Nose Breathing
Breathing through the nose has many benefits. Breathing through the mouth, many negatives. There are some researchers who believe that mouth breathing and associated hyperventilation causes or exacerbates asthma, high blood pressure, heart disease, and many other medical problems. It makes some folks look dull witted or slightly unconscious.
9. Nose breathing imposes approximately 50 percent more resistance to the air stream in normal individuals than does mouth breathing, resulting in 10-20 percent more O2 uptake. (Cottle, 1972:Rohrer, 1915) There must be adequate nasal resistance to maintain adequate elasticity of the lungs. (Cottle 1980)
10. Breathing through the mouth with the nose obstructed
usually imposes too little resistance and can lead to micro-areas of poor
ventilation in the lungs (atelactasis). Many years of breathing against excessive
resistance as with nasal obstruction, may cause micro areas of poor
ventilation (emphysema). Barelli (Behavioral and Pshchological
Approaches to Breathing Disorders.p.50 )
Mouth breathing can produce an anterior open bite, a longer face, and
some suggest that because of poor sleep quality produces a baggy
appearance under the eyes.
Mouth
breathing also accelerates water loss increasing possible dehydration.
12. Work of lung movement doubled when nose breathing, creating mild resistance training.
13. Chin-Up Strips are safe, inexpensive and easy to use. In fact, if you mouth breathe during waking hours you will want to: USE THEM during the exercises in the Optimal Breathing Improvement Program AS WELL AS DURING SLEEPING. They may also assist reducing the number of colds for reasons not yet certain.
They are by now in many drug stores in the US. Ask your druggist for them. We include a sample in our Sleep program.
www.chinupstrip.com
14. Training yourself to nose breathe while waking can help the way you breathe while sleeping.
15. COLDS
Lessening of the common cold is another good reason for nose breathing. The
mucous (white blood cells that kill germs) membrane lining the nose extends
all the way from the inner linings of the nostrils down the trachea to the
bronchi the directly enters the lungs. Germs get caught and die in the
mucous.
16. SINUS blockage and difficulty nose breathing. What would make spinal fluid leak out of your nose? Dr. Hanson: In patients who’ve had a head injury, their dura, which is the leathery material that surrounds the brain and encloses it, can tear and they can have cerebral spinal fluid leaking through the dura into the nose. They can also have the same problem after sinus surgery. In both cases, there’s a potential for bacteria to get into the lining of the brain, which is obviously a bad thing.
17. Open your nostrils with Nasivent.
18. Conditions worsened by mouth breathing
SINUS
CONGESTION:
POST NASAL
DRIP:
ALLERGIES:
SINUS
HEADACHES:
BAD
BREATH:
EYE AND
EAR PROBLEMS:
DEVIATED
SEPTUM
"People with
chronic sinus conditions should use a sinus rinse daily as it promotes
drainage of the sinuses and speeds healing of inflamed tissues... "Self-Healing"
Dr. Andrew Weil M.D.
18. SLEEPING ON YOUR BACK
Sleeping on one's back is helpful as it helps maintain a consistent body
position and allows gravity to assist the mucousa to drain into the throat
and not getting built up in the sinuses and nose. Our Sleep Program has
several exercises to train one to go to sleep on one's back and stay there
throughout the night. Some may find that sleeping on the back makes them
snore more. This does not mean that sleeping on the back is bad only
that snoring is an even more important issue and should be addressed in several
ways in our sleep
program.
19. SEX. You can't kiss someone and breathe through your mouth.
1. Breathe Right. A special band aid purchased at
your drugstore.
2. Rolfing. Painful but has worked when repeated over time.
3. Surgery.
Nose Surgery.
Nasal blockages caused by a deviated septum can be treated with a new laser
procedure, says new research. Laser-generated heat softens cartilage
abnormalities in the nose, letting doctors flatten or shape those
abnormalities to clear the nasal passages. The outpatient procedure takes
six to eight minutes, and requires only a local anesthetic. The report on
the procedure appears in the July-September issue of the Archives of Facial
Plastic Surgery.
The traditional approach is to use a scalpel to cut cartilage inside the
nose and reshape it manually. The surgical wounds have to be closed with
stitches. This method is costly, and the patient may need to take time off
work during their recovery and it the septum often reverts back to where it
was.
In this study, researchers at Moscow State University used the laser
procedure on 110 people between the ages of 11 and 66, and followed their
results for an average of 18 months.
The study found that 84 (76 percent) of the people treated with the laser
had a reduction of symptoms associated with nasal blockages. In 27 (24
percent) of the people, the nasal abnormalities returned to their original
shape.
4. Dietary or bad air to eliminate any swelling from food or
environment.
5. Optimal Breathing development to reduce any anxiety, adrenaline, histamine
reactions that swell up the membranes.
Oral breathing increases pH and vocal effort by superficial drying of vocal fold mucosa.
Sivasankar M, Fisher KV.
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA. kim-fisher@northwestern.edu
Oral breathing superficially dehydrates the airway lumen by decreasing the depth of the sol layer in humans and animals. Conversely, nasal breathing can increase the humidity of inspired air. We compared the effects of short-term oral and nasal breathing on Pth and perceived vocal effort in 20 female subjects randomly assigned to two groups: oral breathing (N = 10, age 21-32 years); nasal breathing (N = 10, age 20-36 years). We hypothesized that short-term oral breathing, but not nasal breathing, would increase Pth, and that subjects would perceive this change as an increase in vocal effort. Following 15 minutes of oral breathing, Pth increased at comfortable and low pitch (p < 0.01) with 6 of 10 subjects reporting increased vocal effort. Nasal breathing reduced Pth at all three pitches (p < 0.01), and 7 of 10 subjects reported decreased vocal effort. Over all subjects, 49% of the variance in treatment-induced change in Pth was accounted for by change in vocal effort (R = 0.70). We posit that obligatory oral breathing places healthy subjects at risk for symptoms of increased vocal effort. The facilitatory role of superficial hydration on vocal fold oscillation should be considered in biomechanical models of phonation and in the clinical prevention of laryngeal dryness. See smelling to diagnose infection and disease
some of your subscribers questions and noticed one about having narrow nasal passages. The guy was considering surgery. As relates to that problem, I have noticed that when I shift to diaphragm breathing and progress to where my intestines are pushed all the way down and simultaneously my chest is expanded, all of a sudden there is a physiological shift in my neck and jaw and my sinuses and nostrils pop fully open.
It is a wonderful feeling of totality, and it is sustainable if I keep breathing in this way. At this stage of my development, it takes a very conscious and persistent effort to get to this place, but I am looking forward to the day when it is my normal modus operandi.
From Mike:
One of our school core faculty
members advises us that there is recent research showing that when we
breathe in through the nose we produce nitrous oxide. This nitrous oxide
works as a vaso dilator. Mouth breathing bypasses this NO2 production.
Without NO2 our breathing chemistry is compromised causing a lessening (vaso
constriction) in our airways, arteries and capillaries. This reduces
oxygenation to the cells. Their are as yet no studies on the outcome of this
but the implications are huge. For example, infants and children with food
allergies from dairy, grains, chocolate etc get their little nostrils
stuffed up and that forces them to breathe through their mouths. This most
likely reduces oxygen uptake to their developing brains and bodies. In
addition, I often read about increases in snoring amongst children. Mouth
breathing during waking and sleeping hours is a contributor to snoring.
Gradually, muscle tissues in the mouth and throat are stretched beyond their
intended range. When this happens, snoring and the health risks associated
with OSA increase. Snoring stems largely from collapsed or constricted breathing passages. So does sleep
apnea.
I read where a 15 years ago a professor of psychology who was
greatly interested in breathing had a graduate student sit in a medical
doctor’s office and asked them to watch breathing patterns in the waiting
room patients. The student noticed that something approximately 84 percent
of the people in the waiting room had disturbed breathing patterns
indicative of correlations with what I now call Undetected Dysfunctional
Breathing or UDB. Regardless of their medical problem, they seemed to have
disturbed breathing. Though some leading edge MDs are beginning to notice
poor breathing probably none of those people 15 years ago were going to go
to the MD and have something done about their breathing.
Several colleagues have pointed out that most children have developed
poor breathing by age 11. I lost mine TWICE by age 12. This may be a
stretch for some of you but I believe that this widespread loss stems from
bad as well as well meaning sources. Bad would be stress, poor nutrition,
abuse, trauma and little to no exercise. Well meaning could be social
conditioning (also potentially very stressful) and cultural mores such as
preparation for "proper" social conduct. Politeness and reserve can be
overdone. Add taboo and unwarranted fears causing chronic hesitancy and or
inhibition when too often repeated will habitually become engrained in the
tissues and cause chronic restrictions in the way one breathes.
THE LAUSON SYSTEM: 9 Keys To Lower Facial Harmony. (Mike
included some links to his various approaches).
The takeaway from this, is that the book is recommending correcting all of these conditions without the use of surgery or extraction of permanent teeth. In fact my protocol can correct the constricted nasal passageways and deviated septums as well to help correct or prevent sleep disordered breathing. If you would like to see more information on the book, please go to www.StraightTalkaboutCrookedTeeth.org
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Theme programs including
the Optimal Breathing Kit
1. Energy, Vitality, Depression
2. Mental Focus, Concentration, Memory
3. Shortness of breath including:
Asthma Bronchitis COPD
Emphysema
4. Singing, Speaking and Personal Power
5. Sleeping and Snoring
6. Sports Performance
7. Weight Management
8. Calming Relaxation: anger-anxiety-headaches-high blood pressure-pain reduction, emotional balance, stress management
9. Better breathing in general = The Optimal Breathing Kit
10. Study the Breath, For Life