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Should I tape my mouth at night? Why or why not? Hey, I'm Robin Open Shaw, the Green smoothie Girl online for 18 years now,

and I want to talk to you about this fad where people are taping their mouths at night. I got an

email that said, Dear Green smoothie girl, can you review why I'd want to tape my mouth at night or not?

I read a book called Breath by a man called James Nestor, after many people had told me that learning to nose breathe instead of mouth breathe had made a big difference for them in their health.

And several people recommended the book to me. The author, Nestor, has had all kinds of breathing and facial deformity issues.

And he argues that Americans' faces have become very

deformed as a result of our diet for generations now and our orthodonic and dental practices

and breathing wrong from birth. And the point is that we need to improve what we're doing

so that our mouth isn't doing what our nose is supposed to do.

He explains how the apparatus behind the nose that you can see on your face is actually the

size of a softball with complex, multifaceted functionality to be able to use oxygen better

and for your face to look better and to detoxify your air and how we're designed to breathe

into our nose, not our mouth. You can read the book or it's on audible where you faster readers can

listen to it at 1.5x speed like I did. But it's good that we have a backup system in the mouth to

breathe through if we're sprinting to get away from a tiger and we need all the oxygen we can get.

Or somebody's got our nose covered.

But that large apparatus called the nose that takes up most of your face on the inside filters air and does many things to the air that are useful for your health.

So the past several months, I've been duct taping my mouth at night to experiment with this.

During the day, I noticed that my mouth is closed and that I breathe through my nose.

Great. Some people mouth breathe all day, especially those with a deviated septum,

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