How Simple Mouth Tape Can Transform Your Sleep Quality & Stop Frequent Night Urination

Learn the connections between mouth breathing, sleep disorder breathing, and their impact on nighttime urination, heart health, and overall sleep quality.

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0:00 Intro
0:40 - Case Study: Client with Sleep Disordered Breathing
1:30 - Tips for Nasal Breathing and Sleep Optimization
2:31 - Connection Between Sleep Disordered Breathing and Nocturnal Polyurea
4:29 - Women, Sleep Apnea, and Overactive Bladder Syndrome
6:16 - Visual Explanation of Airway Obstruction
7:01 - Symptoms of Sleep Disordered Breathing
8:00 - Bon charge
8:46 - Importance of Addressing Sleep Disordered Breathing
9:31 - Introduction to Mouth Taping
10:13 - Impact of Mouth Breathing on Children
11:03 - Prevalence and Consequences of Sleep Apnea
12:45 - Immediate and Long-term Consequences of Sleep Apnea
13:41 - Link Between Leptin and Sleep Apnea
15:30 - Practical Solutions for Sleep Disordered Breathing
16:15 - Mechanical Impact of Mouth Breathing
17:05 - Research Supporting Mouth Taping
18:46 - Connection Between Obesity and Sleep Apnea
20:23 - Leptin and Breathing in Obesity
21:06 - Introduction to Mouth Taping and Myofunctional Therapy
23:00 How to use mouth tape during the day and night to train nasal breathing.

[stewiecountry]

I am new to mouth taping and have been very surprised by how much better I feel when I wake up in the morning. I also wear an eye mask to sleep, so I pretty much look like a hostage at bed time!

[lrhhnpu]

Mike, honestly, I absolutely love your content and I have been here for the past few years.
I've learnt so much about nutrition, biochemistry etc.
Keep up the work!

[lindaespinoza]

I’ve been taping my mouth for a few years now. It’s phenomenal how much healthier my teeth are because of the saliva not drying out. I also get better sleep. And when I went through menopause, I had not one symptom. I use micropore paper tape but you can get mouth tape – it’s just really expensive compared to a roll of paper tape.

[leondevries]

Hello, I'm mouthtaping for about 5 years and I like it. For people in the Netherlands use Leukoplast in stead of Hansaplast, it sticks much better. Best to you from the Netherlands....

[LatimusChadimus]

Speaking of stress on the heart, as well as the lungs, sleeping on your left side will cause similar issues because of the weight of your liver putting pressure on those important organs. Ever since I switched to sleeping on my back or on my right side, I no longer wake up in the middle of the night

[alysezalazinski]

I started taping my mouth for a month now and I really like it and feel better when I wake up. No more dry desert mouth and that’s not good for our teeth.

[paulchavez]

I’m 67 and have enlarged prostate. I use intermittent fasting and keto/carnivore lifestyle, along with 15000 average steps daily. I use melatonin and that helps to get to sleeping, but inevitably I get up to pee average 2-3 times nightly. I’m no longer prediabetic and feel that my hypothyroidism is much better than it was a couple years ago. I have numbness on the bottom of my feet, but maybe that’s because of many steps daily. If you could give suggestions for better sleep and foot numbness, I’d be very happy. I will see a doctor after just starting Medicare and not having a physical or blood works for over 2 years, but I don’t have a whole lot of faith in the medical system these days, especially after the Covid film/flam!

[Gengh]

I used to always wake up with a dry mouth and a slightly irritated throat before I started mouth taping, along with nutrition it was responsible for a lot of my cavities when I was young.

[robertwilliam]

HIH, This was excellent information. Going to try this. Thank You

[MargoP]

What happens as you age, your tongue gets a little out of shape, like other muscles in our body. I have heard of exercises one can do to strengthen it (and they don't involve talking all day!). These are supposed to keep it from flopping flop back into your throat at night. Thoughts about this?

[KevinStock]

Fantastic review of sleep disordered breathing, but I think it's important to note that mouth taping is not a sleep apnea treatment - it often can help, especially if used in combination with known therapeutic treatments (i.e. (C/A/Bi/E-PAP and oral devices) but the evidence for mouth tape alone actually treating OSA is very poor.

[vetteluvnh]

Outstanding info as usual. Thanks Mike

[Fresh-qczn]

Besides mouth breathing, there isn't enough talk about the epidemic of recessed/underdeveloped jaws, narrow palates and small airways in the modern human.
I am a nasal breather and have been my whole life, yet I still have apnea (I'm not overweight). So this appears to be due to a recessed jaw/narrow palate. There are some options for this such as palatal expansion or jaw surgery but help for this, especially in the UK seems very limited.

I'd be very interested to see you check your intermolar width and look into palate/jaw issues which can cause subtle breathing issues both day and night and lead to a whole host of bodily dysfunction.

[Cindy-xgyn]

The past year I have been breathing through my nose day and night (no tape). I have been sleeping better, not going to the toilet during the night and I also stopped grinding my teeth. I had been grinding my teeth since I was a kid. I'm 57 now.

[gradius]

Been mewing for like 10 years so I wake up with my mouth closed and tongue on the roof of my mouth naturally.

[evanduquette]

Taping your mouth also stops you from drooling, which was waking me up every night and wrecking my sleep.

[TezTezTezTezTez]

I'm definitely going to try this. I snore a lot and am always really tired all day. I had a sleep study for apnea but i scored 5 - so they consider that fine. I don't!

[ronanobrien]

You should interview Patrick McKeown from Oxygen Advantage

[veronicacortes]

I heard that lots of Bandages are toxic. Might the same also be true of mouth tape?

[JohnSmith-zoir]

This explains why my wife tapes up her vaggie at night. Fixes urination at night and cures her headaches as well.