What is so bad about breathing through your mouth?
“Mouth-breather” has become an insult in recent years, much to my perplexion. There are some great benefits to breathing through one’s mouth. The nose is more easily constricted, not allowing for a very high volume of air to move through it at a comfortably low pressure. Try running a mile without breathing through your mouth. Try having a headcold and not breathing through your mouth. Both of these would be very difficult and potentially could force you to pass out. However, rest assured that once you do pass out, your body will kindly resume your breathing for you. And it’ll do it through your mouth.
In other words, if you’re strictly a nose-breather, I’d say you’re even dumber than a mouth-breather. I have this strange feeling that a well-paid conservative pundit coined the phrase “mouth-breather” as well, and if that’s true, then that’s all the more reason to try to purge it from our collective vocabulary.
