Breathe Through Your Nose

Just One Thing - with Michael Mosley

BBC

Health & Fitness, Science

4.6 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Take a nice deep breath in… through your nose. It’s a simple way to get healthier gums, a better memory, and improved lung function. How? Well, it may partly be due to a special molecule called nitric oxide. Michael Mosley speaks to Professor Jon Lundberg from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden who made the fascinating discovery that nitric oxide is produced in your nose and travels to your lungs where it has some surprising benefits, including boosting oxygen uptake and possibly helping you fight off infections. Our volunteer Joe tries out a few tips to make nasal breathing a habit.

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Producer: Nija Dalal-Small Science Producer: Catherine Wyler Assistant Producer: Gulnar Mimaroglu Trainee Assistant Producer: Toni Arenyeka Executive Producer: Zoe Heron A BBC Studios production for BBC Sounds / BBC Radio 4.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds.
0:02.0	Hello everyone, it's Michelle Vassage, and welcome to my podcast Rule Breakers.
0:06.0	But you sit down and be bright.
0:08.0	Celebrating women's voices.
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0:24.4	where in the world women are living their best lives. Celebrate yourself.
0:28.8	Lesson on BBC Sounds.
0:36.0	BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts.
0:48.0	We would all like some quick and simple ways to improve our health, but we're inundated with often conflicting advice. So if you were going to try just one thing to improve your mental and physical well-being. What should it be?
0:54.8	Maybe a cup of tea to help your heart health or listening to music to open up your blood vessels.
1:01.9	How about a walk on a rainy day to improve your immune system?
1:06.3	I'm Dr Michael Mosley and this is just one thing where each episode we'll explore one thing you can start doing today to improve your health or life in ways you might not expect.
1:21.8	Now I'm in my office, I'm doing some work, I'm sitting at my desk, and I'm about to do something
1:26.8	that should increase my oxygen uptake, keep my gums healthy, help fight off infections,
1:32.1	and might even enhance my memory.
1:37.0	What I'm doing now is I'm just breathing in through my nose and out through my mouth. Now you may be wondering how can it possibly matter whether you
1:46.6	breathe in through your nose or like many people through your mouth how could it
1:51.0	benefit your health I must admit my and I were really skeptical at first. But the science behind it is surprising and very clear as you'll discover. Now I have done a previous episode where I've looked at the benefits of slow deep breathing but this is rather
2:04.7	different. The emphasis here is very much about the importance of inhaling through your nose.
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