James Nestor on Mouth Taping at Night | TAKE A DEEP BREATH | Breathcast Clips

[Music] since the book came out a couple weeks ago i've gotten literally hundreds of emails uh questions and almost all of them or the vast majority of them are tied to this mouth taping because so many people think this is some new age they they said this is extremely dangerous how dare you talk about this and again i'm a journalist so i talk to people at stanford i talk to doctors who have been prescribing this to to kids um i am a conduit to these professionals in the field who have been studying this stuff for decades and they've found even my father-in-law's a pulmonologist he's now sleep taping and he said oh my god i think you've just cracked into something and it's it's free so something i try to make very clear is you're gonna go on youtube you're gonna see people with like duct tape on their faces and all this other crap the only thing you need which is exactly what you just mentioned is a piece of very weak tape very weak cloth tape micropore tape what i do and i i wish i had some right here i don't but um i take a piece of tape about that big yeah but an inch by an inch and i put my thumb on it to take some of the adhesive off yeah i can just put it right here just a teeny little bit what better than get some advice from you live on here so i was thinking yes perfect that's it and now when it's time to take it off don't rip it off use your tongue this is this is weird but use your tongue and put your tongue between the lip and the tape and go like this and kind of do a windshield wiper of it off that way you're not gonna so a lot of people are like this is so great it works really good but my lip is just so chapped yes no this is you use weak tape and you just very gently do that and uh it's free yeah it's it absolutely works if you think of a third of your life you're breathing through your mouth which is bad news it's gonna be really hard to really improve your health without so you have to breathe through your nose especially at night and i think you will notice some profound changes yeah i think it's worth just pointing out here as well um for people to be very careful with their children not to tape up the mouth uh there's lots of products in the market i think there's one called myelotate that goes around the mouth um so this is an adult thing only with children be very careful and there are products specifically for going around which i know the options advantages don't sell so you can check that out yes and and to be clear i'm not a doctor i'm not a breathing therapist this is stuff i learned from one of the the main therapists of the director of speech language pathology at stanford she uses sleep tape she gives it to all of her patients so yeah i was able to absorb this information from them and the point is people say well what if i have to suddenly uh cough or or breathe or i you know what if what if i have to vomit at night i'm not sure how many people are doing that but this is weak tape it's at the middle at any you can use your tongue and and it comes right off the the point is not to hold your lips shut um it's to just train yourself to keep the jaw closed in its natural position yes and breathe out of your nose this is there's nothing forceful about it and i've even noticed i've really evolved here that by just having that little piece of tape there you can still even talk you can you can cough you can whatever it's just to train you to breathe through your nose and if somebody says to you why am i why am i doing this what is the purpose of me taping looking like what would you say the benefits are sure so the benefits of nasal breathing and this is something the ancients wrote about in numerous books over thousands and thousands of years and luckily science has really supported what they've been saying the nose filters air it humidifies it conditions it removes particulates helps remove pathogens also gives you this huge uh huge release of nitric oxide which is extremely effective at fighting off pathogens and viruses which is a really good thing to be thinking about nowadays so just breathing through your nose is going to increase your oxygenation about 20 percent with each breath so you you will need to take fewer breaths to get more oxygen and it's conditioning that air and heating it to your body temperature so that your lungs won't get irritated so they can more easily extract the oxygen bring it into your bloodstream and deliver it to all of the cells so there are innumerable reasons to be breathing through your nose none of this is controversial i mean every there's a ton of science going on right now with it but there's been a ton of for the past 50 years like nasal breathing is how all animals should be breathing if you look at any other animal in the wild beyond like some bulldogs whose faces are so sadly messed up that they're just they look just like a lot of people you know we bred them to have these flat faces just as we have become very flat-faced any other animal in the wild sleeping with its mouth closed you know it's breathing through its nose even if you look like a cheetah stalking prey it's never it's nasal breathing even when it's running 50 miles per hour and same with the horse the only time a horse is breathing through its mouth when it's really really sick you see a horse running fast so so this is how we're supposed to be breathing [Music] you

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Length: 6min 23sec (383 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 21 2020