#638: How Changing Your Breathing Can Change Your Life

What triggers the need to breathe isn't lack of oxygen; it's an increase in CO2. So, if you exhale right now and just hold your breath for 30 seconds or whatever, and you feel that need to breathe, that's C02; it's not oxygen.

The nose is the first line of defense. It filters stuff out, produces nitric oxide, which interacts directly with viruses. There's innumerable benefits to nasal breathing.

Slower breathing, by breathing less, can really help people with asthma. Asthmatics as a population tend to breathe way more than the rest of us, and they tend to breathe from their mouth.

If you're talking about how breathing is healing people, this is not some crazy placebo effect. This is physiological. This is the most basic medicine of how the how the body works and how it can retain balance.

All you need to do is look at skulls from 400 years ago and look at skulls now, and they've massively changed—especially in the mouth. Our mouths have grown so small, our teeth no longer fit, which is why they grow in crooked.

When kids get inflamed adenoids or tonsils, they have to breathe through their mouth. And if you do this for so many years, it can actually change the skeleture of your face.

Breathing through the mouth will release 40% more moisture than breathing through the nose.

Breathing is something a lot of us do 25,000 times a day. If you can do it more efficiently, you're going to have huge benefits from this as has been clearly studied and seen.