Revisiting: Why You're Breathing Wrong, and How to Fix It

Aug 21, 2026 · 30 min

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0:01Hey there, it's Sanjay.
0:03Chasing Life has decided to take a summer refresh.
0:07We're working hard on brand new episodes we think you're really going to love.
0:11So today we have a carefully selected episode from the Chasing Life archive that we think is well worth the playback.
0:18As always, thanks for listening.
0:22Welcome to Chasing Life.
0:25If you are listening to this podcast, you are breathing.
0:29And no offense, but there's a very good chance that you're doing it wrong.
0:35The average person takes something like 20,000 breaths per day, more than 7 million a year.
0:42And I've always thought of each of those as a reflex, something we instinctually do, rather than a skill that we can hone.
0:49But for me, that changed in 2020.
0:52As a global pandemic attacked our respiratory systems, this timely book came out called Breath, The New Science of a Lost Art.
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