Health Quadrant – The Science Behind Health

The most obvious cross-pollination is mouth posture (Beauty Quadrant) and breathing (Health Quadrant). You can’t maintain natural mouth posture if you mouth breathe, and you can’t have healthy breathing if you have an open mouth. The second most obvious is how we eat (Beauty Quadrant) and what to eat & when (Health Quadrant). Exercise (Health Quadrant) clearly interacts with body posture (Beauty Quadrant).

Lost beauty potential is often caused by chronic inflammation, that leads to a corruption of mouth posture, swallowing and body posture. People who are chronically inflammed typically mouth breathe, adopt unnatural swallowing patterns, and poor head and neck posture. Chronic inflammation compounds when we continue to mouth breathe and eat inflammatory foods.

The last two tenets of the Health Quadrant – exercise & Vitamin D – act as shields against inflammation. However, these shields can only be effective if breathing and what you eat & when don’t cause chronic inflammation to take hold.

The foods you eat affect both how you eat and what to eat & when. If your diet is very soft, you don’t get the chewing necessary for optimal beauty. If your diet also inflames you, you risk every tenet of the Beauty Quadrant.

Here is the science behind the Health Quadrant…

Breathing

When a child mouth breathes, their jaws rotate downwards and backwards, and the face gets narrower and longer.¹ This rotation can be seen by comparing the profile of a beautiful face with a mouth breathing face.

Scientists put this down to mouth breathing, but that is only half the truth. Unnatural mouth posture allows the jaws to rotate. Other studies have shown that mouth breathing leads to a less attractive face.²

Nose breathing is important for maintaining natural mouth posture, and for lessening chronic inflammation.

The nasal passages – the nose, the nasal cavity, and the upper airway – are designed to temperature control, humidify and clean the air we breathe. They also control the amount of air we can breathe. When you mouth breathe, the amount of air you can consume is greater than if you exclusively nose breathe. It’s also unfiltered, unhumidified and too cold.

When the airway is inflammed, it closes up. Most obviously, it can lead to a blocked nose, which makes mouth breathing essential for survival. Inside the body, the airways become inflammed and swell. This makes them smaller. Mucus, which is excreted in the nose, is also excreted in the tiny airways, making them smaller still.

All of this causes us to mouth breathe more, when we should be nose breathing exclusively. Exclusive nose breathing has been shown to reduce chronic inflammation,³ and it allows mouth posture to be maintained.

What to Eat & When

Science suggests that the healthiest diet is the Mediterranian Diet.⁴ Science also shows that reducing inflammation leads to better health outcomes.⁵

That said, different people are prone different foods that trigger an inflammatory response. Some people are affected by lectins found in bread and tomatoes. For those people, the Mediterranian Diet can cause inflammatory issues all over the body.

When you continue to eat foods that insult the immune system, the body becomes compromised, making you less healthy. Your airways are more likely to be inflammed, which can increase the likelihood of mouth breathing. Your gut wall will be breached by inflammatory foods, which can cause slow, sustained catastrophy throughout the body.

People who wish to be inflammation-free should take an inflammation blood test.

When to eat is the second factor in this tenet. Fasting has been found to reduce inflammation⁶ – and when paired with a diet that doesn’t cause inflammation, and healthy breathing, it greatly improves health.

Exercise

There are four core benefits of exercise. Firstly, the body becomes healthier and looks better. Secondly, your body posture improves. Thirdly, your resting breathing rate reduces, making it easier to maintain exclusive nose breathing. Finally, a healthy, fit body that regularly exercises is less likely to be inflammed. Exercise itself reduces inflammation.⁷

Vitamin D

Vitamin D – produced when sunlight hits the skin – is the only thing we consume without using our face. Human bodies need Vitamin D. When we have optimal amounts, it both reduces inflammatory markers in the body and increases anti-inflammatory markers.⁸ It helps the two most important areas that retain or disrupt beauty potential – the airways and the gut.⁹

Sun exposure is dangerous when it causes sunburn. I recommend taking Vitmain D supplements.

Next Steps…

Getting your Health Quadrant strong is key for your life-long health and for maintaining beauty potential if you are young. I recommend the best supplements and tests in my store. For more information, order Beauty Potential: How Facial Beauty is Retained or Lost from Amazon.

1. (Zhao et al., 2021) ↩︎
2. (Bresolin et al., 1984) ↩︎
3. (Ovchinnikov et al., 2020) ↩︎
4. (Galland, 2010) ↩︎
5. (Giugliano et al., 2006) ↩︎
6. (Faris et al., 2012) ↩︎
7. (Aaron & Stubbs, 2021) ↩︎
8. (Hoe et al., 2016) ↩︎
9. (Yin & Agrawal, 2014) ↩︎