Your Jaws, Your Airway By Lidio Rainaldi, DDS If you missed my article last month, here’s the summary: Small jaws, crooked teeth, blocked noses, enlarged tonsils, all cut off oxygen to the body, creating a domino effect of health problems. When oxygen to the brain is reduced, the brain cells die off. In children, the symptoms of low oxygen are the same symptoms as ADD. Here’s Some History: Our ancestors ate uncooked, tough, and chewy foods, constantly working their jaws and facial muscles. Their cheekbones and their noses grew wide and solid, and these wide faces were ideal for oxygen to pass into the body, unblocked. They also breastfed their children routinely up to age 5, and this motion of suckling began the strengthening of their jaws as well.
this dentist saw a staggering amount of tooth decay, poorly formed jaws, crooked teeth, and impacted wisdom teeth. Here’s The Problem:
Our modern lifestyle has caused a disastrous effect on our health. The change in our diet to processed, overcooked, and mushy foods eliminated the natural need for chewing. When the muscles of the jaw are not exercised, there is no growth.
Today’s children have much narrower faces, and this is not genetic. Bottle feeding, weaning to soft foods, and thumb sucking have all lead to poorly developed jaws and narrow airways. Rather than breathing with a closed mouth and through our noses, which is most healthy, we are now In the 1920s, a research dentist from Cleveland, Dr. Price, having to open our mouths to breathe, as many of us have began to see that changes in his patients diets also changed some blockage. We’re unconsciously gasping for air. their facial features. He wanted to investigate. Dr. Price Look at yourself and your posture. At rest, is your head and his wife spent 5 years visiting isolated cultures all over upright or jutted forward? Are you breathing mostly the planet. This was probably the final time in our history through your mouth? Check each nostril to see if either when people still lived in traditional societies, unaffected is blocked. Are you snoring? Thrashing, restless sleep? by “modern times.” In studying and living with these Waking up tired? These are all indicators of blocked indigenous natives, he saw wide variations of culture and airway. Do the same with your family, looking also for the diets, but the same wide facial features as our ancestors. He also saw something else: dental decay was almost non- narrow face and crooked teeth. existent. Most had never heard of a toothbrush. All these Children are constantly growing, and their organs, indigenous peoples lived in astonishingly good health, especially their brains, need a lot of oxygen for proper without a doctor or dentist, and without the luxuries of growth and development. For adults and children alike, Western Civilization. opening up blocked airways will greatly improve one’s But when he visited the colonies overtaken by Europeans, health and performance, and give us all a good nights rest. 14
November 2019
