You feel like shit because you breathe like shit..20,000 times per day.
Here's how to unf*ck your breathing and reach your potential.
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Here's how to unf*ck your breathing and reach your potential.
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Did you know improper breathing can lead to terrible side effects, such as:
- Anxiety
- Fatigue
- Brain Fog
- Infections
- Digestive Issues
- Rapid Heart Rate
- Decreased Sleep Quality
- Poor Exercise Performance
- Anxiety
- Fatigue
- Brain Fog
- Infections
- Digestive Issues
- Rapid Heart Rate
- Decreased Sleep Quality
- Poor Exercise Performance
Our environment of soft foods, stress, and nonstop lifestyles has inhibited the development of our face and jaw.
This can lead to mouth breathing and further inhibits proper facial development.
Think faces growing down instead of out, as seen here.
This can lead to mouth breathing and further inhibits proper facial development.
Think faces growing down instead of out, as seen here.
NASAL BREATHING ONLY
Your mouth is for eating, your nose is for breathing.
Benefits:
- Filters air
- Kills viruses & bacteria
- Increases CO2 tolerance
- Turbinates bring air to body temp
- Stimulates nitric oxide - vasal dilator & anti-microbial
Your mouth is for eating, your nose is for breathing.
Benefits:
- Filters air
- Kills viruses & bacteria
- Increases CO2 tolerance
- Turbinates bring air to body temp
- Stimulates nitric oxide - vasal dilator & anti-microbial
Now think about air entering through the mouth, skipping all that filtration and going straight into the lungs....there's going to be problems.
Keep conscience awareness of this throughout the day, and tape your mouth shut at night to train yourself.
Unless you are talking or eating, press your tongue up against the roof of your mouth, and keep your teeth slightly touching.
Unless you are talking or eating, press your tongue up against the roof of your mouth, and keep your teeth slightly touching.
You may have structural issues that make this challenging, such as:
- Narrow Upper Teeth
- Inflamed Turbinates - due to trauma or allergies
- Deviated Septum
- Other trauma to structure
A good ENT and airway focused orthodontist may be needed for extreme cases.
- Narrow Upper Teeth
- Inflamed Turbinates - due to trauma or allergies
- Deviated Septum
- Other trauma to structure
A good ENT and airway focused orthodontist may be needed for extreme cases.
Nasal = Parasympathetic. Rest & Digest. Recover. Burn fat for energy.
Mouth = Sympathetic. Stress response. Burn carbs for energy.
Mouth = Sympathetic. Stress response. Burn carbs for energy.
SLOW CONTROLLED BREATHING
Your breath is an incredible tool to regulate your Autonomic Nervous System.
Check out shiftstate.io, an app that has 4 different protocols tailored to YOUR ability.
Your breath is an incredible tool to regulate your Autonomic Nervous System.
Check out shiftstate.io, an app that has 4 different protocols tailored to YOUR ability.
CO2 TOLERANCE
CO2, NOT oxygen, is what signals you to breathe. Levels get too high, and you get anxious - like someone having a panic attack and hyperventilating.
The presence of CO2 in the bloodstream is also what signals the uptake of oxygen into the cells.
CO2, NOT oxygen, is what signals you to breathe. Levels get too high, and you get anxious - like someone having a panic attack and hyperventilating.
The presence of CO2 in the bloodstream is also what signals the uptake of oxygen into the cells.
The good news is, performing breath holds, like those in the state app, can increase your tolerance for CO2.
Higher CO2 tolerance will promote more vasodilation (lower blood pressure), decrease anxiety and increase performance in exercise.
Higher CO2 tolerance will promote more vasodilation (lower blood pressure), decrease anxiety and increase performance in exercise.
The reason people get anxious with masks on?
You start re-breathing more CO2 than typical.
They don't have shit for CO2 tolerance and it triggers these mechanisms.
You start re-breathing more CO2 than typical.
They don't have shit for CO2 tolerance and it triggers these mechanisms.
MEDITATION
Simply watching your breath, slowing it down, or counting it can be incredibly meditative.
If you have trouble focusing, start before bed. Count your breaths in and out. If you get side tracked, start over.
This is a tool you can incorporate anywhere.
Simply watching your breath, slowing it down, or counting it can be incredibly meditative.
If you have trouble focusing, start before bed. Count your breaths in and out. If you get side tracked, start over.
This is a tool you can incorporate anywhere.
TEETH
If your tongue is placed in the right position throughout the day, you chew your food, and swallow correctly, this naturally promotes straight, wide teeth.
Our ancestors didn't need braces or retainers - and they had perfect teeth.
If your tongue is placed in the right position throughout the day, you chew your food, and swallow correctly, this naturally promotes straight, wide teeth.
Our ancestors didn't need braces or retainers - and they had perfect teeth.
It's never too late to correct this and start moving in the right direction, but it doesn't hurt to get a consultation from an airway focused orthodontist and/or an ENT.
CAVITIES
Mouth breathing overnight will dry out your mouth, making it much easier for bacteria to wreak havoc.
If you are nasal breathing, your saliva can keep the pH of your mouth in line and fight off that bacteria.
Mouth breathing overnight will dry out your mouth, making it much easier for bacteria to wreak havoc.
If you are nasal breathing, your saliva can keep the pH of your mouth in line and fight off that bacteria.
I struggled with cavities my entire life despite doing what the dentist recommended, but when I got my mouth breathing fixed, they stopped entirely.
For more in-depth reading:
- Breath by James Nestor
- Jaws by Sandra Kahn
- Oxygen Advantage by Patrick Mckewon
- Breath by James Nestor
- Jaws by Sandra Kahn
- Oxygen Advantage by Patrick Mckewon
That's a wrap - this is something that's completely changed my life.
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