There are other ways to become a nasal breather but the tape method works.
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There are other ways to become a nasal breather but the tape method works.
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I don't know if you've done any content yet about taping the mouth shut with some medical tape, but you know the benefits of nasal breathing in sleep are pretty tremendous, but it takes a little bit of training for people to do, and the training is very simple. It's a little piece of medical tape.
put some a medical tape over your mouth, learn to be a nose breather during sleep. Your sleep will improve and your daytime feelings of wakefulness and focus will improve, your cardiovascular health will improve, and on and on and on.
One way to really get good at that is to take a little bit of medical tape and to tape your mouth shut before going to sleep. You heard me right. Put some medical tape over your mouth and force yourself to nose breathe during sleep. It also prevents snoring in most cases. Really offsets sleep apnea.
Taping the mouth shut using medical tape prior to sleep-- excuse me. Putting medical tape on the mouth prior to going to sleep and then sleeping all night with medical tape on the mouth is one way that people can learn to nasal breathe during sleep and can greatly offset a lot of sleep apnea, snoring, and sleep-related issues.
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