151 | Understanding the Health Benefits of Nasal Breathing and Breathwork

Wondering what the hype is around nasal breathing? Brian Mackenzie is on for the second time to explain the science behind breath and how it can modulate panic, anxiety, and pain. Brian discusses how we can control our breathing to upregulate or downregulate the body, and the power in-breath, and how it can potentially take you off pharmaceuticals. In light of his Nosevember challenge, Brian dives into the anatomy and physiology of nasal breathing and how it plays into deviated septums, snoring, pain, and switching on the parasympathetic nervous system. Finally, Brian provides breathing techniques to get you started on your journey to breath awareness. Let's dive into all things breath! What You Will Learn in this Interview with Brian Mackenzie 4:30 - The real importance of breathing 6:37 - How does breath relate to pain 10:51 - Techniques to access parasympathetic 12:43 - Can you come off pharmaceuticals using breath? 15:38 - How to use breath to become more alert or more relaxed? 18:28 - Nosember - why is the nose important for breathing> 26:35 - How to address your deviated Septum? 29:27 - The importance of extending exhales & breath holds 34:40 - Snoring & Nasal Breathing 37:18 - Nosevember 40:50 - Trimming the hair in your nose 42:23 - Learn more about Brian About Brian Mackenzie Brian is a human performance expert, educator, author, and public speaker. Brian is a coach with more than two decades experience of in innovating new protocols for training Olympians, professional athletes, entrepreneurs, and high performers in numerous realms on the use of mechanical and breathing tools to achieve maximum output in training, competition, recovery, and stress. He is the author of the New York Times Best Seller Unbreakable Runner, CEO/Chief Creative Officer of SH//FT, co-founder of The Art of Breath, and also co-founder of XPT Life. He has also run and managed programs in the California State Correctional Institution; San Quentin State Prison. His clients have included and he has consulted for: Ari Emanuel, Kelly Starrett, Tim Ferriss, US Military and Special Forces Units (Navy, Army, Marines), Tia Clair Toomey, Rich Froning Jr., Dr. Andrew Huberman (The Huberman Lab) & Stanford University, Dr. Andy Galpin & Cal State Fullerton, Dr. Jimmy Bailey & San Francisco State, San Jose State, San Quentin State Prison, and many others. To learn more about Brian and view full show notes, please visit the full website here: https://www.docjenfit.com/podcast/episode151/ Thank you so much for checking out this episode of The Optimal Body Podcast. If you haven’t done so already, please take a minute to subscribe and leave a quick rating and review of the show! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/tobpodcast/message