Mewing thread 🤫🧏

The Emperor's Lounge
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getting into the idea of mewing and would love to open a thread. what has worked for you guys, with techniques, and even if subliminals have helped.

@iron and @yazooneh both recommended the posture pro device but it’s expensive and i’m not ready to invest 300 on something i’ve been interested in for less than a week.

watching the Dr. Mike Mew beginner’s video, he even mentions how mouthtaping can have a significant influence, and that seems like a great beginner place to start.

Also, if anyone has tips for sleep mewing, that’d be great.

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It’s 200 now for Black Friday :smiley:

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#3

Have you tried the vagal activator?

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#4

Yes I have, it’s good too.

But I haven’t been consistent with it, I do believe it helps to release the facial muscles deeply to the point where it begins to soothe the vagal nerve (which simulates how stressed/imbalanced your facial muscles will be)

All in all, these subs usually guide you towards what is best for you, a program like legacy of the Spartan would find the best method for you to bring out your finest jaw

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#5

Can say that LotS has improved my side profile drastically in only a month and a half. Also manifested me discovering myofunctional therapy and finding out a have a tongue tie, which I am now doing exercises to loosen and help me mew in the future.

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I’m currently in a very early experimental phase with another orthotropic appliance. I’m gonna lend my thoughts on mewing.

It is my opinion that the tongue being positioned on the roof of the mouth is a result of proper alignment and it serves as an anchor. But using the tongue alone doesn’t cause enough sufficient stretch to cause long lasting change. It’s a good habit to get into, but I think mewing is missing something if you don’t include an appliance.

You can sorta demo the concept of it yourself. If you keep your tongue and jaw totally relaxed, like put it wherever. Look straight ahead. Put both your fists under the sides of your jaw and gently push up while looking ahead. Notice where your tongue goes. Notice how it feels like the face moves around the tongue to move into the correct posture vs the tongue pushing up.

I think most people are somewhat collapsed and need to expand and release tightness in their jaw and facial muscles. Orthotropic appliances help you do that and the tongue follows along as a byproduct of that.

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#7

Wild that Mike Mew got his dental license revoked

Watching this video of him talking about his court case 2 years ago is even sad in a vacuum, but especially sadder that he’s spent probably $400,000 (british pounds) by this point and still lost. Mew could certainly have had a better business mindset so that even if he lost his license, he was financially independent, but he really was trying to change dentistry from the inside which is actually a really great “good guy” move.

Crazy how there’s actually a lot of scientific support for everythiing Mew says in the US but that evidence didn’t hold up in britain (JAWS book, Sandra Khan.)

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Dentists terrify me. I’m sorry if we have any dentists on this forum. But I have heard absolute horror stories and teeth being flattened or drilled to correct one thing and it collapses the entire body and is damaging in psychological ways as well. Wisdom teeth in particular, I had a dentist tell me they had to come out when I was younger. The hygienist pulled me aside and was like “if it’s not causing you any problems, don’t do it”.

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What appliance you using? I agree that an appliance will make it 100x more effective. For a 29y/o like myself, perhaps the only way to truly make it effective. Using an appliance is the plan for the new year. For now, i’m just practicing the skill of transitioning into being a nose breather and seeing what that does for me in a vacuum, as I know that I’m quite the mouth breather. Even taping my mouth shut i find myself taking gasp-like breaths at very low levels of exertion.

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Yeah mouth breathing causes so much chaos, its insane.

I’m not sure if I can post a direct link to what I use, I don’t want to break any rules here. But I can tell you it’s based on the Myobrace A1 design. You can DM me if you want more details.

I can tell you this. These appliances are nothing special, essentially just rubber mouthguards. The mechanism of action is raising the dental height and releasing the soft tissue that’s been sort of locked. Also increasing mobility of the jaw and allowing more planes of movement. There is some slight rearrangement of the teeth as well. That’s the theory at least, I’m relatively new to some of this stuff. You just have to sleep in it, so you have to make sure it’s a relatively comfortable one (although there’s gonna be discomfort at the beginning stages)

So if you wanted to give it a run with something cheap you could try that first. I think the myobrace A1 runs like 60 bucks on aliexpress though. So by the time you go through cheaper rubber appliances trying to find a good fit you might spend more money in the long run since this whole thing is hit or miss.

Also as a disclaimer like in that video you posted conventional dentistry usually doesn’t recognize a lot of this. And it’s a toss up of what facts you can find online vs what’s pure pseudoscience. Hence me just experimenting with it and drawing my own conclusions cuz it’s the wild west lol.

Really good video if you have the time. This will explain how your jaw and teeth can cause a whole chain reaction throughout your body causing all types of asymmetry and postural dysfunction.

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interesting he’s referring to the vestibular system - i have a vestibular disorder due to a concussion

#12

I actually just bought some mastic gum to start chewing to work on jawline aesthetic, not exactly like mewing, but I wonder in conjunction with mastic gum if mewing would transcend my results to new heights.