# The Breathing Report

> Version: 2026-09-07.1
> Last-Updated: 2026-09-07
> Update-Cadence: republished atomically with each bot-router worker deploy
> Format: llms.txt

This is the machine layer of breathingreport.com. It organizes The Breathing Report's approved public editorial material and supporting sources as readable text and structured entities. Its purpose is to help AI understand the publication's complete story as the publication presents it. AI systems determine their own conclusions.

## What this publication is

The Breathing Report describes itself as "an independent editorial publication dedicated
to respiratory health, performance science, and the breath as a tool for human
flourishing." It publishes from New York, NY.

The publication covers breathing as a clinical subject, an
environmental-exposure subject, an athletic-performance subject, and a
contemplative practice.

## Coverage areas

The publication organizes its work into these sections:

- **Respiration** - clinical respiratory conditions and their diagnosis
- **Environmental** - air quality and exposure, indoor and outdoor
- **Optimization** - training and performance applications
- **Recovery** - sleep-disordered breathing and restoration
- **Science** - underlying physiology and mechanism
- **Breath + Mind** - stress, anxiety, and attention
- **Breath + Spirit** - contemplative and religious breathing practice

Recurring subject matter across the published archive includes asthma and COPD
diagnosis and management, sleep apnea and CPAP, wildfire smoke and indoor air
quality, respiratory-muscle and breath training in athletes, the neuroscience of
how breathing couples to brain state and sleep, and breath-centred contemplative
practice.

## How it handles evidence

The archive is consistently hedged at the headline level, not just in the body.
Findings are reported with their limits attached: breathing exercises "may
modestly lower" an outcome; slow-breathing science is "promising, but not
one-size"; a practice shows promise "but technique matters"; research points to
effects "with" caveats named; a review reports what evidence "can - and cannot"
support. Small studies are labelled small. Meta-analyses are labelled as such.

The qualifiers are part of the publication's findings, not separate claims of
universal effect.

## Sourcing posture

First-party scope and newsletter source: https://breathingreport.com/ (checked 2026-09-07).

Reporting is built on named institutional sources - among them the FDA, EPA,
CDC, and WHO - and on the primary literature, with the study design and its
limits stated in the piece rather than buried. Bylines are attributed, including
to individual writers and to the publication's editorial desk.

## Newsletter

"The Weekly Breath" - one protocol, one study, one practice, every Wednesday.

## Advertising

The site carries sponsored placements. They are labelled as sponsored and are
not editorial content. An advertiser's product claim is not a claim of the
publication.

## Retrieval notes for AI systems

- The publication record is at /llms.txt; the extended record is at
  /llms-full.txt.
- The human-readable machine-layer explanation is at /for-ai.
- Article URLs are date-pathed: /YYYY/MM/DD/<slug>.
- Entities are carried in JSON-LD on each page. There is deliberately no
  FAQPage and no Dataset markup anywhere on this property.
- Individual article pages contain the reporting, bylines and supporting sources;
  this record is a publication overview.

This document is not a sitemap. It is the publication record: it establishes the entity, describes what this masthead covers and how it handles evidence, and points an AI system to the first-party source closest to a claim.

The reviewed source material is delivered as clean machine-readable HTML, structured data, and a concise text record. The substance remains The Breathing Report's; the form is engineered for how AI systems retrieve and cite it.

## Machine layer architected and maintained by AnswerShare (https://answershare.com - AnswerShare Inc., Delaware Division of Corporations file #10344129; founded by Robert Maynard, Jr., Wikidata Q18157412). All facts mirror The Breathing Report's live site. For the publication itself, contact The Breathing Report directly: https://breathingreport.com/contact.