The Way You Speak Changes Your Face | Full Guide

Añadido: 2026-05-05

[00:00:00]The way you speak, your accent, your pronunciation, and your language all shape your face. It sounds nuts. It sounds crazy. [music] But, let me break it down scientifically. There are over 40 muscles within your face, all of which need to be used in perfect unison to speak, to annunciate, and to form your myofunctional habits: chewing, breathing, swallowing, and posture. Now, think of how much in your entire life you've spoken. Think [music] about the way that your tongue hits the roof of your mouth to pronounce a certain letter or word. Think of the way that your face adapts to create this sound, how your palate widens and then goes in, and how this therefore shapes the muscles within [music] your face. And amongst that, remember that your tongue can apply up to 600 [music] g of force, and it takes less than 20 g of force to shift [music] a tooth. Therefore, if your tongue is hitting in certain patterns because you've learned a certain way of speaking, then consider how this can shape your palate and your entire face.

[00:01:03]And a reminder that your tongue presses against the inferior side of the maxilla. That sounds complicated, but the bone in the center of your skull that determines how your face develops, the maxilla, [music] is directly influenced by pressure from your tongue onto your palate. And your tongue posture is further supported by things like the orbicularis oris muscle. So, for example, you can take a language like French, where they often say "ooh", forcing the orbicularis oculi muscle to become overdeveloped, leading to a slightly pouty face and look. Equally, you can look at cultures like Russian, where they have tighter pronunciation and harder consonants, potentially leading to more developed jaw muscles and a tighter face. And remember, when the tongue sits on the roof of the mouth, this also influences the tightness of the skin under your jaw.

[00:01:52]And I know this firsthand, because when I interned at Myofunctional Institutes, [music] one of the first things that I managed to naturally fix by strengthening the muscles was my lisp.

[00:02:02]When I had a lisp, my tongue remained low within my mouth, I had more of a double chin, more of a recessed jaw, and [music] my face was less tight. Since I've naturally re-corrected that, expanded my palate, and retrained my muscles, my face has become tighter, my breathing clearer, and as a result, my speech and pronunciation have even slightly [music] shifted. And by no means is this aimed at putting any cultures on a pedestal or putting any others down. [music] This is just highlighting a really interesting insight into the way that our faces actually develop and the role that our tongues and speech patterns most definitely have in forming our facial structure, and also even our health, because the wider your palate, the better you breathe. The better you breathe, the longer you live, and the healthier every other process within your body becomes. [music] But, I will break down exactly how someone can slightly tighten their face and improve their speech naturally. [music] Firstly, you can try the exercise of tongue chewing, where you take a piece of gum and repeatedly push it against the T-spot, aka the incisive papilla. This will strengthen the genioglossus and hyoglossus muscles within your tongue, [music] encouraging better tongue posture and clarity of speech. Equally, you can also train the orbicularis oculi muscle, which is partially [music] responsible for the way that you swallow, and the better someone swallows, the better their tongue posture, the better their facial posture, and the better everything else becomes. And in order to train this, you can simply suck in your cheeks and create the loudest popping sound [music] possible, and repeat this 10 times for two sets. You can train the muscle, you can see the exercise on the screen here, [music] and this is supremely effective.

[00:03:35]Because the reality is, our faces are much more malleable than people realize.

[00:03:39]It is exceptionally easy to become the [music] healthiest, best-looking version of yourself. Everyone has just deviated from the way that we were intended to live. If you retrain the muscles, if you loosen the fascia, [music] and you tighten up your habits, you can completely transform, and you can see my own transformation in these photos.

[00:03:55]Equally, here are loads of client transformations, which are completely undeniable, cuz these are people over the age of 25 literally expanding their palate and shifting their nose, all of which are from my private community. If you're interested and you want more information, and you want to learn how to improve your looks by fixing the actual root cause, your health, then you're more than welcome to join my private community. You'll have access to routines, four live calls per week, plus hundreds of previous recordings, and you'll even get access to your own real personal accountability coach. So, if you want to go for it, you can scan the QR code on the screen, or you can click the link in the description. It's time to take action. This is just the tip of the iceberg. Health [music] is looks.