NDR Podcast - Synapses: Breathing – The Underrated Superpower (Podcast in German)

It is one of the body's fundamental forces, yet we rarely stop to think about it. And still, our breathing has the power to change our lives.

From the very first to the very last breath: quite literally, our entire lives depend on it. We breathe in and out around 20,000 times a day — mostly without even noticing it.

It may seem obvious why we breathe at all — without it, our bodies would fail and we would simply collapse and die. But what exactly does breathing do to our brain? And how does our mental health benefit from the way we breathe?

Host Beke Schulmann and author Sarah Emminghaus explore these questions in depth. And they ask an important one: Are we underestimating the role of breathing in our health?