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I use to be a Mouthbreather

My diet is so great in that I mean that my body's ability to provide bio feedback is greatly enhanced. One continuous improvement after another! So I thought more about my breathing frustrations and came to one realization: if my hypothesis of digestion is the cause of my breathing difficulty then some meals I must be improperly food combining and/or some complex salads with 6 or 7 ingredients like I've had previously would make my stomach feel upset or knotted up while simpler salads would not make my feel this way (I've been doing 3 ingredients for 2 weeks so far) because they are so easy on the body. For the past 6 months I know I've been carefully food combining so I know that is not the case. The knots I felt in my stomach seemed to occur no matter if I had a simple salad with 3 ingredients or one with 7 or 8 I always felt the same. Last day in the gym I got to thinking: so sometimes I feel I cannot get a deep enough breath and I'm running out of oxygen which is a horrible feeling to have. When I get a deeper breath I usually have to crouch down or hang like on a pull up rack to get that full breath. I began to think: maybe I'm breathing all wrong then at work day before yesterday and yesterday I watched a lot of YouTube and did quite a bit of searching. I came to realize that I am a "Mouthbreather" not that I'm stupid as the name can imply. I never realized after all of these years that this was a major problem. So to get full breath which was overbreathing and all in my head I had to breathe so deeply to get a breath I was unlikely to ever get. Interestingly, I only began to do this practice about 10 months ago when I initially began raw vegan 80 10 10 with lots of mistakes and screw ups for the first few months. Ive learned to breathe through my nose only at all times other than when exercising, eating, or talking. So with a meditative focus on breathing through nose I haven't in over a day tried to breathe too heavily through mouth so the soreness I felt under right rib I'm convinced was my lungs crying out from me overstressing them now that soreness is no more. The knot in stomach I think was just the messages I kept telling myself about my digestion still trying to straighten itself out. Next step I messaged a couple of breathing coaches to learn how to breathe because I've been a chronic mouthbreather my entire life and always thought that whether I breathe through mouth or nose it doesn't matter. I still have a lot to learn about breathing but I do understand that mouthbreathing can be very unhealthy. The science is interesting saying that mouthbreathers can cause dental issues (disrupts the mouths ph balance), respiratory problems, changes in fascial structure - a longer face with mouthbreathing, nostrils can become constricted because of non use so to expand have to be used more often, reduces nitric oxide production which affects cardiovascular and brain health, and more (i found good blog post on this subject for anyone that wants to learn more: https://feno.co/blogs/news/the-hidden-dangers-of-mouth-breathing-a-scientific-deep-dive?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=21919780221&gbraid=0AAAAA9WBXt4QGiCKf94X_MPI2FPTr5HLt&gclid=CjwKCAjwiezABhBZEiwAEbTPGKSbWinxgbdZAYruQ5-gza66l2KzYg35gEUJzOI8NdXroYw28StPQxoCLqQQAvD_BwE

I also ordered a chin strap and nose strips to help with my sleep as well because i wake up trying to catch my breath so i know im not sleeping as well as i could be from the mouthbreathing. Well for now im happy to be less stressed and am feeling much better. Thank God I eat the way I'm designed to have my body show me breathing issue for the first time in my life wow what a revelation! I still find it strange that it took this diet of all diets to bring out the problem I had front and center... Simply Amazing! 😊

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