The coronavirus pandemic has brought to the front the fundamental importance of being able to breathe. It’s possible to fast for weeks, to go without sleep for up to 11 days, without water for a few days, but it’s impossible to stop breathing for more than a few minutes. Breathing is controlled by our autonomic nervous system (ANS), and among all of our other autonomic bodily functions (heartbeats, digestion, kidneys, liver…), breathing is the only one we can also control with our minds. The center of our ANS is in the limbic system and when the first humans started to talk, they naturally had to develop the ability to control how the air moves in and out of the lungs to produce sounds at will. As a result, neural pathways developed over time connecting the cerebral cortex to the limbic system. If simply controlling breath for speech has thus resulted in building new neural pathways, could advanced breathing techniques result in deeper beneficial pathways in our brains? James Nestor has famously explored the negative evolutional consequences of mouth breathing, and the positive health benefits of nasal breathing. Patrick McKeown, a well-known breathing instructor, and the author has written extensively on a wide range of health-related topics related to breathing. Yet, very little has been published on the specific effects of advanced breathing techniques on brain structure, mental fitness, and aging. Dr. Phac Le Tuan is bringing his decades of entrepreneurial experience in high-tech software innovation, including 10 years in digital health, combined with personal research and self-experiments, to explore the potential of digital therapeutics in this exciting new field of interaction between breathing techniques, brain plasticity, and mental longevity.

Event Information

Event Topic:
Mental Longevity Through Breath

Event Description:

Date/Time:
Date(s) - 02/15/22
8:15 am - 10:15 am

Event Location:
Zoom talk: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88274227563:

Speaker Information

Event Speaker:
Phac Le Tuan, Ph.D.

Event Speaker Title:
President

Event Speaker Company:
PaceWorks, LLC

Event Speaker Bio:

Phac Le Tuan, Ph.D., has over 30 years of high-tech business experience in Silicon Valley, as an executive at leading Fortune 500 companies (Schlumberger, Apple) and as a serial entrepreneur in the US, France, and Vietnam. Driven by a passion for delivering innovative world-class products in socially responsible ways, particularly in health and fitness, Phac has strongly contributed to the development of major high-tech industry disruptions. He played a crucial role in ensuring Apple's dominant brand in personal computing ease-of-use, assisted a highly successful startup in migrating core telephony technologies to the Internet, pioneered personalized mobile multimedia communications, and developed one of the first remote patient monitoring systems for heart conditions. Phac excels in innovation management and IP strategy, leading to many granted US patents. His first US patent was granted soon after his doctorate in computer graphics while working in France. He later drove to completion an extensive portfolio of user interface patents at Apple, and later co-authored a "Dancing Words" patent acquired by a major Internet player. Fluent in three languages (English, French, and Vietnamese) and able to communicate in three others (Spanish, German, and Mandarin), Phac is a citizen of the world, at home in the cultures of the US, and many countries in Europe and Asia. Trained and experienced in empathic and multi-cultural leadership practices, he has successfully developed and built high-performing international development teams located thousands of miles apart in different time zones. He also provides support as an executive health coach to young talents at many stages of their business journey in the corporate and startup worlds. He stays very active with long-distance swimming, triathlons, and qigong meditation.

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