Nasal Breathing
Why Nasal Breath?
Nasal Breathing is how we are meant to breath
Your Nose contains filters and is shaped to enhance the quality of each breath you take. You would think that quantity, volume of air that you take in counts, but it's not quantity, its quality that counts for breathing.
How we breathe affects the quality of our breath, which in turn affects the size and function of our lungs. From merely intaking just enough air to survive to taking in sufficient amounts to heal to having an abundance of air intake to allow for all systems to grow!
Breathing correctly, how we are meant to and intended to breathe, will allow us to hack our systems, enhance our immune responses, reduce inflammation, and create health.
We owe much of the research into Breathing tou the early "Pulmonauts" the pulmonary breathing pioneers who conducted controlled experiments, sometimes blocking up their nose to prevent nasal breathing for weeks on end to measure the damage that mouth breath has on the body.
Mouth breathing, either during the night or frequently during the day, affects your health dramatically. Studies show up to a 300% increase in respiratory rate when mouth breathing during exercise. That's without an increase in heart rate from nasal or mouth breathing. Same heart rate, different respiratory rate just to get the same amount of breath!
So why is this an issue? Surely, more breathing is better for you? Nope! It's all about quality over quantity. Here's why:
If Oxygen levels fall below 90%, our blood cannot carry enough of it to support our body tissues and effect necessary cellular growth/division. When mouth breathing we do not take in oxygen the same way as if we are nasal breathing, meaning we need more to achieve the same result.
Mouthing breathing uses 40% more water than nasal breathing, messing with your chemistry balance. If you use a litre of water from nasal breathing over night, you lose 1.4 litres from mouth breathing and sadly, simply upping your water intake the next day does not offset this as, a poor sleep cycle reduces the release of vasopressin, causing the kidneys to release water, meaning you urinate more if you drink more, rather than absorbing the excess water, you excrete it.
Your Nose contains filters and is shaped to enhance the quality of each breath you take. You would think that quantity, volume of air that you take in counts, but it's not quantity, its quality that counts for breathing.
How we breathe affects the quality of our breath, which in turn affects the size and function of our lungs. From merely intaking just enough air to survive to taking in sufficient amounts to heal to having an abundance of air intake to allow for all systems to grow!
Breathing correctly, how we are meant to and intended to breathe, will allow us to hack our systems, enhance our immune responses, reduce inflammation, and create health.
We owe much of the research into Breathing tou the early "Pulmonauts" the pulmonary breathing pioneers who conducted controlled experiments, sometimes blocking up their nose to prevent nasal breathing for weeks on end to measure the damage that mouth breath has on the body.
Mouth breathing, either during the night or frequently during the day, affects your health dramatically. Studies show up to a 300% increase in respiratory rate when mouth breathing during exercise. That's without an increase in heart rate from nasal or mouth breathing. Same heart rate, different respiratory rate just to get the same amount of breath!
So why is this an issue? Surely, more breathing is better for you? Nope! It's all about quality over quantity. Here's why:
If Oxygen levels fall below 90%, our blood cannot carry enough of it to support our body tissues and effect necessary cellular growth/division. When mouth breathing we do not take in oxygen the same way as if we are nasal breathing, meaning we need more to achieve the same result.
Mouthing breathing uses 40% more water than nasal breathing, messing with your chemistry balance. If you use a litre of water from nasal breathing over night, you lose 1.4 litres from mouth breathing and sadly, simply upping your water intake the next day does not offset this as, a poor sleep cycle reduces the release of vasopressin, causing the kidneys to release water, meaning you urinate more if you drink more, rather than absorbing the excess water, you excrete it.