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Episode: 0073 – Weird Facts About Your Tongue
Description: The strongest muscle in the human body based on its weight, are the jaw muscles (‘masseters’). They can close the teeth with a force as great as 55 pounds (25 kilograms) on the incisors or 200 pounds (90.7 kilograms) on the molars. So relax the jaw when you can, let it drop to a slightly-open rest position (you can keep your mouth closed so you don’t look gormless!) and reduce the tension there and in the whole neck area. (Depending on how you measure ‘size’ and ‘strength’, other strong muscles are the heart, calves, gluteus maximus ‘bottom...