Breath Lab

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Daily research notes on pranayama and the science of the breath, published from the archive a few at a time.

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Scientists just put someone in an MRI during breathwork. The blood flow pattern was new to medicine.

A 2025 PLOS ONE neuroimaging study from Sussex/BSMS produced the first peer-reviewed brain scans of breathwork in action, and the regions that lit up were not the ones the wellness internet predicted.

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  1. A 2025 Frontiers Psychiatry meta-analysis just placed pranayama in the clinical mental health conversation

  2. A 2025 trial put breathwork at a Cohen's d of 1.44 for anxiety. Here is what that number means.

  3. Mental Health Awareness Month starts today. Here is the practice with the longest research record on anxiety.

  4. A 2026 study on humming breath just explained why Anuloma Viloma works

  5. A 2026 study on Anulom Vilom pranayama just published results on panic disorder. Here is what it found.

  6. Thirty breathwork studies just described Anuloma Viloma. Researchers gave it a new name.

  7. A 2025 meta-analysis just rated pranayama as a candidate clinical intervention

  8. Six weeks of breathwork posted a Cohen's d of 1.44 for anxiety. Most pills do not get close.

  9. Doctors are warning against mouth tape. Grandmothers taught a safer practice 2,500 years ago.

  10. Your left brain lights up when you breathe through your right nostril

  11. Right now, one of your nostrils is dominant. In 90 minutes, the other one will be.

  12. Today is Earth Day. The air in your lungs has been alive before.

  13. A 2026 clinical trial just made breathwork undeniable

  14. One nostril breathes your logic. The other breathes your feeling.

  15. Harvard researchers just compared pranayama to brain stimulation therapy

  16. A 2026 study on humming breath just explained why Anuloma Viloma works

  17. They tested breathwork on people who run toward emergencies. Here is what happened.

  18. Cardiologists are prescribing breathing exercises. A 2026 study just explained why.

  19. A 2026 peer-reviewed study just validated what Nadi Shodhana has always done