re: Sleep Apnea Cure

Thank you

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I'm 6 foot and I weight 162 pounds

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Run Forest Run

One of my kids had one and it worked very well as an orthodontic measure. Braces came after and kids grill is perfect now.

That said, he’s not fat and doesn’t suffer apnea.

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Homeoblock

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I read this as "Homoblock" at first.

Does that make me a bad person?

I leave my sleep apnea untreated because, who doesn’t want to die in their sleep?

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You have got me thinking when you said you can’t breathe out of your nose. I had braces to fix an underbite In grade school.

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My nose flows freely now. There’s much less resistance.

My sense of smell has also improved, I don’t know what normal is like - but it’s better.

I was always a stomach sleeper, my doctor told me it’s a coping mechanism. That posture opens up your airway. I find myself sleeping on my side now.

A recent one, like 2 or 3 shows ago I think?

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You can see the difference in native tribesmen. Hunter gathers all have broad faces, symmetrical features, and perfect teeth. Weston Price was the first westerner to observe this, he believed it was nutrition, but that seems unlikely.

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I've read Dr. Price's "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration." The answer absolutely is proper nutrition. Those who ate native diets, all over the world, had ideal faces and teeth (Dr. Price was a dentist). Those who ate too much sugar, white flour, and canned foods, did not.

What's interesting is how varied the diets of the peoples observed were. Many cultures emphasized seafood (even if they had to travel a long way to get it), fermentation, and low sugar diets. He examined Masai in Africa, Swiss in the Alps, Inuit in Canada, Aborigines in Australia, Gaelics in the Outer Hebrides, Maori in New Zealand, etc. It has pictures that show grandmothers with perfect teeth and beautifully developed jaws (eating native diets) while their grandchildren have crowded, too small mouths with crooked teeth (eating modern diets).

Yes, I was told that most companies eventually approved it, if you’re patient and go through the appeals process. You probably need to be CPAP intolerant.

The hard food and chewing argument makes sense to me. The repeated physical stress would build bone mass. But this is not my area of expertise, in any way.

Dr. Belfor, who created one of these devices, believes it’s hard food. He was creating tooth alignment devices that had a hard plastic ridge on one side. These were effectively fixed retainers, with metal springs that would push the teeth into position. He was selling them to broadway actors who wanted better smiles. He found that over time, that his patients experienced bone growth. And he theorized that his patients were chewing on the plastic, and this was triggering growth.

That’s how he got into the field.

Our standard diets are awful though. I try to avoid processed foods and eat like my grandparents and great grandparents did.

That’s driven by skepticism - I don’t trust what we say about nutrition, it seems that what we know is constantly changing. I would like to believe that eating a traditional diet, or foods we’ve eaten for centuries at least, is a good option.

I did Keto for a while and the anti inflammatory effects were amazing. With the way inflammation impairs bone growth, I imagine it could stunt jaw growth.