hey, guys. dr. josh axe here. welcome to ancient medicine today. i'm here live, so excited to be here withyou. so today's episode, i'm going to be coveringsix natural remedies to help you heal tmj. and tmj is a condition to where your jawbonestarts to shift off more to one side. typically, you get clicking and this can actuallylead to headaches, neck pain and severe jaw pain, especially if it's not corrected overtime. so in this video, i'm going to be going throughthe best diet, supplements, food, essential
oils and natural treatments for healing tmjand getting tmj relief very very fast. and this is something i've actually workedwith hundreds and hundreds of patients with over the years as practicing natural medicineand functional medicine here as well. and by the way, do me a favor right now. help me share this message. there are millions of people…did you knowthis? there are millions of people right now takingmedications and just sort of…especially over the counter medications trying to dealwith chronic pain of tmj, headaches and neck pain.
and they don't realize there's a very, veryeasy solution fix. so take a minute right now, punch your sharebutton, click that share button, help me spread the word that food is medicine right now. let's jump into treatment number one, targetedexercises. now, here is something i'm going to show you. this is one of the fastest, most effectivelong-term remedies. one of the biggest causes of tmj can be fromover chewing on one side of your mouth. so think about this. notice this next time you're chewing food.
if you are chewing something, do you chewon only the left side or only the right side of your mouth? there are many people who do not chew bilaterally. so here's what happens. they start chewing, let's say it's all thetime on that left side of the mouth, what happens is that masseter muscle right here,that big muscle in your jaw starts getting really strong and tight, and starting to pullto one side and the other side gets weak. so what you can do is this. go in a mirror and slowly open your jaw.
watch this for a second. slowly open and close your jaw and see ifyour jaw shifts off to one side or another. let's say you're always chewing on that leftside, that left side has become too strong and you know it, you start to see that jawshift over the left side. what you're going to do is get a clothespin,okay? a clothespin, you're going to the open sideand bite down on it. you're going to…not too hard, but just slightlybite down for five seconds, release, five seconds. you're going to do that five times, threetimes a day.
many people do this while they're driving,they put a little clothespin in their car and do it while they're driving. that is actually going to be the biggest...addressing the root cause and getting to the cure the fastest, is figuring out why youare clenching down on one side more than other. now, oftentimes, it's chewing, another thingcould be emotional stress. you're mostly stressed or you're biting down. but i'm telling you that targeted exercisewith a close pin is a remedy that doctors or chiropractic have been prescribing in theirpatients for years. now, number two here is posture.
now, if you can start to get something calledforward head posture…forward head posture, you should have a full curve in your neck. when your head starts to go forward like thisfrom sitting in a desk all day, nursing a newborn baby, carrying heavy things, thesethings, over time, can lead to poor posture. when your neck moves forward, it puts pressureon the upper bone in your neck called the atlas bone, that in turn, that atlas is veryconnected to your jaw. it can actually cause your jaw to shift outof alignment and put damaging pressure there. so a few natural things for posture, one,start doing exercise especially things that open up your back and shoulders.
getting some dumbbells and doing what arecalled reverse flies are good. getting a cable or a band and doing rows aregood. also, anything where you're working your reardelts or rhomboids, your back, pull-ups, things like that, opening up your chest, these exercisesare going to be good as well. the other thing is going and getting workdone by a chiropractor can also help improve your posture. they can actually adjust your jaw for tmj,they can do specific adjustments to relieve stress in that back that can cause forwardhead posture. but improving your posture is key to gettingrid of tmj.
the number three here is reducing emotionalstress. you know, for a lot of people, they tend toclench while they sleep. what i would recommend is take a healing bathat night. so here's what you're going to do, get a bunchof essential oils of lavender. i'd also get some peppermint, maybe some peppermintoil, rub it on your jaw and i would get epsom salt, put it in a bath. soak in a bath before bed for 20 minutes. go to sleep. i found in working with patients that it greatlyreduces emotional stress and tension, and
will reduce clenching or grinding of the jawwhile you sleep. now, sometimes people can get a mouth guardas well, can be beneficial. but to really get to the root cause, reducingemotional stress is big. number four, follow an anti-inflammatory diet. now, here are some of the key nutrients youwant to get in order to get rid of tmj. you want to get lots of omega-3 fats in yourdiet, lots of enzymes and lots of magnesium, okay? those are the nutrients you want into lookin. you want to take time right now and just searchmy name in the nutrient…look up "dr. axe
magnesium food list", "dr. axe omega-3 foodlist", and "dr. axe enzyme-rich foods." and i have articles written on my website,draxe.com that go specifically the top 10 foods in each and every one of those categories. so, number one, get more omega-3 fatty acids. you're going to find omega-3fats and highlevels in the wild-caught fish such as salmon, mackerel, tuna, sardines. most wild-caught fish is going to be highin omega-3 fats, which reduce inflammation. flax seeds, chia seeds, hemp seeds, walnuts,these are omega-3-rich foods that can naturally reduce inflammation.
also, i mentioned enzymes. enzymes are found in high amounts in vegetablesand fruit. so start eating more fruits and vegetableson a regular basis. and then, also, i would say doing magnesium-richfoods. dark chocolate is a magnesium-rich food. pumpkin seeds are high in magnesium, certaintypes of red meat, spinach is very high, avocados. so go online, make sure you look up "dr. axemagnesium-rich food." you'll find my food list on there. but remember, get omega-3 fats, get enzymesand get magnesium.
you might also consider taking a magnesiumsupplement, 500 milligrams a day, and an omega-3 supplement, 1000 milligrams a day to helpyou reduce inflammation and relieve that stress on the tmj joint. remember magnesium is known as the relaxationmineral so it can help relax a tight jaw. guys, if you're enjoying this live trainingright now, take a minute right now, help me spread the message because there are millionsof people living with chronic pain in their neck, getting headaches and jaw pain due totmj. take a minute right now, punch that sharebutton, help me spread the message right now by sharing this info because there are millionsof people we can help them right now.
number five here, bone broth. you know, bone broth contains amino acids,proline and glycine, as well as it contains chondroitin, glucosamine and hyaluronic acid. now, listen. glucosamine, chondroitin and hyaluronic acid,they can actually help lubricate and strengthen the connective tissue of your jaw. a lot of times, if you're a person with tmj,do you ever feel like you have bone on bone pain, like there's this grinding happeningin this area? well, just like glucosamine and chondroitinand hyaluronic acid have been proven to help
out with arthritis of the knee, arthritiscarpal, pain in all of your joints, well, listen. tmj, tmj stands for temporal mandibular andthen joint, it's the joint right there as well. so again, it's really helping heal that jointspecifically. bone broth contains glucosamine, chondroitinand hyaluronic acid, all of which help you build healthy connective tissue and can actuallyrelieve arthritic pain in your joints. so if you have tmj, you absolutely want tostart drinking bone broth every single day. now, you can buy bone broth frozen, you canmake it yourself at home or the most easy,
convenient way is going and buying a bonebroth powder protein. so, there's bone broth protein powder, doinga scoop of that in a smoothie every single day is great for your body. and number six, relieve pain the natural way. one of my favorite ways of relieving of naturalpain relievers is using peppermint or wintergreen essential oil. you can make your own at home muscle rub. in fact, i have a recipe for that on my website,draxe.com. if you just search or on google search, "dr.axe muscle rub," i have a rub to include the
mix of cayenne pepper and peppermint essentialoil. so have you ever heard of a product calledicy hot? well, icy hot gets things cool and warm. that opens up arteries, which can actuallyhelp increase the circulation and the healing of an area. so peppermint oil with cayenne, peppermintoil is very cooling, cayenne pepper is very warming. when you blend those two things together orpeppermint oil with black pepper oil, those two together have tremendous benefits.
so you can find my natural muscle rub online,or just do peppermint oil with black pepper oil. mix those together with some coconut oil anddo a one-minute rub on that jaw. so really, that jaw muscle right there, yourmasseter muscle, you simply get on there and massage that, as well as your now upper neckarea. massage those two areas, can absolutely relievetmj pain there as well. there are some other natural pain relieversinternally, turmeric or cumin are very powerful, ginger, bromelain. so these herbs are naturally anti-inflammatoryand great for reducing inflammation and giving
you natural pain relief in the body. but my biggest recommendation is taking allof these things together and i guarantee you're going to see phenomenal results in healingyour tmj. targeted exercise with the clothespin on theside of weakness. improving your posture with doing a standingdesk is great. specific exercises to strengthen your backmuscles as well as seeing a chiropractor, reduce stress, emotional stress, take thathealing soaking bath at night, natural anti-inflammatory diet with magnesium. omega three fatty acids and enzyme rich foods,bone broth and natural pain relievers, such
as peppermint oil, mix with cayenne pepperor black pepper essential oil, mixing those together giving yourself a self-treatmentmassage. it's great for helping heal tmj. and by the way, if you guys are enjoying andloving this live training, take a minute right now and press that share button. help me spread the message. or, hey, text this, email this, share thiswith someone you know and love who needs to know this information today. and by the way, if you're not subscribed here,make sure you subscribe because i'm always
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