[huijzer]

> Overall, results showed that breathwork may be effective for improving stress and mental health. However, we urge caution and advocate for nuanced research approaches with low risk-of-bias study designs to avoid a miscalibration between hype and evidence.

So after searching through 1325 papers and systematically summarizing 12 randomized controlled trials, this is the result? This has kept multiple professors busy for months and all we learned is "breathwork may be effective"?

It doesn't matter anyway. The professors have a Nature publication and Nature has some readers. Everybody happy.

[yencabulator]

It's a pretty strong message that the effect has not been proven. I was personally under the opposite assumption, having seen reporting on some of the earlier research.

[huijzer]

> It's a pretty strong message that the effect has not been proven.

The message is that the effect has (may have) been proven since "showing breathwork was associated with lower levels of stress than control conditions".

[yencabulator]

They can't rule out the effect, but it might still just be placebo and/or unrelated to breathing (or it might be a statistical fluke).

[saeranv]

That kind of innate skeptism is good science though.