Patrick McKeown and Daniel Daniel Pålsson of Oxygen Advantage meet with Anders Olsson of Conscious Breathing to talk about the latest in breathwork. Anders Olsson talks about his story of how he got into breathing, how it transformed his life and why he sold his house to build Conscious Breathing and spread it to the world. 

Anders' breathing journey started in 2009 when he read a book called How to Swap Asthma for Life. Anders Olsson discusses how breathing helped his racing mind to unlock the turbo and slow down. 

Here are a few of the things discussed during the podcast:

• Patrick McKeown and Anders compare breathing practices to mindfulness such as Vipassana
• Anders participating in the study at Stanford for James Nestors’ book Breath.
• How mouth breathing affected 
  • sugar cravings
  • balance when blindfolded
  • Stress hormones such as adrenaline
• Shut Your Mouth and Save Your Life
• Breathing affects all major disciplines of medicine: sleep, respiration, mental health etc.
• Importance of sleep
• Fight flight breathing on our brain function
• Breathing taught in schools
• When we reduce the fear and stress and worry we grow tremendously. Fear holds us back from our potential.
• Nasal breathing during exercise
• Adrenaline levels elevated when hyperventilating
• Carbon dioxide and breathing
• Roger Bannister, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer and nasal breathing
• Climate change and rising CO2 levels (air hunger and hyperventilation)
• James Nestors’ book Breath
• BreathQI
• Conscious Breathing is a peace project
• The future of breathing practice