[ConservativeMind]

Nasal breathing when not exercising appears to help the parasympathetic system keep your blood pressure lower.

[ConservativeMind]

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[Bobbyvotes]

I agree with this hypothesis. I breathe through nose during waking hours. But during sleep I breathe through mouth.

[llevrok]

my wife is a big nose breather. Sounds like a steam locomotive idling at a train station.

[monkeyshine]

We were always taught in PE back when I was a kid: breath in through the nose and out through the mouth. I don’t know if there was science behind that back then or if it was just handed down through the ages.

When I had to do cardiac rehab years ago, they reiterated the same thing. Using BP monitoring because it was cardiac rehab, after exercise doing a ratio of 5 seconds in and 7 seconds out (or similar- the exact time was less important than keeping roughly that ratio of inhaling a little quicker and exhaling more slowly) after exercise BP dropped back to baseline in just a few minutes.

[2nd Amendment]

Most Alabama fans are mouth breathers

[OftheOhio]

Being a mouth breather has a lot to do with being around car and truck traffic. I commuted on I-75 for a very long time. Only after moving to the country did my nose breathing take over. If I get behind a diesel truck now for even a few seconds I feel my nasal passage changing.

[Chicory]

We got in trouble for breathing “with our mouths hanging open.”

Didn’t everyone?

[Libloather]

The usual doc question - do you snore? How the heck am I supposed to know that? I’m sleeping. Out cold. Got a heart monitor that recorded everything for five days. Lo and behold, snoring was involved. Got the headgear and air pump and things are doing just fine. Gotta keep the mouth closed. And how do I know that’s being done? I don’t. I’m sleeping. Out cold.

[Clutch Martin]

Boxed breathing therapy works too.
The SEALS rehearse it, probably as a diving regimine.

A SEAL nap is also effective.

The boxed breathing is a 10 minute cycle.
The nap is timed for 25 minutes with legs elevated.

I do these 3 to 4 times per week. It feels beneficial.

[airborne]

I’ve always been a nose breather, and my nose runs a lot. So I’m always blowing my nose.

I’ve always thought that its my body’s way of stopping things like covid from getting me.

I’m so glad that I never got the covid vaxxine.

[plain talk]

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Could be an advertisement for nasal strips, like Breathe-Right.

[matthew fuller]

The following is a very ineteresting and useful breathing technique- https://www.verywellhealth.com/valsalva-maneuver-1746152