The “Spot” is special

[Deleted member 1973]

- it is the place on the roof of the mouth when the trigeminal nerve ends. When the spot it touched, it turns on other parts of your brain! According to the lecture given by Antonio Ferrante MD, DDS, a lecturer at the AAMT Congress, stimulating the spot turns on the in the brain and neuroreceptors improves brain function! This promotes overall correct body posture, muscle movement, and neurotransmitter production such as dopamine, serotonin, acetylcholine and norepinephrine.

Touching this spot has been shown to have a protective effect against breast cancer, and also stimulates melatonin and prolactin development. Melatonin controls all the circadian rhythms- it’s a timekeeper for the body structures and immune endocrine systems. It improves sleep and cognitive function. All from placing the tongue in its proper spot! Dr Ferrante discussed getting an autistic child to speak by placing Nutella on “the spot” 12 times per day- the child rubbed it off with his tongue and started speaking. I have searched for this paper but since my Italian ability is nonexistent, I was not able to cite his paper here. As soon as the AAMS Congress publishes their papers from the conference I will cite the source of his lecture research. He did show a video of a gentleman with Parkinson’s disease walking on a ramp both without his tongue on the spot and then again with the tongue in the proper place on his spot. The transition was nothing short of a miracle!

http://queenofdentalhygiene.net/2015/09/the-mighty-tongue/

 

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