The Golden One - April 24, 2020


The Oxygen Advantage. Mouthbreathing and Mewing. Patrick McKeown - Book Review


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The Oxygen Advantage by Patrick McKeon is a book that I read last year, and now it is high time I made a separate video on it. I talk about the importance of mouth breathing and how it can improve your overall health and well-being.

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00:00:00.000 Greetings, my esteemed subscribers. I have read a very good book, The Oxygen Advantage by Patrick McKeon.
00:00:10.600 I actually read this last year, and now it is high time I make a separate video on it.
00:00:17.860 And if you have read my own book, of course, Dauntless, I mention this book in it as well.
00:00:24.720 And before I begin to elaborate on this book in particular, I can just say that straight off,
00:00:29.840 yeah, I do recommend it. It's a very good book with some profound teachings.
00:00:34.920 And I made a video on mewing a while back, almost one and a half years ago.
00:00:41.880 And, you know, mewing is the correct tongue posture.
00:00:45.420 So basically what you want to do is you want to have your tongue, unless you're speaking or eating or drinking, etc.,
00:00:51.360 you want to have it on the top of your mouth, and you want to keep your lips closed and your teeth together.
00:00:57.080 So, like that at any time, so you're not slack-jawed, because this has quite a bit to do with mouth breathing and the oxygen advantage.
00:01:10.400 So they go in together.
00:01:12.020 So if you haven't watched my mewing video, you can check it out.
00:01:15.300 I will link it in the description box below.
00:01:18.100 And just a mewing update as well, since I talked about it, I might give you an update.
00:01:22.920 I've done it since I made a video.
00:01:25.000 You know, I haven't really seen any aesthetic differences, but that's not the primary point at this stage.
00:01:30.620 It's just if you have a correct way of doing something that will improve your life, you should do it.
00:01:37.520 And then it might take some time to see results.
00:01:40.680 But I do notice it's easier to incorporate the teachings of this book if you have a correct tongue posture,
00:01:48.640 so that you always breathe through your nose and you keep this part of your face tighter, so to speak.
00:01:57.280 Then also, another book I have recommended, and I continue to recommend, I've also made a video on it.
00:02:04.260 Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Gallant Weston Price.
00:02:07.720 This also goes into this.
00:02:10.480 So you have three different books, no, actually two books, and one YouTube channel, which is the channel of Mike Mew.
00:02:18.300 I can link it also below if you want.
00:02:21.700 You have these three things that are working with each other, basically.
00:02:27.840 So Weston Price talks about the nutrition of things, what kind of nutrition you grew up with.
00:02:34.540 And The Oxygen Advantage also talks about Weston Price, and I will take just an example from it, from the book.
00:02:42.660 In the 1930s, a dentist by the name Dr. Weston Price investigated the cause of facial changes and crooked teeth in various countries and civilizations.
00:02:52.800 One of his observations while visiting Gaelic people living on the Hybridean Islands off the coast of Scotland
00:02:59.560 was that the children became mouth breathers after parents switched from their natural diet of seafood and oatmeal
00:03:07.440 to the modernized diet of angel food cake, white bread, and many white flour commodities.
00:03:15.300 Marmalade, canned vegetables, sweetened fruit juices, jams, and confections.
00:03:20.240 So he talks about Weston Price here as well.
00:03:23.500 And long story short, if you have a bad diet as a child, you might underdevelop your facial features,
00:03:29.900 which might then lead to mouth breathing.
00:03:33.320 Mouth breathing might lead to other bad things, such as crooked teeth, poor airways, and other symptoms.
00:03:42.440 That makes you less athletic, that makes you less healthy, that makes you more prone to sickness, etc.
00:03:47.900 So they are working in, with each other, all of these bad things.
00:03:53.100 And a note here on Patrick McKeon is that he, you can watch on YouTube as well, he has some good talks.
00:03:59.360 He was a mouth breather for like 20 years because he had a condition when he was younger,
00:04:04.240 so he had to breathe through his mouth.
00:04:06.160 Because, you know, if the nose is stuck all the time, yeah, you need to get air in somehow,
00:04:10.660 so you need to mouth breathe.
00:04:12.040 But it's not optimal to do so.
00:04:15.140 So basically, what you can say is that nose breathing is what you should do all the time.
00:04:20.920 And mouth breathing is what you should do in certain situations, as in, you know, you have a fight or flight situation.
00:04:28.720 So in the gym, you can mouth breathe during the heavy exercises.
00:04:32.400 If you are, you know, in the last round in a boxing, sparring or something, yeah, you can mouth breathe.
00:04:37.280 But otherwise, try to breathe through your nose as much as possible.
00:04:41.020 And this is especially true when you are resting.
00:04:44.860 If you're breathing through your mouth when resting, you're sending your body the signals of a fight or flight,
00:04:50.420 so you get less rest.
00:04:52.340 So for example, if you're sleeping and breathe through your mouth, you will get a worse sleep,
00:04:56.960 because then you send the body the completely wrong signals.
00:05:00.800 Whereas if you only breathe through your nose, you send it the relaxing signals.
00:05:06.940 So I've said this before in my sleep video.
00:05:09.340 I use this sometimes to just make sure I don't breathe through my mouth when I sleep.
00:05:16.200 Because if you tape your mouth, you can only breathe through your nose.
00:05:19.700 It also helps to keep your jaw up against your upper part of the face,
00:05:25.780 so you get the mewing effect also when you're sleeping.
00:05:27.900 So that is something to keep in mind.
00:05:30.780 And for me, again, if you've been following me on the Physique Manifactorum, I have experimented a bit with running.
00:05:39.180 First, I did last year a little experiment only breathing through my nose when I went for a run in the forest.
00:05:48.460 And, you know, at first it felt extremely uncomfortable.
00:05:53.300 It felt like you were breathing through a straw or something, but eventually you get used to it.
00:05:59.600 Now, of course, you can't run as fast because you don't get as much oxygen into your body,
00:06:04.200 but it was a fun experience.
00:06:05.540 Then what I do now is, if I'm going for hill sprints, I breathe in through my mouth and out through my nose
00:06:14.480 until I get to the stage where I can only breathe through my nose.
00:06:18.400 So I have to breathe a bit through the mouth at first because of the, you know, you're at the top of your heart rate.
00:06:23.880 But then as soon as possible, I switch back to nose breathing.
00:06:27.800 Then when the heart rate and breathing is back to normal, I sprint again.
00:06:31.960 So you can try out a few different techniques there.
00:06:35.160 So the book, it contains quite a lot of exercises as well, things to think about, mainly in regards to breathing less.
00:06:43.020 So, for example, if you want to train your breathing, you can, when you walk down the street,
00:06:48.420 you can just decide, you know, between this lamp and the next lamp in 20 meters, you will hold your breath.
00:06:55.520 And then you try to not overcompensate by breathing so much.
00:06:58.220 So you have all of these different breathing techniques and, yeah, in terms of a book review,
00:07:03.300 I can just say it contains a lot of good wisdom backed up by science and backed up with his own experience,
00:07:09.740 backed up with the work he has done with other athletes.
00:07:13.400 So an interesting point he said was that it's a lot of focus on eating less.
00:07:18.780 He also wants to see that we breathe less, so the oxygen becomes more potent, so to speak.
00:07:24.660 So basically, to conclude, try to always breathe through your nose.
00:07:29.480 Only breathe through your mouth in certain situations in the gym or in martial arts or if you do sprints, etc.
00:07:36.860 But in the meantime, breathe through your nose.
00:07:40.020 So if you are grappling, for example, in a short burst of energy, perhaps you want to perform a takedown or something.
00:07:47.460 Yeah, you can breathe through the mouth, but if you have the opportunity for a short rest, you could try to calm down with some nose breathing.
00:07:56.100 Now, of course, it depends on the situation, but try to nose breathe for as long as possible.
00:08:01.960 In certain situations, you can switch to mouth breathing when you need the air in fast.
00:08:08.000 Then, of course, if you do heavy lifting in the gym, it might be a good idea because you want to evoke that fight-or-flight sensation as well because you want to perform at your top.
00:08:18.040 But otherwise, try to nose breathe, to calm down, to make the most out of the oxygen.
00:08:24.440 So, to conclude and to tie these two books in together, I do believe if you read one, you can also read the other because the teachings are quite similar.
00:08:36.900 Especially important if you are a parent.
00:08:38.800 Of course, if you have young children, it might be good to educate yourself on the potential hazards that might arise with a bad diet.
00:08:48.180 So, for me personally, I have a daughter.
00:08:50.200 I intend to shield her from as much sugar as possible, only give her good food.
00:08:54.440 So, that she might develop normally, develop good, healthy airways so she doesn't get all different things that are associated with unhealthy living, basically.
00:09:06.760 So, a proper diet can lead to a proper breathing, which can lead to a more healthy life.
00:09:12.220 And the opposite is true.
00:09:13.380 If you feed your child a lot of sugar, etc., the child might develop, you know, a poor facial structure, a poor ability to breathe.
00:09:22.020 And that might have catastrophic effects later on, if they want to go into sports, etc.
00:09:26.700 So, super important stuff.
00:09:28.440 I thought to share this.
00:09:30.280 And in conclusion, yes, I can recommend a book.
00:09:33.020 Definitely worth reading.
00:09:35.520 I, of course, also want to recommend my own book.
00:09:39.380 You can order it.
00:09:40.540 Link in the description.
00:09:41.660 And, yeah, thank you for watching and have a great weekend ahead.
00:09:47.800 XXO, boo! 0.56