Niraj Naik explains how nasal breathing produces nitric oxide, a molecule with antiviral and antibacterial properties that strengthens immune health and helps prevent disease.
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When you breathe into your nose and into your diaphragm. Okay. Nasal breathing, you actually produce nitric oxide. And nitric oxide has been shown in numerous studies to be antiviral, antibacterial, antimicrobial. It's an anti inflammatory. It's also, it reduces blood pressure. It's vasodilator, it's a bronchodilator. And it's a remarkable gas that we only produce when we nasal breathe. So just switching from mouth breathing to nasal breathing can help you from getting things like cold flus and other viral infections that may be floating around. And also nasal breathing and taking control of your breath, all the things that we talk about in our SEMA breath courses will help you improve your immune health. And your immune health is paramount to fighting off acute infections, so that if you do get an infection, it doesn't last that long, your body knows how to deal with it.