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There is an episode of The Dollup podcast about ninjas in 1800s (I think) Japan and in one part they talk about how the ninja would often have to wait around all day or more hiding to assassinate someone. They way they could tell how long they'd been waiting was by the change of the "dominant" nostril.
Apparently even when not stuffed up the air passes thru one nostril more easy than the other when you breathe. It switches about every 40 minutes.
It's also a mechanism to enhance our sense of smell. Some odors are slower to bind to olfactory receptors, so they need a slow, restricted airflow to properly be absorbed.
I did not know that. Very cool piece of info to learn. Thanks!
Before you take everyone's word about the nasal cycle, check if you have dust mite allergies. Turns out I did and my nose was far stuffier and itchier than what should be normal.
I switched out my pillowcase to an allergy pillowcase and started taking some allergy meds. It cleared up my nose a lot and now I can actually feel one nostril only being slightly more closed due to the nasal cycle instead of having it almost all blocked.
Mine's more closed because I broke my nose in a fight 🤷.
Why did you break your own nose in a fight?
When the opponent is weaker, the honorable thing is to give yourself a handicap.
Lol 🤣, yeah, you could interpret it like that 🤣.
The other guy broke it of course 🤣.
Usually one of my nostrils be like
Your nostrils are never open at the same time.
They switch sides every so often, so one of them can catch a break and repair.
They aren't both open right now either, just try.
See, this is what always bothers me with blocked noses, like. Okay, yeah, it's probably automatic, but certainly, the brain can just override the active nostril and switch ot to the other sode when it detects something is wrong.
I'm so curious why it just doesn't.
Your body doesn’t want to override because it’s doing it to give half your sinuses a break and recover. If it just kept running on the unblocked one you’d quickly dry it out. Unfortunately the only override is manually switching to mouth breathing.
Then there's me with one nostril that's always closed.
It sucks that septoplasty surgery can reverse itself.
They aren't both fully open, but in the day time I breathe normally through both. I don't get the OP scenario any more but I used to, it's a different feeling to the normal cycle in my experience.
I think it's to prevent the nostrils from drying out. One nostril does most of the breathing, while the other one gets a break.
My recommendation is to drink lots of water throughout the day, homie. It can get pretty dry.
Neti pot those things. It's a little like self-waterboarding, but your sinus passages will thank you later.
And please, please, please do not use tap water. You may get a brain eating amoeba which will end you, guaranteed.
Yeah, just distilled with a dash of salt.
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I do not see this as a negative.
I have a love/hate relationship with mine. It does help with allergies and the constant runny nose that I had... But it's genuinely an awful experience lol. I feel like I'm gonna vomit every time.
I've always found doing pushups clears them up. No idea why. It just works.
You cycle through which nostril is dominant all day long, about every 30-50 minutes. This is to allow each side to return to body heat equilibrium and recover.
You pass 10-20k liters of generally colder than bodytemperature air through your nose in a day.
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And one of them is whistling with every exhale.