The Breathing Expert: Mouth Breathing Linked To ADHD, Diabetes & Child Sickness!

I have a deviated septum. I am diagnosed ADHD when I was 55 and strongly suspect I am also autistic. I am a lifelong asthmatic with severe allergies to animal dander and food. I am a lifelong insomniac. I am currently in the process of being diagnosed with autoimmune disease as a result of a sudden onset of severe heel pain in the absence of any injury to that part of my body. I am also a lifelong outdoor endurance athlete who has mouth-breathed my way through a life of climbing, backcountry skiing, and ultlramarathon running. I have always just accepted that mouth breathing was something I could not correct. I went to my local university hospital here in Japan and they told me that I should take drugs to improve my breathing. I have purchased James' book and am trying to get off many of the prescription medications I have been taking for years. There are times when my nose does work well for a while. It is ok right at this moment. But the times when I am congested and my nose just collapses when I try to use it leading me back to mouth breathing. I'm trying to correct these many issues because at age 67 I am not ready for the decline I am beginning to perceive. Skiing and running are too important to me to give up and I refuse to accept that I have to do that or that I have to take this ridiculous cocktail of drugs for the rest of my life.

Well I have nasal polyps which stop me breathing through my nose. I can't take even a single breath I've been waiting on surgery for years.

Go back in time why was there bigger noses also. Humans are becoming weaker and weaker.

Degenerates. And he talks of design then you talk of evolution. You see kids and adults walking around or sitting with their mouths open staring at their phones like dummies.

Here that moment where he says the nose and body is designed. How can that be 🤔🙏

James, your book absolutely changed my life. I owe you so much!

Something that has helped me so much to breath thru my nose to to keep my tongue pressed against the roof of my mouth. This helps to reshape the face .Over time I have noticed the muscles that are attached to my tongue. I lightly massage these muscles and work the tendons attachment to the bone giving extra attention in any areas of soreness. I also massage the areas of my sinuses taking care of the areas of soreness.. I think head and facial injury is a major cause of facial bone misalignment especially to the frontal bones of the skull. Although I do agree that soft foods do cause the facial muscles to not develop properly. I believe that many heads are injured in birth,

There are many yoga facial massage videos that will help align the muscles and the bones of the face and make breathing thru the nose easier.

Awesome and hugely enlightening as always...such a great informative channel...Thank You...

This is so interesting! It made me think of birth. I’ve given birth to three children without any pain medication, and what gets me through is breathing! I remember it was the only advice I was given before having my first (breath through the contractions and slow down your breath), and it made absolutely no sense to me at the time, but now it makes so much sense!! 😃

James, do you include adding plants into your indoors to increase o2 and plant use of Co2?

I had my first asthma attack at 2 years old the day after my tonsillectomy 😢. When they were discussing the air quality in the podcast room, I WISH Steven had asked if having some PLANTS in the room would improve the air quality (it should!) and more importantly, if plants would be able to improve the air quality enough to offset the high CO2.

How about swimming? Is it a bad exercise?!

That's a great video.

Evolved to breath

As a dentist when I understood this topic better since 2013 I have been warning patients and young ones , since we dentist are the first one to see it’s sign in mouth structure and teeth

What does he mean 'the few indigenous cultures left'? That makes no sense at all he has no idea what that word means clearly. The vast majority of the world population are indigenous to where they're from and live a very basic natural life. 80% of the world population are from Asian and African countries and virtually all the population from these places have been indigenous there for thousands of generations.

I find I’m continually hold my breath throughout the day 7 days a week. I also have to have a large glass of waster with me all day and when I go to bed.

I love you dude but please please lose the leisure jacket!!!!!

thank you for your channel. i have learned so much! just thank you!

I would respectfully suggest that the Melanite’s perhaps also have only a .5 percent rate of bottle fed babies, which corresponds with the argument that breastfed babies have MUCH lower rates of allergies and asthma!.

Reveals secret device: "I've been secretly recording our CO2"
Steven: "Jesus!" 😂😂

The suck swallow breathe synchrony develops in utero and often falters when breast feeding is not the predominant feeding method after birth. This synchrony is the cornerstone of human development & functioning and adaptive meaningful life. Every occupational therapist on the planet knows this!

Not subscribing ...
While you are using Jesus name as a cuss word.

Is ok to breath out or exhale only from the moutn

Can someone offer a clarification please about CO2. Raising our tolerance to CO2 is a good thing as it is a dilator and is necessary in releasing oxygen from the blood into the tissues. However, James speaks a lot in this interview about the high levels of CO2 in our indoor environments and how that is detrimental, but I did not hear him reconcile the 2 points of higher blood CO2 being positive and higher environmental CO2 being negative. Is it just that the environmental levels are WAY higher than what we would ever achieve with breath holds?
Thank you :)

Buy more plants and sleep with them in your room! 😊

These guys are so full of it, you breathe automatically, you breathe naturally.

This podcast is a wonderful gift to many. With that said, please be careful how you refer to my Lord Jesus Christ. I appreciate you helping people achieve ideal wellness. Let's respect religious freedom and the Almighty Lord of Grace while we do that. There are so many teenagers and parents that need to watch this...

As a massage therapist, I've learned to breathe quietly and fully through my nose for many hours in the day or my patients would feel strange listening if I were huffing and puffing. My doctors have told me I have a huge lung capacity, and I was prone to asthma all my young life. My breathing has definitely changed.

These interviews just get better and better. Stephen, you’ve changed my way of life through your guests. Thank you.

Undoubtedly the most definitive interview of James Nestor.

I bought his book Breath when it came out in 2020. I saw him interviewed many times and have since gone back to listen to a few of these interviews.

Then I just saw this interview.
This one is superior to any I've seen.

Personally, I was plagued from infancy through 17 years old with chronic respiratory infections. I had allergies and my parents were heavy smokers.
When I moved from Texas to Northern New York at age 18 (1970), my respiratory condition completely cleared within a couple of months and my sleep improved.
I also began swimming laps and practicing yoga.
My mental health and physical health improved.
In my late twenties, I began jogging and my mental and physical health improved more.

Then I broke my foot and was unable to run for several months, and developed depression.
After resuming jogging and walking, my depression completely went away.

Four years ago, I began chanting to see if it impacted my meditation practice and saw profound improvement in meditation and well-being.
It reduced depression, anxiety, and impulsivity and improved sleep.
My fitness tracker said my Spo2 during sleep went from 93% to 96%.

After seeing James Nestor interviewed in 2020, I tried the mouth taping experiment initially for a week when I was off from work.
In the past 3 years, I've taped my mouth during sleep and my Spo2 during sleep increased to 98% and eliminated major breath spikes.

I can't say where I'd be without great information throughout my life.

I'm so grateful to James Nestor for validating my experience and showing me the benefits of mouth taping.

Steven busting really hard for a fart and realizes nobody will be breathing at all let alone through their nose if he lets it go.

Sorry. I honestly don't mean to comment on all of these videos. But I found the title a bit hilarious. As a kid growing up, my mom was highly consious (?) about our relatively low social status in society. We ended up moving into an area with a lot of "relative" wealth and part of my regimen of keeping us from being Gomers. If one of us got caught walking around with our mouth hanging open.... We'd get a back hand slap to the face. But....on another twist, through elementary school and Jr. High, I was able to swim underwater one and a half laps of an olimpic competition swimming pool without have to take a breath. My coaches would freak out and I'd get in trouble if I tried to go two laps. LOL>

Thank you for this great video. It will definitely help me and my loved ones.❤😊

What can we do to fix it???😮

Drink fennel tea, with peppermint, ginger, cardamon, heavy in the fennel, it will dislodged old mucous from deep in your lungs

I love this. I nees to start teaching my children this.

There’s no such thing as ADHD there’s only wrong breathing at night. Breathe through the nose at night especially. Can correct “adhd “

Glimpse the grandeur of this read "The Hidden Empire: Inside the Private Worlds of Elite CEOs" by Adam Skylight

I like to whistle instead of humming. Is that bad, too?

Steve just a bit of constructive criticism. You have had heart surgeons on your podcast talking about the dangers of seed oils yet you continue to push Huel.
Also the mask talk in this podcast was deemed misinformation not long ago. Carefull they dont make up a charge against you like there doing too our Russell ❤

babies learn to breath properly at the breast. bottle feeding has drastically changed the posture of the tongue which has changed our teeth alignment, nasal and sinus passages, and cranial bones. so not only is breast best for nutrition, immune health and mother baby attachment, but occlusion, posture and breathing.

I was neither breastfed nor given real food as a kid, but I sucked my thumb and hummed as a result I have large jaws and perfect 32 teeth (yes that is including 4 large wisdom teeth) Seems to me that autistic behavior can counteract industrialization sickening effect on people ;)

I was up sick with a cold and a blocked nose and listening to this has been so helpful ❤ Thanks for the great content!

Anyone notice how often he's mouth breathing while talking?

I seriously feel better after just watching this it's so true i'm a believer

In india we do pranayam . .various types of breathig that cure cancers allzymers . . ...part of yoga . .what the expert is talking about is proven and is bang on . .

Me encantan este tipo de canales me gustaría que se traduzca al es pañol para poder entender mil gracias

I have never heard so much rubbish - i am 53 years old - 54 this month and have been breathing through my mouth my ENTIRE life - i look and feel completely great. The human body is an incredible machine - if it didn't want us to breath through our mouths, then we would never have been born with the ability to do so!