544: Patrick Mckeown on Breathing for Increased Performance, Faster Recovery & Deeper Sleep

This week the boys welcome back Patrick Mckeown founder of the Oxygen Advantage to talk all things airways again.

This time Pat was in person in the studio so the conversation took some more exciting and deeper turns into the anatomy of airways and how it relates to health and athletic performance.

This episode follows up on their last show where the conversation about breath work dove into performance increases and sleep benefits... this episode is the same but DEEPER. Enjoy.

Patrick's work - http://oxygenadvantage.com/

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Show notes

- Nobody truly knows the purpose or precise function of the Nitric Oxide, but it definitely brings benefits to the breathing process (10:43)

- How do you breathe when you go for a run? How breathing through your nose improves performance (13:12)

- Nasal breathing is essential for recovery during sleep time (19:40)

- There is about 7% to 10% of asthma in the population, Australia is one of the countries with highest rates in the world (23:03)

- Your breathing during competition is influenced by your breathing during rest and during sleep (29:57)

- Most people have a very distracted mind, and that distraction does increase significantly due to social media, text messaging (50:02)

- I think anybody that is talking about the breath should have a basic idea about the biomechanics of breathing, the biochemistry of breathing (1:03:59)

- All of our attention is going outwards and it's really important to bring the attention inwards (1:26:56)

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