Beauty is Bone Deep: Learn How We Grow A Beautiful Face. Plus, Why Doing So Sustains Health of the Body + Mind. (ePub)

The enlightening book "Beauty Is Bone Deep" by Author Katrina Fahey unravels the science of Craniofacial Functional Medicine and the critical link between craniofacial health and holistic wellbeing. Drawing upon the fields of human anthropology and modern lifestyle influences, this book explores the profound impact altered lifestyles play on craniofacial development, health and longevity. Through a meticulous examination of the natural craniofacial shape and its connection to proper oxygenation of the brain and body, Fahey delves into the critical role played by the craniofacial structure in maintaining optimal health. This thought-provoking exploration sheds light on the implications of underdeveloped jaws and compromised nasal breathing, revealing their association with prevalent chronic diseases that plague our society.

Writer and researcher Katrina Fahey embodies a unique intersection where anthropology, evolutionary psychology, sociology, orofacial myology, and craniofacial functional medicine converge. At present, a substantial portion of the population struggles to develop jaw structures conducive to optimal nasal breathing. Airway and sleep-related issues are widespread in modern societies, yet many individuals endure these challenges quietly within a healthcare system that frequently disregards airway size discrepancies as a risk factor for health. The dimensions and functionality of nasal passages are not solely dictated by genetics but are significantly shaped by early childhood influences, including factors like modern soft diets, pacifiers, bottles, and sippy cups that can disrupt oral development and tongue posture crucial for mouth roof development, as well as indoor environments that trigger chronic allergies. Katrina points out how issues concerning facial development have persisted unnoticed, as traditional dentistry wrongly attributed facial appearance solely to genetics, without substantial scientific backing. Anthropological studies have revealed a rapid decline in craniofacial skull dimensions among modern humans over the past two centuries, a transformation attributed to the rapid lifestyle changes accompanying modernity. While the contemporary wellness model emphasizes nutrition and exercise, it often neglects the crucial role of facial development for airway and sleep health, a basic tenet for a health nervous system, immune system and detoxification and repair of cells.

Today's most prevalent and deadly chronic diseases are rooted in oxidative stress, low blood nitric oxide levels, inflammation, and poor sleep, factors created by an impaired upper airway. Conditions like heart disease, lung disease, obesity, obstructive sleep apnea, depression, anxiety, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and Autism Spectrum Disorder each highlight impaired breathing, sleep quality, poor circulation, and ineffective detoxification processes, as their key criteria, issues fundamentally linked to airway functionality and oxygen supply.

Katrina works to educate the world about airway development and non invasive orthodontic methods to evoke one's dormant natural beauty. In doing so she hopes to steer people away from the alluring booming plastic surgery industry which augments faces artificially while serving to camouflage the signs of unhealthy faces with undersized jaws and airways. She also works to educate on a polarized orthodontic field that has two opposing frameworks, a disempowered and often damaging traditional model that routinely extracts teeth and moves bites with braces, hindering or diminishing jaw and airway size, and an opposite progressive approach which is "full face" acting to expand jaws to house straighter teeth which developing the undersized mouth roof and airway and bring the entire face into harmony.