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Anfisa Nikitina's avatar

Question: how do you know you’re a mouth breather?

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Jack Livaditis's avatar

Fall asleep near a friend and have them snap a photo of you...Lol.

Great question Anfisa

One of the best ways is to try mouth tape at night and see how you feel in the morning. If you wake up feeling way better than usual, it’s a good sign you were nasal breathing more instead of mouth breathing—which usually means deeper, higher-quality sleep.

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Anfisa Nikitina's avatar

I will ask my sisters to watch me at night then🙈

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Alykhan's avatar

I’ve been using mouth tape when I sleep for about a year and it’s a total game changer. Can’t go without it now.

I’ve tried nasal strips but they haven’t stuck for me (pun intended). Might try the Intake bands or one of the nasal dilators though.

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Jack Livaditis's avatar

Epic, man—this is so good to hear⚡️ I’m glad you’re on the game-changing protocols. Way to keep it up! If there’s anything else you want to hear about or learn more, just let me know. We’re an open book community!

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Alykhan's avatar

Will do man.

I love the specific product recommendations and why you choose the brands you do. Those are super helpful.

Keep up the great content!

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Walyullah's avatar

Question for you, what's the most affordable long-term investment? I looked at the links you shared. Everything seems to require restocking. I need something like dentures lol, a one time investment.

Any ideas for what I should try first for Nasal Optomization? The magnet one looks really promising ngl. This is the type of biohack where if it works, I'm gonna try to get my whole family on it. Better sleep will help literally everyone.

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Jack Livaditis's avatar

Yes brother, thanks for the comments and the question, man. Mouth breathing—I learned the hard way—is super detrimental to your health. I also used to have poor tongue posture, and every time I tried to do the mewing technique, it would end up causing jaw pain and discomfort.

Funny enough, I snore every time I sleep on my back without mouth tape, but when I use mouth tape in the same position, I don’t snore at all.

I’d recommend seeing a chiropractor that focuses on Chiropractic Biophysics techniques as a next step so they can assess your mouth and jaw positioning and suggest what else to check on. But to get started, let’s focus on mouth tape.

For nasal optimization, I’d recommend starting with a nasal dilator. Check out the Intake Breathing dilator—it’s a really cool one I personally like:

👉 Intake Breathing Nasal Dilator.

Hope all of this helps, man. You got this!! Let me know how else I can help you, brother. This is a huge step for you and your family toward feeling amazing and finally getting that deep, restorative sleep.

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Walyullah's avatar

Very interesting read. I mouthbreathe and snore and reading this, I realized this is why I probably feel tired so often—maybe I'm not lazy but a mouthbreather who doesn't get proper rest!

I have a few problems with mewing or just having good tongue posture. As soon as I do that, pressure builds up in the back of my jaw and my jaw muscles start feeling tight and it just overall feels wrong. Perhaps I have jaw issues I didn't even know I had. My muscles only feel relaxed when my jaw is lowered and forward, which is just not good for posture and breathing. The bad breath was cool to learn about, as well as cavities. Just had a cavity filled last month.

Besdies tongue posture, my nasal passages just don't stay clear enough for me to nose breathe. I try to do it, and sometimes it works, but only when my passages are clear. And most of the time they're not.

I should try to figure this out sooner rather than later, because the effects are compounding over time. I wonder what other cascade effects this is having on my body.

Thanks for writing this.

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Jack Livaditis's avatar

❤️❤️❤️ thank you!!!! You are amazing.

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