How To Stop Snoring (And Breathe Easier)

How To! with Mike Pesca

Peach Fish Projects

Education, How To

4.3 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Andrew snores so badly that his cats won't sleep in the same room as him. He's desperate to sleep better at night, and breathe more easily during the day. As a trans man, Andrew spent most of his life training to be a soprano opera singer only to become a baritone when he transitioned in his early 20s. On this episode of How To!, we bring on James Nestor, author of Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, to share the history of why we breathe the way we do. Turns out being a "mouth-breather" is more than just an insult, it's harmful to our health. James gives Andrew some nasal breathing exercises to improve his snoring, anxiety, and overall wellness.

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1:05.1	laugh. I like to meet people who can make me laugh. Please subscribe. No. You mentioned
1:13.3	your ex describing your snoring. What was that like? Yeah. She described me as a freight
1:19.6	train which I did take personally. Yes. Fair. Welcome to How To. I'm David Epstein. Have you
1:32.5	ever woken up in the middle of the night to the sound of a chainsaw? Only to realize it's
1:36.4	just your partner snoring or worse your own snoring? You're not alone. Nearly half of
1:42.2	adult snoring. A bunch of our listeners wrote in complaining about this nocturnal menace.
1:47.1	One woman named Ann. She actually sent us a recording of her husband. Seriously, listen
1:51.6	to this. Holy. Okay. That is impressively annoying. But it's more than that. Snoring
2:03.1	can be a health issue and it can lead to so-called sleep divorce where couples sleep in separate
2:07.7	beds or even to actual divorce according to some research. I snore frequently and very
2:14.2	loud to the point that people I'm with that can't sleep. This is Andrew from Los Angeles.
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