Andrew Huberman· PhD
nonetheless inflammation in the neck and head area where frankly anywhere within the sinus area so this would include the mouth the nose around the eyes because the sinuses many of us think of sinuses as just our nose but actually if I were to show you a skull a human skull or any other kind of skull you'd be very hopefully intrigued to learn that the skull is just not one big piece of solid bone or a you know a top with a jaw below it it actually has all these small what are called fenestrations little holes and canals that run through the skull and through the depth of the skull like little tubes you've got them down here on your mandible you've got them above your lips you have them um on either sides of your nose those are the sinuses the sinuses allow the passage of different fluids through the skull because the skull even though it's bone it's not a dead tissue right in a live person or animal the skull is a very active living tissue indeed all bone is active living tissue and it needs to be nourished with blood it needs to be nourished with cerebral spinal fluid in the case of the skull it needs to be nourished with all sorts of important things so those sinuses oftentimes can become clogged as is in the case with sinus headache which we'll talk about in a little bit but more generally anytime there's inflammation of one given area of the body so it could be a shoulder it could be the neck it could be the mouth it could be the nose or in the case of the headache it could be any portion of the head or neck what happens is inflammation while it's a very efficient signal it's much like the siren on an ambulance or a police car and that it sends out a very broad signal that's very clear something is wrong here and needs to be dealt with