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you know there’s a lot of benefits in

keeping your mouth shut

and I’m specifically talking about nose

breathing okay when you are sleeping and

exercising which I think you’re going to

find quite interesting now typically

when you think about nose breathing

um you’re probably going to think wow

I’m restricting my airflow so I’m not

going to be able to breathe as much

which is true you’re actually

restricting your airflow about 50

percent when you breathe through your

nose versus the mouth

but there’s some very interesting things

that occur when you practice nose

breathing you would think you would not

get enough air but actually you do get

more oxygen delivered to your tissues

than if you were to breathe through your

mouth why is that

well there’s several things number one

when you breathe through your nose your

nose the sinuses act as a humidifier so

they definitely um help you to moisten

the air as it goes into your lungs also

that can actually protect the lungs

because if you’re breathing cold dry air

that can really irritate the lungs and

actually increase the risk of

inflammation in your lungs secondly your

nose acts as a filter to filter out

particles that can end up in your lung

as well and it also can act as an immune

barrier to protect the lungs against

pathogens because the pathogens can

actually be effectively dealt with in

the sinuses and not end up in the lungs

has to do with What’s called the bore

effect

Bohr effect and what this is all about

is that it takes CO2 to be able to take

that oxygen that is in your blood and

push it into

your cells now CO2 is not just a waste

product it’s a very important gas to get

oxygen deep into the cells so even if

your blood is saturated with oxygen it

doesn’t mean that that oxygen is going

to passively get into your cells it has

to be released with the help of CO2 and

this is why someone in a panic attack

that’s getting too much CO2 because

they’re breathing they’re

hyperventilating they’re going to get an

altered ratio of too much oxygen and not

enough CO2 and so they’re going to go

into a panic attack because they’re

literally starving from oxygen then when

they balance out their CO2 and oxygen

they can actually finally breathe better

because they’re finally getting oxygen

deep into the cells now this also

parallels when people get oxygen therapy

they can actually become toxic with

oxygen because they’re literally

starving their cells of oxygen when they

get oxygen therapy because they have

lesser amounts of CO2 to deliver it into

the tissues despite having this

hemoglobin the protein your blood being

saturated with oxygen it’s just it’s not

going anywhere that and so one of the

side effects from oxygen therapy is

dyspnea what is that difficulty

breathing they might get chest pain

coughing pulmonary edema that’s swelling

in your lungs twitching in the hands

which I’m going to explain in a little

bit and also tinnitus ringing in the ear

and sometimes when people get sinus

surgery

they develop a very serious terrible

side effect which is called empty nose

syndrome which their sinuses get all dry

and crusting and they have a very

difficult time breathing they’re

constantly feeling out of breath 77 of

people with that symptom

hyperventilate it’s just a terrible

condition now why did I talk about that

because I wanted to talk about the

importance of sinus breathing and having

all the structures intact because you

need these turbinates in your sinuses

you need the mucous membranes to be able

to balance out oxygen with CO2 and like

I think I mentioned before when you nose

breathe you increase the amount of

oxygen that is in your cells by about 20

percent now there’s another really

interesting component part of this I

want to talk about there’s a condition

of low CO2 it’s called hypocapnia which

you basically don’t have enough carbon

dioxide and that is relevant because

we’re talking about the importance of

CO2 but there’s all these different

triggers or causes to having this

condition of a lowered amount of CO2

asthma COPD chronic obstructive

pulmonary disease panic attacks

anxiety lung infections of course anemia

because you have this problem with

oxygen because of iron but also

something called glycated

hemoglobin now what what is that well if

you ever had a diabetic test called an

A1C they’re basically measuring the

destruction of the hemoglobin from sugar

because when you combine that protein

with sugar it becomes glycated it’s no

longer really usable and so people that

have a higher level of A1C because they

have more glycation and that protein

have higher levels of CO2 this is why

diabetics apparently have a hard time

getting oxygen and breathing and healing

like people that don’t have that

disorder and don’t forget mouth

breathers because apparently they can’t

keep their mouth shut also have higher

amounts of CO2 and so when you have a

condition where you have lower amounts

of CO2

that then causes your body to be more

alkaline not acid alkaline and that’s

called respiratory alkalosis you get

cramping abdominal pain because your

muscles can’t deliver oxygen because the

person is too alkaline another symptom

would be laryngeal spasm you’re going to

be having irritation in the in the

throat they’ll probably have a chronic

cough

bronchospasm like spasm in their lungs

tingling in the lips in the extremities

like your hands and your feet and tetany

that little twitching that you get on

your tissue that’s a lot of Colossus now

anytime you get alkalosis that can lead

to a lowered amount of calcium in the

blood that’s called

hypocalcemia okay hypo calcimia let’s

take a look at those symptoms which is

interesting when you don’t have enough

calcium in the blood you really irritate

the nerves and the muscles they become

over excited and so you have a lot of

neurological things which is kind of

similar to like peripheral neuropathy

from a diabetic but this is coming from

a low-level calcium in your blood also

you may experience cramps okay just

because you don’t have enough calcium in

there tetany that twitching as well as

abdominal pain and difficulty breathing

okay so breathing problems can also

occur with that so they kind of cross

over to that alkaline problem as well

but there’s one more symptom that’s very

interesting as well and that has to do

with what calcium does to the clotting

factors apparently calcium is involved

in

clotting and so when you don’t have

enough calcium you can get bruising in

these little purple dots or specks on

your lower legs that can occur that can

be hypocalcemia and on the flip side if

you have way too much calcium okay that

can lead to excessive amounts of

clotting and so there’s even studies

like postmenopausal women who take a lot

of calcium

developing strokes and even heart

attacks because of the clotting effect

so it’s not just vitamin K1 that’s

involved with clotting calcium is also

involved and without calcium you can’t

clot it all and you’ll get a little

bleeding going on and that can show up

as black and blue marks in certain

places in your body now when you have

hypocalcemia not enough calcium in the

blood yes that can come from low levels

of CO2 but it can also come from other

things as well when your parathyroid

gland is not working when you have a

hypo erathyroid gland you can have

problems with low calcium in the blood

liver problems it could also come

because you’re not consuming enough

vitamin D it could come because you’re

not consuming calcium in the diet you

have no Dairy it could also come from

high iron it can also be created from

not having enough magnesium because

magnesium is also needed to help you

absorb calcium out of all the glands in

your body the parathyroid is the one

that controls calcium and when people

have surgery for example to the thyroid

gland they remove thyroid gland a lot of

times they damage the parathyroid and

then they start having problems with

that so what does all this had to do

with nose breathing nose breathing helps

to increase the right amount of CO2

into your body to help then

really release that oxygen deep into

your cells which is going to help

oxygenate your brain and your muscles

especially when you exercise so when you

sleep when you really need oxygen in

fact those people who snore typically

snore because they’re a mouth breather I

mean try this experiment right now close

your mouth breathe your nose and try to

mimic snoring with your sinuses now you

could probably do that if you have a

stuffy nose but if you don’t have a

stuffy nose it’s almost impossible to

snore with your mouth closed and because

you’re breathing through your nose it’s

not just about oxygen in your blood it’s

actually about oxygen that actually

takes that one step further deep into

the cells and if you have more oxygen in

the cells you’re going to be less

stressed now since we’re on the topic of

oxygen and CO2 if you haven’t seen this

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