Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

A Surprising Hack for Better Sleep_ Mouth Taping Explained | How Mouth Taping Fixes Sleep Apnea

28 Apr 2025 · 1 min

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Aaron Hartman, MD (YouTube) explains that keeping the mouth closed at night or using mouth taping can move the lower jaw forward, shift the tongue forward, and help treat mild-to-moderate sleep apnea. He also notes that nasal breathing produces nitric oxide in the turbinates and references nitroglycerin and isosorbide dinitrate as medications that increase nitric oxide for heart-related conditions.

If you keep your mouth closed at night, your lower jaw comes forward a little bit, the back of your tongue comes forward, and you can sleep. You can treat mild to moderate sleep apnea. The other thing with mouth taping or breathing through your nose is that you make nitric oxide in your upper nasal, in your turbinates, or nitric oxide is another rage, another thing. People are doing beets and nitric oxide and all kinds of stuff, but nitroglycerin is a medication that increases nitric oxide to treat heart attacks. Isosorbide dinitrate is a medication used to treat angina.