James Nestor

Now, 90% of us have a mouth that is so small that we have some crookedness in our teeth, right?

I had crooked teeth.

I had extractions.

Most people have this.

If you think about what that's done to our teeth, you can also consider what it's done to our airways.

So right now, I want you to take a big breath through your mouth and try to move that soft palate in the back of your throat.

Snore.

Make a snoring sound.

It's very easy, right?

Now what I'd like you to do is take a very slow, soft breath through your nose, inhaling and exhaling, very slow and silent and soft, and try to make that sound.

Okay, ladies and gentlemen, he is breathing right now.

You can't hear him because he is breathing adequately.

I'm not going to say correctly, but adequately.

So much so that he cannot make that snoring sound.

Okay, so what I tried to just demonstrate right there was that if you are a over breather in the daytime, right?

This is how you are constantly breathing.

over-breathing, taking big, long breaths, you will tend to be much more apt to snore, okay, if you are over-breathing.

And this is something Patrick McEwen has done a lot of research into.

If you then adopt healthier breathing habits, breathing more slowly,

fluidly like you were just doing through the nose there are some people that say that can carry over into how you breathe at night so slower softer breathing at night much harder to make that snoring sound now that's not the only thing that affects snoring at the back of your mouth there's those tissues right