Why the World’s Top Performers Tape Their Mouths Shut

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Who's Taping

Why the World's Top Performers Tape Their Mouths Shut

Elite athletes. Neuroscientists. Supermodels. Late-night hosts. They all do the same thing before bed.

Mouth taping is no longer a biohacker secret. It has crossed over into the mainstream — and the people adopting it are not random wellness influencers. They are some of the highest-performing humans on the planet.

Here is who is taping, why they started, and what they have said about it publicly.

Elite Athletes Neuroscience Entertainment Wellness
Erling Haaland
Manchester City — Premier League

The Premier League's all-time single-season goal scorer tapes his mouth shut every night. On the Impaulsive podcast, Haaland told Logan Paul that sleep is "the most important thing in the world" and that he uses mouth tape to ensure nasal breathing during recovery. He tapes during training sessions as well, using it as an endurance tool to train his body to perform on nasal breathing alone.

Sleep is the most important thing in the world. You should try and tape your mouth shut at night.
— Erling Haaland, Impaulsive Podcast
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Iga Świątek
6x Grand Slam Champion — WTA Tennis

The world's most dominant women's tennis player trains with tape over her mouth. Her fitness coach introduced the practice as an endurance tool — forcing nasal breathing during high-intensity drills raises the difficulty and builds aerobic capacity. Świątek has spoken publicly about how it pushes her heart rate higher and makes everything on court harder, which is exactly the point.

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Andrew Huberman
Neuroscientist — Stanford University

Huberman is probably the single biggest reason mouth taping went mainstream. On his Huberman Lab podcast — one of the most listened-to science podcasts in the world — he has repeatedly discussed how mouth breathing during sleep is "actually dangerous" and linked to sleep apnea, hormonal disruption, and poor cognitive function. He uses mouth tape as part of his own nightly sleep toolkit and has called nasal breathing one of the simplest interventions for improving sleep quality.

Gwyneth Paltrow
Actress — Founder of Goop

Paltrow has called mouth tape the "single best wellness tool" she has found recently. Coming from someone who has built an entire brand around trying every wellness product on the market, that is a strong endorsement. She credits it with deeper sleep and better morning energy.

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Ashley Graham
Supermodel

Graham has been open about her mouth taping habit, telling audiences she cannot sleep without it. For someone whose career depends on showing up rested, recovered, and camera-ready, that is not a casual statement.

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Jimmy Fallon
Host — The Tonight Show

Fallon brought mouth taping to late-night television after a conversation with Andrew Huberman on the show. He publicly committed to trying it, telling his audience he was going to tape his mouth shut and force himself to breathe through his nose. On the Tonight Show, he told Huberman: "If I could invest money, I would invest in breathing."

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Sean O'Malley
Former UFC Bantamweight Champion

O'Malley, who holds the record for most significant strikes in a bantamweight title fight, uses mouth taping as part of his recovery and conditioning protocol. Nasal breathing helps him regulate his heart rate, conserve energy during fights, and recover faster between training sessions.

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Bethenny Frankel
Entrepreneur — TV Personality

Frankel showcased her mouth taping routine on TikTok and credited it with sleeping a full eight hours for the first time in years. Her video helped push mouth taping further into mainstream awareness.

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Emma Roberts
Actress

Roberts told Vogue she "can't live without" mouth tape, making it one of her non-negotiable daily essentials alongside skincare and hydration.

The Pattern

These people come from completely different worlds — professional sports, neuroscience, entertainment, fashion, business. They do not share a coach, a trainer, or a brand deal. What they share is an obsession with performance and recovery, and a willingness to adopt simple tools that produce measurable results.

Mouth taping is not complicated. There is no app. There is no subscription to a coaching program. There is no device to charge. It is one strip of tape that keeps your mouth closed so your body can breathe through its nose the way it was designed to.

The common thread: Every person on this list arrived at mouth taping by trying to solve the same problem — waking up tired, recovering slower than they should, or performing below their potential. The fix was not a new supplement, a new mattress, or a new routine. It was closing their mouth.

You do not have to be a Premier League striker or a Stanford neuroscientist to benefit from nasal breathing. You just have to stop mouth breathing in your sleep.

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