I know someone who has the word BREATHE tattooed across her thumb. I often joke with her, “What? You can’t remember to breathe without looking at your tattoo?” It really isn’t a laughing matter though! Busyness has somehow become a badge of honor in this world where we are moving at breakneck speed, and it…

  Breathing: A Human Need Who breathes better: the mouth breather or the nasal breather?  Breathing is a fundamental physiological process that plays an important role in how you feel and how well your body functions. The breathing process is an exchange of gases from the outside environment to the inside of your body. When…

The Troublesome Effects of Mouth Breathing In almost every photo of me since childhood, my mouth gapes open like a Venus fly trap, the unquestionable evidence of a lifelong habit of mouth breathing laid out before me on nearly every page of my photo albums. I never knew. My teachers must have thought I was…