Mouth Breathing While You Speak

In my career as a myofunctional therapist, I've spent a lot of time helping people to stop mouth breathing. In fact, stopping mouth breathing and restoring nasal breathing is one of my Four Goals of Myofunctional Therapy - https://myfaceology.com/2017/02/four-...

The Four Goals are:

Nasal breathing
Lip seal
Proper tongue posture
Correct swallowing pattern

And all of them have to be done day and night.

But what happens when you're put in a situation where you're forced to breathe through the mouth?

This could happen if you're exercising really intensely, or if you had terrible nasal congestion. It can also happen when you're speaking, and this is particularly true if you're in any kind of public speaking role, where you basically have to talk for longer periods of time.

So is this mouth breathing situation a problem? To get some answers to this question, I asked Patrick McKeown, one of the world's leading Buteyko Breathing Method practitioners.

In this video, I'll go over what he told me, and what the implications are.

Patrick's website is https://buteykoclinic.com/

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