in this video we are reviewing intake breathing strips and before diving into it today if you
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and like the video to let me know that you enjoyed it now the benefits of nasal strips
whether this is your first time seeing them or you've seen them around before both sleep at
night time really optimizing recovery preventing mouth breathing which can cause dental issues
bacteria in the mouth and then if you're a snorer it can reduce that and then it's also during the
day time for just optimizing performance improving oxygen absorption in the body lowering your heart
rate and potentially even maximizing recovery and so as someone who is all about fitness all about
health all about the new products to perform at a higher level and be healthier i had to try it
out and so i want to pre-frame this i've reached out to the company themselves and they sent me
this product but they are not paying me for this video they are not swaying my review in any way
this is a totally unbiased honest review of my experience so before anything else let's start
with the hardware so if you're interested in starting with intake breathing the starter kit
is the first thing you want to buy and so the starter kit basically includes everything you need
for the strips which we'll go into in a second as well as 10 sets of adhesives the kit itself is 40
so as far as pricing goes it's definitely more expensive than the generic brand which you can
probably get about 30 strips for about 16 however to me this is well worth it and i'll tell you why
in a second and then as far as the starter kit you can also get a refill plan now if you buy that
separate one set of 30s about 36 if you subscribe and you can choose either 30 days 45 days or 60
days when they send to you it's going to be 25 so you save 11 which is awesome and then if you
buy the kit and the refill plan all at once it's 67 plus you get free shipping and i know it is a
little steep so we actually got a code for you guys if you are interested in testing these out
once you hear the review just use code "SchuyFit" at checkout and that should save you 20 on your
order so let's open up this kit and see what we've got inside so first impression of this kit
pretty cool it looks like it's going to be very very simple to travel with just put it in your bag
it's got everything in there and you can carry 10 strips at a time which is great and so if
you open it up it's just a simple clip and you're going to have a couple things on first open so the
first on the top you're going to see some adhesive wipes now it is recommended that you clean your
nose and we'll go over the process in a second but they give you a couple wipes in here which
is great these are not necessary so if you wash your nose you use soap you know you're totally
clean before you put them on your good but if you are out on the go this is going to be a major
benefit to clean if you want to apply if you look at below that we have four separate things here
now the first is going to be this black case and if you open it up it's going to be where all the
adhesives are now the cool part about this is if you get a replacement plan you can literally just
swap this out so pull this little piece out then you put the new one in and then you have access to
this for 10 days at a time second thing you'll see here are these two different pieces now depending
on the size you get you have the small medium or large option and if you do for some reason
choose a option that's a little too small or a little too big for you they're going to send you
a replacement it's not a big deal at all but you do have two options depending on whether your nose
is a little bit wider a little bit less and then this last piece here which is really really cool
is basically a magnet that allows you to pick up the adhesive so if we pop this open we basically
put the magnet up against it one of the strips is going to pop up you then have the opportunity to
peel it off and using the magnet place it on your nose which is a huge huge plus because with the
other strips you know you have to take it off like a band-aid and then you have to grab it and you're
usually grabbing the bottom so you're getting some of that adhesive on your fingers and so with this
you don't even have to touch the adhesive all you do is just you know push down on the thing
to peel off the plastic and then you have the adhesive with the magnet and you can place it and
you're good to go now let's get into the actual adhesion so super super simple when you get the
kit they provide you a link for a video and the video actually has step by step how you put on
all it is is three steps so number one is clean and i can't emphasize how important it is that
you clean the position in your nose that you're putting this on before you actually use it i've
completely forgotten to a couple times or i've showered and then i've waited an hour and i guess
that's enough time for the oils to build up in my nose and less than 12 or so hours later i'll see
the stickers coming off and so on the days where i fully clean my nose these last 24 plus hours
they've been great but i do want to emphasize that as long as your nose is clean you'll be good but
if you don't clean it you probably will experience some problems second step is obviously going to be
applied so you're just going to use the magnet you're going to take the adhesive itself pop
it on peel it off and then you're going to find the positioning on your nose now do not rush this
process don't expect that you're going to get it right on the first try it took me about two
or three days before i was finally able to get the positioning that worked best with my nose but when
you do it's kind of muscle memory right you know where it goes you know it works well and then you
can find it there and so finally once you apply it they say wait about five minutes just to get the
adhesive set in so i would just squeeze the nose kind of like you're just pressing it in and making
sure it sticks and then after about five minutes you can put on the piece and the piece has magnets
so all you're going to do is you're just going to bring it to your nose with the indented part
facing up and then it's just going to click in and as soon as it clicks you're just going to
feel your nostrils widen you're going to take a deep breath through your nose and you're going
to be able to feel it immediately okay pros comms pros number one to high quality material compared
to the other stuff i know a lot of places in china they do these knock-off materials
and it's actually contains more toxins and more of this irritable stuff in the actual adhesive
and so when i was using the generic brand i was finding it would be on for probably about like
12-13 hours and i would take it off and i would basically have just a red mark across my nose
and i was getting some acne and there's just a lot of stuff where my skin was acting up whereas this
i've tried keeping these on and i did for 48 hours just to see how long they would last and i took it
off and there were small marks but within a couple minutes they were gone there's no irritability no
added acne and so that's a huge bonus for me second pro here is that you can target where
you want to open if you have maybe a deviated septum that is a little higher up you can now
move the patches up and then open it up up there if you're just looking to open up the nostrils
more you can move it a little down but it's going to be totally custom on your nose pro number three
not as invasive a lot of these strips i mean when you think about it they're using the actual nose
to open it up and so what it ends up doing is it ends up pulling and scraping on the skin
whereas with this there's these two stickers and then it's being pulled out rather than
out forward and so if that makes sense like with the other ones you can end up stripping the skin
of your nose if you use them long enough whereas this it's just these two little stickers and
they're pulled out and there's not much friction against the skin pro number four is that this has
been very very sturdy and durable a lot of the other ones when i would be in an intense exercise
session i could see them start to pop off but with this it's been no issues i mean the first day when
i didn't have them on perfectly right they popped off for a quick second when i was doing box jumps
but immediately pop back on easy to remove right like if i'm doing an interview or something i
love how they are the color of my skin and so you can see here i pop it off and you barely see that
these stickers are on my nose with the webcam you know obviously it's going to be a little
more noticeable in person but here it's not a big deal and then quickly i can just pop it back on
and boom i'm back in the game as far as sweat resistant too it's totally durable sweat i've
gone on super long hikes where i was drenched in the sun i've done intense workouts where i've been
sweating and i haven't had any issues with sweat getting under there and removing off the band and
then the fifth pro is i truly have had noticeable benefits with this as far as lactic acid buildup
goes in my muscles when i'm doing endurance work i've noticed less of that lactic acid burn which
tells me i'm getting more oxygen in the nose and it's also been cool to be focused more on just
keeping my mouth shut and breathing through my nose whereas with my septum before there
was no way i could get enough oxygen in without using some of my mouth breathing so not only that
but it's also been very noticeable for me with sleep when i wake up in the morning it's pretty
noticeable on the nights that i have not worn this versus the nights that i do of the quality sleep
that i'm getting which makes sense because i'm most likely breathing through my nose instead of
my mouth and i'm most likely getting more oxygen in my body so those are the pros for the band so
let's talk cons con number one for me is obviously the price right if you're just looking for
something and you're not taking it as seriously and maybe you don't have this in the budget
to pay 30 a month or whatever you're going to opt in for the actual replacement cost is a little bit
stretching when you see their competitors who are you know like i said 16 or so dollars for
30 bands and so i see that as a negative you know to me it tells that it's higher quality and from
my experience it obviously has been but i can't go by and not mention that because it is a pretty
large difference in the price second con for me would be it's a little bit more difficult to get
that placement right so you are probably going to end up using two to four days to really figure out
what works best but what's cool is when you get adjusted to that you're able to just stick with it
and it's going to work much more effectively than the standard strap and con number three and this
is a pro or con depending how you look on it is it's obviously very noticeable right whereas with
the skin colored one that goes across the whole nose you can probably see a little bit but you're
not really gonna stand out as much whereas this i mean i walk everywhere and people are looking
at me i don't mind at all but a lot of people ask me what it is and it's kind of one of those things
where if you're an introvert or you don't like being looked at you don't like being judged it's
a little more noticeable than your other options so that's all i got for you as far as big picture
i love these things i see myself using these for a long time especially when i'm sleeping you know
exercise has been pretty noticeable but sleep for me is what's truly truly important like i'm
okay performing a little less in the gym because i'm not really training for anything specifically
whereas my sleep is my energy and my performance during the day so that's really important to me
but it's also one of those things where i'm able to wear them all day you know i shower at night i
put them on after my shower sleep with them wake up do my two workouts and then i shower at night
again and that's when i swap them out and so for me i'm absolutely going to use it do yourself a
favor if you're at least intrigued check it out use the code "SchuyFit" to save 20 but these could
be the difference between you know you waking up your spouse at night because you're snowboarding
and not snoring it could be the difference between you giving up at five reps because of lactic
acid buildup versus seven or eight reps and so depending on what your needs are your desires are
this could be a good choice to try it out so i'm curious if you leave me in the comments what has
been your experience with nasal strips have you tried them if you have have you used this specific
brand let me know in the comments because i'm always interested in hearing from you but besides
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