Close Your Mouth. And Chew!

Regina Rodríguez-Martin
5 min readMar 31, 2024

There’s a relationship between how much we chew and how much we snore.

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We use the term “mouth-breather” to refer to people who aren’t smart. It remains an insult even though there are growing numbers of people who breathe through our mouths, if not when we’re awake, when we’re asleep. But I didn’t know breathing through the mouth was terrible for our health until I read James Nestor’s Breath. And I had no idea…

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Regina Rodríguez-Martin

Mexican American. Chicagoan. Generation X. Relishes questions of human behavior. Nobody’s mother and nobody’s wife. Blog: https://www.reginachicana.com.