Improve oxygen uptake in the blood - Patrick McKeown 

I have worked on nasal breathing for the last 3 days, taping my mouth shut at night. 1. My sleep pattern has improved. 2. I was up before the alarm and get up. 3. I don't feel tired during the day. 4. Up and down 3 fights of stairs, no breathlessness. Thank you for sharing your knowledge, it is making a difference to my life.

My cycling times have increased by listening to you.... I make sure i breath thru my nose and exhale. I went from 30 miles to 60 miles with lots of good energy left. When i climb a hill during this time i do the same and i find it much easier to climb when i relax...Thanks Patrick....

Thank You Very Much !!! You solved my puzzle question which hinders me for so many years. I am 4 time cancer survivor. During my last cancer surgery recovery, one of the nurse told me that my oxygen intake is too low. She told me to breathe more. No doctor ever told me that in my 67 years. But, you have. Thank you very much. I now see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Every breath you take And every move you make Every bond you break Every step you take I'll be watching you

I’m taping my mouth every night now and my wife has noticed I don’t snore anymore, she also has started to tape up every night. You just have to get your conversations out of the way first!!🤗

you changed my life for the better thank you so much Patrick! Anxiety, insomnia, panic disorder all decreasing thanks to you and James Nestor

Thank you. No one else has ever mentioned this to me in the way that you did. I often hear people saying to breathe in through the nose and out through the mouth, but never understood the difference - and so never took it seriously. I had always thought that the air went to the same place.

I'm a mouth-taper now too. I'm sleeping longer, feeling more benefit when I wake... without a dry mouth. I'm working on my slow inhalations ( 6 when I stopwatch it). Thank you so much for explaining things so simply for us. Bless you Patrick!

Holy fuck. I can’t believe I’ve gone all my life without this channel. This guy is a true life saver.

Excellant lesson for good health and God bless you and basal breathing is teaching in yoga class and Bundle of thanks

If breathing through my nose we easy I would do it more often! I've been following Dr. McKeown's advice for about a month now. But here I sit with a massive sinus congestion and can't pull any air through my nose except for about 3 minutes after I do his nasal decongestion method of holding my nose and breath while nodding my head. This technique works, but only for about 5-10 minutes, then I get congested again. I tape my mouth shut but rarely wake up still breathing through my nose. I also have really bad nasal collapse during physical exercise. I tried wearing breathe rite strips, silicone nasal expanders, and more. Still can't breath enough through my nose without super concentrated exertion. Even while sitting on my couch reading a book I have to really concentrate on pulling air through my nose. After a while I just give up bc its too much work. Like, I literally have to just sit and concentrate on physically pulling air through this tight valve. UPDATE 3 weeks later: My nearly life long symptoms of chronic rhinitis have nearly cleared up in the past 2 weeks without ANY medication!! What made the difference I think was passing above a 20 second BOLT score. My initial BOLT score was around 12 and now its above 20 after practicing the breath hold techniques outlined in the book for about 6 weeks! If my symptoms stay clear, I can absolutely attribute it to the Oxygen Advantage breathing techniques!! Thank you soooo much Dr. Patrick McKeown and Middle Finger to all the other Doctor's who suggested just taking a ton of drugs, allergy shots, and everything else that never worked. HAHA. I've become an Oxygen Advantage Evangelist now, I'm giving away about books to all my family members and friends.

Patrick, Thank u so much for the great books and your channel. Thanks to RU-vid I know about you! Great channel

Putting your method into a practice. Thanks!

Excellent information as I have been practicing to learn a deep breathing way of life. I am recently out of the hospital with congestive heart failure and acute anemia and so I need that oxygen.

Was good to hear Wim Hof admit that whilst he recommends his own style of breathwork in the morning, that we should probably breath through our noses most of the day. Funnily enough that is what I've been doing for 2 years now. Took a while to adapt to nose breathing post exercise effort, but now it's become the most effective way to recover. Thank you sir 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Thank you Patrick for your advice and pleasant delivery always so helpful

Thank you for this insightful presentation on the subject of nasal breathing especially during this time of covid. I have learned a lot and will share this information to my family and friends.

I REALLY LOVE ALL NEWS FROM YOU TUBE ,I learnt lots on every subject ,thank you very much ,the drs and instructors are a great bunch ,God bless you all :)

Thank you sir. It is very hard breathing thru the nose the 1st few days an weeks. But like u said 6 to 10 week period.

Great info Thank you Patrick !

perfect video, informative and short and to the point

Brilliant insight! Thank you!

A Natural process that sometimes we forget.. Thanks for the reminder.. Being n athlete and drummer.. we tend to have more exertion.. and often , esp when cycling.. you need to bring in more 02.. but sometimes in training one is not aware of the bad habits you pick up.. I have always been plagued by elevated stress levels..part if my type A personality..after reviewing this presentation..I again became more aware of my breathing patterns... Having just came off a bad case of Fauci flu..I went back to training regime.. this time with more breath focus..its amazing how just a simple thing can really make a difference.. IM also taking some supplements ...esp creatine...and beet juice.. keeping an exercise routine and I also play didjeeridu .. all make a big difference.. Many thanks.. Cheers Liam

My nasal passage is quite narrow, it gets blocked with mucous also. A life saver has been Neti with water and then after much hesitation I started doing sutra Neti. I decided to tackle my bad breathing technique a few days ago. Though I breathe by the nose I realised i was taking too many breaths per minute and I decided to lower this number. Watched a few videos to see whether I was on the right track, but this was the only one which answered my queries.

Thank you SO MUCH for your help. My breathing is so poor.... Especially at NIGHT TIME. I awake at night time and notice, that I hardly breath at all😐 My poor heart has to work hard to move blood to get more oxygen from it... Because of anxiety, my nasal ways are very much narrowed. I am living in ‘freeze’ way!! (‘Fight, flight or freeze’) I have CFS, so, cannot do exercises🙄

great advice very well delivered

Thanks a lot for a good video patrick 👍Eric hart from the uk 🇬🇧

very good video, I also remember, how as a kid, I used to breath to belly always- now only, when I decide to do so.

Thank you I have found your explanation as to why we should breathe through our nose , most helpful, and will share on Facebook and to all my loved ones , best wishes from Perth WA , Joan age 88 , vegan is my beautiful healthier kinder lifestyle too !

Every breath you take, every move you make, every step you take...

Interesting new info. My nose is slightly restricted, but will still give it a try.

I would add one small aspect to this and that is the unconscious tendency of many of us to constantly tension the stomach muscles, specifically because we're ashamed of our gut/belly. It's a societal issue. But if your stomach muscles are tense, and in many ppl this is the situation 24/7 because the body shame is so deeply embedded in the psyche, your diaphragm will not move freely, you'll breathe via the upper chest, and that in turn leads to mouth breathing. It's a vicious circle that is not easy to break. Also, wearing restrictive clothing will interfere with deep breathing. The ironic thing is, sucking in your gut doesn't fool anyone but yourself. Just relax and accept your shape. You'll breathe better and feel better and that is what other people will notice about you 😊

Interesting. I am up for improving my running and looking at running but just breathing through my nose.

I found you only a few days ago and you hit a bell for me - I am now finding I am focusing on breathing through the nose - its so clear I do not usually and I sometimes feel oxygen deprived or that I have not breathed in enough - but I am not backing away and opening my mouth - the bad habit will be broken. Thank you for the information - why isn't this given more air play and doctors not focusing on it?

been breathing through my nose ever since i first saw this video (about 2 years ago) and i have been feeling great ever since! Well, there has been one drawback... but maybe i shouldnt sa...I smell all the farts now. Mine, yours, that guy over there, his dog's... all of them. Anyway, thanks again for the tips! It's worked wonders:)

I love your videos! Thank you

Thank you so much for this helpful detail

I don't really know why but I always equated a deep breath with a full breath and I believe many people understand it this way. At least when you tell someone to take a deep breath they will usually take a hearty inhale through their mouth in the upper chest. Even with mouth closed or Even when using diaphragm most people will equate deep with full. I only now start to understand that by deep you actually mean the bottom part of the body which has nothing to do with taking a full breath. Even as a non-native English speaker I am pretty sure 'deep' is a somewhat ambiguous word in this regard and it should simply be described by breathing with the diaphragm or "into the belly". Imo you should emphasize more that a deep breath has absolutely nothing to do with volume and that a deep breath can still be done with low volume. Just my opinion.

It's an amazing information.

Very interesting, thank you for sharing. I like breathing through my nose but it must be horrible if you have continuous nasal congestion.

Thanks, Patrick, great info!

Thank you sir, for the worthy advise and insight.

I have been meditating for years. Always breathing through the nose, when it was not congested ! I now slow the breaths down. 4 secs exhale and inhale. I can't testify to the claims about oxygen in the blood but it sure improves meditation. Go jogging regularly, would not call it running ! Find that breathing method is comfortable then and hopefully, doing me a bit more good. A lot of the comments refer to not finding it 'easy' when exercising. Since when was exercising supposed to be easy ? Difficult to tell from the posts just how much effort has been put into it ?

Brilliant . I am now more conscious !

Very helpful. Will adopt and practice

great vid, so when I exercise I breath in through the nose but do I breath out through the nose or mouth?

Thank you for the video. Listening to all that yo said, all the benefits that you are speaking about are happening when one inhales through the nose. But what about exhalation- should this also be done through the nose? Or can I exhale through the mouth? The nitric oxide benefit is only happening in inhalation anyway, but in regards to the diaphragm- does exhaling through the mouth will involve the diaphragm less then the nose?

So to summarise, we have to breathe in and out only through our Nose right? Please can someone confirm

I TRY to race up my local hill, it requires 350 wats for 10 minutes....beathing and heart rate are at vo2 max...i dont have any control of anything at that level of exertion

Thank you, dr. McKeown. An extraordinary technique for improving oxygen intake in our blood. I am applying it.

Great Video. This kind of breathing through the nose helps the body send off endorphins. Helps up speed up by slowing down .

Patrick I’m doing the oxygen advantage classes! What causes lung burning and pain under the ribs and to mid back area, after long Covid issues. The pain is unbearable when I get flares.

Patrick, do you need to have music in the background? It's so nice and relaxing to hear your gentle, soothing voice. The music could be more helpful. It isn't very pleasant. I consider your knowledge and guidelines so important that I must put it with disturbing music.

Amazing stuff.. Will you go on my friends organic fitness podcast based in waterford/ cork?

excellent

Thank you. From today I will always endeavour to breed tru my node.

Am trying to stop my mouth breathing with having bad anxiety at times..i've noticed i feel calmer already :)

I have a question can you tag me and maybe make a video on exhaling with the mouth or nose. When I was younger I was told to exercise in the nose out the mouth

Try bandha breathing from the yoga practice to optimize and maximize o2 uptake

Thank you.

Excelente. Gratidão

Greetings, Patrick. I'm scheduled for an open heart triple bypass in 2 weeks. I found you on RU-vid and then bought your book The Oxygen Advantage. I've been nasal breathing since then and also most of the sleeping time. Here's my question: I want to increase the PO2 that goes into my heart as my 3 coronary vessels are 90%+ blocked. So, the heart is receiving less (a lot less) oxygenated blood. By doing the 6 breaths/minute and breath holds, will it jack up the PO2 of the heart blood? I figure a higher amount of oxygenated blood into my poor heart will help a lot. I was getting Angina attacks just with walking 50 feet. Since then, I practice the long, slow diaphragmatic breathing and 6 second breath hold when doing anything but sitting down. Thanks for all you do! Cheers, Bob (from Syracuse, NY).

Thank you for information please

Thank you

all very nice but how do you improve cell uptake????

You are awesome !

Thank you so much :)

Great video❢

Wow. Talk about the right resource at the right time. This explains so much for me. About a year ago I began a powerful body-focused meditation practice: Judith Blackstone’s Fundamental Awareness Process. Along with other notable positive effects, my breathing began slowing down more and more during meditation. Small, quiet diaphragm breaths with longer and longer intervals in between. Felt like I could just stop breathing. Pretty uncanny. At first this phenomenon happened only during meditation, but now it’s going cross platform. Under moderate exertion (like walking briskly up a hill) I’m beginning to be able to dial back my respiration. Just kinda happened the first time-a bit unsettling. Patrick Mckeown’s introduction to the O2 Advantage program explains what’s behind the breathing changes I’ve been experiencing. Look forward to diving in deeper. Thank you.

Does this include during exercise as well? With each repetition?

Great, thank you. 🙏🐕🇺🇸

This is coherent breathing which can be quite impactful for HRV. Understand on breathing in thru the nose but what about exhalation. My experience thru HRV is that HRV improves thru the mouth. Thoughts?

I was having shortness of breath since the start of pandemic and i thought its only a lung problem or anxiety related but this week i found out i have heart disease RVH thats causing my shortness of breath and fatigue. I just had a 2D echo yester and i hope everything will be okay.

When exercising should I breathe through the nose, and out of the mouth 👄 or nose 👃 in+out.?

Thanks...but my nose mostly stuff so i mostly brethe through my mouth...any advice??

Hello I'm living here in Denver and having severe muscle cramping anytime I exercise and when I check my blood oxygen is around 93. Any thoughts about living at 5,000 square feet and intense muscle cramps?

Do i breath out through the noise as well?

I have to do wim hoff through the mouth, two, I try running and only breathing through the nose, its tough to do!

Can anyone tell me how to get tape on my mouth. I have tried all kinds I always wake with the tape off.

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Dr. When i run , i cant do diphramtic breathing. Plz suggest something.

i do not get why my teeth hurt when i tape my mouth. it does not touch my teeth, how is it possible?

Does thst mean breathing out through your nose on the exhale too?

Does anyone have experience with HeartMath hardware and software package?

Really need this info now! Cannot grasp due to pinky, fast, repetitive music in background! I don’t need to be entertained while trying to digest medical info. Everywhere one goes……..MUSIC/NOISE!

Oh can't you see, you belong to me How my poor heart aches with every step you take

What about all the Pranayaama techniques with all the deep breathing? Are they wrong ?

When you're breathing slower how deep should you breathe?

I can’t get enough Oxygen in me if I breath through my nose, i also struggle with running just breathing through my nose. So much easier for me when I mouth breath and I can get more in. I just do the Vim Hoff breathing that seems to get loads of oxygen in me . Must be something wrong with my nose airways if you guys find it easy to deeply nose breath.

I can breathe though my nose with difficulty due to a deviated nasal septum. Unconsciously, I tend to breathe through my mouth. How does one not mouth-breathe at night?

Brilliant!!!! I would LOVE to have you on my channel. How do I reach you?

Won't your red blood cells increase? or is there still enough volume of o2 with what we breath in? thx in advance

What about when you have deviated septum

I wonder, if you breath through your nose and out through your mouth (occasionally) would the nitric oxide help kill the bacteria in the mouth.?

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I snore through my nose as well. How do I stop this?

then why is it I feel it is much easier to run while breathing through the mouth than through the nose?

At rest I generally nose breathe naturally. I'm a runner and I cannot nose breathe when running. I just cannot get enough air in and have to mouth breathe. Any tips?

Can I incorporate breath holding into more weighted intense exercise, such as boxing? Example, 10 to 15 minutes into my shadow boxing, I exhale and hold your breath (using nose clip), I do 10 to 40 reps of 5-lb dumbbell punching, following the breath hold, I continue to shadow box with nose breathing for about 1 minute, until my breathing has partially recovered.

👌🏼🤚🏼thanks!