BrainOxygen

Just published an excerpt from my forthcoming book Beyond Muscle.

A runner who worked as a senior software engineer in Silicon Valley received two promotions and three raises in pay in three months after we doubled his chest expansion because his productivity improved so dramatically.

After we doubled his chest expansion from 2" to 4" (and his vital capacity from 3.02 liters to 4.01 liters) one of our clients went from making C's in an entry level college to graduating with A's in two majors and two minors. He recalled carrying a heavy backpack to school every day but did not believe it could have affected his grades until he added up all the weight from the beginning of 1st grade to the end of high school. It came to over 21,00 lbs. or 6.5 Toyota's! Now he understands why it restricted his breathing and lowered his school grades.

Lower Entry to STEM Education Linked to Heavy School Backpacks A survey from the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) in the US Department of Education shows a precipitous drop in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) college majors between 1996 and 2006. The percentage of undergraduates in STEM fields dropped from 22.8% to just 13.7%--a stunning 40% drop in enrollment. So, what happened to high school students between 1996 and 2006 that they turned t...Continue reading