James Nestor

There were no real surprises other than this was so much more miserable than I ever imagined it would be.

What happened?

If you look at sleep, I think that was the biggest thing.

I don't snore.

I have never snored and I track my sleep.

pretty religiously, the very first night of forced mouth breathing, first night, didn't take, not first month, not first year, first night, my snoring increased to about an hour and a half.

And about three days later, it was about four hours a night.

And it stayed there and it kept getting worse through this 10-day period.

The other person in the experiment had the exact same reaction.

We even developed sleep apnea.

Neither of us had sleep apnea, but we started choking on ourselves just by changing the pathway in which we were breathing air.

So I had heard about this.

It had been established that during allergy season, snoring goes through the roof because the nose gets congested.

People start...

reading through their mouths at night, but it was something completely different to experience it yourself and to feel so awful in the morning and to watch our sleep scores just absolutely plummet across the board.

The first few nights, it was funny.

We were recording ourselves.

even with a video camera.

We had all these gadgets.

And then after a few days, it just wasn't funny anymore.