Now that I’ve read this story I see the correlation in my own life! I got braces as an adult at 22 and after wearing them for two years I could never hold a job for that long and I broke up with my boyfriend and would act out a lot, whereas before that I was a restaurant manager and did well in life and had A grades in high school etc *mindblown!
Same thing happened to me. Prior to 8 years old (thats when i got braces) i was cruising through school at the highest levels possible for a kid that age, and never had to study, never had to sit down with my parents and do hw, or anything.
Then i got braces and i went from straight A, to havjng to work about 10x as hard to be a straight A, and still getting Bs. It was miserable. Id forget things from my backpack and my mom was getting annoyed id lose my cell phone every few months. I would study and not remember anything. I would sit down to study bc i realized i couldnt coast by anymore and just start doing literally anything else, like singing, or balancing on an exercise ball, doing head stands, etc. I think this might have been my body's way of trying to reverse the effects of braces or something, not sure.
I went from social butterfly, to complete hermit. I went from being able to think, well, like how kids think so creatively, to being gullible and dull. People treated me as dull bc i was quiet, but like u said, it felt i was trapped and someone just pressed the mute button on me, and dialed my brain down to half speed. i KNEW something wasnt right!! Im just lucky i found you so early in my life bc 4 weeks into reviv so many of these issues i had, just keep disappearing day to day.
Yes I can only imagine how many thousands, perhaps millions, of kids went through the same.
And the biggest problem is... that this orthodontic pandemic is running rampant though poorer contries now.
I live in Thailand and i just shake my head when im in some villate and i see a local waitress who probably spent all of her savings to get some braces.
A storm is brewing around the world that is gonna be hard for lots of young people to navigate. And we need to save them!
i was always kind of offended when people treated me like a fuckup and would blame myself for not trying harder when i noticed flaws about myselfs. but now im more sad because it makes sense now and i was just compensating for my whole life. But you say this mindset turns to a positiv one after a few months with reviv so im not giving up. im just wondering how far i will get and how long it will take. im sure your method is the fastest way to better biomechanics currently but still im wondering how fast and far this will work. is it even realistic to expect nearly perfect structure when not starting in childhood? how much do the stretches really accelerate the process and determine when the reviv alone will plateau? for me to consider myself healthy there would need to take visible bone remodelling place as i have a narrow palate. some logical feeling is telling me that that will take decades and only will correct to a certain degree. but maybe i will be surprised. im 18 btw. i think your case may also differ slightly from many people that are using reviv right now(that had more similar lives to snoops), as you had decent structure for most of your life (especially in your developmental years) and then suddenly got your cusps drilled of. so maybe your recovery process is a bit different too. assuming that braces constantly have a negative effect on curve of spee, are the effects reversible? i guess to a certain degree and again the question how long will it take.
And the honest answer is that I dont have enough data points to know whether you can get back to perfect structure but theoretically I do think it is possible.
But will take a long time and will take a lot of effort on your part to figure out how to get through the plateaus.
That whole time, however, you should be progressing. Which means today will be better than yesterday.
Excellent article. Makes me think of some people in my warm circle who appear to live a life of being a fuck up but…. If they had braces, that’s a different story and I really enjoy your insights Ken.
i have a feeling lots of these 'fuckups' are cases of biomechanical collapse impacting the brain.
Whether it be due to braces or due to just compensations and misdevelopment from birth.
And i was a person that in my 20s and 30s would have never said that. I was the archetype of 'study hard, work hard and succeed'. Good school, good job, etc.
But in 2014 when i plummeted and then a few times in the years following i saw what its like to be a 'fuckup' and it had nothing to do with my effort or intention.
There were things happening that were physical and beyond my control.
It has made me look at 'fuckups' with far more empathy now...
That Irish fighter you wrote about recently was in front of news people yesterday, next to the OUTSTANDING Karoline Leavitt. Hes thinking about running for President of Ireland.
I'm trying to think if the kids I knew with "behavioral issues" had braces, but I can't remember any.
I can only remember one close childhood friend who had braces (I knew plenty of kids with braces but limited contact with them). She was diagnosed with MS (multiple sclerosis) in her mid 20s. Do you think there could be a connection?
Now that I’ve read this story I see the correlation in my own life! I got braces as an adult at 22 and after wearing them for two years I could never hold a job for that long and I broke up with my boyfriend and would act out a lot, whereas before that I was a restaurant manager and did well in life and had A grades in high school etc *mindblown!
yep.
The last ten years had me on both sides of this fence... and i can tell you from first hand experience.. THE DIFFERENCE IS MASSIVE!!!
Same thing happened to me. Prior to 8 years old (thats when i got braces) i was cruising through school at the highest levels possible for a kid that age, and never had to study, never had to sit down with my parents and do hw, or anything.
Then i got braces and i went from straight A, to havjng to work about 10x as hard to be a straight A, and still getting Bs. It was miserable. Id forget things from my backpack and my mom was getting annoyed id lose my cell phone every few months. I would study and not remember anything. I would sit down to study bc i realized i couldnt coast by anymore and just start doing literally anything else, like singing, or balancing on an exercise ball, doing head stands, etc. I think this might have been my body's way of trying to reverse the effects of braces or something, not sure.
I went from social butterfly, to complete hermit. I went from being able to think, well, like how kids think so creatively, to being gullible and dull. People treated me as dull bc i was quiet, but like u said, it felt i was trapped and someone just pressed the mute button on me, and dialed my brain down to half speed. i KNEW something wasnt right!! Im just lucky i found you so early in my life bc 4 weeks into reviv so many of these issues i had, just keep disappearing day to day.
Wow!! Thank you for sharing!!!
Yes I can only imagine how many thousands, perhaps millions, of kids went through the same.
And the biggest problem is... that this orthodontic pandemic is running rampant though poorer contries now.
I live in Thailand and i just shake my head when im in some villate and i see a local waitress who probably spent all of her savings to get some braces.
A storm is brewing around the world that is gonna be hard for lots of young people to navigate. And we need to save them!
i was always kind of offended when people treated me like a fuckup and would blame myself for not trying harder when i noticed flaws about myselfs. but now im more sad because it makes sense now and i was just compensating for my whole life. But you say this mindset turns to a positiv one after a few months with reviv so im not giving up. im just wondering how far i will get and how long it will take. im sure your method is the fastest way to better biomechanics currently but still im wondering how fast and far this will work. is it even realistic to expect nearly perfect structure when not starting in childhood? how much do the stretches really accelerate the process and determine when the reviv alone will plateau? for me to consider myself healthy there would need to take visible bone remodelling place as i have a narrow palate. some logical feeling is telling me that that will take decades and only will correct to a certain degree. but maybe i will be surprised. im 18 btw. i think your case may also differ slightly from many people that are using reviv right now(that had more similar lives to snoops), as you had decent structure for most of your life (especially in your developmental years) and then suddenly got your cusps drilled of. so maybe your recovery process is a bit different too. assuming that braces constantly have a negative effect on curve of spee, are the effects reversible? i guess to a certain degree and again the question how long will it take.
yes.. you raise good points Richard.
And the honest answer is that I dont have enough data points to know whether you can get back to perfect structure but theoretically I do think it is possible.
But will take a long time and will take a lot of effort on your part to figure out how to get through the plateaus.
That whole time, however, you should be progressing. Which means today will be better than yesterday.
And that is a good thing.
Excellent article. Makes me think of some people in my warm circle who appear to live a life of being a fuck up but…. If they had braces, that’s a different story and I really enjoy your insights Ken.
i have a feeling lots of these 'fuckups' are cases of biomechanical collapse impacting the brain.
Whether it be due to braces or due to just compensations and misdevelopment from birth.
And i was a person that in my 20s and 30s would have never said that. I was the archetype of 'study hard, work hard and succeed'. Good school, good job, etc.
But in 2014 when i plummeted and then a few times in the years following i saw what its like to be a 'fuckup' and it had nothing to do with my effort or intention.
There were things happening that were physical and beyond my control.
It has made me look at 'fuckups' with far more empathy now...
That Irish fighter you wrote about recently was in front of news people yesterday, next to the OUTSTANDING Karoline Leavitt. Hes thinking about running for President of Ireland.
yes.... i saw :)
Would be interesting haha
I'm trying to think if the kids I knew with "behavioral issues" had braces, but I can't remember any.
I can only remember one close childhood friend who had braces (I knew plenty of kids with braces but limited contact with them). She was diagnosed with MS (multiple sclerosis) in her mid 20s. Do you think there could be a connection?
of course. it is 100% related.
I wrote this earlier: https://reviv.substack.com/p/i-think-we-will-eradicate-neurological
I think most neurological disease will be eradicated because of these biomechanics