today's video we are talking about mouth taping
mouth taping is the practice of taping your mouth shut
while you sleep now before you click away thinking that you
somehow stumbled upon some weird fetish video
i promise you that is not what this is so please hear me out because this could
benefit you especially if you are someone who
suffers from sleep apnea or you snore or even if you just know
that you sleep with your mouth open mouth taping
can benefit you over the last 30 days i have been
taping my mouth shut every night and i am here to share my results with you
i'm also going to explain why it is extremely beneficial
to breathe through your nose when you're sleeping and
debunk some common myths about mouth
taping
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today we're going to be talking about mouth taping and how it can benefit your
sleep and your health now mouth taping has
been something that has been on my radar for a while
i am a little bit of a sleep snob and anything i can do
to improve my sleep i'm more or less on board
however i hadn't tried mouth taping until recently
and spoiler alert i do wish that i had started sooner
so in today's video we are going to cover what mouth taping
is why it's beneficial my experience and also whether or not it's safe
what is mouth taping both taping is the practice of taping your mouth
shut while you sleep you can either do this with
regular tape or with strips that are specifically made
for this purpose mouth taping teaches you to breathe through your nose
as your mouth is sealed shut ideally we should be breathing entirely through our
noses while we sleep but unfortunately a lot
of us are mouth breathers the main reason everyone should be
breathing through their nose when they sleep is because it increases
nitric oxide production breathing through your
nose creates nitric oxide which increases blood
oxygen levels nitric oxide relaxes the inner muscles
of your blood vessels causing the vessels to widen this
increases blood flow and lowers blood pressure reduced nitric
oxide has also been shown to increase cognitive function and weaken the immune
system when we breathe through our mouths
nitric oxide is not created and since we spend one third
of our lives asleep if there was any time we would want to
be breathing through our nose this would be it now some people already
do breathe either entirely or mainly through their
nose while they sleep but if you aren't sure whether you do or
don't here are some signs to watch out for
tossing and turning through the night bad breath in the morning getting up in
the middle of the night to pee drooling on your pillow and teeth
grinding if any of you sound like you you're
probably breathing mainly through your mouth
and you might benefit from mouth taping now there are
two groups of people specifically who will benefit even more
from mouth taping people who snore and people with sleep apnea
snoring is pretty straightforward if your mouth is shut
you can't snore snoring can disrupt not only your own sleep
but the sleep of others around you and chronic snorers often report that they
get frequent headaches throughout the day
snoring and sleep apnea go hand in hand sleep apnea occurs when a person's
throat is partly or completely blocked while they are asleep
the most common cause of obstructive sleep apnea
is excess weight and obesity during sleep when throat and tongue muscles
are most relaxed this soft tissue can cause the airway to become blocked
if you are breathing through your nose this doesn't happen
tonight is going to be the first night that i am going to be
mouth taping now some people do it just with regular tape but i was
actually sent these strips from somnifix that are
specifically for mouth taping one of my biggest concerns with mouth taping is
suffocating what if i can't breathe through my nose
and i just die honestly that was something i was worried about but it
turns out that these strips
they have a small mesh hole just right there in the center
so if you do need to breathe through your mouth you can just sort of separate
your lips a little bit and breathe so that is
really good and puts my mind at ease the other thing i am a bit concerned
about however is just that it's going to be a little bit
irritating because sometimes i sleep with earplugs in
and i will wake up in the middle of the night my ears will just be
so itchy i'll rip them out and just like dig my fingers in there and
yeah it's just irritating so i really hope that i don't
experience the same thing with this so fingers crossed that doesn't happen
but i will keep you posted we've touched briefly already
on some of the benefits of mouth taping but here is the full list
mouth taping can increase rem sleep and cognitive function
it can reduce blood pressure it can reduce inflammation
it can increase athletic performance it can accelerate weight loss
it can improve digestion and as we already touched on
it can reduce snoring and sleep apnea okay so i have been mouth taping
for just over one week now and honestly i have really been enjoying
it at first as i said i was skeptical about
if it would be uncomfortable or whatnot and the first night it was a little bit
weird i was kind of like lying on my back afraid to lie on my
side but like no issues i could part my lips
if i needed to and breathe through my mouth honestly
though it is really relaxing breathing through your
nose i don't know what it is but i don't know maybe
because i've just been like focusing on my breath
when i first get into bed and i put it on and i'm like
making sure i'm breathing properly through my nose
but now i've been sleeping entirely through the night well even from day one
i slept entirely through the night wearing it
there's only been a couple of times where i've been like really thirsty or
just like had something in my throat that i've had
to take it off but yeah no problem putting it back on
again my cat was sleeping on the bed and now he's giving me the dirtiest look
she just lick your fur oh in terms of my actual sleep i'm finding
that i'm waking up less times throughout the night that's
something i usually struggle with a little bit i
use an aura ring to track my sleep as well
and i have been getting significantly more
deep sleep i'll i'll put it up on the screen for you but last night i got
almost two full hours as compared to i got only
one not 100 one and a half hours and then the first night i wore the
mouth strip i got 146. last night was my peak so far so
yeah overall really liking it and the one other thing i'm going to mention
to you is that i got my boyfriend max to give it a try
one night he has an aura ring as well and usually
his sleep score is like a good score for him
would be low 80s the first night he wore the mouth taping strip
his sleep score was 94 the best he's ever gotten
by far so now he's totally on board and he's been doing it every night hasn't
beat that first night as of yet but still that's that's crazy
so how do you actually tape your mouth now i have only ever used the specific
strips for this purpose i have not used just
regular tape so i can't really help you out there but
here's how to put on the strips from somnifix
you want to purse your lips slightly just do this slightly
and then stick on the strip with the breathing hole in the center
so what i do is i put my fingernail in the slit
and then i use that to line it up with the middle of my mouth
and if you do need to breathe you can just separate your lips slightly
and do so these strips can be removed and used again
three times throughout the night so if you need a sip of water or whatnot
you don't have to worry about wasting the strip all right guys
so now i have been mouth taping for 30 days
or i guess i should say 30 nights at this point i
am thinking i want to continue doing it indefinitely
there was one person i talked to on instagram who said they
did mouth taping for three months consistently and at which point they
actually trained themselves to sleep with their
mouths shut so i'm hoping that i can get to that point
honestly though i have seen improvements to my rem sleep that
has increased i also no longer wake up with a dry
mouth that's something i used to suffer with so
that's not a problem anymore anyways i just placed an order today for
two more packs or actually three more packs i think of
the sami fix strips i will link those in the description box down below
if you guys want to check them out otherwise yeah you
can just use regular tape but i really like the strips and they made
me feel a little bit more comfortable about doing it
versus taping my mouth up myself anyways guys that is all i have for you
today thank you so much for watching let me know in the comment section down
below if you would try mouth taping and if you enjoyed this video you might
also like my video on how a poornate sleep can lead to weight gain
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thanks again guys i'll see you next time bye