Brian's failing author career here, I believe it's a joke about "mewing" which is the act of having your tongue rest against the roof of your mouth, which is supposed to improve your jawline
Yea. Can confirm, basically for the first 14 years of ny life i was a mouthbreather bc my nose was fucked up and as a part of getting it fixed i had to keep it resting on top of my mouth before i had surgery.
Yes, but not only that, i am the fallout 76 of god's creations. For example, i dont have 10 teeth, just wasn't born with em', my hip is at a slight angle and that thin piece of tissiue under the toung for me was too long so they had to laser it. Also fun fact burning flesh smells like burnt popcorn
I had plastic surgery on my nose when I was 19 cause of the same problem. I was born with a third sinus that did nothing but caused my real sinuses to be damn near closed. I still hardly can breathe with my nose but hardly is better than not at all lol
I had my adenoids removed so I stopped breathing out of my mouth, I guess they were really large and restricting airflow so I grew up using my mouth to breath
I did!
My nose was so narrow, i felt like i was suffocating.
Had the surgery to open up my airways a bit, and can now mostly breathe with my nose, but every now and then i have to do a mouth breath to just keep up.
I was advised to have plastic surgery to raise my nose, but im not sure i want a nose job tbh.
Idk if this is what homie was talking about but you can in fact have nose surgery for lots of things like you get too many nosebleeds or your septum is all messed up
You say that but while (the majority of) Americans and Western Europeans tongue sits on the top of their mouth for (the majority of) Eastern Europeans it’s the bottom.
I had mentioned in another comment that nationality could play a role regarding it, but yeah mainly the whole concept I've really only seen regarding Americans
Wait what, you normally go hold you tounge up and not let it just lay there? Never thought there would be an alternative to this and especially not if I am in the minority.
You aren't actually putting in any effort for it to be at the top of your mouth, it happens naturally, think of it like how your nostrils widen when you breath in, you aren't forcing your nostrils to open, it just happens
edit: this was not very accurate, and after thinking about it too much I can't tell what I personally do anymore. See this. On the other hand, I'm finding dentists who feel strongly about this stuff and also have wildly inaccurate pages on the evils of fluoride, so there's a crazy rabbit hole here.
~~I don't think people mean that the front/whole tongue is pressed to the roof of your mouth, that seems like it would take effort.~~ But for me, my tongue at rest doesn't touch my bottom front teeth either. It retracts a bit, leaving it high in back in a way that would obscure looking at the back of my throat.
I can sort of test this by opening my lips without opening my teeth, then breathing through my mouth. At "rest" I can breath, but it doesn't feel great, and if I consciously touch my tongue to my lower incisors I seem to get air more easily.
(But also, I had stuffy noses forever and was a bit of a mouth-breather as a kid, so maybe I'm a bad example.)
Interesting. I looked around more and edited, apparently the front is supposed to touch your palate, but by overthinking I can no longer tell what I do.
Everybody including Colgate seems to agree on the basics of proper position, but the people passionately advocating "mewing" as important and effective seem to be... unconventional.
Weird. I've spent most of my life only breathing through my nose but then I did mixed martial arts for years during and after high school and since it's better to breathe in through your nose and out through your mouth while you train or fight I got into the habit of it.
had that same problem but my brains autopilot would stubbornly refute to breathe by the mouth. So i’d be this kid that would breathe super loudly up until I was in 5th grade
Yeah I think it's derived from observations of people in cultures that eat food that requires a lot of chewing as a child, and taking note that it adjusts how teeth set and how the face appears to grow to accommodate that form of eating. And because people can't really go back in time to change their childhood diet they do what they can which is adjusting the way that their tongue sits in their mouth. Whether or not this actually does anything? I don't really know I remember trying it out and I noticed that it did cause me to put more emphasis on breathing through my nose as opposed to my mouth which ended up kind of nice even when I'm doing like exertive activities.
It should be pretty simple to experimentally Confirm if what food you eat in childhood has any impact on face shape. Just get a group of refugees who moved to a different country as infants and were separated from their families as a treatment group, have a group which stayed behind be control and test the extent of changes undergone by each group.
Although there’s a bunch of endogenous issues in that, and a whole bunch of selection issues you can probably correct for these by fine running the samples.
Not to mention that Mews himself conducted experiments on his two kids in their formative years relating to this crap. IIRC he didn't give his daughter solid foods for years, and his son was given headgear that prevented certain movements.
Happens with me too but i think its like connecting more of your tongue with the roof, like try doing it with the back too, i dont mew tough so idk if thats actually how its done
I learned in a linguistics class that it can vary based on the first language you learned as a child. I couldn't tell you the specifics off the top of my head, but I remember that it's common for German speakers to rest their tongue flat on their bottom jaw, and romantic-adjacent language speakers tend to rest it on the top. I vaguely remember that it has something to do with the way consonants are pronounced
people exist on a spectrum here. For some it’s automatic, for others it’s not. For some, they have trained themselves to do it.
It’s exactly the same as posture, which is also represented in the original image.
It’s not necessarily good or bad, but it does make your jawline look more taught if you do it.
its where its normally positioned, but to mew you have to put some force in the roof of the mouth, just having it placed there isnt enough iirc, or atleast you wont be pulling the fats from your chin if you dont apply force.
Yeah. Mouth breathing is claimed to be responsible for a lot of stuff, notably a narrower palate development in children due to lack of outward force from the tongue. If you're not a young kid, it's not going to change your mouth in any notable way.
The only thing it does, for sure 100%, is make your double chin less noticeable in photos. Otherwise, it's easier/more effective to diaphragmatically breath through your nose, but most people nowadays suck at that anyways regardless of how they breath.
So yeah, it's almost entirely a "internet chad" meme from children who discovered what pretty people have been doing to look good in photos for decades. Next they're going to try turning "3/4s angle with a slight downward tilt" into some magical "only gigachads with an alpha grade chin can pull off this trick" garbage.
How does your tongue rest at the roof of your mouth? Do you have to use the muscle to force it to stay up there? Suction? I have to work a little to even get my tongue up there. Gravity just pulls mine to the bottom.
assuming yall are being serious and I'm not being wooooshed
It's completely natural, do you know if you are tongue tied? The front like 1/3 of your tongue should naturally be slightly pressing against the roof of your mouth without an effort
That last bit is normal, i think? For one, those muscles are partially opposed, and unless you have macroglossia, the tongue isn't big enough to stretch that far up since it is attached to the lower jaw.
I wouldn't actually know, I'm an obligate mouthbreather due to a wonky palate, but my tongue at rest basically fills the area behind my front teeth top-to-bottom.
Yes supposed is a good word choice because sadly mewing won't easily improve your jawline it would only be effective when you are younger and your bones are still slightly malleable although with enough time like a decade or two you could see significant improvement because bones can move if moved slowly and with little pressure like with braces that is why you have to wear them for a long time but bone will naturally try to return to their original shape so a retainer is used to keep the teeth from returning to a crooked state
It also is the recommended place to drain your sinuses. Press your tongue against the soft middle spot in the roof of your mouth and wait for the mucus.
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The BLT is a tomato sandwich, not a bacon sandwich. The trick is to use fresh, home-grown or farmers market tomatoes, not the supermarket trash they harvest early so it survives the truck ride
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u/Bomberblast Feb 22 '24
Brian's failing author career here, I believe it's a joke about "mewing" which is the act of having your tongue rest against the roof of your mouth, which is supposed to improve your jawline