Jaws: The Story of a Hidden Epidemic Hardcover – April 10, 2018

I wish my parents knew about this when I was a kid then maybe I wouldn't be choking on my own tongue 24/7

Crazy informative, highly recommend.

Good read, interesting topic. Need more data to be all onboard

I learned about it from a Joe Rogan podcast. Its been so informative

When we breathe about 20,000. 30,000 times per day and do it inefficiently, we harm our bodies. Breathing patterns can change even the pH of the body and also how our faces look. Cave men had no cavities. Their dental arches were wide enough to allow wisdom teeth to be present. They chewed natural foods and developed facial muscles accordingly. They breathed through their noses. When we processed our food to soften it and added certain elements, when we breathed through our mouths, we altered our faces, and not in a positive way. Simple changes to breathing patterns over time can change all of that, requiring less dental/orthodontial intervention, reducing cavities, and returning our flattened faces to their lovely forward posture. Nearly every child born during the last 100 years has had some intervention that hadn’t been necessary before. We need to return to practices that created functional and healthy bodies.

A bit repetitive, but so important. Our faces are deformed because of poor oral posture.If you want the tl;dr of what to do (not medical advice!), here it is:-breathe through your nose as much as possible, including when exercising-chew hard foods or gum (I like mastic gum) to strengthen your jaw-sleep with medical tape over your mouth to force yourself to breathe through your nose while asleep-the default state of your mouth should be: lips together, top teeth gently resting on bottom teeth (don't clench), and tongue at the roof of your mouth-all of these interventions are more effective the earlier in life one does them, so start today (and start your kids on them, too!)If you want to learn more, check out Orthotropics on YouTube (not affiliated, just think this topic is important).

This book offered a plausible explanation for crooked teeth, a good narrative, and pictures and motivation for adopting a straight posture. I am not an orthodontist or dentist, but the concepts made sense to me. The book has informed my understanding of what constitutes "good posture" to include the neck and jaw, and changed the way I think about my own posture.I wish the book and the authors proved the effectiveness of the approach within the orthodontia community, and offered more coverage of the criticisms to orthotropics/forwardontics. For example, I would have liked to know more about how many patients pursue forwardontics, how their compliance is measured, and the distribution of results for non-compliant and compliant patients. I believe the book's message mostly because of my intuition; the book's main evidence is historical account coupled with anecdotal descriptions of jaw shape, and a cruel study on rhesus monkeys. The book asserts its mechanisms and their importance strongly enough that I'm surprised at the lack of studies on the proposed treatments.I liked this book and thought it was a good introduction to a plausible idea. I hope that someone takes the flag to prove that these treatments work on the general population.

When I first saw the attractive cover of JAWS I was intrigued. So I browsed the book’s content and decided to buy it. I’m glad I did. The book is basically about the abnormal development of our jaws because of our eating and breathing habits and the long-lasting effects of such abnormalities on human health. I had no idea that the proper development of the jaws is fundamental to breathing and sleeping properly. If jaws developed abnormally, it can cause sleeping disorders which in turn can lead to high blood pressure, heart disease, depression and even cancer among other maladies. Being a professional devoted to solving environmental problems, I recognize this as a health problem, but as one caused by the greatest environmental change human beings have faced, going from hunting and gathering to practicing agriculture and industrialization. The most important message of this extensively illustrated book is that these problems can be solved by understanding and correcting their causes, which are clearly explained in the JAWS. The book should be read by anybody who has children, because its recommendations can have long lasting positive effects on the well – being of our loved ones. JAWS scientific documentation is impressive, but not intrusive. It reads like a novel.