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If so, make sure you send them this episode today.

It might just help them to breathe more easily.

Can I come back to another one of the Q&A questions we had at the beginning?

Because I asked you about what I think is an experiment you did at Stanford where you blocked your nose with silicon for 10 days.

Why did you do this?

Before I move on, one thing that you mentioned that I think we haven't touched on is asthma.

How does that fit into this story?

I think there's a fascinating set of examples that you're pulling together here about our breathing.

I'd love to talk about techniques that a listener could use to actually make a change, ideally right now, so that if they were sitting opposite you right now, they'd be judged for their excellent breathing and not how they're getting it wrong.

And maybe could we start with someone who's new to all of this?

Like where should you start?

So just to make sure I've understood that, I'm not putting tape across my whole mouth.

I'm putting like a little bit from my top to the bottom just to sort of hold it together.

But if I had to, I could still like breathe a bit through the sides.

I haven't like blocked it completely, but it basically means I can't separate my upper and lower lip anymore.

So you talked about default nasal breathing.

You now talked about how you were trying to breathe at night.

Is there anything else that I need to be doing to breathe properly?

I feel incredibly calm.

really fast, I also feel that those are much slower breaths than I'm used to taking, maybe twice as long on each.