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Member Spotlight: Carrie Nunnally on tongue posture, nasal breathing, and sleep apnea
First Member Spotlight is up. https://share.descript.com/view/XYkqjam7qpp Carrie Nunnally is a myofunctional therapist and a 25-year dental hygienist. Her work is physical therapy for the muscles of the face, mouth, and tongue: assess the function, then train it. What we covered: - Why a CPAP manages sleep apnea but can let the soft palate get weaker over time - The Stanford Sleep Center data on myofunctional therapy and AHI (62% reduction in kids, 50% in adults) - A low tongue and the nervous system: how it keeps you sympathetic at night, and why 8 hours of sleep can still leave you foggy - Nasal breathing, nitric oxide, and 18 to 25% more oxygen delivery - Mouth taping: when it helps and when it backfires - Snore guards and mandibular advancement devices vs. training the tongue to hold its position - TMJ pain, neck and shoulder tension, and reflux that trace back to tongue position - What a program looks like: four goals, about 12 sessions over 6 months, 5 minutes of practice twice a day - The signs worth paying attention to: snoring, CPAP intolerance, brain fog, TMJ pain, unexplained reflux or bloating, and mouth breathing during the day If you snore, can't tolerate a CPAP, or wake up tired after a full night, watch this one. Then do the simple check Carrie describes: where is your tongue resting right now? Carrie sees people in person in Washington state and works virtually anywhere. To find out of your tongue position and strength is holding you back or to learn more about what she does you can refer to the information below : centralwashingtonmyofunctionaltherapy.com and my Instagram handle for my Myo page is: @cwmyofunctionaltherapy
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Start Here: Why This Place Exists
I went back and forth on whether to write this for a long time. Part of me never wanted this community to become another place that just sells access. There are already enough of those. When I started this group it was really just an extension of the conversations I was having anyway. Interesting papers. Questions I couldn’t stop thinking about. Mechanisms that seemed important but weren’t getting much attention. Things I was learning from my own training, my own health, and the people I have the privilege of working with. Somewhere along the way it grew into something much bigger than I expected. That part is exciting. But it also created a problem. A lot of the conversations I actually want to have don’t fit into a social media post. They don’t fit into a reel. And they definitely don’t fit into a comment section. Some topics need an hour. Some need ten. Because understanding something and hearing about something are not the same thing. Most people today know more than they ever have. And yet somehow they are more confused than ever. They have collected protocols, saved posts, screenshots, stacks, peptides, supplements. But if you changed one variable tomorrow, they wouldn’t know what to do next. That is not a criticism. I have been there myself. The deeper I get into this field, the more convinced I become that understanding is the real asset. Not information. Information is cheap now. Understanding is rare. So that is what this place is built around. Not protocols. Not secret compounds. Not some exclusive club. A classroom. We take a topic that matters and pull it apart, piece by piece, until it actually makes sense. We talk about the things everyone is excited about, and the things nobody is paying attention to yet. We bring in smart people who challenge the way I think. We do live Q&As. And I spend real time showing not just what I am doing, but how I am thinking through decisions as they happen. Because that is the skill that transfers. That is the thing that stays useful when the next study comes out and changes the conversation.
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Your fat has a job. Help it do it better.
Most people judge a fat loss plan by what happens on the scale. I understand that. You want your clothes to fit, your waist to come down, and the work you are putting in to show up somewhere besides your calendar. Those are legitimate goals. But there is another question worth asking along the way: how well is your body handling the energy moving through it? A new review in Science, "When fat adapts," brings that question into focus. Karima Drareni and Patrick Seale describe fat as a responsive organ whose function depends on its cells and their surroundings. My practical interpretation is that a good plan should improve both body composition and the body's ability to manage fuel. The scale can help us follow the first part. It cannot explain the whole story. Think of healthy fat tissue as a fuel depot. After a meal, it stores energy. Between meals and during activity, it releases some of that energy for other tissues to use. Having somewhere appropriate to put fuel is protective. Human genetic research links limited peripheral fat storage capacity with insulin resistance and cardiometabolic disease. Someone can therefore carry less visible fat while still having significant metabolic problems. Appearance gives us information, but it does not replace an assessment. The depot also needs infrastructure. Blood vessels deliver oxygen and nutrients. A supporting matrix gives the tissue structure. Immune cells help maintain and repair it. In human exercise research, regular exercisers had differences in these features compared with similar people who were sedentary, including more capillaries and fewer macrophages in abdominal fat beneath the skin. That is a much more interesting story than counting the calories displayed on a treadmill. Here is another useful distinction, removing fat and improving metabolism are different interventions. In a small human study, substantial abdominal liposuction did not significantly improve insulin sensitivity or the measured cardiovascular risk factors. That does not mean losing excess weight is unhelpful. It means we cannot assume every way of making a body smaller produces the same biological result. A cosmetic change should be evaluated as a cosmetic change unless broader benefits have actually been demonstrated.
Training, supplementation & longevity with a family history of Parkinson’s
Hey everyone, I’m relatively new to this world, especially when it comes to peptides, so I’m hoping to learn from those of you who are much further down the road than I am. I’m 38 and work as an operations manager focused on new acquisitions, which means I travel more often than I’m home. I train consistently, try to eat well, and I’ve become increasingly interested in optimizing both physical and cognitive health for the long term. A big driver behind that is my family history. My father, grandfather, and great-grandfather have all had Parkinson’s. Because of that, I’m always thinking about what I can realistically control and what I can do now to put myself in the best position possible later in life. I currently don’t take any peptides, and I’m not necessarily looking to jump straight into them. I’m more interested in making sure I have the fundamentals and priorities in the right order first. If you were in my position, how would you think about: - Training and conditioning - Nutrition - Sleep and recovery, especially with frequent travel - Supplements worth prioritizing - Biomarkers or testing worth tracking - And eventually, whether peptides or other longevity protocols are even worth considering I realize this is a broad question, but there’s a lot of knowledge in this community, and I’d genuinely appreciate hearing how some of you would approach it. If you were starting from zero in my situation, what would you prioritize first?
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