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Stephanie Canestraro22min

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recording in progress Hi, it's been a long time since I did a solo episode. Thanks for tuning into what happens in Vegas. Today we're gonna be talking about something that actually has really calmed my vagus nerve and I'm happy I can say that because it was kind of a scary process for me, but this is the tongue tie episode. So I had posted on Instagram for those of you who follow me and I was really excited after my tongue tie cut, because right after I could reach my toes, I noticed my neck pain was gone. I just felt like I had more range and I actually felt more calm. But as the inflammation set in and my tongue was actually trying to heal, a lot of problems came up for me that I had to learn to troubleshoot. And then hopefully, by sharing this, I can help some people who decide to get their tongue tie cut. I can explain to you what a tongue tie cut is why you would get one as an adult. A lot of us have heard about it for our little babies who can't latch or something like that, but a lot of us end up with a functional kind of tongue tie into later life and it can be an underlying root cause or add to the risk of you getting certain chronic diseases or other diseases because of how important your tongue posture is where your tongue sits in your mouth. So everything is so connected. And I would love if in the show notes we could put in a picture of the tongue attaching to the fascia that goes all the way down to the soles of your feet. But first I'm going to start by telling you what is a tongue tie. So everyone, if you lift your tongue underneath, you'll have this little piece of of connective tissue and that's what holds our tongue to the bottom of our mouth. But sometimes it can extend too much to the tip of our tongue and we don't get tongue most good tongue mobility so we can't stick out our tongue past our bottom teeth or it doesn't come out very far. A sign of a tongue tie is when you open your mouth. You should be able to touch your hard palate without closing your mouth more than half. So for me, I had what was called a grade four B which I believe five is the most intense tongue tie. And you know, I didn't find this out until I got really sick with Lyme, but I had had a lot of neurological stuff in the past. And I've had a lot of digestive system issues as a baby I had a lot of rashes, I was reacting to everything. And when you don't have a when you have a tongue tie, you don't process food properly, like our nervous system is so intricately connected. And so a lot of babies get tongue tie cuts and they just they zap off this this it's called a frenectomy. Because this is called your friend Nehalem. under your tongue mines, now scar tissue, but that's something we're gonna go into. So they just use a laser and they zap it and babies heal so fast and their body is so much more malleable, but when you're an adult and what I experienced, you don't adapt as well. Another thing if you watch this video on YouTube, see these lines across my neck and I had lines in my chest. That's all part of my tongue and my tongue was falling. So getting your tongue tie released if you need it can be very much a game changer for your health. So for me, I had restriction and protrusion and elevation of my tongue. And for those of you who understand tongue posture, which most of you won't, but that's just when your mouth is closed and at rest, your tongue should sit at the roof of your mouth, in between behind your teeth. So this is called the tongue cave. If you watch it on video, I'm sucking my tongue to the roof of my mouth. But that's where your tongue should sit. When you're at rest. And when you have a lot of restriction under your tongue. It's hard for it to sit up where it's supposed to. And this also leads to airway issues because the pressure of your tongue sitting on the roof of your mouth when you're a baby. And the reason why it's important to try to not have your baby suck their thumb or use a soother too much is that it? It changes the cranium and the the roof of the mouth which which creates our airway. And so you'll see a lot of people and if you start looking that have these narrow palates, narrow faces, mine's a little bit more narrow than it should be. But somehow my face in my teeth formed, okay with all of what was going on, but if it was caught earlier, they would have expanded my jaw and opened my airway and I had sucked my thumb and sucked down a blanket for a long time too, but I was a pretty reactive baby rashes all over, couldn't drink out of plastic bottles, couldn't even use plastic diapers. You know, and then as I grew up a lot of digestive distress because you're not chewing properly. So I'm going to go into some things that changed after but first I'm going to go through the actual tongue tie procedure. So, before you do a tongue tie, you have to see a myofunctional therapist. Mine was Kingsmill dental has named Joe and you know you have to start to do it's almost like prehab for your tongue. So you have to try and stretch it out as much as you can. And me being a manual therapist. I mean, I was pulling on my tongue. I was working on the bottom, I was actually starting to feel more calm, just with the myofunctional exercises, and some people can get away with just exercises and they'll say you don't actually need a tongue tie cut. And you don't have to have like a really bad tongue tied to need myofunctional therapy. So I think for any children that you have that are having any issues that you can't really explain. You should get this checked by a myofunctional therapist, not by your dentist because they don't understand as well. Or there are airway certified dentists that you can that you can see but the best person to assess your tongue, your tongue posture, and which exercises could help or you know, or guide you in the right direction is a myofunctional therapist. So now I see what they do for me because there can be the friend the frenulum is the attachment under your tongue but you can also have a shortened muscle. So it's called the genioglossus muscle and unfortunately mine was shortened as well and the fascia so a lot of adults will have that so they don't have to just cut like zap off the tongue tie they have to cut open the bottom of the tongue, and then they have to stretch out the muscle and then you have to continue to stretch. I mean, the tongue mobility I have now is next level, but because when I went into this, I still wasn't 100% from having Lyme and one big thing that I have, I have to still have a root canal out but I also had a lot of congestion under my tongue. And if we could in the show notes, you know, add a picture or maybe we could add it onto the screen for this video. You can see under my tongue all of my lymph nodes were so congested and if you lift your tongue right now and look underneath there, you might see the same thing. There shouldn't be a whole bunch of congestion under there a whole bunch of balls under your tongue. That's waste that's not getting away from your brain and it can almost be considered an above collar infection. So above collar infections affect our brain and they can affect our nervous system so that we do get more reactive or Lyme disease or other stealth infections that we all have in our bodies. We all have some sort of stealth infection, not Lyme, but we all have hidden infections that our bodies packed away. You know, herpes is a common one and people understand it because they get it closer and then it goes away and then it comes back. That's a stealth infection. So when your immune system is robust, none of these problems are coming out. But if you get some sort of trauma, or you know, physical, mental emotional trauma, it gets turned on because it turns off your immune system increases inflammation. And this has been happening you know, more commonly with people because as our toxic loads get higher as we're exposed to more bad electromagnetic frequencies that make these stealth infections stronger. You can see this study by Dr. Thomas Roush showing mold toxins getting much stronger when being exposed to different radiation and so that's a whole other topic that we've already talked about. So check out that test my home episode. If you're interested more into the electrical stuff and how it affects our stealth infections. So now the lymph under my tongue had bugs, whatever in it. That aren't my lymph was trying to get out Okay, so for the first couple of days I feel pain in my tongue it's hurts because they cut it open. This dentist stitches them some people don't stitch it in they just leave it open. I am glad I got the stitches however, like they did pull and it was quite uncomfortable but also my pain threshold from going through Lyme it really changes like your whole nervous system reaction to pain is much more elevated. So that was something that I definitely had to deal with and

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I knew that it might be a little bit more difficult for me to recover because when I had had other patients go before me, they're like, Oh, I felt my neck fascial release. I felt so great. And you know, in a few days I was better. Well, it's been. It was November 30 that I had this tongue tie release and now is only when I'm coming on here and talking about the benefits because I was terrified that I had made things worse. But essentially, if you look at the picture of how your tongue is attached to all the fascia, it makes sense why my neck kinked my hip was more sore my my whole spine went into almost spasm because my body was unwinding. And I needed a lot of manual treatment, very technical, very specific, soft tissue techniques that my colleague Leah barbero, who was meant to be on here today because we learned how to clear the mouth inside opening up in the back that intra oral massage that we've done for concussion and stuff but really kind of getting in there and learning way more about how to clear that lymph. I mean that my eyes were all foggy burning and we released inside the mouth in here to get them draining into the tonsillar nodes. And I felt like my eyes were clear and my whites of my eyes have been getting clear. I still am getting my neck will kink. That's been a thing I had but it's done it multiple times right now as I unwind, but now I find myself actually sleeping at night. Anxiety is much less and I had to do a lot of exercises after my tongue was being pulled down by scar tissue I had a few blips in my healing because so much congestion was under my tongue. And no one really warned me so we've actually come up with a guide of what can happen how you could feel like I thought I couldn't breathe in the night. My tongue was so swollen, and under my tongue was so swollen and pushing up against my tongue that I was literally choking myself. It was terrifying. But I was able to work underneath my tongue. I was massaging castor oil under my tongue because it breaks apart scar tissue and lets things drain castor oil all over my neck something called immuno cream, which we sell at the Vegas clinic online store. It comes from New Zealand and it's got GC math in it and it tags stuff and helps you clear it out and that helped a ton. I mean we're doing a whole guide on it from you know day one to you know, even like they say eat popsicles but don't eat ones that have lemon in it. You know, like, just like these basic things and like toothpaste that you use afterwards. Shouldn't be minty that kills when you have open wounds. So I use dentist side and it's very gentle. It's from bio botanical research. And and then yeah, I just had so much come up that I had to work through and my arm swelled up. I had a terrible lymphatic rash on my arm because all the limbs that couldn't drain here because it was kind of overwhelmed, fell down by gravity. into my arms, and I got some stagnation there. Again, I'm already prone to these things. I had a strain of lime that severely blocks up your lymphatics. So but if you notice you're someone who's swells up or feels puffy like you're not draining properly either. And these are things that can help you regardless. So you need a good myofunctional therapist to see what your weaknesses are when you first get the tongue tie cut is just making sure you keep it moving because especially if they don't really stitch, the tongue tie can reattach. So you really got to get your tongue moving and not be kind of scared of the pain right after. So a lot of people might be able to relate to this I would always wake up with morning anxiety for I mean a lot of years on and off obviously way worse since having Lyme and CO infections and mold and whatever else that is but I have another episode on my whole health journey that I actually only did one part two and I have to do part two. But I've noticed that I wake up calm, I can sleep in more. I was one of those people it was like 536 and I was up and I didn't necessarily want to be up and I couldn't rev down my nervous system to get back to sleep. So I would just get up and do stuff and now I have to I hadn't set an alarm. You can ask anyone that knows me. I had not set an alarm. Unless it was like a 3am Wake up for like a 6am flight I have not set an alarming years. So now I find myself I wake up and I'm like it's 830 because I didn't set an alarm and I actually like can sleep. So that was a huge win for me and we know we release growth hormone when we sleep we do a lot of healing our brain drains the glymphatic system turns on like it's just your time to repair through everything for the day but I was not repairing for God knows how long and that's why it turned into this big thing. So when you go through something like I did you start to really look into these things that can be root causes for your health. And the tongue tie would be considered one of the structural ones. Another structural one for blood flow. To your brain is forward head posture. You know, a tight shoulder that's blocking drainage like you if you're sick and going through something right now when you're listening to this. There's it's a multi pronged approach. There's not a magic bullet but definitely these things give your body a break. So that you can you can heal but there's I did a lot of things before going to get my tongue tied cut before I felt comfortable that I could get through that type of trauma to the mouth and you know from doing that, you know, people used to make fun of dentists like they're not real doctors. They do that to chiropractors too and we're used to it but the mouth really is. It has become more obvious that the mouth is the gateway to the health of the body or you know, because even chronic sinus infections can be from oral dysbiosis. And so just from feeling like all my symptoms temporarily come back because my mouth was inflamed. It was a big aha moment. I I already knew but it just solidified that. So you know, any problems you have with jaw alignment, getting your tongue tie, checked or even check if you have, you know, a good tongue posture and there's not low tongue posture or posterior thrust of your tongue. There's all of this, you know, that people that specialize in this like a myofunctional therapist, I'm so interested in it. We've purchased a course that I have to go through now, but it just that connection to the rest of your body is just profound and I felt it firsthand. So if you are having troubles with your health and you haven't looked into something like this or you're having trouble with your kids, even, you know, behavior if it's a lot of gut symptoms, they're having a lot of chronic sinus stuff, you know, start to really zoned into the mouth, the airway, because when they're children, it's easy to expand their airway. They're still malleable, they still have growth plates. You know, it's a little bit harder when you're an adult and you can see people that are expanding their jaw and apparently I would benefit from that. But I'm not sure if I'm gonna go through it because they put a spacer here has to be drilled into your mouth. You have to stretch it out. It can be painful, you get like all your teeth separate. In the end you have a better your jaw sits better all this but there's definitely like an ugly duckling phase. But those whiter jobs make you more attractive and they make your cheekbones higher and all this so people see like these major changes with that but it is a big change. But when you're a child it can be as easy as a retainer that goes in and out. You have to wear it all the time but and you use the key now they have it like that it comes in and out. They're still the ones that they cement in for them but it doesn't have to be drilled up into their top of their mouth. So I don't think that's something I'll be doing anytime soon. But I will do I will continue to work on my dental health. One thing that's been really weighing on me is this is this root canal on the right molar that I have. And it's been kind of holding me back in my healing if that's my that's my feeling. So I hope this is helpful. If you are thinking of getting a tongue tie, reach out we have the tongue tie guide that's going to be ready soon. For post tongue tie but you know find a myofunctional therapist in your area we have a few other that do online stuff that we can post in the notes. We'll post in the notes the dentist that did my tongue tie release. She uses the co2 laser the type of laser matters to

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and you know that they're not cutting she had to use scissors and stuff to stretch my fascia as well. But I got a Z plasty with a rhomboid plasti and then Miami so that's how much they had to do with me. Sometimes you just need the Z plasti and then you heal very fast like very quickly. Most people you know it, it's nothing at all. The other ones are where they have to cut go deeper stitch it up. So then you have you know, some post surgical healing. And yeah, so you know, I went dark after November 30. It was a tough couple months. I'm coming out on the other side. I'm feeling the benefits, and most people don't have like these complicating factors. So I would definitely check out your tongue health as part of your healing journey or if you're into biohacking and you just want to be better. You can check if you're prone to injuries and you're an athlete you need to get your tongue checked. So yeah, the tongue is very much an important important muscle and everything in our mouth matters. So that's it for today. I hope you enjoyed the show and tune in next time for what happens in Vegas. recording stopped

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