Nsima Inyang

But that's, you know, there's a book by Sandra Kahn and Paul Ehrlich called Jaws.

And it goes deep.

We actually, we had Sandra on our podcast to talk about this goes deep on the phenomenon of oral facial health and fixing those issues with people.

Because in Western culture, like dentistry is such a big industry and removing the wisdom teeth is this huge thing.

I'm not a dentist or anything, but certain areas where like the young eat hard food and train their, like through the food they eat, their faces develop in a way that all of their teeth can fit into their mouth.

I mean, that book does a really good job at making people begin to question even the way that they were brought up with food and et cetera, because

a lot of these things go back to when you were a kid.

So it's one of those things where even when you're, like remember when I told you to keep the tongue at the roof of your mouth?

That's a part of natural orofacial resting posture.

When you're just chilling, your tongue should not be pressing hard against the roof of your mouth, but there should be some pressure of the tongue against the roof of your mouth.

Just some, right?

But a lot of people, when they start to bring awareness to this, they might be sitting around and they're like,

When I'm sitting, my tongue actually just rests at the bottom of my mouth.

That's a level of slack within the whole face when you're chilling.

And this is one of the things that can help people, especially people that snore, right?

This habit of, if you're someone who has the tongue on the bottom of your mouth when you're doing things and you bring awareness and you realize this, well, when you're sleeping, your tongue probably falls down and then your mouth opens.

and you start to snore.

So it's an awareness thing, like during the day, can we change that habit of how we're holding our face?

So the tongue is sitting on the roof of our mouth.

We have a slight level of orophacial tension that now becomes second nature.