Journal
One essay a week on the science of slow breathing.
Every week we read the new clinical research on slow nasal breathing and publish what holds up.
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Browse the libraryEverything published so far
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Scientists just put someone in an MRI during breathwork. The blood flow pattern was new to medicine.
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A 2025 Frontiers Psychiatry meta-analysis just placed pranayama in the clinical mental health conversation
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A 2025 trial put breathwork at a Cohen's d of 1.44 for anxiety. Here is what that number means.
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From the libraryMental Health Awareness Month starts today. Here is the practice with the longest research record on anxiety.
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A 2026 study on humming breath just explained why Anuloma Viloma works
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A 2026 study on Anulom Vilom pranayama just published results on panic disorder. Here is what it found.
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Thirty breathwork studies just described Anuloma Viloma. Researchers gave it a new name.
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A 2025 meta-analysis just rated pranayama as a candidate clinical intervention
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Six weeks of breathwork posted a Cohen's d of 1.44 for anxiety. Most pills do not get close.
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JournalCompared to what? A week of breathing science, sorted by its control groups
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Doctors are warning against mouth tape. Grandmothers taught a safer practice 2,500 years ago.
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Your left brain lights up when you breathe through your right nostril
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Right now, one of your nostrils is dominant. In 90 minutes, the other one will be.
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JournalThe brain has been listening. Five 2026 studies say what it hears.
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Today is Earth Day. The air in your lungs has been alive before.
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A 2026 clinical trial just made breathwork undeniable
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One nostril breathes your logic. The other breathes your feeling.
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JournalThis week, six 2026 studies traced one breath from the nostril to the amygdala
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From the libraryHarvard researchers just compared pranayama to brain stimulation therapy
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From the libraryA 2026 study on humming breath just explained why Anuloma Viloma works
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From the libraryThey tested breathwork on people who run toward emergencies. Here is what happened.
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JournalThe sleep chapter just grew a Sanskrit name
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From the libraryCardiologists are prescribing breathing exercises. A 2026 study just explained why.
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From the libraryA 2026 peer-reviewed study just validated what Nadi Shodhana has always done
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JournalSix 2026 studies. Six different populations. One rhythm.
