'Up to 99 per cent of people are breathing dysfunctionally, and they don't realise the damage they're doing'
People are being warned that mouth breathing has been linked to seven diseases that can have serious impacts on your life. In the latest episode of his Diary Of A CEO podcast, host Steven Bartlett spoke to award-winning author and science journalist James Nestor about how mouth breathing affects our health.
In an alarming declaration, Nestor even warned "99 per cent of people are breathing dysfunctionally, and they don't realise the damage they're doing to their bodies and brains by being this way... Bad breathing habits are a recipe for disaster." Referring to his book, Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, Nestor also reveals: "Mouth breathing, it turns out, changes the physical body and transforms airways all for the worse. Inhaling air through the mouth decreases pressure, which causes the soft tissues in the back of the mouth to become loose and flex inward, creating less space and making breathing more difficult. Therefore mouth breathing begets more mouth breathing.
Issuing a warning to parents, he urged mums and dads to be mindful of the way their child is breathing, especially at night. "How they're breathing at night this is so important look at how they're breathing in the day if they're breathing the vast majority of their breaths through their mouth, you have to fix that."
While references various studies that looked into the correlation between children's breathing and ADHD, Nestor revealed that in the "majority of cases", once the "breathing was fixed" the "ADHD went away".Bartlett then mentioned research he did ahead of the podcast episode that involved a study which analysed more than 11,000 children over six years beginning at six months of age.
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