I don’t post on here much often and this probably won’t sound as eloquent as it should,
because it is heavily worth being looked into.
But facial structure, foot posture, pelvic stability & mouth breathing (of course) can adversely or positively affect our health and hormones by a ton.
It’s why someone can seemingly be doing a lot of things correctly, nutrition wise, but they are still depressed, experience anxiety, or have mood disorders, headaches and severe pain in the neck and should regions…. that extend to other body areas.
A bit of it goes back to the head and the feet.
The skull and jaw directly influence our feet and posture, which goes back to blood flow, stress hormones, and nervous system.
I absolutely advocate for barefoot shoes especially if you don’t have a healthy toe splay, because crooked feet can twist the hips/pelvis… and if you’re a woman especially, who wore heels and such it can narrow your hips over time, which when it comes to pregnancy, you give birth and your child’s skull is now more compressed and smaller than its potential, due to intrauterine compression.
Which leads to behavioral issues and mood disorders if their skull can not properly grow forward and upward, compounded with the other issues that can cause ODD, or any diagnoses.
It’s why cranial sacral therapy is popular in some alternative health circles - to rebalance the cerebral spinal fluid… which affects everything.
If our sphenoid or ethmoid bone is compressed, one side of the face is higher than the other (drastically, not in a minute mm discrepancy) that affects our breathing and airways, and lack of oxygen IMMEDIATELY elevates our stress hormones, affects the CNS - putting us into fight or flight, and can lead to cognitive impairment because we are focused on survival rather than being present. Hence anxiety, panic, irritability, and depression.
Similarly, you can have a great toe splay but still have cranial distortion of some kind, whether that be jaw torsion, lateral strain, side bending rotation etc all which will block blood flow in the face, neck, and shoulders, and subsequently our thyroid gland… since it’s highly connected to the neck.
I wish I had the time to write a long PDF on this, but of course some people are doing it already on twitter, YT, substack etc - but it’s why people with “optimal” facial structure age phenomenally well into their mid 50s and can withstand a little more harm to their body nutrition wise - and tend to do well off in social situations, and in all other aspects of life. It’s definitely a unfortunate truth. Beauty is not goodness but we basically perceive these people with optimal facial structure as more “benevolent” and trustworthy. Hence why physiognomy has become so popular in certain circles, they are just misguided and make it out to be more distorted than it is lol
But for any of us who have a narrow palate, any oral ties, or any cranial distortions, or crooked toes/feet - you most likely have issues with sleep, mood, probably irritable or highly paranoid. Or you feel sad/empty and “nothing seems to work” etc you may want to target the structure that in addition to nutrition + minerals.
Cranial sacral therapy, palate expanders, septum deviation surgery (if needs to be fixed) lingual tie removal etc are all important topics to look into.
Cause eating healthy can only do so much if your body is actively resisting itself due to twisting or compression.
But it’s why some cultures were adamant about “bone shaping” and mouth closing for new borns and infants - native Americans used to actively close their child’s mouth when they were sleeping to develop their jaws and maxilla. Some Hispanic and African cultures would manually and gently try to shape their child’s face through childhood - since we are most malleable then. they intuitively knew that a crooked or imbalanced structure will also be reflected in the mind (and our hormones, nervous system, and how we perceive the world).
Dr Dean Howell has a cool podcast about the skull and how our facial bones move with every breath, and we have 28 facial bones that are *not* fused together. Been doing this for 4 decades I believe. But there’s great info out there if you look. It’s a really great episode
Oral ties with the tongue and lip will also affect breathing, speech, digestion, the nervous system etc. and most of people’s “mental issues” are actually dental. Since so many nerves in our teeth are connected directly to the brain.
It’s a very deep and fascinating topic to get into and look into optimizing, especially if you played sports or experience any injuries that may have thrown your musculoskeletal structure off balance at one point or another, especially TBIs and why their personality changes after injuries. If you’ve noticed, after injury is usually when some health issues or mental issues start to begin or we “act different”. :)
because it is heavily worth being looked into.
But facial structure, foot posture, pelvic stability & mouth breathing (of course) can adversely or positively affect our health and hormones by a ton.
It’s why someone can seemingly be doing a lot of things correctly, nutrition wise, but they are still depressed, experience anxiety, or have mood disorders, headaches and severe pain in the neck and should regions…. that extend to other body areas.
A bit of it goes back to the head and the feet.
The skull and jaw directly influence our feet and posture, which goes back to blood flow, stress hormones, and nervous system.
I absolutely advocate for barefoot shoes especially if you don’t have a healthy toe splay, because crooked feet can twist the hips/pelvis… and if you’re a woman especially, who wore heels and such it can narrow your hips over time, which when it comes to pregnancy, you give birth and your child’s skull is now more compressed and smaller than its potential, due to intrauterine compression.
Which leads to behavioral issues and mood disorders if their skull can not properly grow forward and upward, compounded with the other issues that can cause ODD, or any diagnoses.
It’s why cranial sacral therapy is popular in some alternative health circles - to rebalance the cerebral spinal fluid… which affects everything.
If our sphenoid or ethmoid bone is compressed, one side of the face is higher than the other (drastically, not in a minute mm discrepancy) that affects our breathing and airways, and lack of oxygen IMMEDIATELY elevates our stress hormones, affects the CNS - putting us into fight or flight, and can lead to cognitive impairment because we are focused on survival rather than being present. Hence anxiety, panic, irritability, and depression.
Similarly, you can have a great toe splay but still have cranial distortion of some kind, whether that be jaw torsion, lateral strain, side bending rotation etc all which will block blood flow in the face, neck, and shoulders, and subsequently our thyroid gland… since it’s highly connected to the neck.
I wish I had the time to write a long PDF on this, but of course some people are doing it already on twitter, YT, substack etc - but it’s why people with “optimal” facial structure age phenomenally well into their mid 50s and can withstand a little more harm to their body nutrition wise - and tend to do well off in social situations, and in all other aspects of life. It’s definitely a unfortunate truth. Beauty is not goodness but we basically perceive these people with optimal facial structure as more “benevolent” and trustworthy. Hence why physiognomy has become so popular in certain circles, they are just misguided and make it out to be more distorted than it is lol
But for any of us who have a narrow palate, any oral ties, or any cranial distortions, or crooked toes/feet - you most likely have issues with sleep, mood, probably irritable or highly paranoid. Or you feel sad/empty and “nothing seems to work” etc you may want to target the structure that in addition to nutrition + minerals.
Cranial sacral therapy, palate expanders, septum deviation surgery (if needs to be fixed) lingual tie removal etc are all important topics to look into.
Cause eating healthy can only do so much if your body is actively resisting itself due to twisting or compression.
But it’s why some cultures were adamant about “bone shaping” and mouth closing for new borns and infants - native Americans used to actively close their child’s mouth when they were sleeping to develop their jaws and maxilla. Some Hispanic and African cultures would manually and gently try to shape their child’s face through childhood - since we are most malleable then. they intuitively knew that a crooked or imbalanced structure will also be reflected in the mind (and our hormones, nervous system, and how we perceive the world).
Dr Dean Howell has a cool podcast about the skull and how our facial bones move with every breath, and we have 28 facial bones that are *not* fused together. Been doing this for 4 decades I believe. But there’s great info out there if you look. It’s a really great episode
Oral ties with the tongue and lip will also affect breathing, speech, digestion, the nervous system etc. and most of people’s “mental issues” are actually dental. Since so many nerves in our teeth are connected directly to the brain.
It’s a very deep and fascinating topic to get into and look into optimizing, especially if you played sports or experience any injuries that may have thrown your musculoskeletal structure off balance at one point or another, especially TBIs and why their personality changes after injuries. If you’ve noticed, after injury is usually when some health issues or mental issues start to begin or we “act different”. :)
