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Dr. Jack Feldman: Breathing for Mental & Physical Health & Performance

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Is There a Difference Between Nasal Versus Mouth Breathing?

The tendency is to do nasal breathing ause the air flows that are necessary for normal breathing as easily ar managed by passing through the nasal cavities. When your ventilation needs the increase, like during exercise, you need to move more air, you do that through your mouth. But at the level of the intercostals and the diaphragm, their contraction is not is almost a agnostic to whether or not the nose ar mouth are open. They're if i understand correctly, there's no reason to suspect that there are particular, perhaps even non overlapping, sets of neurons and prebutsinger area of the brain stem that trigger nasal verses mouth inhales. No, i would

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