Wednesday, June 7, 2023

Beauty without surgery: Mew Method

What I've Learned, 2/6/19; Amber Larson, Crystal Q., CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Attractive face or not? It depends on TONGUE posture
(What I've Learned) One thing missing from any discussion of beauty is the health impact of good oral posture.

I used to be so beautiful
Considering that it is at the back of the face, having a receded chin or maxilla could hinder the airway, with big implications for sleep apnea.

Clarification on the title: Of course, no one means to suggest that attractiveness depends only on tongue posture. Nutrition in utero (during the mother's pregnancy), postpartum nutrition, and health through the formative years surely play very big roles in how the face develops.

In fact, Weston Price's book 
I'm hot. There's nothing wrong with my face.
Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
 suggests that fat soluble vitamins are very important for fertility and the proper development of the young; grains and sugar ("modern foods") are very detrimental to their development, particularly their oral health.

Oral posture is simply another piece of the puzzle.

SUTURE FUSION: The phrases "These sutures are not completely fused together" and "Sutures are not completely closed" would have been better. It is understood that after birth, the sutures of the skull "fuse" together by age 2 or so. One study found that complete closure of certain sutures does not occur until as late as 70-years-old. Another found that “The human frontozygomatic suture undergoes synostosis during the eighth decade of life but does not completely fuse by the age of 95 years" based on 61 human cadavers aged 20 to 95.


This topic with a focus on facial development's affect on respiration and sleep apnea is discussed in Dr. Felix Liao's Six Foot Tiger, Three Foot Cage.

Another great book not mentioned in the video is Jaws: The Story of a Hidden Epidemic.

PDF of the transcript with links to sources: patreon.com/posts/24534404
Skull anatomy images provided by Kenhub. To learn more about the anatomy of the human body, check out their awesome learning materials: bit.ly/2Rz3SZl.

How to Mew: instructions

If interested in this topic and how to properly "mew" (practice good oral posture and other habits that encourage good facial development), check out the Orthotropics channel: bit.ly/2DciWp0.

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