Taping your mouth at night improves the microbiome of the mouth and gut, increases energy, improves sleep, snoring, and allergies, and calms anxiety. I've been mouth taping at night for 15 years!

This Primal Diet - Modern Health podcast gives details on how and why to tape and other ideas to reduce snoring and allergies. The info is here in this blog post as well. 

Key Concept: The mouth is for eating. The nose is for breathing. Taping your mouth at night is the natural and correct way your body wants to breathe

When we snore or breathe through the mouth we deplete carbon dioxide - an essential blood gas that needs to be in balance with oxygen. Slowing the breath and breathing through the nose help increase carbon dioxide and can improve whole body chemistry.

Topics I cover on this Podcast:

1. Why you get deeper sleep and less snoring
2. How taping your mouth can improve asthma and allergies
3. Improving dental health and breath
4. Achieving a calmer mind 
5. The benefits of Nitric Oxide and Carbon Dioxide
6. How to tape

Links to things I mention:

• Treat your allergies with Quercitin or D-Hist, and homeopathic Histaminum. Handle the allergens in your environment too, such as the cat that sleeps on your pillow. More on allergies here. 
• If you have a chronic sinus infection Nutribiotic Nasal Spray may help.
• Here’s a podcast I did with the world’s top trainer of Buteyko Breathing. It’s really helpful to learn more about how breathing affects your life! Especially if you snore or have asthma... 
• 3M Micropore tape on Amazon

Are you using Functional Medicine to get well? Working with a practitioner who takes the time to review your lifestyle and food, and run better labs that give deeper insights? Do you and your provider have the same point of view - that everything you do, your living environment, your genetics, your emotions and your Microbiome all affect you?

In this podcast with Susan Blum, MD our topic is using Functional Medicine to get well. We talk about genetics, Nature and Nurture, elimination diets, the power of Silence, and that keyword - inflammation.

Whether your practitioner calls themselves Functional, Integrative, Holistic or Naturopathic, the goal is to change your future as well as your present. 

Topics we cover in this Primal Diet - Modern Health podcast 

• WHY is my issue occurring and what can be done to fix the cause, not the symptom?
• What is "whole person medicine?"
• Why random supplements won't fix you
• How to be a good patient

Links to things Dr. Susan Blum mentions

• Find more about the specialty of Functional Medicine 
• The Blum Center for Health in New York
• Dr. Blum's favorite App at Calm.com