The Munch Bunch Podcast

Kotlow part 2, if you missed part 1 you better go back and listen. He is back to share all his knowledge nuggets about practical and realistic aftercare for infant tongue tie releases also known as frenectomy. We often hear in the Facebook groups that they were told no stretching, 6 times a day, 1 week only, etc. Everyone has differing opinions or will blame you for not doing the stretches and tha...

James Nestor is a journalist who is known for his groundbreaking book Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art and DEEP: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What The Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves . He has become a huge advocate for nasal breathing and sleep science and health and is educating and bringing this subject to light. We breathe about 25,000 times a day. Very often we hear that there is not...

Celebrity guest, Coy Bowles musician of The Zac Brown Band shares his story about his tongue tie and myofunctional therapy journey with Kimi. Coy is a musician, singer, writer of children’s books, and advocate for children. Links will be below. Coy will share his symptoms which include: tongue thrust swallow, chronic pain, TMJ, chronic headaches, anxiety, fatigue, poor sleep quality, mouth breathi...

A pioneer in the tongue tie or tethered oral tissues (TOTS) field, Dr Larry Kotlow. He has been doing releases since the 70’s! In a time where hardly anyone would do a release, people would trek from all the other states or from other countries to have him release their baby’s ties. Author of the book “SOS 4 TOTS”. Dr Kotlow is going to walk us through how the tongue is a complex muscle with most...

Giving us all the details about the EASIEST to use WatchPat home sleep study, Glennine Varga. In today’s episode we will talk all about the spectrum of sleep disordered breathing. Starting with mouth breathing, snoring, upper airway resistance (UARS), and sleep apnea. She will walk us through how to use a WatchPat and most importantly how to read and understand what it means. The WatchPat can tell...

Dr Priya Mistry is a TMJ specialist in Vancouver, Washington. She specializes in Temporal Mandibular Joint Disorders such as acute pain of the jaws, clicking, popping, jaw getting locked, crackling jaws, ear related symptoms (stuffy ears, ringing, ear pain without an ear infection, tingling in the face), chronic headaches.  Some people with jaw joint pain or arthritis opt to get out of immedi...

For parents wanting to pull their hair out, help is on the way! Sleep training guru, Certified Child and Family Sleep Consultant Jenni June is in the house! Jenni June is known for being on talk shows, celebrity sleep coach, The Doctors show, Breathe Institute, and mom of 4. She has an online virtual program called "Toddler and big Kid Sleep Program" as well as one on one virtual sleep c...

Munch Bunch listeners we have a special surprise, a presentation from a renowned Vivos lecturer Dr Toshi Hart. *Make sure to watch on YouTube or spotify* This is normally taught to dentists to educate about airway but we are here to hook you up and give you a very in depth explanation of why so many of us struggle. People are always super curious about preformed children's appliances and Vivos pal...

He literally wrote the book on Tongue Ties, Dr Richard Baxter author of "Tongue Tied" and creator of "Tongue Tied Academy" the training program for dentists to treat ties and do releases. Today's episode we talk about all the different symptoms of ties throughout different ages. How ties would manifest as a baby, toddler, child, teen, adult.  To read the free ebook of "Tongue Tied" book https...

Face yoga a Tik Tok trend or real? Does Face Yoga replace Myo?  Luckily Kimi has become a Face Yoga practitioner and will answer all these questions. Face Yoga is like a more advanced of Myofunctional therapy. It requires the basics of Myo: nasal breathing, tongue up, being able to neurologically tell different muscles what to do. Myo is for health and airway. Face Yoga is for health and beau...

This one is geared towards the ladies, but also for anyone with a pelvic floor (which is literally everyone). Here to teach us all about it is Dr Hillary O'Connor aka The Wellness PT. She explains what a pelvic floor is, what pelvic floor dysfunction looks like, and symptoms to look for. This could be things like hip pain, low back pain, pelvic tucking or "pregnancy pose", butt clenching, painful...

Here to break it down for parents of kids with Sleep Disordered Breathing, Dr Tara Erson. This episode also available on Youtube and Spotify to see the cases we cover. Tara will be showing us cases and pictures of red flags to look for when it comes to looking at children's smiles and bites. She walks us through some basic common issues that would be a red flag that child will need early orthodont...

Guest Anders Olmanson, CEO and creator of REMastered Sleep and the REMplenish Myofunctional water bottle. We had heard of this water bottle from Dr Zaghi, and were curious if it actually helped. Megan and Kimi both got them to product test and try them out. Result: WE LOVE IT. Plain and simple. You can feel the swallow happening how it was designed to, with the tongue working like a pump. You also...

Dr Felix Liao is a whole health dentist who specializes in expansion and using a holistic approach to treat airway. He is the author of "6 Foot Tiger 3 Foot Cage", "Early Sirens", and "Licensed to Thrive" all very helpful books for anyone to learn about airway and whole body health. He is located in Falls Church, Virginia http://wholehealthdentalcenter.com/meet-dr-felix-liao/  Today we talk about...

We snagged Dr Dave Shirazi for part 2 where he explains more in depth how ALF works. ALF stands for Advanced Lightwire Functional appliance. This episode is also available to view on our YouTube channel for Dr Shirazi's amazing presentation of his before and after cases and explanation of how ALF expansion works. Link here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRpmKTjTBqY  Dr Shirazi does a simple...

Baby talk with our friend Milk Matters PT, Dr Gigi Tadros. Her practice is called In Home Pediatric PT in New Jersey. She is a powerhouse of helpful tips and information for empowering parents to help navigate baby issues such as tension, trouble with tummy time, oral motor development, tongue ties, and more. She teaches us today about how tension effects the nervous system, benefits of tummy time...

Did you know that around 70% of head and neck pain comes from the TMJ? Common symptoms would be chronic tension, headaches and some types of migraines, jaw pain, chronic teeth sensitivity, receding gums. Some of this can be muscular or function related, which is when Myofunctional Therapy can help. For complex and anatomical issues with the cranial facial bones and bite issues, we defer to dentist...

The Munch Bunch Myo Podcast happily presents guest: Dr Miles Nichols, Functional Medicine Doctor. He is located in Colorado at Medicine with Heart. https://medicinewithheart.com/ He comes back for part 2 talking about Mold Illness and Lyme disease. If you missed his other podcast with us, check out The Gut Brain and Calming the Vagus nerve episode. Dr Miles teaches us about what Mold Illness or Mo...

Find Kimi Nishimoto on Instagram @MouthMuscleMemory or www.mouthmusclememory.com Find Megan Van Noy on Instagram @NWMFT or www.oralfacial-myology.com Our very own Megan Van Noy is a new mommy. She suspected her baby would be born tongue tied since she was and her partner was. She had her team ready and in place: an IBCLC picked out and a release provider. Even being in the field and hearing other...

The Munch Bunch Myo Podcast happily presents guest: Dr Miles Nichols, Functional Medicine Doctor. He is located in Colorado at Medicine with Heart. https://medicinewithheart.com/ He teaches us about the Gut Brain Connection. How dysbiosis or dysregulation of the gut flora can effect our emotional states as well as body systems. He also teaches us what the difference between Functional Medicine and...

Special guest: Jessica Miller, Cranial Sacral Therapist, Osteopathy, Massage Therapist, baby led sleep coaching. She is located in British Columbia, Canada.  Jessica contact:  Email: jessica@theafterglowcentre.com  Instagram: @the.afterglow.centre  Facebook: The After Glow Centre Kimi contact: Web: www.mouthmusclememory.com Instagram: @mouthmusclememory Megan contact: web: www....

Heather is a seasoned mom, she is mother to 6 children, all of which have been tongue tied. She never knew the first 3 were tied until they were much older. Today we focus on her 5th baby born at 26 weeks, less than 2 pounds, surviving twin, soo small he was considered a micro premie! There are obviously many challenges and needs for such a small baby and many feeding issues that come with that. H...

Clenching and grinding. It causes recession, cracked teeth, flat worn teeth and tension and tight muscles in the jaws. For years in dental we just told people they were stressed. To fully break down why it happens we brought on one of our favorite airway dentists all the way in Singapore. Dr Yue Weng Cheu talks about how the airway distress and breathing relate to the clenching and grinding. He al...

Our very own Megan Van Noy tells her story about going to LA to have Dr Zaghi at The Breathe Institute do her tongue tie release. She tells all about the process and how it felt. She did a home sleep study results, showing she had positional UARS or upper airway resistance syndrome when she is on her back. The Breathe Institute did a 3D jaw and airway image showing her bone structure is still defi...

Today Megan Van Noy and Kimi Nishimoto talk about our favorite lip tape also known as mouth tape. The premise is simple: humans are only meant to breathe with the nose and when the jaw falls back and relaxes in our sleep, or the mouth opens and we breathe with the mouth, the airway collapses. For nasal issues check our our podcast about decongesting the nose from a previous podcast, you must be a...