Thank you Ken. Thank you for believing in us one-yard-liners. I am one of those people who started this downward spiral so young, in my early teens. Never had a chance to thrive. Pushed out of the nest with broken wings. Nobody could ever understand. They'll say we're lazy, or not motivated enough, or have bad priorities. Reviv is the only thing thats ever given me hope. Here I am at 28 putting the pieces together, but I can only be grateful, as I would have only continued to fail and seek more orthodontics and gotten worse had I not found you, the community, and the mouthguard.
Thank you! I can see fire in your eyes from your posts in the community... with time you'll bring an energy to the things you do that most others just won't have.
Because you already learned how to fight from your knees for years like i did. And now they gotta fight us standing up!
16 months wearing the guard now, started 9 months after open heart surgery, and at 55 I have made tremendous forward progress on a number of levels, tremendous gratitude for Ken and Reviv.
The first thing that stands out is your absolute resilience. Pushing through open-heart surgery and driving such tremendous forward progress over the last 16 months takes a level of grit most people just don't have. (I've been through the open-heart surgery journey with my husband, so I know this terrain intimately).
Getting the appliance was a masterstroke for your hardware. You've effectively stabilized your physical structure and bought your system the relief it desperately needed to recover.
What I often see in my own work with high-performers is that they push their engines to the absolute limit until the body physically gives out. The hardware (the body) ultimately breaks down because of the software it's running—the immense decision pressure, the weight of carrying everything for everyone, the sheer force of will. That mental weight creates literal pressure in the body.
You’ve done the vital work of stabilizing the hardware. That's the necessary first step. If you ever hit a point where you want to look at updating the software, in other words, dissolving that underlying pressure story so your body doesn't have to keep bearing the weight—that's exactly what I do.
Keep up the incredible forward momentum. You are doing the real work.
My goodness, the details are different in each of our stories, of course, but it's almost hard to read because it resonates so much. And now that I've had the Reviv2 on for 6 weeks at night, my jaw seems to have expanded out another 20% or so (after much work with circadian/quantum biology the last 2 1/2 years). At 53 years of age, and so many appliances, so many procedures, and so much pain, I am healing at last. Thank you for HOPE--and also for the reminder to lean in from that one-yard line. It does feel like starting from absolute scratch.
Ken, this is a masterclass. The way you bypassed the standard medical advice and broke this down with pure logic and resilience is incredibly impressive.
In my work, I look at the body as a combination of hardware and software. What you've built with Reviv is the ultimate hardware stabilization. You’ve engineered a way to give the physical structure the exact shock absorption it desperately needs so it can finally stop taking on daily damage.
While sometimes the hardware is just structurally broken from the start, what I see every day with high-performers is a different variation. Their hardware breaks down not because of a structural flaw, but because of the software it was forced to run: the immense decision pressure, the rumination, and the sheer weight of being the Over-Responsible one who carries the load for everyone else. The mind runs that story, and the body proves it by literally grinding itself down.
We also see this play out during recovery. Sometimes a person gets the hardware optimized and begins to heal, but then they hit a hard plateau where progress wanes or stops. That’s the exact indicator that the physical healing has bumped up against an unaddressed software block. That’s another point where my work comes in; to dissolve that underlying energetic story so the physical optimization can actually finish the job.
You can't fully optimize the system unless you address both. You provide the ultimate physical stabilization for the hardware. It's the perfect complement to the work of dissolving the energetic software virus so the body doesn't have to carry that weight anymore.
Brilliant article. I'm grateful to be in your orbit and referring people to a tool that actually works!
Wow, amazing story Ken and sounds all too familiar. I too have suffered since I was in my teens with Seasonal Affective Disorder and later diagnosed in my early 20’s with chronic depression , anxiety and body dysmorphic disorder. I have been through hell and back and around again. I can’t hold jobs long enough to live on my own . Thankfully , I have a dad who has supported me financially and provided refuge when I need it. I just started this journey with R3 and manually thumb pulling and have seen improvement. I have found myself to be a little spacey, tired and experiencing short term memory loss which I think is all normal . Thank you all for sharing. xo
sorry to hear that.... and yes this process can be tough and include weird things. Are you in our community yet?
Definitely check it out as things like what you're mentioning are discussed a fair bit there. To join just make a request here https://www.skool.com/reviv-2885/about
So Ken, without any dentistry background, how did you even connect the dots to dental work??
Did you kind of just look back at that moment, and conclude that.. “well.. ever since I got that teeth work done, my life has gone to shit”
Or what was it? I feel most people would not even think to connect those dots.
I had some faint intuitive thoughts about 3 years after I got my wisdom teeth removed.. and that was even after seeing some things on instagram mentioning the effects of it. So I can’t say that I figured it out and connected the dots all on my own
So how did you come to that conclusion is was your teeth?
yes it was because of 2014 when i had the TMJ dentist in vietnam file down my teeth.
Everything collapsed very rapidly within a couple months to the point of not being able to retain any information and becoming a hermit.
When there's that type of radical change that fast at age 37 despite the same diet & habits u had your entire life.. its far easier to pinpoint the culprit.
Similar happened with my friend Marcello who in his late 40s had his teeth filed down and descended into cervical dystonia within months.
You see the collapse is far faster when u file down the teeth like what happened to us. As opposed to ortho or extractions which is a much slower collapse.
Thank you Ken. Thank you for believing in us one-yard-liners. I am one of those people who started this downward spiral so young, in my early teens. Never had a chance to thrive. Pushed out of the nest with broken wings. Nobody could ever understand. They'll say we're lazy, or not motivated enough, or have bad priorities. Reviv is the only thing thats ever given me hope. Here I am at 28 putting the pieces together, but I can only be grateful, as I would have only continued to fail and seek more orthodontics and gotten worse had I not found you, the community, and the mouthguard.
Thank you! I can see fire in your eyes from your posts in the community... with time you'll bring an energy to the things you do that most others just won't have.
Because you already learned how to fight from your knees for years like i did. And now they gotta fight us standing up!
16 months wearing the guard now, started 9 months after open heart surgery, and at 55 I have made tremendous forward progress on a number of levels, tremendous gratitude for Ken and Reviv.
The first thing that stands out is your absolute resilience. Pushing through open-heart surgery and driving such tremendous forward progress over the last 16 months takes a level of grit most people just don't have. (I've been through the open-heart surgery journey with my husband, so I know this terrain intimately).
Getting the appliance was a masterstroke for your hardware. You've effectively stabilized your physical structure and bought your system the relief it desperately needed to recover.
What I often see in my own work with high-performers is that they push their engines to the absolute limit until the body physically gives out. The hardware (the body) ultimately breaks down because of the software it's running—the immense decision pressure, the weight of carrying everything for everyone, the sheer force of will. That mental weight creates literal pressure in the body.
You’ve done the vital work of stabilizing the hardware. That's the necessary first step. If you ever hit a point where you want to look at updating the software, in other words, dissolving that underlying pressure story so your body doesn't have to keep bearing the weight—that's exactly what I do.
Keep up the incredible forward momentum. You are doing the real work.
awesome work! Thanks for sharing that!
My goodness, the details are different in each of our stories, of course, but it's almost hard to read because it resonates so much. And now that I've had the Reviv2 on for 6 weeks at night, my jaw seems to have expanded out another 20% or so (after much work with circadian/quantum biology the last 2 1/2 years). At 53 years of age, and so many appliances, so many procedures, and so much pain, I am healing at last. Thank you for HOPE--and also for the reminder to lean in from that one-yard line. It does feel like starting from absolute scratch.
Thank you for sharing that! And yes just keep pushing forward... it's gonna be tough sometimes.
Ken, this is a masterclass. The way you bypassed the standard medical advice and broke this down with pure logic and resilience is incredibly impressive.
In my work, I look at the body as a combination of hardware and software. What you've built with Reviv is the ultimate hardware stabilization. You’ve engineered a way to give the physical structure the exact shock absorption it desperately needs so it can finally stop taking on daily damage.
While sometimes the hardware is just structurally broken from the start, what I see every day with high-performers is a different variation. Their hardware breaks down not because of a structural flaw, but because of the software it was forced to run: the immense decision pressure, the rumination, and the sheer weight of being the Over-Responsible one who carries the load for everyone else. The mind runs that story, and the body proves it by literally grinding itself down.
We also see this play out during recovery. Sometimes a person gets the hardware optimized and begins to heal, but then they hit a hard plateau where progress wanes or stops. That’s the exact indicator that the physical healing has bumped up against an unaddressed software block. That’s another point where my work comes in; to dissolve that underlying energetic story so the physical optimization can actually finish the job.
You can't fully optimize the system unless you address both. You provide the ultimate physical stabilization for the hardware. It's the perfect complement to the work of dissolving the energetic software virus so the body doesn't have to carry that weight anymore.
Brilliant article. I'm grateful to be in your orbit and referring people to a tool that actually works!
Thank you! And good point!
Wow, amazing story Ken and sounds all too familiar. I too have suffered since I was in my teens with Seasonal Affective Disorder and later diagnosed in my early 20’s with chronic depression , anxiety and body dysmorphic disorder. I have been through hell and back and around again. I can’t hold jobs long enough to live on my own . Thankfully , I have a dad who has supported me financially and provided refuge when I need it. I just started this journey with R3 and manually thumb pulling and have seen improvement. I have found myself to be a little spacey, tired and experiencing short term memory loss which I think is all normal . Thank you all for sharing. xo
sorry to hear that.... and yes this process can be tough and include weird things. Are you in our community yet?
Definitely check it out as things like what you're mentioning are discussed a fair bit there. To join just make a request here https://www.skool.com/reviv-2885/about
So Ken, without any dentistry background, how did you even connect the dots to dental work??
Did you kind of just look back at that moment, and conclude that.. “well.. ever since I got that teeth work done, my life has gone to shit”
Or what was it? I feel most people would not even think to connect those dots.
I had some faint intuitive thoughts about 3 years after I got my wisdom teeth removed.. and that was even after seeing some things on instagram mentioning the effects of it. So I can’t say that I figured it out and connected the dots all on my own
So how did you come to that conclusion is was your teeth?
yes it was because of 2014 when i had the TMJ dentist in vietnam file down my teeth.
Everything collapsed very rapidly within a couple months to the point of not being able to retain any information and becoming a hermit.
When there's that type of radical change that fast at age 37 despite the same diet & habits u had your entire life.. its far easier to pinpoint the culprit.
Similar happened with my friend Marcello who in his late 40s had his teeth filed down and descended into cervical dystonia within months.
You see the collapse is far faster when u file down the teeth like what happened to us. As opposed to ortho or extractions which is a much slower collapse.