Mehrsa's Reviews > Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art

I read a whole book on a thing I have never thought about before and now I feel like I have to relearn automatic functions of my body! I wish there was a bit more evolutionary science to back up some of the claims here because the claims on how our mouths got too small and our noses don't work properly is a little bit far-fetched? Seems like he's making both an evolutionary claim (though seems more Lamarckian than Darwinian) that when we started eating soft foods, our jaws a a species got smaller and also he's making an environmental claim that we do this to ourselves by not chewing enough etc. I just would love to see more support for this theory, which I am willing to buy. I am totally onboard the arguments about breathing as meditation and as healing. I think that is so embedded in so many cultures and sort of obvious to anyone who has tried it.

On the orthodontia practices, my mom (who is a big believer in ancient healing practices) has been railing against how orthodontists made my younger siblings' mouths too small by taking out too many teeth too early so I am sure she will be happy to have this supported.