Born in California in the 1970s. A journalist by trade — Outside, Scientific American, The New York Times — who has spent most of his career writing about the edges of human embodiment: free-diving, underwater whale communication, the extremes of breath.
Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us About Ourselves (2014) was his first book — an exploration of how far humans can descend into the ocean on a single breath, and what it reveals about our physiology.
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art (2020) examined the more mundane miracle — that most of us have forgotten how to breathe properly, that mouth-breathing deforms the skull, that nasal and slow breathing rewrite autonomic function. It became a global bestseller and, more importantly, changed what a lot of ordinary people do when they inhale.
Breath
The most comprehensive investigation into how we breathe — and how most of us are doing it wrong.