The Active+ Advantage, Breathing Upgraded
Why
Athletes Use Nasal Strips
Nasal strips are designed to gently lift and widen the nasal passages, helping reduce airflow resistance and making nasal breathing feel easier during exercise. Nasal breathing has several natural advantages over mouth breathing during exercise.
Warms and humidifies incoming air.
Every breath through your nose is naturally warmed, humidified, and filtered before reaching your lungs. This process helps protect your airways, improves breathing comfort, and supports healthy respiratory function particularly during exercise
or in cold, dry environments.
Our nasal strips are designed to help open the nasal passages, making it easier to take advantage of the natural benefits of nasal breathing when you're training, competing, recovering, or sleeping.
Why this matters during exercise. As exercise intensity increases, your breathing rate rises dramatically. The more air you move, the harder your nose has to work to condition it. If nasal airflow is restricted, many people switch to mouth breathing simply because it feels easier.
That's where nasal strips can help. By mechanically opening the nasal passages, they can make nasal breathing feel easier, allowing
you to continue benefiting from the nose's natural ability to filter, warm, and
humidify the air you breathe.
Control
Your Breathing. Control Your Performance.
Performance isn't just about how hard you push it's about how efficiently you breathe.
Calm, controlled breathing helps support efficient respiratory mechanics, better pacing, and improved recovery between efforts. By helping open the nasal passages, Active+ Nasal Strips make nasal breathing feel easier, allowing you to focus on your performance not your breathing.
When your breathing stays under control, your performance has a better chance of staying under control too.
Nitric Oxide: The Hidden Secret Weapon
of Nasal Breathing
Nitric oxide (NO) is a naturally occurring signaling molecule produced throughout the body, including in the nasal passages and sinuses. When you breathe through your nose, small amounts of nitric oxide mix with the air you inhale and travel into the lungs. This is one of the unique physiological benefits of nasal breathing that mouth
breathing bypasses.
What Is Nitric Oxide?
Nitric oxide is a molecule that helps regulate several important functions in the body, including: Blood vessel dilation (vasodilation), Blood flow regulation, Oxygen delivery, Lung function, Immune defence, Cellular communication
It is so important to human physiology that the discovery of nitric oxide's role
in cardiovascular health led to the awarding of the 1998 Nobel Prize in
Physiology or Medicine to Robert F. Furchgott, Louis J. Ignarro, and Ferid
Murad.
How Nasal Breathing Increases Nitric Oxide Exposure. The paranasal sinuses continuously produce nitric oxide.
When breathing through the nose:
Air passes through the nasal cavity. Nitric oxide produced in the sinuses mixes with inhaled air. This nitric oxide-rich air travels into the lungs.
When breathing through the mouth, this pathway is largely bypassed. This is why nasal breathing delivers significantly more inhaled nitric oxide than mouth breathing.
Potential Benefits for Athletes, Enhanced Blood Flow, Nitric oxide helps relax the smooth muscle lining blood vessels.
This process, called vasodilation, can help: Improve circulation, Support nutrient delivery, Assist oxygen transport, Promote efficient blood flow during exercise
Athlete friendly explanation
Think of nitric oxide as helping the body's "delivery network" operate more
efficiently by encouraging blood vessels to remain open and responsive.
Improved Oxygen Exchange in the Lungs
One of nitric oxide's most interesting effects occurs inside the lungs. Research suggests inhaled nitric oxide helps improve the matching of: Air entering the lungs (ventilation) and Blood flowing through the lungs (perfusion)
Better matching may help the body utilize oxygen more efficiently.
Nasal breathing naturally introduces nitric oxide into the respiratory system,
helping support efficient oxygen exchange in the lungs.
Support for Endurance Exercise, Endurance performance depends heavily on: Oxygen delivery, Carbon dioxide regulation, Breathing efficiency, Cardiovascular function
Nitric oxide contributes to several of these processes.
While nasal breathing alone won't magically increase endurance performance, it supports physiological systems that endurance athletes rely on every day.