Breathing Lessons A Doctors Guide To Lung Health

Author : MeiLan K. Han
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393866637
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Breathing Lessons: A Doctor's Guide to Lung Health written by MeiLan K. Han and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative, accessible guide to how our lungs work and how to protect them. Every day, our lungs circulate 11,000 liters of air, provide us with life-sustaining oxygen, and allow us to speak, sing, and smell. It’s no secret that our lungs are one of our most vital organs, and yet most of us pay them little attention. The COVID-19 pandemic, however, has reminded us of the importance of our lungs, and sparked interest in their function and the risks they face. In Breathing Lessons, leading pulmonologist and national spokesperson for the American Lung Association Dr. MeiLan K. Han takes readers on a fascinating tour of this neglected yet crucial organ. Han explains the wonder of breathing and reveals how the lungs serve as the body’s first line of defense. She provides a timely overview of the latest scientific thinking about the leading respiratory risks—including indoor and outdoor pollution, smoking and vaping, wildfire smoke, and viruses like SARS-CoV-2—and offers practical advice on how to protect the lungs at each stage of our lives, beginning in the womb. She outlines the major categories of chronic lung disease and demystifies the process lung doctors go through in making a diagnosis and recommending treatments. With authority as both practitioner and medical researcher, Han argues powerfully for social policies that make preserving lung health a national priority. Breathing Lessons is a rallying cry for lung health and an urgent call to start giving our lungs the attention they deserve.

Author : Milkyway Media
Publisher : Milkyway Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Summary of MeiLan K. Han’s Breathing Lessons written by Milkyway Media and published by Milkyway Media. This book was released on 2022-01-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buy now to get the main key ideas from MeiLan K. Han’s Breathing Lessons The Covid-19 pandemic has sparked new attention to the crucial importance of the human respiratory system. In Breathing Lessons (2021), Dr. MeiLan K. Han provides a medical guide to protecting our lungs and raises awareness about lung health. Han addresses the essential role played by human lungs in overall health, including a brief overview of the main categories of lung diseases. By exploring how the lungs can silently suffer long-term injuries without exhibiting any symptoms, Dr. Han helps readers understand more about one of their five vital organs.

Author : Patrick McKeown
Publisher : Humanix Books
ISBN 13 : 1630061980
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Breathing Cure written by Patrick McKeown and published by Humanix Books. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOSES ARE FOR BREATHING, MOUTHS ARE FOR EATING “Many people believe that taking a deep breath increases body oxygenation. The opposite is the case.” — Patrick McKeown, bestselling author of The Oxygen Advantage Imagine a breathing technique that can increase oxygen uptake and delivery to the cells, improve blood circulation, and unblock the nose. Perhaps it can help open the airways of the lungs, enhance blood flow and oxygen delivery to the brain, improve sleep and bring calmness to the mind. It might even restore bodily functions disturbed by stress, build greater resilience and help you to live longer. You might think this description sounds farfetched. But it isn’t. The Breathing Cure will guide you through techniques that embody the key to healthy breathing and healthy living. McKeown’s goal is to enable you to take responsibility for your own health, to prevent and significantly reduce a number of common ailments, to help you realize your potential and to offer simple, scientifically-based ways to change your breathing habits. On a day-to-day basis, you will experience an increase in energy and concentration, an enhanced ability to deal with stress and a better quality of life. The essential guide to functional breathing, learn techniques tried and tested by Olympic athletes and elite military. Clear your blocked nose, stress and relax your nervous system, improve lung function, prepare for competition and more. For use at home, in professional/amateur sports, by breathing instructors, dentists, doctors, physical therapists, strength and conditioning coaches, Pilates and yoga teachers, and anyone interested in health and fitness – from everyday wellbeing through to sporting excellence. Breathe Light: experience optimal blood circulation, peak oxygenation, maximal exercise performance, relief from respiratory symptoms and the best sleep you ever had. Breathe Slow: stress is a risk factor in 75 to 90 percent of all human diseases. Discover and apply the breathing rate scientifically proven to stimulate relaxation, reduce high blood pressure, boost your immune system, maximize HRV and improve blood glucose control. Breathe Deep: physical and emotional balance comes from within. Learn how to strengthen your diaphragm muscle to achieve greater endurance and resilience, calmness of mind, focused concentration and ease of movement. From the bestselling author of The Oxygen Advantage, The Breathing Cure: Exercises to Develop New Breathing Habits for a Healthier, Happier, and Longer Life covers new, ground-breaking topics such as how breathing techniques can support functional movement of the muscles and joints; improve debilitating conditions such as diabetes, epilepsy, lower back pain, PMS and high blood pressure; how the nasal breathing technique can be a weapon against influenza and related infections especially Covid-19; and last but not least, help you to enjoy deeper sleep and improved intimacy. Tap into your innate resilience. Fire up your potential. Enhance your health. BREATHE BETTER NOW!

Author : Paul Kalanithi
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0812988418
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Breath Becomes Air written by Paul Kalanithi and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • This inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living? NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST MEMOIRS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • People • NPR • The Washington Post • Slate • Harper’s Bazaar • Time Out New York • Publishers Weekly • BookPage Finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction and the Books for a Better Life Award in Inspirational Memoir At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a naïve medical student “possessed,” as he wrote, “by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life” into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality. What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir. Paul Kalanithi died in March 2015, while working on this book, yet his words live on as a guide and a gift to us all. “I began to realize that coming face to face with my own mortality, in a sense, had changed nothing and everything,” he wrote. “Seven words from Samuel Beckett began to repeat in my head: ‘I can’t go on. I’ll go on.’” When Breath Becomes Air is an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a brilliant writer who became both.

Author : David A. Kaminsky
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319941593
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pulmonary Function Testing written by David A. Kaminsky and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book serves as a unique, comprehensive resource for physicians and scientists training in pulmonary medicine and learning about pulmonary function testing. Pulmonary function testing and the physiological principles that underlie it are often poorly understood by medical students, residents, fellows and graduate students training in the medical sciences. One reason is that students tend to get overwhelmed by the basic mathematical descriptions that explain the working of the respiratory system and the principles of pulmonary function testing. Another reason is that too many approaches focus on the math without explaining the clinical relevance of these principles and the laboratory testing that enables us to measure the very lung function that these principles are describing. This book answers that need by providing a series of chapters that guide the reader in a natural order of learning about the respiratory system. In particular, after a general overview of the structure-function design of the lung and the history of pulmonary function testing, authors begin with the drive to breathe, and then follow the pathway of air as it is drawn into the lung, undergoes gas exchange, and is then exhaled back out again. Each chapter focuses on the key principles and corresponding pulmonary function tests that explain each step in this pathway. Each chapter is written by at least two experts, one with expertise in the underlying physiology, and the other with expertise in the clinical testing and application of pulmonary function testing in practice. Many figures and tables highlight key points, and multiple case studies in each section provide specific examples of the clinical application of each pulmonary function test. This is an ideal guide to pulmonary function tests for practicing pulmonologists, residents, fellows, and medical students.

Author : James Nestor
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735213631
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Breath written by James Nestor and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Bestseller A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2020 Named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR “A fascinating scientific, cultural, spiritual and evolutionary history of the way humans breathe—and how we’ve all been doing it wrong for a long, long time.” —Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Big Magic and Eat Pray Love No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you’re not breathing properly. There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat twenty-five thousand times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences. Journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it. The answers aren’t found in pulmonology labs, as we might expect, but in the muddy digs of ancient burial sites, secret Soviet facilities, New Jersey choir schools, and the smoggy streets of São Paulo. Nestor tracks down men and women exploring the hidden science behind ancient breathing practices like Pranayama, Sudarshan Kriya, and Tummo and teams up with pulmonary tinkerers to scientifically test long-held beliefs about how we breathe. Modern research is showing us that making even slight adjustments to the way we inhale and exhale can jump-start athletic performance; rejuvenate internal organs; halt snoring, asthma, and autoimmune disease; and even straighten scoliotic spines. None of this should be possible, and yet it is. Drawing on thousands of years of medical texts and recent cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry, and human physiology, Breath turns the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function on its head. You will never breathe the same again.

Author : Ankita Kashyap
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lung Diseases Demystified written by Ankita Kashyap and published by . This book was released on 2023-10-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dive into the intricate world of respiratory health with 'Lung Diseases Demystified: Doctor's Secret Guide.' This comprehensive guide offers a profound exploration of the anatomy and function of the lungs, unraveling the mysteries behind common lung diseases and their profound impact on daily life. From lifestyle modifications to coping strategies, complementary approaches, prevention, and support for patients and caregivers, every facet of lung health is meticulously examined. Explore the transformative power of breathing techniques, stress management, and mental health resilience in the face of lung diseases. Delve into complementary approaches such as herbal remedies, acupuncture, and mind-body techniques, providing holistic avenues to alleviate symptoms and enhance well-being. Learn about the importance of early detection, vaccinations, and environmental risk reduction in preventing lung diseases, ensuring a proactive approach to respiratory health. Through inspiring case studies, witness the incredible journeys of lung disease survivors, gaining insight into their struggles, triumphs, and transformative experiences. Uncover the intricate connection between lung health, nutrition, and sleep, understanding essential nutrients, anti-inflammatory foods, and sleep-friendly environments that contribute to overall well-being. Navigate the complexities of lung diseases and various life stages, from pregnancy to aging, exploring tailored approaches to managing respiratory health during significant life events. Understand the emotional impact of lung diseases, building resilience, and integrating mental health care into disease management. Explore the environmental factors influencing lung health, from indoor air quality to outdoor pollution and lifestyle choices, empowering readers with knowledge to make informed decisions. Delve into the future of lung disease research, patient advocacy, and holistic approaches, offering a hopeful outlook for living well with lung diseases. 'Lung Diseases Demystified' isn't just a guide; it's a comprehensive companion, offering expert insights, inspiring stories, and practical strategies for anyone seeking to understand, prevent, and manage lung diseases."

Author : Alison McConnell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781450411257
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Breathe Strong, Perform Better written by Alison McConnell and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breathe Strong, Perform Better explains how anyone, from everyday exercisers to elite athletes, can use breathing training to increase power and comfort, improve performance, accelerate recovery, and reduce injury risk. With easy-to-use programs and sport-specific workouts, this is your guide to achieving efficient breathing and peak fitness.

Author : Daniel Pecaut
Publisher : Daniel Pecaut
ISBN 13 : 9780998406206
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beating Bronchiectasis written by Daniel Pecaut and published by Daniel Pecaut. This book was released on 2016-11-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beating Bronchiectasis is one man's personal story of overcoming hopelessness in the face of rapidly-deteriorating health and being written off by the best doctors. Forced to take full responsibility for his own recovery, he researches and creates his own demanding plan to get back what he lost. The only question is: Will it work?During one particularly bad winter, Daniel's health started deteriorating rapidly in a downward spiral that lasted months. This free fall lasted until a life-altering appointment at the Mayo Clinic gave him the diagnosis: Bronchiectasis. But their only advice for him going forward was, ?Don't get sick.' Realizing his doctors had written him off, Daniel went into denial. His situation was dire'he was dying. But if he wanted to live, he had to take control of his health. Daniel built a healing dream team, including a medical concierge, and started moving slowly but surely on the journey to optimum health. As his story progresses, Daniel describes in great detail the tips and treatments he learns along the way. He describes how he found them, how he used them and what each of them did for him. The combined results of which were life-changing. After 18 months of following his regime every day, he regained his vitality and energy. Instead of waking up exhausted after sleeping for 14 hours, he now felt rested after eight. Instead of getting winded while walking, he could comfortably run a 10K (6.2 miles) in an hour. He increased his lung capacity and cleared out the mucus in his lungs and sinuses. In the end, he was finally able to breathe deeply and easily once again. His resounding victory is proof that you don't have to lie down and suffer in the face of debilitating illness.

Author : Andrew L. Ries
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
ISBN 13 : 9780323010641
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shortness of Breath written by Andrew L. Ries and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2001 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 25 years, "Shortness of Breath" has been a helpful tool for educating patients about chronic lung disease. This user-friendly book presents a wealth of pertinent information in a style average readers can comprehend. It covers psychological and physiological impacts of lung disease, offering suggestions on exercise programs, relaxation techniques, travel precautions, diet and more.