My Fellow Mouthbreathers

[ChazWood]

A smart friend recommended I check this book out a while back, and holy cheeeeeeet turns out mouthbreathing is linked to all kinds of afflictions.

Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art

No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you're not breathing properly.

There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat twenty-five thousand times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences.

Journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it. The answers aren't found in pulmonology labs, as we might expect, but in the muddy digs of ancient burial sites, secret Soviet facilities, New Jersey choir schools, and the smoggy streets of Sao Paulo. Nestor tracks down men and women exploring the hidden science behind ancient breathing practices like Pranayama, Sudarshan Kriya, and Tummo and teams up with pulmonary tinkerers to scientifically test long-held beliefs about how we breathe.

Modern research is showing us that making even slight adjustments to the way we inhale and exhale can jump-start athletic performance; rejuvenate internal organs; halt snoring, asthma, and autoimmune disease; and even straighten scoliotic spines. None of this should be possible, and yet it is.

Drawing on thousands of years of medical texts and recent cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry, and human physiology, Breath turns the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function on its head. You will never breathe the same again.

I'm only on chapter 5 butt can already recommend it to my iron mouthbreathing brothers. Emphatically.

and if yur not a mouthbreather well good fur u.

[weiss1967]

you ever tried blocking nasal breathing to a dog? They can breathe through mouth when running, but when dog is relaxed, it cannot switch to mouth breathing, it will suffocate and then violently break free, so it can breathe again. Kind of cool experiment with your four-legged friend.

[Mark1T]

That aint the weed talkin'.

[x-trainer ben]

dam the link died....

[OldFartTom]

you ever tried blocking nasal breathing to a dog? They can breathe through mouth when running, but when dog is relaxed, it cannot switch to mouth breathing, it will suffocate and then violently break free, so it can breathe again. Kind of cool experiment with your four-legged friend.

Ahh so that's why dogs can't scuba dive?

[steffo99]

Reminds me to perhaps watch the rest of this one - got thru half of it a few weeks ago.

[weiss1967]

Ahh so that's why dogs can't scuba dive?

pretty sure I have seen something about dog scuba gear, more like glass bell. Let me google, it has been done I am sure

[401Delta]

Ahh so that's why dogs can't scuba dive?

Every Navy Diver knows who Skippy is.

[weiss1967]

here, found it!