A look at our Native American ancestors to understand what it means to have good facial development. When over 80-90{ae022d2295c0485893c83c8425b5bfafafba893c2d19b1bb9bc4c7c9bf3eeba6} of modern population is affected by Cranial Facial Dystrophy, we have now lost sight of what “ideal” is. We have come to accept narrow palate, and impacted wisdom teeth as normal. And now we believe good looking faces with strong jawline is a result of good genetics.
But we know that when someone doesn’t have “good jawline” they will have difficulty with breathing, symptoms such as snoring & sleep apnea will begin to show up which affect quality of life from mild to severe And of course, the obvious symptom of malocclusion.
When you add in the element of health with facial development then does it make sense to say good jawline was caused by the genes? Would there ever be a gene that would cause difficulty with breathing, the most vital thing for life?
Malocclusion just simply does not naturally exist in nature.
Humans are creation of nature. DNA is nature’s blueprint.
Why would humans be separate from nature’s designs, and have such things as “faulty genetics” that cause malocclusion & poor facial development?
There is no doubt genetics play a role in building our body, but hard evidence does not support the fact that there is genetics that cause poor development that is unattractive & unhealthy.
It seems development is directed by the intimate relationship between the genes and environment. The problem with modern humans is that all of us have now lost the way on how to properly live as nature intended.
isn’t it interesting that when we see wild life they all exhibit qualities of innate natural beauty and proper development? Let’s face it, wild animals are photogenic… often much more than most humans.
A look at our ancestors will also show this element of beauty. Sort of effortless elegance about them. A majestic look.
I believe this is human birthright as creation of nature.
Below are some breath taking old photographs of Native Americans. Notice the great cheekbones, broad faces, & square jaws.
We have this notion that indigenous tribes looked primitive, “ape-like”, & unappealing appearance. But this is most likely false image propped up by discriminative propaganda to make us view them as inferior.
In reality, the primitive people such as the Native Americans were most likely very good looking people. Early settlers did comment that indigenous tribes seemed physically perfect.
As I am finding out, this was most like the body as well as the face.
Notice the difference in body posture between the white man and Native American. How straight and tall the Native American is standing versus the white man who is sort of leaning to one side. (one leg shorter than the other?) You can see the impressive facial development of the Native American from distance. You can visualize the spine in the white man is sort of twisted, while it is completely erect & symmetrical in the Native American with broad shoulders.
For most of us standing that erect like the Native American would be uncomfortable, require effort which wouldn’t last for more than 30 seconds.
Great work to begin to study about body posture is Esther Gokhale
She also talks about primitive people had this sort of elegance about them that is being lost in Modern Humans. Modern living environment of poorly designed chairs & couches is leading to tucked in pelvis & slouched body posture.
Cranial Dystrophy occurred to the Caucasians First
Because the West had advanced civilizations first they showed Cranial Dystrophy long before rest of the world population.
Below are Dutch & Norwegian soldiers during WWII.
When you begin to compare and contrast the faces in this way: indigenous vs. modern, you begin to really see what it means to have Modern Day Cranial Facial Dystrophy.
Much older picture of Caucasian soldier in early 1800’s, Cranial Dystrophy is present even at these times.
When development has less dystrophy, we call these people handsome “the genetically blessed”, and you may have a shot at becoming an actor or model. James Dean with decent muscle tone / horizontal jaws however front cheeks are flat, notice the bags under the eyes, this area is known to be at the effect of tongue posture.
Did those Caucasian soldiers have bad genetics? or poor living environment?
Evidence suggests that to reach the top of the attractive tear drop, it has more to do with environment than genetics.
You can see for yourself when you browse through old pictures of Indigenous people, great jawline was a common thing. Contrast that to next time you go out to the grocery store or to the gym and look at the jawlines of people around you.
Did you know that paraplegics have to do physical therapy where they strap their legs on a bike machine that pedals for them to prevent the leg bones from becoming too thin?
are we seeing the same effect with our jaws? use it or lose it? how soft was your diet today? Do we require “physical therapy” now for our jaws like the paraplegics?
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You mentioned earlier that the front area of the face where the cheekbones and eyes are under the effect of tongue posture, Does the tongue has the power to support the maxilla to create high cheekbones and great looking eyes, what about the mandibular?
mandible is at the effect of your chewing muscles
How come some of these guys have strong side cheekbones but terrible jaws? This is why I think there is more at play than just posture/usage. For example, under Cranial Dystrophy occurred to the Caucasians First, the third picture on the left shows the man having almost no jaw, but very strong side cheekbones. I brought this up previously while discussing Gandy, I think, and you said that the cause of these strong side cheekbones is from chewing. But since this guy has no jaw, he definitely can’t be doing much chewing.
I don’t believe those are good side cheekbones
One thing I’ve noticed from chewing falim gum and chewing more is that my temporalis muscles have started to hypertrophied as well as my jaw muscles. I don’t mind the jaw hypertrophy, the temporalis hypertrophy looks weird and I don’t think it’s attractive – have you had a problem with this? I’ve been doing intervals of hard chewing with rest and some days I’d do more chewing at lower intensities.
I have not noticed that. Is it possible you are chewing too much? remember you want longer periods of good tongue posture putting slight gentle upwards force on the maxilla.
Claimingpower, I’m going to play competitive sports soon and won’t be able to keep my tongue on the palate while I mouth breathe heavily. I’m 18 and have 42 millimeter palate, my tongue fits but what should I do if I’m forced to mouth breathe for a long time?
Look to Buteyko breathing and practice nasal breathing more and more even while physical activites and it will help with your performance, that being said it can be difficult, its long term mouth breathing that is bad. During the duration of sports game, it won’t have any effect if you are keeping mouth closed during rest of the day and night. Because longer duration posture will outweigh the duration of playing sports and leaving mouth open but yea look to nasal breath during sports as well as a goal
Great article. Us ethnic people are so used to being told that our facial skeleton is much inferior to the caucasian skeleton…. this was refreshing to read… I have a soft square jaw with an oval face shape – strange combination! Very strange. Many people in my country have square jaws, broad faces with very well defined and visible cheekbones. However due to “inferior” racial conditioning, many don’t like it.
This is so interesting! I have a very odd facial bone structure.
My dad is Native American and my mum is German/Spanish. I have the very high prominent cheekbones from my dad which I love as my mum has flat cheek bones that make her face look like a pancake but I have a deformed narrow palate and protruding jaw from my mum. I need major surgery to fix this and right now have braces which my orthodontist is struggling to get right after 2 years of having them on.
I had no idea that tongue position and posture affect facial structure too. What is a good resting position for the tongue? Because I’m constantly pushing my tongue against my front teeth and I know it’s not good at all.
tongue should be on the roof http://claimingpower.com/tongue-posture/
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