If you wake up in the morning feeling tired like I was, it might be your partner and not you.
It doesn’t matter how much you love a person.
At one point or another, you wake up in the middle of the night and all you want to do is kick him off the bed.
Or, worse, put a pillow over his face and put him out of his misery. (Sorry, David!!!)
Snoring.
The daily battle that never ends!
This disturbs your sleep. And a lot of other things in the health and wellness department—including the look of your skin.
If you’ve been following our emails, you’ll know that my business partner, Dr. Steven Yen, and I have been talking a lot about Face Fitness.
And the # 1 cornerstone to improve your Face Fitness is proper face posture.
This means keeping your mouth shut, teeth lightly touching, and tongue at the roof of the mouth.
This is anti-aging and youth promoting! (And check how you look in the mirror--the effect on muscles is almost instant. But I digress.)
This also means you need to breathe through your NOSE!
God didn’t give you your nose to help hold up your sunglasses (or to keep masks in place!).
When you breathe through your nose, it filters contaminants in the air, humidifies it, and helps minimize things like dry mouth, bad breath, and gum issues. (Or COVID!!!)
But mouth breathing puts you at risk for a range of heart problems, diabetes, gaining weight, stroke, even high blood pressure.
David knows all this.
What he didn’t know is breathing through the nose will also help stop snoring!!!
Yes. One of the biggest reasons people snore is because they breathe through their mouth and not their nose when sleeping at night.
This will drastically, and I mean DRASTICALLY with a Capital D, decrease your sleep quality!!!
The question is...how do you make sure you keep your mouth closed so you breathe through the nose when you’re sleeping???
Dr. Yen gave David a solution, a solution he thought was crazy at first.
Dr. Yen told him to tape his mouth at night.
Yes, you hear me right.
Dr. Yen wanted David to tape his mouth at night so he’d stop snoring.
It took some arm twisting and convincing to get David on board.
Dr. Yen explained to David that breathing through the mouth will lead to poor energy, making us age faster.
AND, this is the one that tipped him over the scale—mouth breathing also makes us look “less intelligent.” (I think he wanted to say stupid, but he was being nice.)
Really!
At this point, I was willing to do anything for a good night's sleep.
They don’t call it “beauty sleep“ for nothing. 😊
I took the lead… And started taping my mouth closed at bedtime before I asked David to try it.
After a few nights and a video on mouth breathing vs.nose breathing, David said, ”FINE. WE’LL DO IT YOUR WAY.”
Happy Wife means Happy Life!
At last.
We did mouth taping for three days now.
Pillow talk is a little funny... But taping worked! The snoring is 90% improved.
To say I’m shocked would be an understatement. This worked way better than I was expecting.
We both get our beauty sleeps and have more energy.
I stopped feeling cranky from sleepless nights.
And I’m confident we’ll soon be counting the ways in long-and short-term benefits—looking and feeling way better being number one!
If you’re interested in how to do nose breathing properly, let me know!
Because the results in the health and brainiac-type benefits are so great, I’ve twisted Dr. Yen’s arm and made him agree to do a video about mouth taping.
I figured if this can help you to look, feel, and be yourself whatever the calendar says --why not!!
There’s nothing better than being able to be you at any age you happen to be—that’s really what agelessness is all about.
Contact me and I’ll send the video when it’s ready!
Here’s to your ageless beauty.
Maxine
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