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Air in. Air out. Repeat. Nothing is more important than the way we bring life-sustaining oxygen into our bodies. As humans, we pretty much have the technique of breathing down. Yet, according to journalist, James Nestor, we don’t. In “Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art,” Nestor provides an interesting spiritual, cultural, and evolutionary history of the way humans breathe and why he believes we have been doing it wrong for a very long time.

Regardless of how hard we try with diet and exercise, if we’re not breathing properly it seems none of that matters. Young or old, the way we...