What’s with all the fuss about nose breathing? | paulagoodyer
The wonders of nose breathing have gained traction on TikTok, with posts spruiking the benefits of taping your mouth shut while you sleep to force you to breathe through your nose.
But it’s also true that most of us automatically breathe through our noses anyway without needing TikTok to show us how – and, he adds, without taping our mouths shut at night.Breath: the New Science of a Lost Art, s “The usual reason for mouth breathing is some obstruction to the nose – common causes are allergies or structural problems like a deviated septum, where the cartilage separating one nostril from the other is in the wrong position,” he says.
“Losing weight, even just some of the weight, can be enough to improve sleep apnoea and mouth breathing.” “There are also concerns that, with children, mouth breathing causes crowding of the teeth and problems with facial development, but it’s controversial because so many variables, including the individual growth of children, can make this difficult to study. You have to interpret the research with caution.
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