Would someone with very large nostrils have an inherent advantage over someone with smaller nostrils while running? Assuming you’re breathing through your nose, you’d be getting more oxygen right?
Would someone with very large nostrils have an inherent advantage over someone with smaller nostrils while running? Assuming you’re breathing through your nose, you’d be getting more oxygen right?
Cheetahs have big nostrils, and that apparently helps them:
https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/cheetah
“Large nostrils and lungs provide quick air intake that allows cheetahs to breathe more easily while running”.
Always thought this was one advantage Africans have in running. But than again, when you run you breath through your mouth.
The manufacturers of the Breathe Right strips would like you to think so, but it sounds like a bunch of BS to me. If you need more air, just open your mouth!
https://www.outsideonline.com/1785141/do-nasal-strips-improve-performance
Booooooooooooooo!
No. Not even the size of the small opening at the epiglottis diminishes the amount of oxygen that the lungs receive with each breath.
Mouth Breather 2 wrote:
The manufacturers of the Breathe Right strips would like you to think so, but it sounds like a bunch of BS to me. If you need more air, just open your mouth!
https://www.outsideonline.com/1785141/do-nasal-strips-improve-performance
They were fooled!!!
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No. Not even the size of the small opening at the epiglottis diminishes the amount of oxygen that the lungs receive with each breath.
I tried to explain that to the ignorant that said Tefera’s mouth wasn’t open wide enough when he finished his indoor WR for him to be clean, but they were unable to grasp it.