James Nestor

So then they over breathe more.

which constricts everything more, makes it harder for them to breathe, makes it harder for them to get oxygen, and then they over breathe more and then they have an attack.

So what we've known for over 70 years is that one of the most effective ways of reducing symptoms of asthma is to learn to breathe slower, is to learn to breathe through the nose,

and is to learn when you feel an attack, instead of hyperventilating and exacerbating that attack, to take control of it, to start to breathe slow, to hold your breath for two seconds, two, three seconds, to let it go, to slightly and calmly build that carbon dioxide which will keep your airways open.

There is a Russian doctor called Buteyko who studied this and researched it for decades, 70, 80 years ago.

This is still taught all over the place.

And I have heard from so many people.

And there's about two dozen studies showing how effective just learning how to breathe slower and how intimately your breathing habits are tied to your symptoms of asthma.

Is that true?

It depends.

If you're working out, sometimes that's really effective.

When I'm talking about mouth breathing, just so people aren't confused, I'm not talking about if you willingly want to take a breath through your mouth.

You're doing some breath work.

You want to breathe through your mouth.

you're LeBron and you're dunking on some dude and you want to take a mouth breath.

All that's good because that's something you're consciously doing.

I'm talking about the unconscious stuff.

I'm talking about the stuff at night.

So in through the nose, out through your mouth can be effective in some stages of athletic performance.

For most zone one, two, and three,