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MOUTH vs NOSE BREATHING

Let's explore why you need to be nasal breathing, the consequences of mouth breathing, and how you can change your face, jawline, posture, and reclaim your health by breathing through your nose...

NASAL BREATHING

- Nasal breathing warms, humidifies, and filters out allergens that we breathe.

- It increases nitric oxide production, oxygen uptake, and requires proper function of the diaphragm.

- It reinforces proper oral posture (tongue resting on the palate, lips sealed) facilitating proper craniofacial development for a wide palate and open airway.

MOUTH BREATHING

The bones in our face are malleable, especially during development, and mouth breathing can lead to a narrow / arched palate, crowded teeth, and a small airway...

A small airway leads to posture issues (kyphotic positioning of the head, neck, and upper back) in an attempt to open the airway. It also greatly increases the risk of sleep disordered breathing (snoring and sleep apnea).

Mouth breathing has been studied for hundreds of years where we see repeatable patterns on how it can lead to altered facial structure and impaired dental health predisposing you to cavities, gingivitis/periodontitis, malocclusion, and sleep apnea.

"Shut Your Mouth, Save Your Life," a book from 1873, describes how Native American tribes promoted nasal breathing and didn't have the dental issues common with "civilization."

Dr. Weston Price, who travelled the world in the 1930s, compiled a mountain of evidence on how soft, processed foods were negatively impacting oral development and that mouth breathing was a common side effect.

Dr. Harvold studied this in monkeys.

HOW TO START NASAL BREATHING

At set times during the day, consciously check if your mouth is closed and tongue is on the palate. It will eventually become second nature.

At night, a nasal dilator and/or mouth taping can help retrain proper nasal breathing.

NOTE: airway obstruction (apnea) is a serious sleep disorder and dilators/tape alone don't tend to be an effective remedy for most

I'm not sure if this had ever been done before...(

I'm not sure if this had ever been done before...(story time!)

In dental school, I was an odd duck (ok, well I still am).

I wasn't very interested in fillings and root canals. I was mostly interested in nutrition and sleep. Two areas where dentists happen to have a front row seat (i.e. you use your mouth to eat and your airway to breath).

So, when I graduated from dental school, I opened up a private practice exclusively dedicated to treating sleep disordered breathing. I'm pretty sure this had never been done before. At the time, I wasn't even sure if it was legal...

Dental Sleep Medicine is a niche area of dentistry where a trained dentist can use oral devices to treat snoring and obstructive sleep apnea. But I quickly found out that oral appliance therapy isn't perfect.

As a perfectionist, this bothered me.

This led me to developing NED, a Nasal EPAP Dilator, which is now being commercialized to treat snoring.

With the advent of agriculture and the move toward

With the advent of agriculture and the move towards high-carb, grain-based diets, we see a dramatic rise in tooth decay in the fossil record.

But the evidence suggests it wasn't just our teeth that suffered.

For example, height is a biomarker for population health.

At this time, humans got shorter.*

Average height for men went from 5'10" during hunter-gathering periods to 5'5" after our ancestors took up farming, while women’s height decreased from 5'5" to 5'1".

The smaller skeletons also displayed signs of worsening health with increased bone defects (arthritic degeneration / porotic hyperostosis) and bacterial infections (periosteal lesions).

However, not all people made the switch to agricultural, grain-based diets. Those who maintained their traditional hunter (-gatherer) roots also maintained their height and health.

*Stephanie Marciniak et al. An integrative skeletal and paleogenomic analysis of stature. 2022

Any guesses at what we started eating "1 hour ago"

Any guesses at what we started eating "1 hour ago" that led to the rise of cavities?

HINT...

Our species, Homo sapiens, is about 300,000 years old. If we condense these 300,000 years onto a 24 hour clock, AGRICULTURE started just 1 hour ago.

For 23 hours, we mostly ate just animal foods.

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