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Hi everyone.

Today I speak with Dr. Ted Belfour about a number of issues regarding oral airway health

and how this can affect breathing, sleep quality, and even

autonomic nervous system tone.

And one of the things I really appreciate about Ted's practice is he's focusing on treating

adult populations, which as I share in this episode really resonates with me because some of the appliances I was attempting to use,

I believe were a bit more for a patient population of children in the sense that they caused you to have a lisp,

as you may remember me remarking about before.

So thankfully for adults, and there's likely many of us out

there, who either have forward head posture, snore, mouth breathe, and or have had braces,

there's a fair chance that you're breathing and therefore your sleep and therefore a major

facet of your health may be suboptimal and good news by improving that may have substantial

improvements in your health energy mental clarity that you could uncover by going through the process of improving the amount of room

in your mouth for your tongue and the resting tone of your tongue. So we delve deep into this topic

today with more of a focus on therapeutics that are applicable for adults.

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