Mouth taping has again become a popular bedtime trend on social media — just as it trended a few years ago.
The idea is to tape the mouth shut at night to promote nasal breathing, which some experts claim can have health benefits.
Others, however, warn of potential risks and questionable results.
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The Sleep Foundation, based in Seattle, Washington, says the benefits of mouth taping are «mostly anecdotal,» with few studies backing up the benefits.
«The main proposed benefit of mouth taping is promoting nasal breathing, which helps filter and humidify air and may reduce snoring or dry mouth for some individuals,» sleep expert Wendy Troxel, Ph.D. — a RAND Corporation senior behavioral specialist and licensed clinical psychologist in Utah — told Fox News Digital.
Breathing through the nose helps people absorb more oxygen, according to Todd Anderson, sleep and wellness expert and founder of Dream Performance & Recovery i..

Using ChatGPT on a long-term basis could have negative effects on brain function.
That’s according to a study led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which found that using a large language model (LLM) to write multiple essays over a four-month period could hamper cognitive abilities.
In the study, 54 participants were divided into three groups.
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One group used ChatGPT, an LLM product made by OpenAI, to write an essay.
The second group used only a search engine, and the third group used only their own brains, according to a press release from MIT.
The participants underwent three sessions where they completed the same assignment. Then, in the fourth session, the LLM group was asked to write an essay without any tools, and the «brain-only» group was asked to use an LLM for assistance.
During each session, the researchers recorded the participants’ brain activity using an EEG monitor to asses..

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Tuesday that it is his vision «that every American is wearing a wearable within four years.»
He made the comments regarding devices like smartwatches, smart rings and fitness trackers to members of Congress, adding that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is «about to launch one of the biggest advertising campaigns in HHS history to encourage Americans to use wearables.»
Kennedy said during a hearing before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce's Subcommittee on Health that wearables are a way «people can take control of their own health.»
«They can see, as you know, what food is doing to their glucose levels, their heart rates, and a number of other metrics as they eat it,» he told members of Congress. «And they can begin to make good judgments about their diet, about their physical activity, about the way that they live their lives.»
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Researchers at the San Carlos Clinical Hospital in Madrid may have targeted a potential solution for hair loss.
A recent study analyzed the effect of injecting mice's skin with stem cells from human fat — «adipose-derived stem cells (ASCs)» — as a means of treating androgenetic alopecia (AGA), more commonly known as male- or female-pattern hair loss.
The team found that male mice achieved the best hair regrowth after three weeks when they received low-dose ASCs, combined with an energy-boosting molecule called adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
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Low-dose and high-dose ASC treatments along with ATP led to no hair regrowth improvement in females, but medium-dose ASC plus ATP led to greater regrowth.
The researchers concluded that hair regrowth was improved in «all experimental groups» where male mice received stem cell solutions supplemented with ATP.
The findings were published in the journal Stem Cell Re..

A spike in viral infections has sickened thousands of travelers and caused several deaths at some popular European destinations.
Four countries — Austria, Czechia, Hungary and Slovakia — have reported a spike in hepatitis A cases between January and May 2025, according to a rapid risk assessment issued by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).
In total, 2,097 cases have been reported across the four countries.
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Slovakia, which has been dealing with an active outbreak since 2022, represents 880 of those cases. Czechia is the next most affected country, reporting 600 cases and six deaths, the ECDC stated. Hungary has reported 530 cases in 2025, and Austria has reported 87.
Hepatitis A is an «acute viral liver disease» caused by the hepatitis A virus (HAV), according to the agency.
The disease is mainly spread through contaminated food or water, or through close contact with infected people.
Dr. Marc Siegel, Fox News senior medical analyst, sai..

Psilocybin, the main psychoactive ingredient in magic mushrooms, could alleviate depression for at least five years after just one dose, according to a new study.
The research, presented June 18 at the Psychedelic Science 2025 conference in Denver, followed up with patients who had been diagnosed with clinical depression — also known as major depressive disorder (MDD) — and had participated in a previous psilocybin treatment study in 2020.
«Most people who participated in our trial reported improvements in depression symptom intensity or in the ways in which they experienced depression in their life, lasting up to five years after the trial,» study co-author Alan Davis, director of the Center for Psychedelic Drug Research and Education at The Ohio State University, told Fox News Digital.
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Doug Drysdale, CEO of the Canadian pharmaceutical company Cybin in Toronto, Ontario, told Fox News Digital that th..