Breathe Better Sleep Better Live Better Podcast
The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast
Yoga Research & Beyond
Age Less / Live More
Align Podcast
Huberman Lab

Breathe Better

12 episodes

Nasal breathing, Buteyko, CO2 tolerance, and respiratory muscle training. How you breathe affects sleep, anxiety, athletic performance, and even facial structure.

Nasal breathing, Buteyko, CO2 tolerance, and respiratory muscle training. How you breathe affects sleep, anxiety, athletic performance, and even facial structure.

Episodes

1
Breathe Better Sleep Better Live Better Podcast
Buteyko Breathing with Patrick Mckeown
Breathe Better Sleep Better Live Better Podcast Patrick McKeown 2013-04-27

Dr. Stephen Park, an ENT physician specializing in obstructive sleep apnea, interviews Patrick McKeown, an internationally renowned Buteyko expert and author. The episode focuse...

2
The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast
062: Buteyko Breathing with Steve Donald
The Connected Yoga Teacher Podcast Steve Donald 2018-04-30

Host Shannon Crow of the Connected Yoga Teacher podcast interviews Steve Donald, a Buteyko educator who took the first Buteyko educator training in Canada in 2006. Steve was dra...

3
Yoga Research & Beyond
Y&B #62 - Buteyko Breathing and Asthma
Yoga Research & Beyond Catherine Cowie 2017-11-28

Hosts Ariana Rabinovich and Catherine Cowie of the Yoga Research and Beyond podcast take a science-first look at the Buteyko breathing technique, reviewing a 2005 study publishe...

4
Age Less / Live More
192: Buteyko Breathing - Is C02 Your Friend?
Age Less / Live More Sasha Yakovleva 2016-03-03

Lucas Rockwood of the Yoga Talk Show (Age Less / Live More) interviews Sasha Yakovleva, executive director of the Breathing Center and a Buteyko breathing normalization expert. ...

5
Align Podcast
Patrick Mckeown: Nose Breathing, Tongue Strength, Over-Breathing | Ep. 245
Align Podcast Patrick McKeown 2019-09-23

Aaron Alexander of the Align Podcast interviews Patrick McKeown, author of The Oxygen Advantage, in a wide-ranging conversation that begins with a philosophical discussion about...

6
Huberman Lab
How to Breathe Correctly for Optimal Health, Mood, Learning & Performance
Huberman Lab Andrew Huberman 2023-02-20

The physiological sigh (double inhale, long exhale) is the fastest way to calm down. Nasal breathing should be your default, and building CO2 tolerance reduces baseline anxiety....

7
Huberman Lab
Dr. Jack Feldman: Breathing for Mental & Physical Health & Performance
Huberman Lab Jack Feldman 2022-01-10

Mouth breathing causes structural and health problems; nasal breathing filters air and produces nitric oxide. Slow breathing at 5-6 breaths per minute optimizes CO2 tolerance. M...

8
Soaring Child: Thriving with ADHD
127: Buteyko Breathing with Dr. Miles Nichols
Soaring Child: Thriving with ADHD Dr. Miles Nichols 2024-09-26

Host Dana Kay of the Soaring Child podcast welcomes back Dr. Miles Nichols, a functional medicine expert and founder of the Medicine with Heart Clinic, to discuss how Buteyko br...

9
The Holistic Navigator
You're Breathing Wrong: The Buteyko Breathing Method
The Holistic Navigator 2019-06-14

Host Ed Jones of The Holistic Navigator introduces Buteyko breathing to listeners, sharing his personal journey with the technique over several years of working with a Buteyko p...

10
You Are Heroic with Brian Johnson
Interview: The Oxygen Advantage with Patrick McKeown
You Are Heroic with Brian Johnson Patrick McKeown 2017-05-12

Brian Johnson of the Optimize podcast interviews Patrick McKeown, author of The Oxygen Advantage, in what Brian calls the most life-changing practice he has adopted. Brian share...

11
Find Your Daily Calm
Relaxing Buteyko Breathing Method
Find Your Daily Calm Dr. Charles Edward Florendo 2025-05-28

This episode of Find Your Daily Calm features a guided Buteyko reduced breathing exercise led by Dr. Charles Edward Florendo, Southeast Asia's first and only physician certified...

12
ATS Breathe Easy
Inspiratory muscle training as an adjunct to Pulmonary Rehabilitation
ATS Breathe Easy 2021-12-14

Dr. Enya Daines and Dr. Daniel Langer break down the evidence for inspiratory muscle training (IMT) as a standalone therapy and as an add-on to pulmonary rehabilitation, mostly ...

Related Research

Effects of Nasal and Oral Breathing on Respiratory Muscle and Brain Function: A Review.
Bayrak Ö, Polastri M, Pehlivan E (2025)
Nasal breathing activates more brain regions during cognitive tasks (15 vs 10 areas), enhances default mode network connectivity, and produces more efficient diaphragmatic breathing compared to oral breathing.
Breaking social media fads and uncovering the safety and efficacy of mouth taping in patients with mouth breathing, sleep disordered breathing, or obstructive sleep apnea: A systematic review.
Rhee J, Iansavitchene A, Mannala S, et al. (2025)
Systematic review of 10 studies (213 patients) found mixed evidence for mouth taping — only 2 studies showed significant sleep apnea improvements, while most showed no benefit and flagged safety risks including asphyxiation with nasal obstruction.
Cyclic sighing in the clinic waiting room may decrease pain: results from a pilot randomized controlled trial.
Hanley AW, Davis A, Worts P, et al. (2025)
A 4-minute cyclic sighing exercise significantly reduced both pain unpleasantness and pain intensity in orthopedic clinic patients compared to a control condition.
Effect of Buteyko breathing technique on clinical and functional parameters in adult patients with asthma: a randomized, controlled study.
Vagedes K, Kuderer S, Ehmann R, et al. (2024)
Buteyko breathing technique significantly improved asthma control and quality of life in adults with asthma compared to controls after 3 months of training.
The Effect of Inspiratory Muscle Training on Health-Related Fitness in College Students
Qin L, Liu S, Hu S, Feng L, Wang H, Gong X, Xuan W, Lu T (2024)
IMT improved VO2max and exercise performance in healthy college students, demonstrating benefits even in young, fit populations.
Carbon dioxide tolerance and chemoreceptor sensitivity: Implications for breathing training
Courtney R (2020)
CO2 tolerance is trainable and improvements correlate with reduced dysfunctional breathing symptoms and better stress resilience.