vocal folds

true? And there's evidence that does show that it has something to do with it.

It dries out your vocal cords or something and can have a long-term effect.

So she said that that's why.

And it could also, vaping, a lot of people that vape, I guess, often pick up kind of a cough.

And then if your vocal cords are a little irritated and then you're coughing a lot, Oh, yeah.

And that's when you can start damaging it.

Uh-huh.

So,

What you do is you take the area of dysfunction, let's say it's right here, and you just work on the opposite side.

And one big structure that I didn't really understand until recently is the fascial connection between the vocal cords and how it connects to the vertebrae right next to it.

So I think what's happening with this technique is you're basically affecting fascia in the back part to create space in the front part.

It opens up.

With air going through it, you can control the pitch and and the volume of speech and singing.

The vocal cords are an amazing thing because they are affected by emotions.

And you can listen to someone and really pick up their emotions in their voice.

The vocal cords have an amazing ability to repair, but they do get inflamed.

Good.

Now, you're learning a lot about vocal cords-

Yes

... which is interesting, because we're, uh, we speak for a living-

Yeah

... and we knew nothing about vocal cords.

I did not.

Also knew, uh, knew not that the vocal cords look like a-

Ah, it's, it's great to be back.

I hope I didn't, uh, damage the vocal cords a little bit [laughs]

Mm.

I had to almost-

[laughs]

... that's what I would do.

Get a big roar in the car on my way to karaoke, make sure I clear the vocal cords.

It's a, it's a technique that I had when I was like in my early 20s.

And that's one of the things that I always listen for.

from people is, does it sound like their voice, their vocal cords are tired? I can usually pick it up.

And so it's always something that I ask people, do you feel like you have an achy throat by the end of the day? That was something that was very common for me.

I'll go in a little bit more on that a little bit later on.

There's more symptoms that can come with that, but those are some of the top ones.

The other thing that is very common is people start losing the outside parts of their eyebrows.

I want to talk a little bit about the vocal cords and the voice.

I know I've shared this before, but I want to share it again.