Instant Genius Podcast: Breathing, your hidden superpower, with James Nestor

Instant Genius is a bite-sized masterclass in podcast form. In this week's episode, we talk to science journalist James Nestor.

He’s the author of Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, which was shortlisted for the 2021 Royal Society Science Book Prize.

He explains why so many of us are breathing wrong, and why it matters.

Find Instant Genius on your preferred podcast platform here: instantgenius.podlink.to/Podcast

And if that's not enough, you can hear even more from James on Instant Genius Extra.

On this subscription-only show, available on Apple Podcasts, we take a deeper dive into the topics covered on Instant Genius. In this episode, James tells us about the breathing techniques we could use to improve our health.

Listen to more episodes of Instant Genius:

• The origin and evolution of mammals, with Dr Elsa Panciroli
• Gut health, with Dr Megan Rossi
• The science of ageing, with Dr Andrew Steele
• The James Webb Space Telescope, with Stuart Clark
• Algae, with Ruth Kassinger
• Consciousness and comas, with Dr Adrian Owen