The nose, snout, beak, hooter, schonz.
What a beautiful piece of architecture we have been blessed with on our faces.
I’ve actually spent my life with people telling me I have a big ol’ snout but im realising that actually I might be somewhat lucky with a bigger, proboscis like snout!
The nose SHOULD BE the primary orifice through which we breath.
Advantages of nasal breathing include
1) humidify the air we breath
2) warm the air we breathe
3) clean the air we breath
4) act as first line of defence
5) stimulate greater diaphragmatic movement.
6) move us towards a more parasympathetic nervous system state.
7) slowing the breath to allow great oxygen uptake in the blood via the Bohr effect
These are just a few from the top of my head.
If you are unsure why any of these even matter, WHY you should start to observe your natural breathing habits and start making a change then here are a few reason WHY.
The warming, humidifying nature of the air moving through the nose allows for the body not to get a “shock” and there for allows for a bronchi/vaso dilatory effect. That means the blood/airway vessel open rather than close (think how everything shuts down when you get cold and your hands and feet go blue…say idea)
Through nitric oxide and mucus (maybe other methods to) the air we breath is cleaned of virus’s and bacteria and prevented from entering the lungs. Might be kinda important in this day and age ay 🤣🤷♂️
Getting the diaphragm to engage more fully, well apart from just the obvious (more air being moved into and out of our lungs) it also helps to move the organs around within our abdominal cavity which helps us to move the waste products around and out of our system.
Yes I am talking about helping to move our gut but also the lymph. There are, in @stopchasingpain legend Dr Perry Nickelstons words, more than 1 lymph node in the abdominal and thoracic cavity’s and their main method of being moved is through movement and breathing!
If you aren’t getting the bad stuff out…all the good stuff you out in will just turn bad to.
Finally if you wanna get all that oxygen you breath into you brain, muscles, organ and everywhere else you need it…you gotta make the most of the Bohr effect which is when you have a high enough level of co2 to allow o2 to be released from the haemoglobin that carry’s it around.
Yes that’s right, there is a good chance you are just breathing in and blowing back out a big chunk of that oxygen you keep breathing in (well you definitely are, we all are but you could be WAAAAAY more efficient and effective with what you are doing.
This is doubly important if you are any kind of athlete, fun runner, sailor, generally someone who moves at all in their life. More oxygen into@muscles means less lactate/less hydrogen = less aches/stiffness/DOMS/slow recovery.
So yes. Maybe I have a big nose, but i love it ans it helps me with everything above and so much more (maybe a big nose = chilled out/horizontal mother fucking badass?!? Or it could just be me 🤣🤣🤣)