Each person has a unique breathing pattern that’s as distinctive as fingerprints or voice

Each person has a unique breathing pattern that’s as distinctive as fingerprints or voice

Inhale and exhale: that’s your respiratory fingerprint. Every human has a unique and consistent nasal breathing pattern — so consistent, in fact, that it’s possible to identify someone solely by the way they breathe. That’s the finding of a new study published Thursday in Current Biology, which tracked 100 participants — some for as long as two years — to explore how breathing is unique to each individual. It also showed how breathing patterns can reveal information about a person’s physical and mental health, from body mass index to levels of anxiety or depression.

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