If you suffer from headaches, neck, or back pain, then forward head posture may be the culprit.

One of the main questions I often get asked in the dental clinic is how to fix forward head posture.

It’s important to note that mouth breathing is often the root cause of forward head posture. The body and skeletal system moves muscles and supporting structures to accommodate breathing patterns.

When our head posture or jaws are in the incorrect position, an open mouth is often a compensation in order to allow mouth breathing as a survival mechanism.

Over time forward head posture puts pressure in the back of the skull, neck, and jaw. Symptoms can include:

• Headaches
• Neck pain
• Jaw pain
• Jaw clicking
• Shoulder pain
• Chest pain
• Dental decay
• Gum disease
• Voice issues
• Tingling or numbness in hands
• Snoring
• Teeth grinding
• Difficulty to sleep

Many patients we see in the dental clinic suffer from forward head posture due to mouth breathing habits. As we assess their jaw structure, we see that there are many movement based patterns that can help fix forward head posture.

Today my guest is Aaron Alexander, who is the author of the Align Method and host of the Align podcast.

Aaron has worked with some of world’s greatest professional athletes, performers, celebrities, and everyone in between, to relieve pain while creating greater strength, flexibility, and ease in their mind and body.

After working with thousands of clients and spending years backpacking around the world, being immersed in various cultures, he has come to the conclusion that the healthiest people are not gym rats. Instead, they naturally integrate the foundational principles outlined in The Align Method to strengthen their bodies, balance their minds, and activate their innate systems of healing in daily life.

Aaron has simplified ancient techniques for cultivating vitality and assimilated them into modernized, simplified, movement-based principles for you to easily integrate into any situation throughout the day. When you do, every moment becomes an opportunity to develop greater strength, flexibility and confidence to truly step into your physical potential and drop the baggage of pain and limitation.

You can find out more about Aaron Alexander at

www.alignpodcast.com

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Can a carnivore diet plan help you lose weight or even improve your teeth?

Meat-based diet plans are growing in popularity to reverse obesity, but also type-II diabetes and even conditions like auto-immunity.

So if you’re looking to start with a carnivore diet plan, where do you get started?

Firstly it’s important to understand how a carnivore diet will affect your whole body, and the best place to start is your mouth.

Anthropological evidence shows that the ancestral human diet is based on animal foods. Studies show that the human jaw grows sufficiently to fit wisdom teeth and prevent crooked teeth.

It also shows that dental decay and gum disease did not exist in humans who ate a carnivore style diet with animal foods.

While humans are omnivores, it’s an interesting exploration to see how carnivore diet plans directly affect teeth. We know that most dental disease are caused by the overconsumption of sugar, refined flours, and carbohydrates that drive disease causing bacteria.

Today my guest is the carnivore dentist, Dr. Kevin Stock. Dr. Stock is a practicing dentist who has used a carnivore diet for his own performance and exercise based goals as well as the benefits exposed to his patients.

Dr Stock’s driving compass is to optimizing health and fitness, Early in his career he was drawn to a niche area of dentistry called Dental Sleep Medicine (DSM).

After graduating dental school, he opened a practice strictly dedicated to treating Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) and helping people sleep better by breathing better.

He is currently developing a comfortable, convenient, cost-effective solution for sleep disordered breathing. This led to years of research, development, and testing that resulted in the NED Device, a patented nasal device to treat snoring.

Throughout his career he has used the history of human dietary consumption and helps his patients to use a carnivore diet plan for better dental health.

To learn more about Dr. Kevin Stock you can visit:

https://www.kevinstock.io/

https://www.instagram.com/kevinstock12/

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

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If you experience headaches and migraines then it’s common to also experience jaw pain. A TMJ headache is a type of headache that radiates from the temporomandibular joint. However conditions like jaw pain and temporomandibular dysfunction or TMD can cause chronic head and neck pain that present in headaches.

So does jaw pain cause headaches or is it the other way around?

If you suffer from headaches and migraines, it can be debilitating and answers can be hard to pinpoint. Some people experience more vague symptoms like brain-fog or lack of energy.

Symptoms of TMJ and jaw pain include:

• Pain or tenderness on the right or left side of the jaw
• Pain in the left or right of the temporomandibular joints
• Aching pain in and around your ear
• Dizziness
• Brain-fog
• Lack of energy
• Teeth grinding
• Difficulty chewing or pain while chewing
• Aching facial pain to one side or both
• Neck pain and stiffness
• A click on opening the jaw on the right, left or both sides.
• Locking of the joint, making it difficult to open or close your mouth
• TMJ Headaches or migraines

Each of these symptoms may present together or separately and they can be serious.

In the dental clinic we see patients that have experienced TMJ headaches for years. While the solutions can be hard to find, getting a better grasp on the jaw and TMJ system is extremely helpful.

My guest on the podcast in this episode is Dr. Joe Damiani a physiotherapist PT, DPT has worked with over 1000 patients experiencing persistent TMJ disorder, Headaches & Neck Pain.

His rehab clinic is situated in Wyckoff, NJ where he provides one-on-one care.

Dr. Joe's philosophy is twofold: firstly, he places significant emphasis on patient education, enabling them to comprehend the mechanisms and rationale behind their injuries. Secondly, he empowers patients with self-treatment strategies and the tools necessary to address their issues independently, rather than relying on passive therapies that only offer temporary relief, perpetuating a cycle of discomfort and recurrence.

You can follow Dr. Joe Damiani on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/drjoedamiani/

Additionally, he has created an online program which allows individuals suffering, to utilize his signature process from home.

www.Physioloops.com

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