Want to decrease toxicity in your body? Learn to breathe through your nose. One of the best books you’ll ever read on the importance of breath work for longevity and for all of your lifestyle and health applications is a book called Breath by James Nestor. What this book outlines is a skeptic who is told by his dentist and also by his doctor that he needed to learn to breathe through his nose as a way to help improve his teeth, but also his general health.
Mouth breathers and the problem with being a mouth breather is that you bypass many of the important functions that the body was designed for and has given you a nose for. Some of these include creating the right temperatures for the oxygen and air you are breathing in to be received by the lungs and into the body.
Secondly, another way is when you breathe through your mouth you bypass the ability to create nitric oxide in your bloodstream and in your body. And thirdly, another thing related to health is you bypass the filters or the hairs in your nose which collect different forms of dust, dirt and bacteria and stop it from entering into your body.
When somebody is a mouth breather, they are taking the air directly into their lungs without filtration, without any warmth applied, and without the ability for the nitric oxide to be produced. What they’ve now started to realise is that mouth breathers tend to have more problems with their teeth, and they also tend to start to show different health issues especially in the area of all-cause mortality.
So what does this mean? What it means is that when you breathe through your nose… Your body takes in the air and it twists and turns through the bony structure that is almost like the inside of a cockle shell. And as this air comes in and passes through the nose passageway, it will be heated depending on what the body needs and wants the air temperature to be inside your lungs.
A molecule is embedded in your sinuses in your nose and is called nitric oxide. And we’re going to talk a lot about nitric oxide because they’re starting to realise it could be one of the most important factors in everything from overall health, erectile dysfunctions, one of the leading indicator of heart attacks, and also allows the body to be able to dilate the blood vessels, which means enlarge those blood vessels so that more nutrients can be delivered into the body and more toxins can be removed from the cell. And then as I mentioned, you also have the action of the air passing through those hairs in the nose that will then allow it to be filtered from all sorts of dust, bugs and diseases.
So here’s the problem with breathing through your mouth. When you breathe through your mouth more often than not it actually starts to change the structure of your face and your jaw. Now I know that sounds really hard to believe but they’ve now done lots of different studies to show that people who breathe through their mouth tend to have a narrower jaw line, a cross bite and sometimes a narrower mouth that then pushes up the top roof of the mouth which then presses into and restricts the sinuses. So as this happens it restricts the amount of room you have in your nose passageways, which explains a lot of the reasons why mouth breathers have problems with their teeth. Most dentists have been talking about this for decades.
They are not entirely sure, but they believe this change in jaw and bone structure by mouth breathers could restrict the flow of air through the nose, especially at night when laying down and may be part of the issues we see with snoring and sleep apnea.
But let’s focus on Nitric Oxide and Dr Nathan Bryan for a moment.
We know that when you breathe through the nose, the air becomes rich in Nitric Oxide. Nitric Oxide affects the walls of the blood vessels and helps them dilate or allow the blood vessels to carry more volume of fluid.
In that fluid is our blood, our nutrients, oxygen and also the ability to carry waste products away from the cells like carbon dioxide to the lungs and other waste products to the kidneys and liver to be filtered and excreted.
This waste excretion can effect so many health related components in your health. A less toxic body can move better, your brain will think better and you will generally feel better!
Dr Nathan Bryan also believes from all of his years of studying Nitric Oxide and it’s affect on the body that different diseases and health issues in the body may be correlated to lack of Nitric Oxide and the lack of dilation of blood vessels. He even discusses how the reduced blood flow has a direct correlation to erectile disfunction in men and women, yes you heard right, women as well. He also talks about reduced blood flow to organs like the brain.
So what can you do about it, and how can you turn yourself or you and the family, especially the kids into nose breathers predominantly.
Now you can buy mouth strips that you wear at night during your sleep that are readily available and it’s not uncommon now to hear or see family and friends using these mouth strips to force the body to breath through the nose instead.
As with anything, if you try this for the first time, maybe wear it during the day when you re awake or next to someone who can check on you the first few times if you’re asleep.
Try to create a simple little diary entry for you and a spouse especially if you have sleep issues like snoring or breathing related issues and write down if you snored like you normally do. Write down if your mouth wasn’t bone dry in the mornings like it normally is when you breathe through your mouth. Write down how you feel in your body and how your breathing felt during the day.
It may be a game changer for your health, your teeth, your bedtime breathing issues and help remove all of those toxins from the body efficiently.
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