i think someone on here posted this i cant remember but here it is.https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/dentistry/is-it-mental-or-is-it-dental /" target="true"> https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/dentistry/is-it-mental-or-is-it-dental/ This part really stuck out to me:
When children or adults are not breathing properly they tend to develop dark patches and bags under their eyes. This is due to lack of adequate circulation as well as venous blood pooling in these areas.
Kids that are mouth breathers will always have chapped lips and typically the line separating the inner lining of the lip and the outside lining , known as the vermilion border, will be visible. Also mouth breathers in profile tend to have very weak chins and elongated faces. Typically these individuals will suffer from chronic sinusitis or sinus infections, colds, respiratory problems and lung-related issues.
Typically children with bags under their eyes have short attention spans because they do not have good circulation and oxygenation of the head and can tire easily. They are literally suffocating.
Furthermore, they don’t sleep very well–they are always tossing and turning and they wake up tired. Your body recuperates during sleep and sleep is especially important for teenagers. Teenagers need to go to bed before 10:00 pm because certain brain cycles designed for recuperation of the body kick in at around that time. These cycles will be interrupted if sleep mode is delayed to after 10:30-11:00 pm. The recuperation and rebuilding necessary to cope with stressful daily activities will then be compromised. These are the tired, sleepless kids who tend to have a diet high in sugar, trans fats and grains. They may end up labeled as ADD or ADHD and treated with drugs.
Airway capacity is the biggest and most important part of the well-being of a human being. It is important to stress the fact that breathing through the mouth and breathing through the nose have extremely disparate effects on the body. We are not designed to breathe through our mouths. The body is able to live by breathing through the mouth, but it suffers greatly for doing it.
Describes my childhood probably to a T.
We have to be careful attributing a weak chin to bad posture though. Some people have genetically weak chins not due to cfd or any defect.
Also, strong chins can exist with mouthbreathers anyway if they rest their tongue on their mandible . I am in that camp.
I'm seeing this in somewhere around 98% of children in my community... there's a lot of factors contributing, but I believe the downward spiral tends to initiate with a cesarean birth.
It seems to me that women don't always get the support they need to initiate or continue a breastfeeding relationship, which like vaginal birth, helps to seed the gut with bacteria needed for things like REM sleep and uninterrupted sleep. We are also aware that the mechanical loading of breastfeeding contributes significantly toward healthy skull development.
Speaking of describing my childhood to a T and the topics of sleep, mouth breathing and craniofacial development, this video may be of interest too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74F22bjBmqE
Remember this pain... and let it activate you.
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