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Giving this a go as I've been diagnosed with mild sleep apnea and want to avoid a MAD or CPAP if possible. I'm a mouth breather and tried this for the first time last night. Woke up 3 times with the tap on my hand, so definitely got some way to go yet 😂

I wished I could go to this event. Will it be recorded, and will you please share? 🎉❤

Mouth Breathing🤮🤢

Excellent video!

You’re insincere! I love that!

Just came straight from page 67 too!

I’ve been mouth taping for over 5 years. I noticed that my jaw drops, I used to have TMJ, so that tapes helps to keep it close. I have noticed that my jaw doesn’t drop during awake. Anyway I will continue to mouth tape.

What kind of tape did you use in the video?

please please do another presentation on this subject however, focusing on sleep. combining practices that might aid in lucid dreaming. ❤

But sir, if we see a rose flower or any other refreshing flower in our hand we inhale first through nose, then exhale through the mouth , it's natural

I'm listening to your book. It's absolutely fantastic. I've got cartilage degeneration in my right hip. I'm trained to an extent in breathing, but not in what you're sharing. I've been listening for a week and really focusing on the nose, closing my mouth and slowing down. Yesterday and today, I've had no pain in my hip and leg for the first time in over a year. My singing range also seems to have extended. I would love to interview you on my podcast if there'd be any possibility you'd come on. Thanks for doing all this research.

My nearly 4 year old has been diagnosed with OSA. I breastfed him for 2.5 years (exclusively for 1 year), and soon after we finished our breastfeeding journey I noticed he was mouth breathing. The only option we're being offered is to remove his tonsils and adenoids but I am really reluctant to have such invasive surgery if it will not stop the mouth breathing. I took your book to the ENT appointment and was practically told I was overreacting and that apnea episodes are normal. SO frustrating!

I been mouth taping for about a year but I'm not used to it yet however maybe I'm not doing it correct the tape falls off many times. At first I thought to myself how will I breath w my nose as I have stuffy nose a lot of the time? I found out that I'm able to bc nostrils dilate when your completely relax and asleep. I really like mouth taping big time I'm using cross cross taping doing it better the longer I do it. Prayer and faith in JC helps a lot too!!

I love doctor Belisa.

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I’m listening to your book and am at this part. Thank you for bringing back a lost art that keeps us alive longer. I am Amazed at what I’m hearing. I will be listening again, to this very fascinating book! Probably buying a copy so I’ll always have it. Thank You

I have been tapping for a couple of years it works !! I now tape while riding my bike and kayaking it has helped my asthma

I noticed that my HRV dropped while mouth taping. Sleep scores are a tad better. Also, using the HRV4training app in the morning, I noticed that I get higher scores breathing through my mouth than nose. All very odd. I do feel much calmer and meditative nose breathing and zone 2 cycling.

Thank you for that great video. I have a question in regards to the hip movement described after 3:50. For some context, I am an SLP, but I myself have physical impairments including an "ex"(?) funnel chest (it is not gone, but I had operations; my chest is now just quite different and asymmetric otherwise). This might inform my thinking as my reference point is also my own experience. I also come from a functional branch of vocal work, that is the other dimension: Dr. Vranich encourages tilting the hip to the front sitting and furthermore standing and rocking back for exhalation. While mobilizing the hip in general is something definetly needed, I wonder if that wouldn't just lead to an increase in lumbar spine lordosis, inhibitting the possibility to expand the ribs in the (lower) backand move therefore away from the idea of 3-dimensionality while encouraging postural and breathing patterns that are found consistently among people ("belly breathing", anterior pelvic tilt, narrowed ribcage, protruded stomach, shortened hig flexors and lumar spine extensors)? I understand that an extension of the spine (increase of lordosis, decrease of kyphosis) on the *skeletal* level equals an inhalation as it opens up the ribs in the front and upways. This also very much equals a horizontal breathing pattern that has not been viewed as beneficial here. From the more muscle oriented aspect, I would still think other patterns are more sufficient to guarantee a 3 dimensional breathing. From my vocal training and singing background, one aim is to have a better diaphragmatic tone and more rib cage expansion by the transmission of kinesthetic energy of erection trough the body (from the feet trough the legs trough the hips as focal point to the diaphragm - an instable lumbar spine, an anterior pelvic tilt should not allow that sufficiently). For example, we'd try to have a postural erection where the pelvis tilts a bit backwards, rounding the lumbar lordosis a little and erecting it and have that activity of elongation go trough the whole spine as *axial extension* (in the chest vertebrae, this then increases furthermore ribcage expansion as well). This axial extension or elongation encompasses a stronger possibility of the rib cage to expand as well of the diaphragm to contract - when certain other muscles, like the oblique abs f.e. can give up tone. I could use a standing position and sway in inhalation to the the back f.e., to create a slight hip drop on the back side with an elongated lumbar spine and more ribcage expansion. I don't think this is purely a matter of right and wrong, but breathing can often be viewed and framed from context and goal. Therefore I wanted to ask, exchange, reconfirm... I am very thankful for the name dropping when it comes to the diaphragm and our balance. This also links the first and my third response... when it comes to reflux. To the person who uttered it and maybe Dr. Vranich, too, the findings about the larynx as interconnected neurologically, and biomechanically, with the activity of our breath apparatus and movement, should be interesting here. Our vocal folds serve the stabilization of the thoraic wall by closing for intrathoraic underpressure (f.e. when we pull our selves up). The upper airways close with the leading role of the ventribular folds for increased intrathoraic (and intraabdominal) pressure on the other hand, when the body needs to be stiff, build up resistance against against its extremities for a force applied away from us (like pushing someone away) our out of us (defacation). That also encompasses a neurological co-activation of the vocal folds as underpressure valves and the pelvic floor (circling back to another moment in this great interview). But also, the upper oesophageal sphincter derives from the pharyngeal well. Since the pharyngeal wall reacts as part of the upper airways to breathing (and certain breathing, and breath support techniques!), to postural changes and vocal function, the interrelation between certain aesthetics and styles, certain support techniques and such phenomena can become more obvious to the eye. While commonly in vocal therapy (I am an SLP), people with reflux come to the sessions since the acid causes vocal fold damage and thereby hoarseness, that a vocal disorder itself (and furthermore, the vocal folds as valves of inhalation reflect on those respiratory and postural patterns) leads to the weakness of this sphincter. A German SLP I know brought up how working on the proper, sound receptive tone of the upper airways / vocal tract in a sufficient manner during phonation, can also help with reflux. And that tone is linked to a vital concept of respiration, since the muscles pulling up the larynx and closing it start to ease, the larynx descends, furthermore over the tracheal pull and the pharynx has a chance to softly get stretched and adjust in its tone to have a proper communication with the vocal folds (as it forms a resonance chamber from behind and around). To learn more about the interrelationship between laryngeal function, breathing, posture and movement, I suggest the influential text from Victor Negus about the sphincters of the larynx as he looks into its evolution; then into Pressman's text discussing the interrelation between pressure states in the thoraic cage, laryngeal closure patterns and movement, and into the works of Eugen Rabine (f.e. "keys to voice"). This understanding of the larynx as two valve system can be found as "laryngeal double valve function" and seems to be more known in the German field of vocal pedagogy (but even there, it is not well known).

This is all so fascinating. Just started your book this morning James, thanks for bringing education to this little known topic. I have a deviated septum I've been struggling with for a while, scheduled for Septoplasty Nov 1st. I've already been experimenting with tape the past week and am noticing a difference (Thank the Hostage tape ads for bringing awareness). It's the craziest thing, when I sleep with my mouth open, I get congested GUARANTEED. Every single morning without fail and it's bad. When I've been taping mouth shut, I'm not waking up congested any longer. I'm very excited for the future and hoping I can finally remedy my struggles once and for all. The thing I am noticing is that while the excess mucus in the morning is gone, my turbinates still seem a bit swollen. They normally chill out once I get hydrated and a bit of exercise in (assuming the change in blood pressure is what causes the actual relief). I'm hoping they get used to this new change with time. Here is my timeline through hell and my plan for a hopeful recovery. - Had a root canal 5 years ago (you'll see why I mention this below) -Been struggling with major nose issues for about 5 years. I always thought it was pet allergies so I never did anything about it, figured it was normal and the sacrifice for having a house full of cats/dogs. -Got to the point my nose was getting so raw inside that the hole kept healing smaller and smaller shut! It was crazy. With a flashlight, I could see the hole on left was tiny compared to right hole. - Went to ENT for first time ever, had no idea what an ENT even was. He told me my left nostril was blocked about 70% from a deviated septum. Had no idea I even had a deviated septum. - Here is the real kicker though. He discovered an abscess above the root canal from 5 years ago. He swears that this extra space is causing me to continually get sinus infections which is what is causing all the excess mucus. - We are doing an Endoscopic Sinus surgery with the Septoplasty all in one swoop. I'm nervous, never had surgery before. Wish me luck here! - I will be getting tooth fixed as well asap (no pain or anything but he says the scan he performed shows a clear abbess up between sinus cavity at my molar) - I plan to start mouth taping regularly and also exercising on a better schedule. - The one thing I am getting caught up on, the ENT is also saying I should do turbinate reduction, but I've read a lot of poor stuff about this online. I think I am going to skip this part and see if what I've learned is going to fix me. -Lastly I am also reading "How not to die" by Michael Greger which is about food. I have had the worst of the standard American diet my entire life, I plan to also change this. Here's to health, I'm so sick of this brain fog and depression which I'm starting to think is all correlated with my above experiences. Hopefully anyone else out there struggling to breath can find some damn relief once and for all.

I use the app on my phone and it was a life changer