Скачать или смотреть ”Jaws” by Sandra Kahn and Paul R. Erlrich [Book Review 8]

I read this book after reading Breath by James Nestor and I saw it was highly recommended by Jared who is the author of "Guns, Germs and Steel", a book I read that won the Pulitzer price and was very well documented and researched.
170 pages book
It's a book about oral posture. How you chew, breath, swallow and position your tongue and all the implications it has on our health.
We tend to think that as we move forward, we improve, this is the so called evolution. We tend to think that what was done in the past was wrong, so it's called the past. But there is a possibility of devolution, becoming weaker with bad habits such as poor breathing, weaker jaw, that get transmitted to the next generations.

Not all the features of ancient human were bad, and this is clearly shown on their skull and jaws, they had stronger bones, and better formed jaws thanks to the way they chew the food. Now we are served mostly soft food, we soften our meats, vegetables etc through cooking and seasoning, to make it easier, more comfortable, but our biology was not built for being comfortable.
Our skull has been modified those last centuries due to the way we eat and breath. Our jaws are smaller, giving less space in our mouth to breath.

Stimulating jaw growth, intense chewing was required to extract the nutrients from easy food. Genetic evolution was based on the Stone Age. Jaws evolved for Stone Age human to adapt to their Hunter gatherer diet.

We want to outsmart nature but that’s not what we are supposed to be. By using the comfortable path, we became complacent, with our diet, our braces for better smile we end up with a jaw that is not fully developed.

Kids are wearing braces that it seems a rite of passage in life. But it should not be. Early humans had no crooked teeth. An early change of habit as our ancestors ate and breathed can make a significant impact on our health and face.

The wisdom teeth that we remove in order to keep aligned teeth, should not be removed. Our species evolved with those teeth and were perfectly aligned until we moved to the age of agriculture where we started to eat soft food and that got worse by the industrial age where the food were even softer and we started to have allergies in our clustered home that blocked our nose and pushed us to use our mouth to breath.
Quick fix, our biology keep coming back. Reminding us we are humans.

The mouth is an eating device not a breathing device. Jaws that are not growing to their right size and shape is not impacting only the teeth outlook but also your chin, your cheekbones, your eye bottom, lots of gums when you smile, smaller lower jaws.

Problems you will face with the wrong oral posture is not only malocclusion but also poor sleep, sleep apnea that could lead to heart attacks, depression and possibly eczema and Alzheimer.

The profession of dentist should not only be able teeth, but also about oral posture, breathing, jaw development a more comprehensive job.

A bit disappointed, and it shows how easy you can come up with a book with an attractive title and just relate things that a professional talk about even if you are yourself not an expert in the field. They repeat the same message again and again about the importance of breathing from your nose, chewing and keeping a normal oral posture by closing your mouth with your teeth closed. Not very substantial knowledge on this book, but they kept writing the same ideas over and over on a book that is about 170 pages. All the knowledge described in the book comes from the information shared by Dr Mew that you can have access to his videos on YouTube. There are even some typos, I think the authors (two of them) should read their own books twice at least before to publish it.

Some Quotes:

« People before industrial civilization did not get impacted by wisdom teeth ».

« How we eat can be just as important as what we eat ».

« The mechanical forced generated by chewing food not only helped our jaws grow to the right size and shape, they also help our teeth fit properly within the jaw. »

« Dentists has an incentive to ignore oral facial health as their cash cow is in extracting wisdom Teeth. The practice of dentist has become Drill fill and bill »

« Health care system is more of a health repair system. An ounce of prevention is worth an pound of cure ».

Grade: C