The Munch Bunch Podcast

Dr Staci Whitman from NoPo kids (North Portland, Oregon) comes on our show to tell us what amazing ways she is doing early intervention to change the lives of these kids by education on nutrition, helping catch sleep disordered breathing from the beginning, and identifying MOUTH BREATHING early to reduce cavities but also get the most optimal growth. She also does laser CO2 frenectomy or tongue an...

Did you know that you can activate new bone growth using the stem cells in the ligaments around the teeth and in the sutures of the mouth? In dentistry and medical we have been taught that the palate fuses at age 15-17 and without surgery to cut and reposition the jaw bones you are stuck with what you have. The smaller the mouth, the smaller the home for the tongue, and the smaller the AIRWAY will...

In this very special episode that it near to Kimi’s heart, we have her boyfriend Andy as a guest telling his myofunctional disorder story. Andy got allergies when he was young, started mouth breathing, his adenoids were soo big that no ENT would touch them, no one ever thought to talk about his mouth breathing. He had orthodontics but they left him with a bad end to end bite, open bite, and a tong...

A real patient interview with Jennifer after she finished therapy 2 years ago. She tells her story of having a tongue thrust as a kid, having braces and never really knowing her tongue was meant to have a home in the palate. She had to get allergy shots, mouth breathed, low tongue posture, and tongue thrust. As she got older the low tongue posture and tongue thrust led to chronic daily headaches w...

Wendy is a real life patient who sought Megan out. Wendy shares her story of anxiety, crippling panic attacks, mouth breathing, and not being able to get sleep. Through myofunctional therapy she has been able to learn breathing techniques to get through panic attacks, exercise, she can sleep, and shared her experience with nasal breathing. She also shares how she has seen Dr Gominak the sleep coac...

Today we discuss cosmetic complaints that stem from mouth breathing. Many of our common beauty concerns such as: dark circles under the eyes, chapped cracked lips, thin flat upper lip, having to highlight and contour to create a jawline, weak chin, double chin, weak jawline, crooked teeth, hump back, redness around the lips, weak cheekbones, looking tired, dowager hump, wrinkles around the lips. T...

Kicking off mouth breathing awareness month in May. We talk about our ideas for the month and about why chewing with the mouth open is unhealthy. Chewing with the mouth open causes domino effects in our digestion, air swallowing, bloating, choking, heartburn, gas, not enough chewing, and constipation or diarrhea. Sometimes we can’t breathe with our nose and that’s why, or we just got in the habit....

Dr Dan walks us through the new breathing mindfulness practice Wim Hof. It has been proven to help with sleep breathing dysfunction, stress, anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts, and strengthens the immune system through cold ice baths. We also break down how it differs from Buteyko breathing. Dr Dan also walks us through some guided Wim Hof exercises and Megan and Kimi talk about how it felt. E...

In this very special episode we have guest star Dr Dan Hanson joining us from Australia. He runs Myofocus and invented the Sleepystrip mouth tape. He is a Buteyko breathing specialist. Today he is teaching us about tapping into our own nervous system to reset our breathing and change our need for oxygen. He walks us through how to do some practical Buteyko method exercises. This is helpful for: mo...

The Munch Bunch has a great guest star, Holistic Lactation Jacqueline Kincer, online teletherapy for IBCLC, CSOM. She specializes in online lactation consulting and oral exercises. She walks us through how breastfeeding forms the mouth and face and airway. She talks to us about how breastfeeding SHOULD NOT hurt, and what it means if it does. We talk about how many babies with feeding issues have t...

In today’s episode we walk through the negative effects of mouth breathing on the mouth and body. But more importantly we go over a whole list of tips to clear the nose and decongest. Buteyko breathing exercise, how to properly blow the nose. And Kimi breaks it down on product review for nasal dilators and nose sprays. It’s all trial and error, see what works for you! Kimi’s favorite nose openers...

The Munch Bunch have a special Colorado guest star, tongue tie extraordinaire Dr Jesse Witkoff  from Colorado Tongue Tie. Dr Jesse was a pediatric dentist for decades before he discovered the obsession with tongue and lip ties. He now only sees people for releases, anywhere from infants a few days old to elderly adults. He is a great mentor and is the number one person we recommend for ties i...

In this episode we will discuss types of tongue ties such as anterior tongue tie and how to find the elusive posterior tongue tie. We talk about why tongue ties happen in the womb, that they are genetic defects formed around 12 weeks in utero. We discuss how a tongue tie changes how our muscles and mouth function and how that can manifest. We will walk through how we identify them, resources and p...

Your hosts: Kimi Nishimoto and Megan VanNoy, virtual myofunctional therapists. In our podcast we discuss what Myofunctional Therapy is, what myofunctional disorders are, and most common symptoms. This could be anything from: mouth breathing, tongue tie, tongue thrust, drooling, snoring, sleep apnea, teeth grinding, clenching, TMJ disorders, gagging, choking on food or water, chronic nose picking,...