James Nestor

It was really painful.

And it just made me really, really sad that a journalist had to be the one doing this research when we have so many researchers out there that could do this in a real way.

I did everything I could with the budget I had and the resources available.

But

Still, there hasn't been a study.

We want people to refute this or to confirm this.

No one's done this study because the outcome is breathe through your nose more often.

There's no product and no money to be made at the end of it.

But there's enough research that had been done at Stanford for 50 years, Christian Guimeneau, who did the godfather of sleep medicine research.

That all of this was established and now it's just about getting the word out to people and letting them know if you're snoring, if you're breathing through your mouth, if you have sleep apnea, that's causing a bunch of serious issues.

The vast majority of people with asthma are over-breathing.

a large amount of them are breathing through their mouths.

They have habituated themselves to be in this vicious cycle of breathing like this all the time.

And when they hold their breath, even for a few seconds, it sends alarm bells to their brains to make them breathe more.

And so they breathe more.

they get more nervous, they get more tense, what happens?

An asthma attack.

I was talking to Dr. Justin Feinstein, who has been studying this for a long time, and he looked at people who had panic disorders,

and asthma and found that the vast majority of them had an extremely low tolerance for carbon dioxide.

So carbon dioxide is the end product of metabolism and you're supposed to be able to tolerate a decent amount of it, hold your breath for 30 seconds and feel comfortable because you need carbon dioxide in your bloodstream.