Can Pranayama Help You Live Longer | Niraj Naik | SOMA Breath®️

Studying animals in nature, and they found animals that live very long period of time, like elephants and turtles. They're very slow breathing rates, like four to six breaths a minute or slower. The breathing, the natural breathing rate, not when you're doing a technique or anything, but your natural resting breathing rate. The slower it is, the longer you live. Animals that have a very fast breathing rate of like 20 to 40 breaths per minute, like rodents, like mice and rats, actually only live like one or two years. There's an exception to that rule. It's the naked mole rat. This animal can live up to 30 years. The difference between naked mole rats and normal rats is this one thing. They live in a hypoxic environment. They can hold their breath up to 18 minutes at a time. And scientists even tried to give them cancer. And they just don't get cancer, they don't get diseases. Scientists understood now that there's a relationship between oxygen and longevity. The more efficient you are using oxygen, the less you need to breathe. The slower your natural breathing patterns. The more efficient using oxygen, the longer your lifespan.