James Nestor

CPAPs can actually make your sleep apnea worse over time.

And around 50% of people given CPAPs within a few months aren't going to use them anyway.

But they're too embarrassed to give them back to their doctor.

Wow.

So to be clear, if you have sleep apnea, these things are an amazing bandaid to get you over that hump.

You can't be choking at night, but it's not fixing the core issue.

The core issue for so many people is that mouth that is too small for your face.

It's an airway that is not properly developed.

The back of our airways is covered in this flesh, right?

That flesh needs to be firm.

We exercise everything else in our bodies, our muscles, our biceps, our legs, but we're not exercising our airway.

So you can do this with exercises, with myofunctional therapy, very stupid name for an amazing therapy that allows people to stiffen those tissues, to allow you to take that easy breath without any constriction so that you don't snore.

You hear about mouth tape a lot.

Is that just... So we do know around 60% to 65% of us sleep with an open mouth.

We do know if you're breathing through an open mouth at night, it makes you more susceptible to snoring and milder sleep apnea.

We know this, okay?

We know that if you convert to nasal breathing, we know anecdotally at least,

that a lot of people claim that they're snoring a lot less that they're sleeping a lot better i did a very small experiment at stanford in which we compared mouth breathing over 10 days to nasal breathing at night when i was mouth breathing i don't snore when i was mouth breathing i snored throughout the night i also had sleep apnea the moment i went to use the sleep tape to breathe through my nose it all went away and

I've heard this hundreds and hundreds of times because of those mechanics.

When air is coming in slower, when it's coming in pressurized, it's a lot harder to make that