Oduya defends criticized breathing trick

Taping the mouth while sleeping is a growing trend that has been criticized.

Now Johnny O’Dea, former NHL pro and now breathing expert, is defending the method.

– I signed up nearly five years ago, says Johnny O’Dea on Hockeymorning.

The trend is called “mouth recording,” and the hashtag of the same name has hundreds of millions of views on social media.

This method has already been used by several elite athletes, including biathlete Ingrid Lundmark Tandrevold and football star Erling Haaland.

Now former NHL pro and now breathing expert Johnny O’Dea is talking about the method at Hockeymorgon, and says that he himself has been doing it for several years.

The goal is to get better sleep, simple as that. I signed up nearly five years ago,” he says.

“Not usually a big deal.”

In the past, this arrangement has received criticism and has been described as life-threatening and can lead to heart problems by many researchers.

But O’Dea believes the trick is relatively harmless.

The nose, after all, is the organ used for breathing. So the more you use it the better you get. The simple method in this case is to breathe through your nose when sleeping. Of course, if you have severe congestion, you’ll quickly notice that it’s not working, but it’s not like you’re going to wake up in the middle of the night because you can’t breathe. “It feels good about it,” the two-time Stanley Cup winner says.

What are the benefits in terms of well-being?

– There isn’t much research on this yet, so one might ask: why isn’t there? Is it because it is so simple and so good that no one can search for it. That’s probably coming up now because this is in the news, but from what I know, maybe 80 to 90 percent will see an improvement in their deep sleep and their sleep quality, quite simply, he says.