Tongue Posture and it's Benefits

"Lips together, teeth together, tongue at the top of your mouth."

This is a catchy phrase used to help people remember to maintain the correct oral posture. It was first said by Orthodontist Mike Mew who is a rogue, revolutionary figure in the dental and craniofacial treatment profession. Following his father John Mew's footsteps, Mike Mew caries a torch of preventative practice that revolves around the correct resting position of the jaw/teeth, lips, and primarily the tongue. This school of practition is called Orthotropics and it focuses on early intervention/prevention and the treatment of root issues that are often left unaddressed by conventional Orthodontics. Like many preventative treatment professions, Orthotropics is often omitted and in some cases condemned by groups that profit from the problems it could've prevented. An example of this is when the British Orthodontic Society revoked Mike Mew's membership in 2018. (1)

So what problem's can correct oral posture prevent and even correct?

Here's some: Deviated septum, crooked teeth, malocclusion, under-bite, over-bite, cross-bite, sleep apnea, and craniofacial dystrophy.

Some people might ask "but aren't these problems genetic?" and "what is craniofacial dystrophy?" Yoga students may be reading this, asking "isn't your tongue supposed to be removed from the top of your mouth?" All these questions will be answered. Craniofacial Dystrophy is the excessive vertical growth of your face and results primarily from poor oral posture. A healthy and strong face has balanced forward, vertical and horizontal growth. This is demonstrated in the picture below.

Modern humans develop weak oral posture due to a diet which consists of food being too soft to strengthen the muscles in their face. Soft food demands less chewing which allows and perpetuates the habit of under-chewing. Like poor musculature and lack of exercise in other parts of the body, weak chewing muscles results in poor posture. Sagging tongue posture blocks your airway and demands forward head posture to compensate (nerd neck). This, over a coarse of time, especially in young developing faces, can create a deviated septum which inherently creates another problem, nasal blockage.

Nasal blockage and poor tongue posture are inseparable. Both problems feed the other and cause craniofacial dystrophy over time. By nature, nasal blockage demands that you become a mouth breather meaning that your tongue is separated from the roof of your mouth. Pictured below is a young man who at some point adopted a gerbil to whom he he was allergic. He kept this gerbil in his room, causing him to develop the habit of mouth breathing along with it's accompanying ailments.

So basically, no, these problems are not genetic. Keep your tongue on your pallet or you'll become a mouth breather. A lot of losers are profiting from us being ignorant to this information. <3333

"Lips together, teeth together, tongue at the top of your mouth."

John Mew (Mike's father) has defined these instructions as the ‘Tropic Premise.’ It states that if “the tongue rests on the palate with the lips sealed and the teeth in contact then the growth and position of the jaws would be ideal.” This has been treated and proven in many people, some with intervention, some with the help of fixed anterior growth guidance applications (FAGGA) and some just by following John and Mike Mew's instructions (from YouTube.) I'm grateful to have attained this knowledge through Brett Maverick’s YouTube channel (3) and from the Mew's research. Now I'm doing my part by sharing it with you.

Here is my before and after:

You can see the crooked wine grail in between these two side profiles. In the before (left) my eyes are further from my mouth because of excessive vertical growth and my septum is slightly deviated. (Photo scaled by same ear to mouth measurement)

Side note: Under chewing is known to quench your appetite less and is an attributable factor in overeating.

Side note 2: "None of our ancestors, none of the members of the other 5,400 species of mammals and few truly indigenous peoples have malocclusion. For hundreds of thousands of years everyone attained and maintained 32 perfectly aligned teeth for their whole life." (2)

1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mWt1g6AB-Q

2 - https://orthotropics.com/craniofacial-dystrophy-changing-faces-curing-malocclusion-obstructive-sleep-apnea/

3 - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5fqfItld8kQufe3djD6wAw

4 - https://orthotropics.com/john-mews-lectures-3-tropic-premise/

Learn more about Orthotropics from the source:

https://orthotropics.com/

https://www.youtube.com/user/Orthotropics