PATRICK McKEOWN (GALWAY, IRELAND) is creator, CEO and Director of Education and Training at Oxygen Advantage(R), Director of Education and Training at Buteyko Clinic International and President of Buteyko Professionals International. He is a leading international expert on breathing and sleep, teaching functional breathing for resilience and improved sports performance. He has provided breath training to improve breathing, sleep, anxiety, resilience, concentration and chronic illness since 2002 and there are currently more than 3,000 trained Oxygen Advantage(R) instructors across 50 countries.
McKeown's mission is to empower more people every day to breathe better, feel better and achieve their potential. His interest in breath training began when he discovered the Buteyko Breathing Method, aged 26. After a lifetime of asthma medication and inhalers, he found immediate relief from his symptoms, and has remained asthma-free ever since. He traveled to Moscow, Russia, to learn from Dr. Konstantin Buteyko, and was accredited to teach the Buteyko Method in 2002.
To date, Patrick has written ten books about breath training, including The Breathing Cure: Develop New Habits for a Healthier, Happier, and Longer Life and The Breathing Cure for Yoga: Applying the Science Behind Ancient Wisdom, and the three Amazon category bestsellers: Close Your Mouth, Asthma-Free Naturally, and Anxiety Free: Stop Worrying and Quieten your Mind. He also wrote The Oxygen Advantage which is considered a foremost source on breathing for exercise performance and is currently translated into sixteen languages.
Patrick's professional memberships include Fellow of The Royal Society of Biology and The Academy of Applied Myofunctional Sciences. His work has been published in The Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
Patrick's work has featured on the BBC, USA Today, Ted Talks, the New York Times, the Times, Men's Health Magazine, Women's Health Magazine, Dr Oz Magazine, Mercola and Mind Body Green website. Patrick hosts The Oxygen Advantage(R) Podcast and has featured as a guest on many other podcasts, including Ben Greenfield's Life, Dave Asprey's The Human Upgrade, Scott Caney Investigates, Dr Jay T Wiles Mindhacker's Radio, Dr Rangan Chatterjee's Feel better, live more, the Happy Pear Podcast and many more.
The author lives and works in the Galway, Ireland metro area.
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