Here’s a favorite post of ours from the past: Around 85% of humans only breathe out of one nostril at a time. The pattern of switching from breathing out of one nostril to the other happens in a cyclical fashion, with about four hours or so between each switch typically; although, this can vary from person to person and based on your bodily position or nasal congestion. This “nasal cycle” was first studied by a German nose specialist, Richard Kayser in 1895. How your nose accomplishes this switch is via erectile tissue in your nose, which is very similar to the erectile tissue in a penis or clitoris. Erectile tissue will swell up in one nostril, mostly blocking it, and at the same time erectile tissue in the other nostril will shrink, opening it up for breathing. Even more interesting is that depending on which nostril you are predominately breathing out of at any given moment, it seems to greatly affect certain things going on in your body, as well as your brain. For instance, a study published in 1994 by the Department of Physiology and Clinical Physiology at Charles University in Prague, showed that when you are breathing through your left nostril, the right hemisphere of your brain will be more active or dominant and vice-verse when you are breathing through your right nostril. #ThrowbackThursday
Posted on: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0000
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