PATRICK McKEOWN (GALWAY, IRELAND) is creator, CEO and Director of Education and Training at Oxygen Advantage®, Director of Education and Training at Buteyko Clinic International and President of Buteyko Professionals International. He is a leading international expert on breathing and sleep, teaching functional breathing for resilience and improved sports performance. He has provided breath training to improve breathing, sleep, anxiety, resilience, concentration and chronic illness since 2002 and there are currently more than 3,000 trained Oxygen Advantage® instructors across 50 countries.
McKeown’s mission is to empower more people every day to breathe better, feel better and achieve their potential. His interest in breath training began when he discovered the Buteyko Breathing Method, aged 26. After a lifetime of asthma medication and inhalers, he found immediate relief from his symptoms, and has remained asthma-free ever since. He traveled to Moscow, Russia, to learn from Dr. Konstantin Buteyko, and was accredited to teach the Buteyko Method in 2002.
To date, Patrick has written ten books about breath training, including The Breathing Cure: Develop New Habits for a Healthier, Happier, and Longer Life and The Breathing Cure for Sleep Using the Buteyka Method: Stop Snoring, Sleep Apnea, and Insomnia in Seven Days for All Ages, and the three Amazon category bestsellers: Close Your Mouth, Asthma-Free Naturally, and Anxiety Free: Stop Worrying and Quieten your Mind. He also wrote The Oxygen Advantage which is considered a foremost source on breathing for exercise performance and is currently translated into sixteen languages.
Patrick's professional memberships include Fellow of The Royal Society of Biology and The Academy of Applied Myofunctional Sciences. His work has been published in The Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
Patrick’s work has featured on the BBC, USA Today, Ted Talks, the New York Times, the Times, Men’s Health Magazine, Women’s Health Magazine, Dr Oz Magazine, Mercola and Mind Body Green website. Patrick hosts The Oxygen Advantage® Podcast and has featured as a guest on many other podcasts, including Ben Greenfield’s Life, Dave Asprey’s The Human Upgrade, Scott Caney Investigates, Dr Jay T Wiles Mindhacker’s Radio, Dr Rangan Chatterjee’s Feel better, live more, the Happy Pear Podcast and many more.
The author lives and works in the Galway, Ireland metro area.
OxygenAdvantage.com
ButeykoClinic.com
ANASTASIS TZANIS (LONDON, UK) is a yoga teacher, nutritional therapist, and globally sought-after breath-work expert. He has helped countless individuals improve their mental, postural, and metabolic function through private consultations, over 150 workshops, and lectures across 8 countries.
Maxing-out life out as a Greek Special Forces paratrooper, earning a Master’s degree at the rigorous Brandeis University, and trading derivatives in New York and London for seven years, Anastasis experienced firsthand how detrimental highly competitive environments can be on one’s health. All this led to a health crisis that stopped him in his tracks and prompted a deep study of naturopathic medicine to heal himself.
Afterward, Anastasis started helping higher-stress individuals, following a multi-disciplinary approach, with great success at his London studio. He aims to powerfully improve thousands more lives by raising awareness of the importance breathing has on mental, postural, and metabolic function.
Anastasis provides breathwork courses in his system: #freebreathing and delivers trainings and offsites for companies.
The author lives and works in London, England.
Atzanis.com
JAMES NESTOR (SAN FRANCISCO, CA) is an author and journalist who has written for Outside Magazine, The Atlantic, National Public Radio, The New York Times, Scientific American, Dwell Magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle, and more.
Nestor’s book, Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, was released through Riverhead/Penguin Random House on May 26, 2020. Breath spent 18 weeks of the New York Times bestseller list in the first year of publication and was an instant bestseller in the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Sunday London Times, and more. Breath was awarded the Best General Nonfiction Book of 2020 by the American Society of Journalists and Authors and was a Finalist for the Royal Society Science Book of the Year. Breath has sold more than two million copies and has been translated into more than 35 languages.
Breath explores how the human species has lost the ability to breathe properly over the past several hundred thousand years and is now suffering from a laundry list of maladies — snoring, sleep apnea, asthma, autoimmune disease — because of it. 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 Sao Paulo.
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.
Nestor's first narrative nonfiction book, DEEP: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What The Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) was released in the United States and UK in June 2014. DEEP was a BBC Book of the Week, a Finalist for the PEN American Center Best Sports Book of the Year, an Amazon Best Science Book of 2014, BuzzFeed 19 Best Nonfiction Books of 2014, ArtForum Top 10 Book of 2014, New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice, Scientific American Recommended Read, and more. The book has been translated into German, Chinese, Italian, Polish, and more; the audiobook, read by Nestor, was released by Audible in June 2016.
Nestor also wrote a "little, silly booklet" released in 2009, which he described as "a coffee table thing culled from notes on meditation and other ancient/hippy practices discovered in the crawlspace of my uncle’s retro-mod bachelor pad in the Hollywood Hills. The book combined medical science with humor and illustrations and was given a horrid and misleading title by a dishonest editor, which I soon after—and still—very much regret."
Nestor has presented his research at Stanford Medical School, the United Nations, UBS, Global Classroom (World Health Organization+UNICEF), as well as more than 40 radio and television shows, including Fresh Air with Terry Gross, the Joe Rogan Show, BulletProof, ABC’s Nightline, CBS Morning News, and dozens of NPR programs.
The author lives and works in the San Francisco metro area.
MrJamesNestor.com
PATRICK McKEOWN (GALWAY, IRELAND) is creator, CEO and Director of Education and Training at Oxygen Advantage®, Director of Education and Training at Buteyko Clinic International and President of Buteyko Professionals International. He is a leading international expert on breathing and sleep, teaching functional breathing for resilience and improved sports performance. He has provided breath training to improve breathing, sleep, anxiety, resilience, concentration and chronic illness since 2002 and there are currently more than 3,000 trained Oxygen Advantage® instructors across 50 countries.
McKeown’s mission is to empower more people every day to breathe better, feel better and achieve their potential. His interest in breath training began when he discovered the Buteyko Breathing Method, aged 26. After a lifetime of asthma medication and inhalers, he found immediate relief from his symptoms, and has remained asthma-free ever since. He traveled to Moscow, Russia, to learn from Dr. Konstantin Buteyko, and was accredited to teach the Buteyko Method in 2002.
To date, Patrick has written ten books about breath training, including The Breathing Cure: Develop New Habits for a Healthier, Happier, and Longer Life and The Breathing Cure for Sleep Using the Buteyka Method: Stop Snoring, Sleep Apnea, and Insomnia in Seven Days for All Ages, and the three Amazon category bestsellers: Close Your Mouth, Asthma-Free Naturally, and Anxiety Free: Stop Worrying and Quieten your Mind. He also wrote The Oxygen Advantage which is considered a foremost source on breathing for exercise performance and is currently translated into sixteen languages.
Patrick's professional memberships include Fellow of The Royal Society of Biology and The Academy of Applied Myofunctional Sciences. His work has been published in The Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
Patrick’s work has featured on the BBC, USA Today, Ted Talks, the New York Times, the Times, Men’s Health Magazine, Women’s Health Magazine, Dr Oz Magazine, Mercola and Mind Body Green website. Patrick hosts The Oxygen Advantage® Podcast and has featured as a guest on many other podcasts, including Ben Greenfield’s Life, Dave Asprey’s The Human Upgrade, Scott Caney Investigates, Dr Jay T Wiles Mindhacker’s Radio, Dr Rangan Chatterjee’s Feel better, live more, the Happy Pear Podcast and many more.
The author lives and works in the Galway, Ireland metro area.
OxygenAdvantage.com
ButeykoClinic.com
ANASTASIS TZANIS (LONDON, UK) is a yoga teacher, nutritional therapist, and globally sought-after breath-work expert. He has helped countless individuals improve their mental, postural, and metabolic function through private consultations, over 150 workshops, and lectures across 8 countries.
Maxing-out life out as a Greek Special Forces paratrooper, earning a Master’s degree at the rigorous Brandeis University, and trading derivatives in New York and London for seven years, Anastasis experienced firsthand how detrimental highly competitive environments can be on one’s health. All this led to a health crisis that stopped him in his tracks and prompted a deep study of naturopathic medicine to heal himself.
Afterward, Anastasis started helping higher-stress individuals, following a multi-disciplinary approach, with great success at his London studio. He aims to powerfully improve thousands more lives by raising awareness of the importance breathing has on mental, postural, and metabolic function.
Anastasis provides breathwork courses in his system: #freebreathing and delivers trainings and offsites for companies.
The author lives and works in London, England.
Atzanis.com
JAMES NESTOR (SAN FRANCISCO, CA) is an author and journalist who has written for Outside Magazine, The Atlantic, National Public Radio, The New York Times, Scientific American, Dwell Magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle, and more.
Nestor’s book, Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, was released through Riverhead/Penguin Random House on May 26, 2020. Breath spent 18 weeks of the New York Times bestseller list in the first year of publication and was an instant bestseller in the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Sunday London Times, and more. Breath was awarded the Best General Nonfiction Book of 2020 by the American Society of Journalists and Authors and was a Finalist for the Royal Society Science Book of the Year. Breath has sold more than two million copies and has been translated into more than 35 languages.
Breath explores how the human species has lost the ability to breathe properly over the past several hundred thousand years and is now suffering from a laundry list of maladies — snoring, sleep apnea, asthma, autoimmune disease — because of it. 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 Sao Paulo.
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.
Nestor's first narrative nonfiction book, DEEP: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What The Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) was released in the United States and UK in June 2014. DEEP was a BBC Book of the Week, a Finalist for the PEN American Center Best Sports Book of the Year, an Amazon Best Science Book of 2014, BuzzFeed 19 Best Nonfiction Books of 2014, ArtForum Top 10 Book of 2014, New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice, Scientific American Recommended Read, and more. The book has been translated into German, Chinese, Italian, Polish, and more; the audiobook, read by Nestor, was released by Audible in June 2016.
Nestor also wrote a "little, silly booklet" released in 2009, which he described as "a coffee table thing culled from notes on meditation and other ancient/hippy practices discovered in the crawlspace of my uncle’s retro-mod bachelor pad in the Hollywood Hills. The book combined medical science with humor and illustrations and was given a horrid and misleading title by a dishonest editor, which I soon after—and still—very much regret."
Nestor has presented his research at Stanford Medical School, the United Nations, UBS, Global Classroom (World Health Organization+UNICEF), as well as more than 40 radio and television shows, including Fresh Air with Terry Gross, the Joe Rogan Show, BulletProof, ABC’s Nightline, CBS Morning News, and dozens of NPR programs.
The author lives and works in the San Francisco metro area.
MrJamesNestor.com
