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i listened in on Dr. Park's interview last night with Dr. Silkman, and thought it was so compelling and thought provoking that i wanted to jot down before i forgot some things i learned:
This girl is NOT a healthy, normal looking child:
Nor is this boy:
The girl's long face, open mouth, exaggerated lips and narrow nostrils indicate that she has a great deal of trouble breathing through her nose, relying instead on her mouth to breathe.
On the other hand, the boy has an improperly developed lower mandible that recedes inward instead of jutting outward. this crowds his airway and makes it hard for him to breathe properly.
This gentleman needs to hunch forward and jut his neck forward to expand the volume of his airway -- his body has compensated in this way for a narrow airway:
Contrast this to native americans pictured below:
The Native Americans look like they breathe fine through their noses. You see their lips are closed. They don't rely on their mouths to breathe. They have wide lower mandibles that are fully developed and protrude forward. Their eyes and ears are on the same axis (i.e., their features are symmetrical whereas the girl and boy depicted above have asymmetrical features.
The reason for the difference in anatomical features is diet. We modern humans in wealthy countries rely on a diet of processed foods instead of the whole foods eaten historically.
Some other provocative statements raised by Dr. Silkman:
- flouride isn't good for us because it blocks production of a beneficial enzyme -- he doesn't recommend use of flouride
- the frenulum is the little string of tissue that connects the tongue to the base of the mouth. in times past, doctors would routinely clip it at birth on newborns. then they stopped doing it for unprincipled liability reasons. the result is that we deprive our children of the ability to breast-feed because newborns can have trouble latching on if they have frenulums attached -- it's called being "tongue-tied" -- and we have to give our infants bottles, which then cause us to have the facial features depicted above (i.e., underdeveloped jaws). intact frenulums are also associated with anxiety later in life
This girl is NOT a healthy, normal looking child:
The girl's long face, open mouth, exaggerated lips and narrow nostrils indicate that she has a great deal of trouble breathing through her nose, relying instead on her mouth to breathe.
On the other hand, the boy has an improperly developed lower mandible that recedes inward instead of jutting outward. this crowds his airway and makes it hard for him to breathe properly.
This gentleman needs to hunch forward and jut his neck forward to expand the volume of his airway -- his body has compensated in this way for a narrow airway:
Contrast this to native americans pictured below:
The reason for the difference in anatomical features is diet. We modern humans in wealthy countries rely on a diet of processed foods instead of the whole foods eaten historically.
Some other provocative statements raised by Dr. Silkman:
- flouride isn't good for us because it blocks production of a beneficial enzyme -- he doesn't recommend use of flouride
- the frenulum is the little string of tissue that connects the tongue to the base of the mouth. in times past, doctors would routinely clip it at birth on newborns. then they stopped doing it for unprincipled liability reasons. the result is that we deprive our children of the ability to breast-feed because newborns can have trouble latching on if they have frenulums attached -- it's called being "tongue-tied" -- and we have to give our infants bottles, which then cause us to have the facial features depicted above (i.e., underdeveloped jaws). intact frenulums are also associated with anxiety later in life
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Permalink Reply by Mike on
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how about now? i changed the picture file format.
Rooster said:Mike, Both of my browsers refuse to show the photos you posted.
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Permalink Reply by Rooster on
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That works.
At the movies last night I was chatting with a young lady and could not help but notice what a nice long lower mandible she had, quite like the Native American lady in the photo you provided. It is a tragedy that this has become the exception in our population.
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something that the doctors observed on the call was that society's idealized standard of beauty is changing away from people with round faces and fully formed mandibles, to people with more elongated, angular features and weak mandibles. that said, most of our generals, presidents, heads of state, CEOs and others in positions of high power will have very well defined, fully formed lower mandibles more like the Native Americans pictured here.
Rooster said:That works.
At the movies last night I was chatting with a young lady and could not help but notice what a nice long lower mandible she had, quite like the Native American lady in the photo you provided. It is a tragedy that this has become the exception in our population.
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Permalink Reply by PD Laire on
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i'll never look at a crowded room in the same way again. i will be too busy spotting people with OSA!
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