Persistent exhaustion is often blamed on stress, workload, or poor sleep, but a growing body of research points to something ...

My Pilates instructor is a fan of telling my group fitness class, “Breathe or you’ll die.” Sure, it sounds obvious: You need oxygen to survive. Breathing is 100 percent in your best interest. But, ...

Nose surgery for breathing can help to correct structural issues that disrupt airway function. There are several types of nose surgery that can help a person breathe better, including septoplasty and ...

Accessory muscle breathing means using muscles other than those typically used for breathing to take in and expel air. One example is the subclavius — between the collarbone and the top rib — which ...

Slow down, and pay attention to your breath. It’s not merely commonsense advice. It also reflects what meditation, yoga, and other stress-reducing therapies teach: that focusing on the timing and pace ...

If you’re lucky enough to live to 80, you’ll take up to a billion breaths in the course of your life, inhaling and exhaling enough air to fill about 50 Goodyear blimps or more. We take about 20,000 ...

How Breathing Effects Eye: The process of breathing not only affects other parts of the body, but it can also affect our eyes ...

Breathing is subconscious. We don’t have to think about it – it just happens. But when we exercise, many of us become more aware of it than we normally are – sometimes thinking about every breath we ...