Facial Development

Hi CPMartin,
I’m working on my next iteration, so I took that version down. Essentially, I think I can show how facial and dental deformities develop by connecting the findings of the work of a few different authors.

The short explanation:
The work of Weston A. Price is excellent in terms of documenting that changes in the food supply are interfering with facial development. The exact mechanism is unclear however. There are hints in the text that the people who are most afflicted are those that have the weakest appetite with the most limited diet. Matt’s work allowed me to make the connection between the weak appetite and hypothyroidism/ low metabolic rate. From there the work of Mark Starr in documenting the numerous ways that hypothyroidism plays out informed my thinking. It is extraordinary in the variety. After this I got stuck for many months in my research, as the exact mechanism of deformation remained unclear. Then I found the work of John Mew. He has documented the structural causes for the interference with tooth and jaw development. Essentially he shows that the face needs the tongue and jaw muscles to function properly and in a specific ‘posture’ for the face to develop properly. The root cause of the dysfunction is clear in a number of cases, such as thumb-sucking or a mistrained tongue due to a pacifier and bottle feeding. Other times, he is as a loss and his attempts to connect to the work of Weston A. Price are naive and not researched. This is when I realized that I could connect the work of John Mew to Mark Starr’s work on a case-by-case basis and connect back to the work of Price.

This draws together a theory for the interference with facial development, where changes in the food supply produce changes on a cellular level, the low metabolic rate displays itself through systemic inflammation (determined by genetics) that cause maladative changes in behavior causing structural changes. Not every case passes through these steps (the use of pacifiers is a good example). My goal is to elucidate the multiple check points that a parent can use to make sure that their kid will develop properly, and hopefully make a list of behaviors to watch for at different ages. As a note, I have been working from multiple case studies that are not explainable from the traditional paradigm of jaw development, and this is how I have been moving my research forward on my own. My research is not geared towards addressing the problem after it develops at this point. I am currently focused on prevention and trying to figure out how to get this information out to a wider audience.

Hi Rob,

I’m actually at a really good place to share the research. The underlying theory is sound and defensible. I’m in the throes of a couple work projects, I’ll post an update as soon as I have a few minutes to type it.