Dr. Nathan Bryan

So the mouth breathers are not only bypassing this natural nitric oxide production pathway, but when you mouth breathe, it completely changes the microbiome.

So you're not only bypassing the nitric oxide producing in the upper airway, but you're inhibiting nitric oxide production in the mouth from the microbiome.

Because you're fully oxygenating the mouth, it's changing the pH of the saliva, and completely changes the microbiome and completely shuts down nitric oxide production.

Interesting.

So you have to, I mean, I'm a big fan of mouth taping.

But for me, I know, and I watch my kids, but sometimes there's anatomical issues where there's obstructive airways and airway obstruction that has to be corrected by dental appliances or sometimes surgery.

But the worst thing you can do is tape your mouth and your airway be constricted and, you know, you suffocate.

Yeah.

So before you do mouth taping, you need to get some imaging done from your dentist to make sure that your airway is open to where if you're forced to breathe through your nose, you can actually have oxygen exchange.

Humming, you know, there are certain frequencies.

We've done this in looking at nitric oxide coming out of the exhaled breath when you're humming.

So certain frequencies can activate this enzyme, and it's dependent upon the volume of the nasal sinuses.

So there's not one frequency that would work in every single person.

Because the volume of your airways and oral cavity and sinuses was probably much different than mine.

Well, if you just, you know, like ohms like we do in meditation or just simple humming, you could actually, so if I had my ozone or gas phase analyzer here, I could hum.

And I could detect nitric oxide coming out of my exhaled breath.

Because of the frequency of the… Because of the frequency and activating the nitric oxide synthase enzymes.

But if you take older patients, and we've demonstrated this, it's published years ago, and other groups have demonstrated this.

Older patients, that their enzyme isn't making nitric oxide, whether they do nasal breathing or whether they do humming, there's no nitric oxide coming out.

So again, this is an activator and a stimulator, but it's dependent upon the function of the enzyme that makes nitric oxide.