressure as much as exercise, drugs • Integrated breathing and relaxation training (the Papworth method) for adults with asthma in primary care • Breathing rhythms and emotions • Measuring and Characterizing the Human Nasal Cycle • Remembering the Connection: Respiratory Alkalosis and your Patient’s Symptom Catalogue | Leon Chaitow • Breath-holding as a novel approach to risk stratification in COVID-19 • Perfecting your acid-base balancing act • Humming Greatly Increases Nasal Nitric Oxide • Mouth breathing: Adverse effects on facial growth, health, academics, and behavior • What is Breathwork and Does it Work? | Zandra Palma MD • Hyperventilation Syndrome: A Diagnosis Usually Unrecognized | Morton Tavel MD • Laughing gas relieves symptoms in people with treatment-resistant depression • The Use of Immersive Virtual Reality and Slow Breathing to Enhance Relaxation and Sleep in Adolescents • Breathe Better, Move Better: 4 Ways Breathing Changes Your Life • Potential reversal of epigenetic age using a diet and lifestyle intervention • The “embreathment” illusion highlights the role of breathing in corporeal awareness • A Case Study of Breath Control Training as an Alternative Therapy for Unexplained Shortness of Breath • Respiratory Diaphragm Function: Understanding the Muscle that Powers Breath • Yoga and Breathing Exercises Aid Children With ADHD to Focus • Yoga Oxygen and Respiration | Luciano Bernardi • The Hidden Link Between Freediving and Mountaineering | Alex Hutchison • Effect of Nasal Versus Oral Breathing on Vo2max and Physiological Economy in Recreational Runners Following an Extended Period Spent Using Nasally Restricted Breathing • Is it the breath or the meditation? | Luciano Bernardi and Nicolò Francesco Bernardi • Obstructive sleep apnoea as a result of environmental, hormonal and psychological factors in non-obese Individuals | Martin McPhillimey • Self-Regulation of Breathing as an Adjunctive Treatment of Insomnia • The deep and slow breathing characterizing rest favors brain respiratory-drive • Deep breathing for bone health | Dr. Susan Brown • When we lose weight, where does it go? | Ruben Meerman & Andrew Brown • Chronic sinus inflammation appears to alter brain activity • The Physiology of Pranayama | Lloyd Sparks MD • How breathing and metabolism are interconnected | Ruben Meerman • Breathlessness and dysfunctional breathing in patients with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS): The impact of a physiotherapy intervention • Hyperventilation and the Body | Christopher Gilbert PhD • Understanding dyspnea as a complex individual experience • Yoga Breathing, Meditation, and Longevity | Gerbarg and Brown • The Science of Breathing | Kravitz & Novotny • The Role of Carbon Dioxide and Intracellular pH in the Pathomechanism of several Mental disorders • Neurobiology of panic and pH chemosensation in the brain • Should You Breathe Through Your Mouth or Nose During Exercise? | Triathlete • Could Your Nose Be Key to Better Performance? | Outside Magazine • How Slow, Deep Breathing Taps Into a Natural Rhythm in Our Bodies | Discover • Hyperventilation Syndrome: Why Is It Regularly Overlooked? • How we breathe has major impacts on our body | James Nestor • Unlocking the Mysteries of Long COVID | The Atlantic • Pranayama Redefined: Breathing Less to Live More - Robin Rothenberg • The Afghan walk, the benefits of a regenerating walk • How a scientific attempt to demystify Buddhist meditation yielded astounding results • Donate to the Breathe For Teens Study - Support Stress-Reduction Research for Adolescents • Amazon Smile - Health & Human Performance Foundation fundraising setup link • The Jaw Epidemic: Recognition, Origins, Cures, and Prevention • Breathtaking - AEON Magazine • The Health benefits of Nose Breathing - Dr. Alan Ruth • Breathing Re-Education and Phenotypes of Sleep Apnea: A Review | Patrick McKeown • Respiratory Changes in Response to Cognitive Load: A Systematic Review • The Athlete’s Secret Ingredient: The Power of Nasal Breathing • HHPF CEO Tanya Bentley interviewed on Mind Body Green podcast • The challenge of meeting energy demands during acute hypocapnia • A Review of Research Studies on Sleep-Disordered Breathing in Children Relevant to Dental Professionals • Better Quality of Life When Nasal Breathing of Snoring Men Is Improved at Night • Panic disorder: attack of fear or acute attack of solitude? • What Happens When You Breathe | The New Yorker • How Your Breath Controls Your Mood and Attention • Breathing above the brain stem: volitional control and attentional modulation in humans • Increased net water loss by oral compared to nasal expiration in healthy subjects • Walk test and school performance in mouth-breathing children • Breathing Pattern Disorders | Leon Chaitow for Physiopedia • The untapped power of allostasis promoted by healthy lifestyles | Bruce S. McEwen • Mouth Breathing Causes, Treatments And Consequences | Patrick Mckeown • What Does Your "Threshold" Really Mean? Aerobic - Anaerobic • How your breathing can help you run faster with less effort - Runners World • Respiratory physiology of pregnancy -Physiology masterclass • Breathing abnormalities in children with breathlessness - E.P. de Groot • Deep Breathing Practice Facilitates Retention of Newly Learned Motor Skills • Investigation of Functional Connectivity Differences between Voluntary Respirations via Mouth and Nose Using Resting State fMRI — • A Brief Overview of the Chemistry of Respiration and the Breathing Heart Wave - Peter Litchfield • How Does Your Brain Respond When You Hold Your Breath? Alex Hutchinson • Deep slow nasal respiration with tight lip closure for immediate attenuation of severe tics • Clinical Correlates of Carbon Dioxide Hypersensitivity in Children • Breathing Disorders and Parkinsons Disease - Dr. Gary Sharpe • Vision and Breathing May Be the Secrets to Surviving 2020 • Study reveals physical demands of two-hour marathon • The Mind at Work: James Nestor on breathing as the brain’s killer app • A Review on the Serum Electrolytes and Trace Elements Role in the Pathophysiology of COVID-19 • Risk Factors Associated With Long-Term Hospitalization in Patients With COVID-19 • New Evidence of Breathing and Body/Mind Balance - Leon Chaitow • Understanding and Rehabilitating Unbalanced Breathing - Leon Chaitow • Breathing and the Brain – Rhythm, oscillation and circulation: Recent breakthroughs in cognitive neuroscience - Dr Rosalba Courtney • Hypocapnia and mental stress can trigger vicious circles in critically ill patients due to energy imbalance - Dr. Andras Sikter • Mouth Breathing Causes, Treatments And Consequences - Patrick McKeown • Noticing and Correcting Mouth Breathing - Goop • How Breath Can Impact Fibromyalgia Pain - Leon Chaitow • An Anti-hyperventilation Instruction Decreases the Drop in End-tidal CO2 and Symptoms of Hyperventilation During Breathing at 0.1 Hz • Breathing pattern disorders, motor control, and low back pain - Leon Chaitow • Yoga, Oxygen and Respiration - Luciano Bernardi MD • Slow Breathing, So Simple, So Complex --- Luciano Bernardi MD • New aspects in the pathomechanism of diseases of civilization, particularly psychosomatic disorders. - Chronic hypocapnia and hypercapnia • The Importance of Breastfeeding -Dr Michael Gelb • The Brain and Body Prioritize Adaptation, Not Balance - Medium Elemental • The Integrative Role of the Sigh in Psychology, Physiology, Pathology, and Neurobiology • Andrew Huberman: How stress affects the mind — and how to relieve it • Real-Life X-Men - Biology of the world's greatest climbers - the Sherpa • Hyperventilation and exhaustion syndrome • Oxygen Consumption Changes With Yoga Practices: A Systematic Review • Nose Breathing For Cyclists • Can decelerated breathing confer health benefits? - Physics World • How to Breathe Your Way to Better Recovery • Nasal Breathing: the Secret to Optimal Fitness • Two mountaineers are trying to recreate NASA’s twin study—on Mount Everest • Yes, You Can Breathe Your Way To Better Sleep — Mind Body Green podcast w/James Nestor • Breathe to Perform - David Bidler for Trail Runner Magazine • The grandmaster diet: How to lose weight while barely moving • Natural and Unnatural Ways to Decongest Your Nose - Doctor Steven Park • Caffeine challenge and breath-holding duration in patients with panic disorder • How To Strengthen Your Immune System By Breathing Through Your Nose - Interview + podcast with Brian Mackenzie • A biological anthropologist explains why and how exercise works to combat senescence -Harvard Magazine • Breathing can affect the cleansing of the brain - Science Norway • Could nasal nitric oxide help to mitigate the severity of COVID-19? • May Dyspnea Sensation Influence the Sexual Function in Men With Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome? A Prospective Control Study • Promoting Mental Health and Psychological Thriving in University Students: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Three Well-Being Interventions • In Praise of Walking: A New Scientific Exploration - Shane O'Mara • The Yogi masters were right - meditation and breathing exercises can sharpen your mind • How our brains create breathing rhythm is unique to every breath • The parable of panic: suffocation, social attachment, and the critical role of an integrative, biopsychosocial formulation. • Manipulating the perception of time affects voluntary breath‐holding duration • Serotonin Neurons & PH Homeostasis • Alteration in Nasal Cycle Rhythm as an Index of the Diseased Condition • Ageing of the Diaphragm Muscle • How Nasal Breathing Keeps You Healthier - Medium Elemental • Panic, Suffocation False Alarms, Separation Anxiety and Endogenous Opioids • Nitrous Oxide as a Putative Novel Dual-Mechanism Treatment for Bipolar Depression • Resonance-Paced Breathing Alters Neural Response to Visual Cues: Proof-of-Concept for a Neuroscience-Informed Adjunct to Addiction Treatments • Adolescent girls with emotional disorders have a lower end‐tidal CO2 and increased respiratory rate compared with healthy controls • Autonomic dysregulation and the Window of Tolerance Model of the effects of complex emotional trauma • A Hyperventilation Theory of Job Stress and Musculoskeletal Disorders • The Profound Power of Breathing - Medium article • Freedive Breathing During the COVID-19 Pandemic - Freedivewire article • Feeling Low-Energy? Try Strengthening Your Breathing Muscles - Dr Belisa Vranich • Acute anxiety and autonomic arousal induced by CO2 inhalation impairs prefrontal executive functions in healthy humans • Why Nasal Breathing Matters, Now More Than Ever - James Nestor • The Breath of Life - George Catlin - free e-book • The impact of emotion on respiratory-related evoked potentials • Erie News Now -Local High School Introduces Breathing Program • Anxiety, CO2 tolerance, and breath practice in high school students: 6-week slow breathing program PDF • Looking at Masks and Respiratory Health Even without a mask as an impediment, many people breathe in ways that compromise their well-being. • Fearless brain-damaged patients are terrified of suffocation - Guardian UK • The influence of snoring, mouth breathing and apnoea on facial morphology in late childhood: a three-dimensional study • The breathing conundrum – interoceptive sensitivity and anxiety • HHPF & Henderson KY Firefighter Performance Program Summary • Health & Human Performace Foundation current rand forthcoming projects • NPR - How The 'Lost Art' Of Breathing Can Impact Sleep And Resilience • Can You Hear Me Now? (Sleep Apnea, hypoxia and hearing loss) • 1877 Remarks on Mouth-Breathing, and on some of its Consequences, especially to the Apparatus of Hearing • The Healing Power of Proper Breathing - James Nestor, WSJ • Influence of a 30-Day Slow-Paced Breathing Intervention Compared to Social Media Use on Subjective Sleep Quality and Cardiac Vagal Activity • Increased Oxygen Load in the Prefrontal Cortex From Mouth Breathing: A Vector-Based Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Study • Nasal Respiration Entrains Human Limbic Oscillations and Modulates Cognitive Function • Is There an Optimal Autonomic State for Enhanced Flow and Executive Task Performance? • Training of paced breathing at 0.1 Hz improves CO2 homeostasis and relaxation during a paced breathing task • Negative Mood and Alcohol Problems are Related to Respiratory Dynamics in Young Adults • The method of Katharina Schroth - history, principles and current development • How breathing and metabolism are interconnected | Ruben Meerman | TEDx • Breath Practices for Survivor and Caregiver Stress, Depression, and Post- traumatic Stress Disorder: Connection, Co-regulation, Compassion • Yoga Respiratory Training Improves Respiratory Function and Cardiac Sympathovagal Balance in Elderly Subjects • Carl Stough - Breathing Coordination website - what you can do to help yourself • COVID 19 Best Practices: Breathing - Dr Belisa Vranich • Time - Why Ventilators May Not Be Working as Well for COVID-19 Patients as Doctors Hoped • What Doctors on the Front Lines Wish They’d Known a Month Ago - NY Times • The Effect of Diaphragmatic Breathing on Attention, Negative Affect and Stress in Healthy Adults • Device and Non-Device-Guided Slow Breathing to reduce blood pressure • The Physiology of Pranayama - Lloyd Sparks MD • Anxiety and Respiratory Variability Paper - PDF • Origin and Pathomechanism of the Diseases of Civilization (Hypothesis) by András Sikter • Vagus Nerve Is Key to Well-being - Medium • Sleep-Disordered Breathing in a Population-Based Cohort: Behavioral Outcomes at 4 and 7 Years • THE ROLE OF CARBON DIOXIDE (AND INTRACELLULAR pH) IN THE PATHOMECHANISM OF SEVERAL MENTAL DISORDERS • Complementary and Integrative Health Modalities Presentation Slide Deck PDF download • Breathing may change your mind about free will • Dr Andrew Huberman and Brian Mackenzie Collective Insights Podcast • The benefits of conscious breathing - Aeon • Alex Hutchinson explains the role of the brain when it comes to the limits of human endurance • Breathing is coupled with voluntary action and the cortical RP • Breathing Through the Nose May Offer Unique Brain Benefits • CO2 transport and CO2 tolerance for freedivers • Breathing, the immune system, and cold exposure - Jaap Verbaas PhD • Brian Mackenzie on Taking Control: Alertness, Anxiety, Fear and Trauma • Anxiety and Respiratory Variablility • How Breath-Control Can Change Your Life: A Systematic Review on Psycho-Physiological Correlates of Slow Breathing • Higher Line podcast with Brian Mackenzie February 2020 • Washington Post Nasal Breathing article • Volunteer • Facebook • Contact • Home • Donate • Breathing Alters Perception - Jon Lieff MD