The Oxygen Advantage
"Learn how you can: increase your exercise intensity while expending less effort and breathing less heavily; achieve your perfect weight by suppressing your appetite naturally; improve your energy levels and mental focus; have far greater control of your asthma for the rest of your life; achieve a personal best athletic performance."--Dust jacket.
What you might want to know about The Oxygen Advantage
The questions readers send us most often, answered without spoilers.
Irish breathing coach Patrick McKeown argues that most people in the West chronically over-breathe through the mouth and lose the carbon dioxide tolerance their bodies need. He lays out the Buteyko method with nasal-only drills and breath-hold tests for athletes, asthmatics, and snorers.
The Oxygen Advantage is Patrick McKeown's framework for breathing techniques to improve athletic performance and health. The book draws on the Buteyko method, which McKeown studied and adapted for general audiences.
Yes. James Nestor's Breath (2020) draws on similar source material to The Oxygen Advantage (2015). McKeown is one of Nestor's primary sources. Both books address nasal breathing, mouth taping, and slow-breathing techniques.
The Oxygen Advantage was written by Patrick McKeown, published in 2015 by HarperCollins Publishers.
The Oxygen Advantage is 1 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, The Oxygen Advantage takes most readers under an hour to finish.
The Oxygen Advantage is a standalone novel by Patrick McKeown, not part of a series.
The Oxygen Advantage is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.
