The Nose Knows
This is the function most commonly associated with the nose.
What is smell?
Nose breathing during exercise leads to a lower ____, the number of breaths a person takes per minute.
What is breathing rate/breathing frequency/ respiratory rate?
What is septum?
You can try putting this over your mouth while you sleep to encourage nose breathing.
What is mouth tape?
The nose helps condition incoming air by doing this.
What are humidifying, warming, and removing foreign particles before reaching the lungs.
A lower breathing rate allows more time for this gas to travel from the lungs to the blood.
What is oxygen?
Mouth breathers tend to have less efficient action of this main breathing muscle.
What is the diaphragm?
People sometimes place this product over their nose to open up their nostrils and encourage nose breathing.
What are nasal strips/dilators?
Nose breathing results in ~10% greater uptake of this gas that is vital to life.
What is oxygen?
A lower breathing rate with nose breathing also leads to a higher concentration of this gas that is exhaled by the lungs.
What is carbon dioxide?
Mouth breathing may lead to forward ____ posture, also called text neck.
What is head?
This is the name of a practice that involves placing your tongue on the roof of your mouth to promote nose breathing (hint: sound cats make)
What is mewing?
This is the name for the narrowest part of the nose:
a) Nasal valve; b) Nasal aperture; c) Nasal tunnel
What is a) Nasal valve?
True or false: athletes can have equal or better performance in their sport while nose breathing compared to mouth breathing.
What is true?
Greater water loss when breathing out through the mouth could contribute to this.
What is dehydration?
You can try this practice, which involves not breathing for a short period of time, to get used to nose breathing.
What is breath holding?
This is a substance produced in the nose that widens blood vessels in the lungs.
What is Nitric Oxide?
Breathing through your mouth for extended periods of time during exercise could lead to exercise-induced ___, or narrowing of the airways leading to the lungs.
a) bronchodilation b) bronchoconstriction c) asthma
What is bronchoconstriction
Long-term mouth breathing can lead to this condition of improper alignment of the teeth.
a) Gingivitis b) Halitosis c) Malocclusion
What is malocclusion?
Adapting to nose breathing over the long term can help reduce feelings of air ___, AKA the urge to breathe. (Hint: the feeling you get when you haven't eaten for awhile)
What is hunger?