Maybe you weren’t told at school how useful our noses are?

You have a most amazing piece of equipment in the nose, so why not use it?.

Just to give you a brief idea of what it does I’ll list some of them here:

It cleans the air we breathe of dust and dirt

It warms the air in cold weather so the lungs don’t get chilled

It kills most bacteria in the air protecting us from many infective agents hitting the lungs

It moisturizes the dry air in our centrally heated homes so as not to irritate the lungs

It produces 50% of the nitric oxide needed in the body, this substance kills germs and dilates blood vessels.

The net effect is a nose breather has near perfect air entering the delicate tissue of our lungs, the mouth breather’s lungs get whatever is floating in the air, dust, bugs, and my mother used to say flies would be breathed in if I kept my mouth open!

An essential part of Buteyko training is teaching people to nose breathe when exercising, sleeping, relaxing or talking.

One Buteyko student was a marathon runner and can now run better just nose breathing.