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Article: Let's try heavy breathing: doing it right feels a little different.(I Tried It)

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May 1, 2007
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A chronic asthma sufferer, I figured it was finally time to check out a deep-breathing session with New York City fitness and nutrition expert Kendra Coppey, so I could finally learn how to breathe correctly. The first thing the famed holistic goddess asked was if I'm a nose breather or mouth breather. Nose, I told her. Cool, good start.

Coppey, founder of Barefoot Tiger, told me most asthmatics are mouth breathers, though it's better for us to breathe through our noses because we can bring in more oxygen that way. Inhaling through the nose and exhaling through the mouth is for a "regular" person, while inhaling and exhaling only through the nose has great ...

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