Protection against pathogens
Nose breathing and mouth breathing compared
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Nasal breathing naturally fulfills important tasks in the defense against pathogens. Although the protective mechanisms of the nose do not provide absolute security against viruses (currently Corona V.) and other harmful invaders, the majority of attackers are already stopped in the nose. People who breathe mainly through the mouth instead of the nose lack this defense mechanism. They therefore not only have a higher susceptibility to many diseases, but are also more intensively and frequently affected by them.
The front line of the airways
Life-essential oxygen can reach the lungs via the mouth or nose. Although both work, it is by no means irrelevant whether we breathe through the mouth or the nose. Only nasal breathing can ensure a high quality of the air we breathe and naturally provide protective functions to prevent disease. On its way through the nasal passages, the air is cleaned, warmed and moistened. Viruses, bacteria, pollen and dust get caught in the nasal mucus and in more than 30 000 small flesh hairs of the nasal conchae. It is hardly possible for the disease causers to overcome this safety system. Once trapped, they can no longer penetrate the body. Instead, they are blown out again or transported to the stomach when swallowed, where they are destroyed by stomach acid.
Much less known, but equally influential on health, are the effects of nasal breathing on the brain and nervous system: the close relationship between nasal breathing and smelling plays a role here. We are able to smell via the so-called olfactory bulb, which is a part or protrusion of the brain and extends to the upper nose. Via it and also via remote effects of the nose, influences that stabilise our immune system and ward off diseases are constantly maintained.
Mouth breathing is dangerous
In contrast to the positive effects of nasal breathing, mouth breathing has exclusively harmful effects. People who breathe regularly or frequently through the mouth lack important defence functions to protect their health. Pathogens can enter the mouth, throat and lungs unhindered and spread throughout the body via this route. There is also a measurable reduction in the oxygen supply in the blood and in the body cells. The immune system is constantly weakened. Overall, mouth breathers are therefore more frequently and more severely affected by diseases.
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Breathe properly! Mouth breathing makes you ill - nasal breathing is a must!
Far too little attention is paid to respiration as one of the most important prerequisites for defending against disease. Increasing specialization in medicine ensures that the smallest deviations in the human body are tracked down and treated purely symptomatically. However, this does not do much to eliminate the causes and ensure a lasting state of health.
Seemingly self-evident and automatic functions, such as breathing, are unknowingly ignored in these examinations. However, breathing is the most important “flame of life”, no life functions without it.
Falsche Atmung verursacht Erkrankungen
Nicht egal ist dabei, wie wir atmen: Falschatmung steht nämlich im unmittelbaren ursächlichen Zusammenhang mit vielen Erkrankungen. Betroffen davon sind nicht nur die Atemorgane , sondern der gesamte menschlichen Körper, selbst das Gehirn. Darüber hinaus werden korrekte Entwicklungen von Gesichts-, Kieferform, Zahnstellung und Kopf- und Körperhaltung gestört. Voraussetzung für ein gesundes Leben ist daher – vom ersten bis zum letzten Atemzug – die richtige biologische Ein- und Ausatmung.
Incorrect breathing causes illness
It doesn’t matter how we breathe: incorrect breathing is directly causally linked to many diseases. Not only the respiratory organs are affected, but the entire human body, even the brain. In addition, the correct development of the face, jaw shape, tooth position and head and body posture is disturbed. A prerequisite for a healthy life is therefore – from the first to the last breath – correct biological inhalation and exhalation.
Solution for healthy nasal breathing
In our video, we explain the negative consequences of breathing through the mouth, which is often habitual but harmful to health, and recommend an effective solution to achieve healthy and well-functioning nasal breathing.
Many people are affected by mouth breathing without realizing it. Although those affected can often breathe through their nose, their breathing changes even under minor stress and especially during sleep.
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Possible diseases
It is highly probable that many diseases are causally linked to mouth breathing. However, such connections between causes and signs of illness (symptoms) are rarely recognized. However, if the causes of a disease remain and only symptoms are treated, the effects of a disease can be reduced but not eliminated.
As mouth breathing has existed since early childhood in most cases, the consequences also have an impact at a young age. Frequent infectious diseases, speech development disorders, incorrect phonation, middle ear infections, nasal polyps, misaligned teeth and much more are typical signs of this.
Adults often have chronic illnesses, early hearing disorders, tinnitus, snoring and nocturnal breathing interruptions, problems with the bite, jaw joints and pain in the face, head, neck and back regions. Brain researchers have also identified effects on thinking and concentration and there are even suspected links to the development of dementia, inflammatory diseases and carcinoma formation in the body.
Mouth breathing is a habitual behavior
It is not possible to give up harmful breathing either by good intentions or by using mouthguards, by taping or tying up the mouth. Even operations do not change it and often have harmful consequences for the entire functional system of nose, mouth and throat.
Mouth breathing is a learned and long-standing habitual behaviour. Due to insufficient use of the nose, necessary skills have not been sufficiently developed or have atrophied. Constant efforts, usually lasting for years, to improve this condition by using nasal sprays or nasal rinses remain unsuccessful. Also many advertised breathing techniques do not provide any remedy, because they neglect decisive biological orientation. Among other things, they recommend changing the airway during inhalation and exhalation. They achieve neither an improvement of the airways nor a change to correct breathing behaviour.
Harmful mouth breathing is a learned behavior.
Healthy nasal breathing can be trained with the FaceFormer method.
Activate natural protective function
FaceFormer method trains nasal breathing
Necessary changes to functional, automated nasal breathing can only be achieved through neurophysiological exercise programs. The FaceFormer training therapy was developed specifically for this purpose and for the adjustment of equally important posture and movement patterns in the mouth and throat area, and has spread worldwide. An exercise device, the FaceFormer, is used for regular training over a set period of time. Once resistance-free breathing through the nose has been established and breathing behavior has been changed, the new skills learned – even without training – are retained correctly over the long term. Natural breathing through the nose works day and night. A successful recipe for shielding against pathogens, allergies, snoring, nocturnal breathing interruptions and many other illnesses. Also fitness training for general health and to improve performance.
Front line of the airways
The third part of our series of articles deals with the influence of mouth breathing on the development and manifestation of allergies with effects on the airways. Find out how you can counteract allergies through natural nasal breathing.
