One of London's top doctors on the benefits of breathwork
Luc Braquet It may sound like new age nonsense, but there appears to be some well-founded scientific claims behind the benefits of breathing exercises. Obviously, breathing is our very existence. But nobody stops to look at the quality of breath, whether it is during the day, at night, when we are exercising or stressed. There are patterns to breathing, with healthy and unhealthy consequences. Advertisement One study discovered a phenomenon known as ‘email apnoea’, where subjects repeatedly and unconsciously stop breathing for short periods whilst trawling through their morning emails. T...