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But it's not only that, interestingly, also saying that the sort of food we eat, particularly as like a young child, where we just don't really need to chew our food, which has come up on other podcasts, a lot of that is also this like very processed food.

means that actually our mouths are not developing in the same way.

And you're saying you can see that in the teeth of skeletons from the path that we literally have like a smaller jaw, crumpled teeth.

So that is also affecting the way that we breathe.

Related to this is the way that so many of us are snoring.

And snoring isn't just annoying for your partner, but actually it's a sign that you're struggling at night.

But the biggest thing you're talking about is that we're all breathing through our mouth and we should be breathing through our nose.

And that has a number of reasons, you know, partly to do with maybe the sort of the protective elements of how it filters things out, but also just has this natural sort of break on the pace at which I can breathe.

So by breathing through my nose, I'm just going to slow it down.

And we did this amazing experience for me where...

You know, in 20 seconds, I just felt calmer just from shifting to the nose and the slower breathing.

And most people who know me know that I'm clearly a mouth breather all the time because I'm the least calm person you'll meet.

This isn't just, though, about things like not snoring or feeling a bit calmer.

You're talking about evidence that links this to, you know, really serious conditions like asthma.

You have your own example about how this has impacted this big reduction in infections that you're getting in your chest.

And so for you, as you think about like the actionable advice, the biggest thing is how can you move to a point where you are default breathing through your nose?

And even if you're jogging, amazingly, you should be breathing through your nose, especially at night.

You believe that using mouth tape to adjust to nasal breathing can work, and you've seen lots of people.

You made very clear that this is not a big piece of duct tape over my mouth.

You're saying like a little bit of surgical tape, like postage stamp size across the top and bottom lip, and actually just slowly train yourself during the day, which is a way also to move towards the nose, and then you can try it at night.