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Learn about the author’s journey, expertise, and dedication to helping people improve their breathing, airway health, and overall wellness.
About the Author
Roger L. Price
Roger Price is an internationally recognised expert in the intricate connections between optimal health and posture, breathing, behavior, and habit. With a career spanning over 65 years in health and wellness, Roger has dedicated his life to a singular mission: identifying and addressing the root cause of health issues rather than simply masking the symptoms with drugs, machines, surgery and other interventions.
A Different Approach to Wellness
Roger understands that the modern medical world can feel like a maze of unpronounceable terminology and "medical-mill" frustration. He believes that true healing begins with understanding. By stripping away the jargon, he replaces complex clinical explanations with a refreshing philosophy of "Making Complex Simple."
The Power of Storytelling
As a master storyteller, Roger uses relatable analogies to help people regain control of their health:
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The Orchestra: He views the body as an orchestra comprised of eleven maestro musicians. The role of the ‘conductor’ is to ensure every "musician" is playing the same music in perfect harmony.
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The Railway: He describes the body’s circulatory system as a railway, delivering vital "oxygen passengers" to every station and suburb of the body.
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The Swimming Pool: He compares our internal chemistry to a swimming pool—when the balance is off, the system becomes “green and slimy," but with the right adjustments, it returns to a sparkling, vibrant state.
Why It Works
Roger’s method is built on the belief that how we feel is a direct result of what we are doing. His user-friendly approach offers a bridge for those who have spent years seeking answers without success, providing a clear perspective on how to restore the body’s natural balance.
Roger Price is more than a practitioner; he is a master of his craft, dedicated to helping you breathe, move, and live better.
about the book
THE WAY WE BREATHE IS KILLING US
The Way We Breathe Is Killing Us is more than just a book—it is a life-changing guide that helps readers rediscover the forgotten power of breathing and its deep connection to overall health. It reminds us that breathing is not simply an automatic function that keeps us alive, but a powerful tool that directly influences the strength, balance, and performance of our entire body. Built on over 70 years of knowledge, hands-on experience, and scientific research, Roger Price explains how the way we breathe affects every system in the body—from our energy levels and sleep quality to stress management, immunity, disease prevention, and even longevity.
Through clear explanations and easy-to-understand language, the book breaks down complex health and breathing science into simple concepts that anyone can follow. It combines real-world insights, practical techniques, and step-by-step guidance that readers can immediately apply in their daily lives. Rather than relying solely on medication or complicated treatments, the author challenges conventional medical thinking and shows how many common health problems may actually stem from poor breathing habits that often go unnoticed.
By learning small but powerful changes—such as breathing through the nose, slowing the breath, improving posture, and practicing deeper, more controlled breathing—readers can experience noticeable improvements in focus, stamina, emotional balance, and overall well-being. The book empowers people to take control of their health naturally, using something they already have: their breath.
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Foreword
David Gozal
There are times when I take a new book that caught my attention and as I start reading it I find that I simply cannot put it down. What are the ingredients of such magic that leave you riveted page after page? For me, two specific topics which form part of the title “Breathing” and “Us”.
To understand why I enjoyed this book so much, we have to go back several billions of years to the history of Mother Earth. At that time, oxygen did not exist, and the fundamental ingredients of life were slowly being introduced into existence, likely asynchronously. What are these ingredients? These fundamental building blocks of life on Earth include carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and sulfur, collectively known as CHNOPS. It is now amply demonstrated that they originated from cosmic processes and that CHNOPS were delivered to Earth through various means. Interestingly, all living beings require all these elements except for oxygen. Oxygen, the latecomer, made its entry in its usual way that still persists till today. Too little, then too much, then too little again, and finally has settled (who knows for how long) into a balanced act that has enabled us to survive and thrive in a process of controlled combustion (oxidative radicals).
Why do I bring this up? Because breathing is what allows us to tightly regulate the process of keeping all the fundamental life elements in check. As humanity has evolved and developed ever new skills — for example, speech and adopting new dietary ingredients through agriculture — we have needed to tailor our breathing patterns to preserve the delicate balance of oxygen-driven slow combustion we call cellular respiration and have been certainly interested at the scientific level and beyond, in its characteristics and composition of the chemical reaction chains effectively generating the energy that sustains us alive.
Up until now, we have assumed that alterations in our breathing patterns that we associate with disease were the result of other processes, not their upstream source. Roger Price proposes a novel perspective two-way street into the concept of breathing — The Way You Breathe Can Generate Disease and Disease Can Alter Breathing.
This interdependency concept is intriguing and for a Respiratory Physiologist, a Physician and a Scientist who has spent his professional life investigating the gene, cellular, and organismal implications of different patterns of oxygenation while also treating respiratory diseases, the concept delineated in the book provided me with the opportunity to intensely reflect and challenge my own conventions.
So, thank you Roger for creating and highlighting a hypothetical framework that can serve in future studies to elucidate some of those components of today’s understanding of breathing and disease that do not align with our current findings and reality.
This book is also the life journey of Roger Price. It is easy to read, amusing, and its continuous shift from one topic to another, all ultimately revolving around breathing, makes it a delightful carousel of personal perspectives that entice discussion and sometimes controversy. And we all know that Roger Price can be a “fantastic” provocateur!
So, I hope that as I did, after being attracted by its title, you will pick up this book in your hands or on your screen device, and not let it go until you regret having come to its end.
