I wore my mouth tape every night for three weeks, and once I’d gotten over the guilt about single-use products going straight ...

TikTokkers and biohackers are fast to recommend mouth tape for better sleep. But it's not a solution for everyone.

Dr Levine encourages me to speak with James Nestor, a renowned, award-winning science journalist, whose 2020 book Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art recounts his personal journey with ...

Mouth taping's most recent rise to fame can potentially be traced back to 2020, when science journalist James Nestor released his successful book Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art.

Nestor’s book was responsible for my interest in the health impacts of breathwork, vagus nerve stimulation and postural alignment. After reading it, I made it my mission to find out whether the points ...

Dr. Jonathan Jun, director of the Sleep Disorders Center at Johns Hopkins, says nasal breathing was repopularized by James Nestor’s 2020 book Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, in which Nestor ...

As a wellbeing editor, I’m all too familiar with mouth taping and the concept of nasal breathing as a way to optimise one’s health. But to be honest, mouth taping has never been something I’ve ...

You can’t put a band-aid over a broken bone, and tape over the mouth is no match for severe sleep apnea. Jun is starting a larger trial on mouth-taping to learn more about its use for milder cases.

Is breathing through your mouth bad for you? I asked several breathwork experts about the book and they each agreed with several of the points made by Nestor. “Research that would suggest 30 to ...

In fact, the mouth-taping trend predates TikTok by about 100 years. It was first developed in the mid-1900s by a Russian doctor, Konstantin Pavlovich Buteyko, as a way to improve a person’s health by ...