What’s the difference between breathing in through your nose and mouth? And why it’s recommended to do it through the nose?
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I started sleeping with a breathe right a year ago and it’s one of the best decisions I’ve made. No more waking up because of dry mouth/choking/coughing. My dentist told me breathing through my mouth increases tooth decay. Wish my dentist 30 years ago would have mentioned that.
Ok this is trippy as hell. I just saw [this video](https://youtube.com/shorts/1SOjH67A1B8?feature=share) not even 24 hours ago. It was the first I’d heard that mouth breathing vs nose breathing had an impact on other things; and now I’m seeing this question on Reddit…
One reason to stop mouth breathing is that it can change your facial structure: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4295456/
TIL about the importance of breathing through your nose. Why haven’t I heard of this earlier? I’ll make a conscious effort to breath through my nose now.
Thanks for all the info, very helpful!
Surely I’m not the only one who started reading this thread breathing as I always have and by the end was breathing only through my nose?
HAH! We had a customer in my (not related to breathing what so ever) store talking to us about how he “can tell that we breathe through our mouths” because of our chins? I think.. and that by breathing through our mouths at night we give ourselves adhd and other stuff. He said we needed to start “taping our mouths shut” at night.
He kept talking and I really just wanted to get back to my video I was watching before he came in and finally we agreed to for sure look it up and thanked him for enlightening us and he left.
That was a doozy of a day lol
Breath: the new science of a lost art by James Nestor is a fascinating read on the very thing that keeps us alive
To put it simply, your nose has more surface area between mucus membranes and the air before it gets to your lungs. The hairs and mucus membranes act as filters catching particulates and droplets, protecting your lungs. They also allow moisture to vaporize into the air so it’s not as dry on your lungs.
Your mouth is like a shortcut past your nose.
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