The healthy adult at rest involuntarily inhales and exhales some 20,000 times a day, as naturally as seawater slides back and forth in a tidal zone. This cycle is so routine and rhythmic that we ...

Your brain consumes about 20% of your body’s total oxygen supply, making it incredibly dependent on efficient breathing patterns for optimal function. Most people never think about how they breathe, ...

We breathe to sustain life but, aside from its most essential role, breathing supports the health of your body and mind in many other ways. More specifically, your breathing rate and patterns help ...

A new study has found that breathing does more than just move air in and out of your lungs—it could even be used to identify who you are. Scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel ...