I have a feeling almost all damage is reversible
Because the body and skull inflate and deflate almost like a basketball
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One thing a lot of folks these days like to ask is if they can reverse the damage of extractions or braces.
And my view is always yes.
Because for me it’s like looking at a deflated basketball and someone asks you… “Can you inflate it?”
And the obvious answer is yes.
Today I wanna expound on this a bit as I think it has important implications.
The body inflates and deflates like a basketball in my view
I’ve talked about this point before so I won’t belabor it too much, but basically i view that the body inflates and deflates.
When it deflates the soft tissue surrounding the skull crushes the skull and the brain causing cognitive and neurological damage.
Additionally the soft tissue covering the body comes in like a deflating full-body wetsuit and mangles the entire skeleton inside. Giving us postural issues, displacing and compressing organs, and causing all kinds of health problems.
One name that we like to give to that process when you do it the old fashioned way is ‘aging’.
Luckily the process also works in reverse. You can ‘inflate’ both the skull and the body using biomechanics.
Certain things deflate it
There is a long list of things that deflate the body and skull. This list includes things that can be triggered within the mouth like:
orthodontics
extractions
grinding your teeth
And it includes things that can be triggered outside the mouth like:
surgeries
pregnancy
wearing the wrong foot orthotics
etc
You see the body balances in a way that is both ascending and descending.
You can do something to your body that changes your bite for the worse. Or you can do something to your bite that changes your body for the worse.
How do I know?
Because for several years I would check on how doing things to my bite would change the body. And also test how doing things to my body would change my bite.
I would measure this through a tracking splint, which i discussed here:
Other things can inflate it
The good news is that you can also inflate both the body and skull by sticking to the rules of these biomechanics.
And you can also do this either via the mouth or the body.
Reviv is an example of doing it via the mouth. The mouthguard essentially serves as a sort of doorjam that doesn’t allow the jaw to fully close and thereby forces the tissue surrounding the jaw and skull to stretch.
This has the effect of inflating the skull, which in turn inflates the body. And you heal. The skeleton reverts to its correct position, organs can function correctly, etc.
The curve of spee improves during the process and typically a small posterior open bite develops. But you support that open bite by wearing a mouthguard to sleep and this prevents regression.
You can also inflate things via the body and this is what things like yoga and exercise do. They truly improve your spine and your skull a little bit.
The problem is that it also creates a small change in your occlusion, which reverses if you don’t wear a mouthguard to sleep. And this is why the vast majority of people that do exercise and yoga never really change their body structure by much.
Because their teeth keep reverting to the old way that they fit together.
There are few things that I think cannot be reversed
Now that we’ve discussed how it works, let’s discuss if there are any exceptions.
What kind of damage cannot be reversed?
I think the damage of extractions and orthodontics definitely can. And we’re seeing this to be the case in our Skool community very clearly. But it takes time.
Can surgery be reversed? For example jaw surgery? I believe mostly yes. But there are many types of surgery and if you fully remove something than i’m not sure it can grow back.
I do think, however, that the body will even overpower things like screws over time in order to revert to its correct position.
Do i think diseases like cancer can be reversed? Yes.
My penpal, EGR, even thinks that the human body is able to regrow itself more than we currently accept as true. For example, we currently believe that we cannot regrow limbs.
But these conclusions were always made on people that were collapsing (aging is a form of collapsing after all). And they were not made on people that were in fact ‘inflating’ as we are with these biomechanics.
If we are inflating i believe they are going to figure out one day that the body can do a lot more because it is not being distracted fighting itself. It is freed up to focus its resources on fighting one main enemy (eg. a severed limb).
Closing thoughts
My point today is that I don’t think almost any damage is irreversible.
Even if the person is very old and has tons of health issues.
I like to think of these cases as sort of like finding an old, deflated ball in the yard.
It looks like it’s done for. But patch up the hole, put an air pump to it and you will have yourself a ball that functions almost like new.
And yes.. this sounds crazy today.
And no, I don’t have all of the scientific details to support this hypothesis.
But rather it is just a very strong hunch based on the logic of what i’ve seen on both myself and others over the years.
So let’s see….. even if i’m not fully correct, I have a feeling i’m going to be more correct than most of you currently give me credit for.
Another perspective would be to view it through a tension-contraction-collapse model. When we experience chronic stress and trauma that the body cannot discharge, the tension is 'stuck' in the body which you experience as tightness, knots, adhesions, contractions, etc.
Thus, the tension literally contracts the body, pulling in muscle, fascia, nerves, tissue, etc. This physical contraction is what causes the 'deflationary' or 'collapse' effect - the body literally collapsing into itself through tension. And of course, many regulatory systems get affected- blood cannot flow smoothly, nerves are numbed out, ligament shorten, fascia bunches up, etc. Thus, this physical tension literally contracts and compromises the biomechanics of the body.
However, when this tension is discharged- when the trauma is released - when the body relaxes, then the contractions naturally unwind and release. The body gradually expands and relaxes back into its optimal state, energy flow is restored, all bodymind functions are rejuvenated and the person is reborn. Like a cramp in the calf that finally relaxes and returns to its original length and state of ease.
This explains why people age and their biomechanics can collapse even without orthodontics. The accumulation of undischarged tension gradually wears away the person - unless they realise that they can actually discharge this tension by simply listening and allowing the body to do so.
As you've noticed, exercise and yoga can discharge some of this tension. But often, the tension-discharge achieved by these activities are not the optimal ones the body can effect, or are insufficient to fully discharge chronic and deep-seated tensions. In fact, a lot of body-work simply 'mimic' the bodymind's own intelligent tension-discharge mechanisms, in the same way wearing a mouthguard can 'mimic' a state of relaxation-expansion through the jaw. Effective enough to be of some help and relief, but far from the 'optimal' discharge that can be achieved.
And of course, certain traumatic events can significantly injure the body, the same way certain types of orthodontics can radically impair its biomechanics. Extreme abuse, extreme trauma, war, rape, murder, etc can create so much stress and trauma that precipitates collapse even quicker than orthodontics. The collapse from extreme trauma can occur in weeks, days, hours compared to the months or years that orthodontics takes.
But of course, healing can also take place much faster. When the body is able to relax and discharge a particularly severe trauma, which can sometimes happen when doing conventional bodywork, healing can seem to take place miraculously.
Very clear article as usual! Thank you.
If adult teeth were extracted, what does one do now? No implants correct? I guess the question is, what would Ken do?