Are We All Swallowing Wrong? You May Have Been Doing It Your Whole Life!

Apparently a bunch of us might be swallowing wrong and people on social media are freaking out about it!

When you swallow, your tongue is supposed to just chill behind your teeth, but there is something called “tongue thrust” that makes it push forward when you swallow, talk, or even just rest.

It creates open bites, and over bites and can happen from stuff like thumb-sucking, allergies, or just plain genetics. So, are we all secretly swallowing wrong and nobody told us?

The good news is it’s fixable!

There’s this thing called myofunctional therapy that’s basically a workout plan for your tongue, teaching it where to rest and how to behave.

The catch? You actually have to practice doing tongue push-ups at home.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
So swallowing is involuntary, right, you just do it, blinking involuntary.
Let just do it. Your body automatically does it. You
don't have to think about it, which is pretty remarkable.
It's like breathing, right, you just swallow and you think
you're doing everything the way you should be doing it.
Now people are talking about how we've been swallowing wrong
all our lives. What's that mean?

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Some people have, some people haven't, And it's freaking a
lot of people out on social media because they're all
fixating on whether the fact they have a tongue that
rests wrong. So basically, your tongue is supposed to chill
behind your teeth, but there's something called tongue thrust that
makes it push forward when you swallow, talk, or even
you're just at rest, and basically your tongue is out

(00:40):
here acting like it owns the place, leaning up against
your teeth the entire time, which creates open bites, overbites,
things like that. And it can happen from stuff like thumbsucking,
allergies or just genetics. But it's fixable, and you have
to do some sort of almost like X size. It's

(01:01):
called myofunctional therapy and basically it's like a workout plan
for your tongue, teaching it where to rest and how
to behave. And this is why I wanted to bring
it up, because intern Amy and producer MICHAELA both were like,
I have this, so I.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
Don't need one more thing to like focus on. Honestly,
there's so much data now that I just I don't
want to think about. Am I swallowing aroung? I gotta
give myself a pass on that you are.

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