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The Munch Bunch Podcast

Kimi Nishimoto & Megan Van Noy

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Myofunctional Therapy, holistic health, root cause treatment, healing the body, changing minds. We discuss all the ways that breathing dysfunction and oral dysfunction effects our bodies. This is meant for anyone to listen to and understand. Very few professionals are aware of airway dentistry and myofunctional disorders, we want to share our knowledge as well as specialists in these fields to open your mind to WHY we are the way we are. Key Issues: mouth breathing, TMJ pain, sleep apnea, to ...
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What started as a straw to keep you from getting coffee stains on your teeth, has been found to help a host of other interesting things! We welcome Alice Stone, creator of the Sipify straw. The Sipify straw's benefits and design were to drink hot coffee with a straw that will bypass the front teeth, aerate the liquid to cool it down, flat design to…
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Hope and fear in the dental experience. Bringing the EMPATHY back to business. Soft skills are the people skills in dentistry. Communication, empathy, compassion, building trust with patients, making people feel comfortable and their concerns heard. Could connecting to your patients be the hidden key for career burnout? Helping to manage patients d…
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Loving yourself into your goals and desires, don't beat yourself up into your goals. The person you will become when you love yourself, is going to be more comprehensive and aligned. Today we had the gift of hosting our friend Allison Lacoursiere, Your Clear Aligner Coach, and host of "Clearly Worthy Podcast". We are going to dive into imposter syn…
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Key highlights: Cranial Distortions, craniofacial distortion, sphenoid strain, asymmetric face, plagiocephaly flat head syndrome, torticollis, cranial chiropractic adjustments, birth trauma, cranial nerves, Vagus nerve. Dr Martin Rosen, Chiropractor and Pediatric Craniopath will be teaching us about the 12 cranial nerves and their functions and dys…
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Have you ever heard the ideal breath pattern? Would you be shocked it is 6 breaths per minute? The frequency of that breath is also 0.1 Hertz, could this be part of the secret to tapping into your spirit and inner peace? If you are like most people that makes you realize you probably breathed that many times as you read this! "Breath work is the ne…
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Wanna get away? Do you need a few days to focus on you, to get clear on your vision for your life, and to release what is holding you back. Sometimes in life we just need a few days to focus on ourselves, to have time set aside to think and to dream, and to release the internal beliefs about ourselves that do not serve us. This retreat will be: bus…
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Have you ever heard holistic dentistis talk about teeth and energy meridians, or teeth and chakras? Did this make you scratch your head in confusion? Here to explain it to us, we welcome back Dr Mary Afzali who has lectured on this for holistic dentists. Eastern Chinese Medicine uses energy meridians in the body when doing acupuncture, and even the…
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Dr David Alfi, oral surgeon and master of orthognathic double jaw surgery. Dr Alfi is really unique because he uses custom surgical plans so he can do a double jaw surgery in the same time it would take for a crown, 1 to 1.5 hours! Typical jaw surgery is closer to 8 hours! The other thing that makes Dr David Alfi unique is that his patients experie…
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Face Cupping for lymphatic drainage of the face and neck, guest The Facial Cupping Expert. You may have had cupping done where you get those intense bruise looking marks on the skin for a week, don't worry facial cupping is totally different. Face cupping using soft flexible silicone cups to help with tension in the face muscles, bring blood flow, …
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Special guest Alexandra Svalastog, Medical Hypnotherapist, Cognitive Behavioral Hypnotherapist, and Stress consultant. She helps work with the illusive subconscious through hypnosis to rewire the brain to create good emotional health. If you listened to the previous episode "Worms That Poop In Your Mouth" where Nancy talked about her hypnotherapist…
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This episode is truly special. Transitioning into another career, living a life of purpose and doing the thing you always wanted to do, not being defined by a disease diagnosis, and the healing power of faith and the power hidden in the subconscious even in the face of stage 4 ovarian cancer diagnosis. Nancy Fisher, dental hygienist who became an a…
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Building a community and a safe place to rant. Creating a space to get real and supporting each other in real life situations. Starting as a facebook group to vent about dentistry and to get feedback from otherdental hygienists, it has become a place to let your hair down and get things off your chest. Hygiene is a wonderful career but it can be fr…
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What is surf therapy? Using surfing as an intervention can help kids or adults with sensory processing disorders. Both profiles of sensory processing disorders can benefit, people with low awareness of their body and under active, and people who get too much stimuli with over active who need to down regulate. This can help with body awareness, prop…
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Who knew the pelvic floor had 3 layers? Did you know that you can get tight muscles and tension in the pelvic floor which can be the cause of back pain, sciatic pain, and pain with sex? We are gonna dive into all things vaginas, because you either have one or know someone who has one. As Dr Linda Sayyad says "No vaginas left behind"! We will talk a…
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From the baby babbles and cooing, to the first dada sounds, those are early speech sounds and early communication. Here to teach us about speech milestones is Grace Bernales, known as Graceful Expression SLP from Pasadena California. Grace is an early intervention SLP who has helped with kids as young as 16 months and also recently got trained in M…
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"You can't just flirt with sleep, you are all in or you are not." The Munch Bunch Podcast welcomes Dr Meghna Dassani, airway dentist in Houston Texas, podcaster of The Healthy Sleep Revolution, host of the Airway Is Life Summit, and author of "Airway is Life" and "The Tired Child". Dr Meghna Dassani will talk to us about her new book "The Tired Chi…
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Crosspod episode with Shelly Taft, IBCLC, Host of the Baby Pro Podcast. Shelley is going to talk about the baby signs of tongue ties or tension and common baby symptoms. The Munch Bunch will talk about the long term effects of missing the oral dysfunction and ties when they are missed as a baby and what that might look like with kids or adults. It'…
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Microdosing, the new hot buzzword. Mushrooms, LSD, ketamine, MDMA. What are they, what is the therapeutic purpose, what does it help with? Did you know they have been researching magic mushrooms for years for treatment of depression, OCD, PTSD. There are even facilitators for the terminally ill to help people feel less afraid of dying. With the new…
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Getting the brain benefits of deep sleep. This episode we talk with renowned sleep scientist “Dr Snooze” about: the SleepSpace app, sleep, insomnia, links between lack of deep sleep and dementia, marijuana as a sleep aid, and the “night cap” drink and how that changes sleep. Sleep Scientist Dr. Daniel Gartenberg aka “Dr. Snooze”, is a PHD recipient…
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Did you know that nasal breathing is a 6 step filtration process? We hear about how the nose filters the air but you will need to listen to learn how it all works! This process cleans the air, disinfects and traps pathogens, and helps the body to fight invaders. Everything from the nose hairs, turbinates, sinuses, mucus, nitric oxide gas, adenoids,…
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We welcome on Dr Shehab Faragallah, Dentist from Gold Coast Holistic Dental Care in Australia. Dr Shehab and his partner Dr Ibrahim El-Deeb created the Myospots, a product that helps with passive tongue posture and helps act like a tongue attractor to lift the tongue up into the palate. It is a great product we love for myofunctional therapy, becau…
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Watch the clips we recorded from the “tequila and tongue tie” conference in Scottsdale on our instagram @themunchbunchpodcast We had a blast. It was good food, good hotel, awesome pediatric dentists, and a heck of a dance party fiesta. So in lieu of a full episode we got clips on our instagram so you can go watch them there. This conference was uni…
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Guest Kelley Quolas, Myofunctional Therapist and RDH. You may know her from the funny myo reels on @MyMyoMyHealth on Instagram and Tik Tok. Kelley has 2 practices, Phoenix and East Valley Arizona. What we think is super cool about Kelley is that she has SLP who work in her practices. There is drama and territorial behavior around who can provide my…
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Ancestral dentistry, Dr Nick Koogler Breathe DDS has been doing some "caveman living experiments" on his body. He has been using a Miswak stick from the toothbrush tree, it is a stick humans have been using for thousands of years in the equatorial regions. He decided to stop brushing his teeth with a toothbrush and toothpaste and stopped flossing! …
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Dr Ben Curtis, the President of The Tequila and Tongue TiesConference in Scottsdale Arizona. The event is April 21-22 2023, at the WestinKierland Resort and Spa. The event is sponsored by Waterlase. The theme isteam implementation of tongue tie treatment. There will be guest speakers(listed below), 10+ CE credits, hands on use of the Waterlase erbi…
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Be one among the amazing bunch of 12 people who are going to experience an incredible and unforgettable 3 days in their life. Scale up your mindset, life, and business with our All Inclusive Experience in the beautiful Cap Cana Sanctuary in the Dominican Republic! November 9-12 2023. Does this sound like you? Do you have an idea of what you want yo…
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SARPE Surgically Assisted Rapid Palatal Expansion a technique to help with crowding and lack of palate tongue space. It's a combination of surgery to make cuts in the maxilla and expander with orthodontics to align the teeth. This is a great option for people who struggle to nose breathe, very narrow high palate, tongue has a hard time fitting in t…
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Why are some dental patients SO difficult? They gag, they choke on water, they can't open wide or stay open, everything is sensitive to cold water, you have to tip toe around sensitive roots, you can't clean their teeth like you normally would, taking x-rays makes them gag, hypersensitive palate, the facial muscles fight you, and all around everyon…
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Grab your Gua sha Stone and jade rollers, we are learning a hands on technique about how to do lymphatic drainage for the face. We will learn what lymph fluid does in the body, and how to gently open the lymph ducts. She will walk us through step-by-step how to lymphatically drain the face, and after that how to use to stones to release tension in …
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Have you ever thought of laughing as meditation? Your belly is squeezing and you are wheezing, you are totally in that moment. Did you know your brain doesn't know the difference between laughing on purpose and natural laughing? Think of Santa Claus "ho ho ho". Here to teach us the science behind laughter yoga and do a demo with us, we have Dr Laur…
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This is one to watch for sure! Guest Cole Clayton, Osteopath in Byron Bay Australia. He is going to explain cranial osteopathy, treating from the feet up to the head "Toes to Nose", explaining the connection of the foot arches and the arches of the jaws, as well as how cranial strain can effect the tongue and breathing dysfunction. Prepare for know…
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Author of The Mold Medic guest Michael Rubino. Michael's book The Mold Medic provides a step-by-step guide to mold remediation and improving indoor air quality so that everyone has the opportunity to create a safe and healthy home. He became a specialist in working with people who are immunocompromised or have acute and sustained reactions to mold …
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We all use them, we all just want to soothe the baby or get the toddler to go to sleep. We dread weaning off the pacifier, or the drama and fits that will ensue when the binkie has to go. We have stashes around the house for emergency use. We are humans! We will have real talk about pacifiers in this episode. We will talk about the long term implic…
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Here to prove how rapid palate expanders change how much airflow can go through the nose, Orthodontist Dr Bret Christensen of Lewiston Idaho. He has incredible data and cases so this is definitely one to watch, but you will learn so much either way! Dr Bret has been gathering data for years using the Rhinometer which measures airflow through the na…
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Guest Dr Mike Sinel, a medical Doctor who is an expert in pain management, back pain, and spinal disorders. He also wrote the book "Back Pain for Dummies". He is now the CEO of Medical Foods, a nutritional based encapsulated medical foods company. You know supplements and you know Tylenol, encapsulated medical foods is an in between therapy to addr…
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She's baaack, Dr Brita DeStefano "Progress Through Play PT". We will talk about long term effects of Torticollis and setting the stage of how a baby will move for the rest of their life. We will talk about possible links between scoliosis and torticollis, assymetrical movements, tension, and how a struggling parent can find help with a pediatric PT…
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Guests Kim Sherlock and Holly Steflik from CFT Global, educators and teachers of the Gillespie Approach. They will teach us about the fascia system, the layers of fascia, and also the Craniosacral system. This episode we discuss a new term, Brain Cycle, which is the rhythm of the brain. This episode will answer so many questions about fascia, but i…
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You will want to watch this on youtube or spotify!! Guest and miracle worker dentist Dr Mary Afzali from Lifetime Dental in Southern California. She is one of the most highly ranked Fast Braces providers in the world. She can do expansion cases in 5-12 months! And for some cases in as little as 90 days. Many people will come to her with pain of the…
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You will want to watch this on youtube or spotify!! Guest and miracle worker dentist Dr Mary Afzali from Lifetime Dental in Southern California. She is one of the most highly ranked Fast Braces providers in the world. She can do expansion cases in 5-12 months! Many people will come to her with pain of the jaws, or have been told surgery is their on…
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Megan Van Noy and Kimi Nishimoto talk all about learning self love and learning to find peace and safety in your body. We will discuss EFT Tapping technique (Emotional Freedom Technique) made very popular by The Tapping Solution. This episode will teach you the most common tapping points, what they are associated with, discuss energy meridians in t…
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Here we go with most common FAQ about therapy. We will talk about full programs vs session by sessions, how often should you meet with your therapist, insurance coverage, payment options and range of cost for therapy, does sleep coaching or breathwork replace therapy, does the exercises come with Myobrace count as therapy (ya...no), when do you HAV…
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Starting a new "Monday Munchees" tradition of a monthly Q&A to answer patients or other providers questions. Don't forget to DM or email us to ask your questions to join in on the fun! We have combined our names Megan and Kimi to form "Ask Mimi" a warm safe place to ask your questions and get some tips from us. This episode can be listened to on Ap…
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Claire Joyce, an Occupational Therapist in Australia, her practice is called "Learn Through Play". She will talk to us about how sensory processing works, what a sensory processing disorder might look like in a child, and how can we help kids who struggle with emotional regulation. Claire will teach us about the 8 sensory systems. We already knew a…
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Megan and Kimi will discuss as neutrally as we can some tips for picking your myofunctional therapist. We will discuss training and is there one training that is better than all others? Do you have to see a specific type of provider (RDH hygienist, SLP, PT, *OT)? Should you do virtual or in person therapy? Does your life and schedule align with wha…
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Guest Dr Brita DeStefano, or you may know her as "Progress Through Play PT". Dr Brita specializes in baby physical therapy for Plagiocephaly and Torticollis. Dr Brita will teach us more specifically about WHAT Torticollis is, how it might look, symptoms, and what can be done about it. Torticollis is common in babies and you may have a light bulb mo…
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Subconscious reasons for over eating and how to start changing. Guest Tracy Pleschourt, Self made U. Today we will discuss the psychology of WHY we over eat or other bad habits. Tracy will also talks to us about Mind Math to solve the WHY we do what we do and how our thoughts are creating our outcomes. Thoughts create a feeling which creates a reac…
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Guest Sav Bustos, from Souls Moving Mountains. We recommend this one to WATCH ON SPOTIFY OR YOUTUBE. Teaching us practical TIPS and TOOLS to learn some basics of meditation, WHY meditation and mindfulness can help regulate our nervous system, and then ending with a GUIDED MEDITATION for the chakras. In this episode Sav will teach us about how to sl…
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Autumn Henning, SLP Speech Language Pathologist busting Speech Myths, Kimi calls this one "Speech Myth Busters". She gives us so many insightful nuggets such as the "Top 3 Reasons for Speech Sound Disorders". We talk about the pharyngeal and esophogeal swallow and all the crazy things that need to happen in the throat after the food leaves the mout…
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Seini went through a lot to get here. From severe chronic ear pain, hearing loss, nasty headaches and tension, and severe TMJ problems. Seini has agreed to share her personal story about how she ended up getting MMA also known as double jaw surgery with Dr Kevin Coppelson. You may have seen her before and after pictures, she isn't just a poster-chi…
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Kelsey Baker is an Occupational Therapist who specializes in babies. Her focus is from the OT perspective, how can we help these babies move, eat functionally, and coordinate their movements as well as integrate reflexes. Reasons someone may benefit from working with an OT who is knowledgeable in oral motor dysfunction like Kelsey. feeding challeng…
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