Impossible Trivia: It may seem weird, but doing this can boost your memory and cognition. What?

Answer: Breathing through your nose boosts your MEMORY by improving the transfer of information from the senses to the brain’s storage network

Subjects exposed to smells were better at recalling them with mouths taped up

Experts say inhaling through the nose enhances cognition and memory recall

Smells trigger the olfactory bulb which is connected to the brain’s hippocampus

Hippocampal rhythms are implicated in the transfer of sense and memory data

SOURCE:

http://www.jneurosci.org/content/early/2018/10/22/JNEUROSCI.3360-17.2018