Thread by @345marcel

You heard everything about changing your physique;

But there are fundamentals that apply to your facial structure and make it change too.

Recessing chins and droopy faces are on a rise. There is a reason for it.

What you can do to work on a chiseled jawline (revisited):

Life is about appearance and your face is what makes the first impression to people.

There are fundamentals helping you to achieve better looks.

The younger you start with them, the better. Most things you should keep in mind for your children.

Your lifestyle has direct impact on every aspect of your body, health and thus your looks. Eating a good diet, rich in nutrients, including animal meat and living an active life are key.

It’s all about optimising excretion and levels of hormones, such as growth hormones.

Think of Conor McGregors recent facial transformation through the abuse of steroids. Or the virilisation of female bodybuilders.

Hormones have a very strong effect and can be influenced naturally, without need of steroids.

Modern diets and a sedentary lifestyle are the cause for most diseases and also malocclusions, resulting in soft looking faces, impacting hormones negatively.

Soft food, lacking important vitamins and minerals, poor sleep. All causing degeneration.

Why is it, that hunter-gatherer skulls have a dominant jaw line, never any malocclusions or required removal of the wisdom teeth? Without any access to modern tools?

The reason is the lifestyle, orientated more towards what nature intended.

I could bring on many more examples about the impact of lifestyle and go into more detail of nutrition, activity and sleep.

It should be obvious to you why living a healthy life is good for you.

There are more niche methods and aspects, that influence your teeth and thus your facial structure.

These are most notably how to breathe and the art of chewing.

In other words: training your jaw.

The right way to breathe for anyone is through the nose. At all times, unless eating or talking.

Your tongue will naturally rest on the palate while doing it. With big impact on the position of your teeth. Pushing them out, making room.

Poor air quality, allergies, stress and poor habits all lead to people to mouth breath. Being detrimental to facial structure.

It’s a reversible habit.

Diet will impact it, moving to places with better air quality and taping the mouth shut at night. Sleeping takes up much time and your breathing should be only done through the nose.

Also engaging in so called “mewing”. Producing extra force with the tongue on the roof of your mouth, training the position.

And all too common is training in the gym to enhance looks, build muscle.

While often forgetting the facial muscles, which will very much impact forces you’re able to produce and helping to strengthen the jaw. Making it appear sharper and which can be trained.

Chewing is key, especially hard stuff. You will not come around chewing gum a lot. Making up for our soft food and us not constantly ripping meat off from the bone.

A special one is mastic gum, a resin from the mastic tree. Already chewed by ancient civilisations.

Chewing mastic gum is very intense and takes up little time in a day. Beginning with 30min and working up to 2-3 hours is all it takes.

It helps the masseter muscle grow and with widening your jaw, through strongly engaging the teeth. With a lot more benefits too.

My preferred brand is @GrecoGum, available here:

grecogum.com/?via=marcel

It has become more mainstream lately talking about the influence of modern life, how it impacts facial structure and what to do, to reverse it.

Most notably are Huberman mentioning chewing and mouth taping for the night in recent podcasts.

Two more good resources are the books “Breath” by James Nestor and “Jaws - The Story Of A Hidden Epidemic” by Sandra Kahn and Paul Ehrlich.

Start living a healthy lifestyle, engaging in strenuous activities and sleeping right.

Incorporate jaw training with mastic gum and breathing right through the nose.

Believe in the adaptability of your body and it's power to transform.

Feel free to contact me, if you need any help with these lifestyle changes and want to undergo a complete natural transformation, not just the face.

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