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00:00 – Introduction & welcome 01:44 – Dr Ben Javid’s journey into holistic dentistry 09:27 – Dental meridians & systemic health 16:03 – Building Smile Body: A dental-medical centre 23:26 – Advanced diagnostics: CBCT, EAV, Oligoscan 29:27 – Hyperbaric, IV ozone & red light therapy 45:22 – Children’s health: jaw growth, ADHD, and sleep 53:00 – Sleep medicine & overlooked root causes 59:17 – Meridians, parasites & quantum healing 1:08:09 – Mercury fillings & SMART removal protocols 1:16:10 – Final reflections: mindset, gratitude & healing
The Mouth-Body Connection: Unlocking Health with Dr Ben Javid
Dr Ron Ehrlich [00:00:05] Hello and welcome to Unstress Health, my name is Dr Ron Ehrlich. Well, today we’re exploring a topic that truly sits at the intersection of dentistry, medicine, whole body wellness. My guest is Dr Ben Javid. And Ben is a holistic dentist, a wellness expert, and the co-founder, together with his brother Shawn Javid, of SmileBody, a groundbreaking holistic dental and medical well-being centre. California. Now we’re going to dive into how oral health is not just about teeth and gum, something that regular listeners would be well aware of, but a powerful gateway to systemic health and longevity and even the prevention of many chronic diseases. Now as I often said, if you are not including on a comprehensive oral exam into at least once in your life, particularly if been diagnosed with a preventable chronic degenerative. Disease, which would include heart disease, cancer, any one of 100 autoimmune conditions, diabetes, even mental health issues, even erectile dysfunction, fertility, you name it. The common denominator is chronic inflammation, and that is where oral diseases fit in, but it’s also a conversation about sleeping and breathing. It’s also a conversation about meridians that run through the whole body. So sit back and get ready to think about what oral health really means in whole body health. I hope you enjoy this conversation I had with Dr. Ben Javid. Welcome to the show, Ben.
Dr Ben Javid [00:01:44] Dr. Ron, it’s wonderful to be on this show. Thank you for having me.
Dr Ron Ehrlich [00:01:50] Ben, when I got the invitation to have you guys on the show, and I’m talking about you and your brother, Shawn, who’s not with us, but I couldn’t help but be attracted to it because my brother and I have worked together in this holistic dental or biological, as you call it in America, space for over 40 years. So this was an immediate, you know, I must talk to you guys. I’m intrigued. By your journey, because when you graduated from dental school, I’m pretty sure biological or holistic dentistry wasn’t high on the curriculum. What was the journey for you? What prompted you to make this transition?
Dr Ben Javid [00:02:33] Well, first of all, before I answer that question, Ron, I want to thank you for, you know, putting out a show like this and spreading information that is actually helping people get healthier mentally, physically and spiritually actually in every way. So you know it’s a wonderful thing that you’re doing that’s touching people in many ways. That’s what we try to do at our level. Now, with wisdom. You know, with biological holistic dentistry, you know, it’s a mindset, you know, and it’s not something you go and learn in a course like doing veneers or dental implants, as you know. Uh, it is something that you have to live by, you live by it. In fact, you lived by it before you actually practise it in your practise. I mean, that’s how I think about it. And for me, uh, everything that I’ve done in my life has led me to this. You know? It’s not just one thing. So what I mean by that is, for example, how I grew up in our home. You know, my dad and we’re always against prescription meds, you know, we never really utilise prescription med very much, it was more about what you’re eating, eating healthy. So eating the right way, take care of your body and then you’re relying on meds for just everything, whether it’s a headache or a pain or you know shoulder ache or back or something more serious. But, so that over time evolved after I went to dental school, you know, some of the things that I graduated in 2002, and you know we still learned how to put in mercury fillings. That was the, you now, the standard of care at that time still. And it didn’t really make sense to me that much because it’s more than 50% mercury, but you gotta do it, you gotta pass the boards, do those mercury fillings and pack it in and do everything that we had to do to go through the training and get our licence. That’s when I stopped doing mercury fillers after I got my licence. It didn’t make sense me at all during school or after school. But but one thing I did graduate with was a hunger for more. I didn’t feel like my education was finished. I felt like there has to be more than what I’ve learned in school and not in what I felt very confident in my education. I felt, like, you know, you know, I the school trained me to be a outstanding dentist. Of course, you keep learning and never ends. But personally… My philosophy was to keep growing in every way I can and that resulted in learning more about you know personal growth and nutrition everything from spiritual growth like Deepak Chopra and Wayne Dyer and other those kind of meditation and what’s possible there quantum physics and also uh you know the the world of like Tony Robbins and and learning your your own potential and and and so so for me that was and and very i was very hungry for that and and my brother luckily uh was in line with that as well he’s seven years older he he had he was a dentist before i went to dental school so but you know a lot of revision was aligned And at the time, back then, really, like you mentioned, there wasn’t really much about holistic dentistry. There was practitioners out there, but it’s not something I even knew about. What I did like is the artistic ability to make smiles. And so I got into cosmetic dentistry at the times. And so it was someone you can touch people’s lives and change their smile and make them help feel confident about themselves and so on and so forth. So we got into cosmetic dentistry and we were doing a lot of cosmetic dentisty and it was great. And then there was a recession and things changed and we started doing more and more surgeries and implants. And then more and more services of different kinds and sedation dentistry and and you know every we got into orthodontics a little bit and and so It got a diplomat in sleep medicine At one point treating sleep apnea and so, you know, you you kept evolving at one point I did extra training right after dental school for root canals In fact, so I did I did a lot of root can also my time too because I wanted to do it at the highest level so I did root canals and I did, you know, all the mean stay of dental. But as I kept growing personally, I had to start questioning, you know, what we’re doing. You know, because if you’re doing everything like you did in Dental school, it’s very easy. You know you just, that’s all there is to it. But if you’re in the mindset of growth, you realise that… You know, everything they taught in dental school is not necessarily the truth or the way it is in the real world. So this evolution was not a light switch. It’s a gradual evolution. And of course, at one point we learned about, you know IOAMT and the safe removal of mercury. And we’re like, Well, you know, I was excited to learn that. And then. And then obviously fluoride and and then root canals and then uh and and that was mind-blowing uh learning more about root canals through lectures through iomt and then you start realising there is you can get trainings done with other dentists that are like-minded and So it just kept evolving. Uh, and because of our passion about personal health and nutrition, and like I said, and just this concept of really believing in the human body, uh, and it’s natural intelligence and not interfering with it as much that was just the mainstay throughout this whole process, I believe in the human body evolve to where you are right now, and it’s not ending right now, it’s constantly evolving. And just two weeks ago, sorry, it’s a long-winded answer, but.
Dr Ron Ehrlich [00:09:21] No, no, it’s good. It’s good music to my ears been music plays to two weeks ago
Dr Ben Javid [00:09:27] Two weeks ago, my brother and I, we did some training with an amazing doctor in St. Louis on the meridians and assessing the meridians and looking for blockages in the meridians and learned so much about how parasites are, for example, a big part of. Uh your health and uh and you know we knew somewhat about it but learned a lot more but his he’s a medical doctor his perspective was right up there with parasites was your mouth and uh he’s the big advocate of biological dentistry or holistic dentistry uh and getting rid of sources of toxicities. That are causing health issues, but also blockages in the meridians, which actually are the same. And these blockages and meridions are causing major health issues both systemically by the blood vessels and lymph and everything else, but also on these meridients. So it never ends, to my point, I’m just, it’s just a constant. Growth and that’s what I think holistic or biological dentistry has to be. It’s someone that is interested in constantly growing and questioning and questioning and growing and if you are that person this is the right place for you I think.
Dr Ron Ehrlich [00:10:50] I think that’s a wonderful answer. You say long winded, I say music to my ears, Ben, because I have often, the elevator pitch for what a holistic dentist is for me is it’s a dentist with attitude, and that attitude is exactly as you articulated, a recognition of how much there is to learn and an excitement about learning it. I find it really intriguing that more of our colleagues don’t enthusiastically embrace this, particularly in a time when there are so many choices for patients. And the question I think a lot of health practitioners should be asking is, what defines the difference? Why would people come to see you when they probably pass a hundred dentists on their way to your practise? And many of your patients would have no doubt about that. But a lot of dentists, you know, are not as busy or as engaged as perhaps they should be.
Dr Ben Javid [00:11:55] Well, I think at the end of the day, you know, dentists like us are following our passion. We’re not just going through the motions. We’re doing it. Our why is different, right? Our reason for doing this is not just the numbers and you know the production and and making sure the collections are correct, and… It’s a business at the end of the day, and that’s all important, but really at this point in my career, you know, it’s the passion behind what we’re doing is much, much deeper. In fact, you know we built. Our facility last year after practising for so many years. I mean, Shawn, my brother, is over 30 years in dentistry and I started in 2002 as I was saying, so quite a few years. And we had a very successful practise, but we realised there has to be more to it than just practising biological dentistry in our space. And our vision was to create a facility where we can collaborate with other like-minded professionals. That’s why we term the smile/body, mouth and body together. Because as you know, as you preach, it’s the mouth body connection is vast. Not just in meridians we were just talking about, but blood vessels and so on and so forth and nerves. But the impact on your health is so profound that what happens in the mouth happens here. I call it the gateway. To your health but then vice versa and if you’re working with like-minded professionals from the medical side, nurses, naturopaths, integrative doctors we can help a lot more people I feel and this concept where a current medical system where there’s a specialist for the mouth let’s say us right there were the dentists there is a specialist for their ears there’s specialist for the eyes there’s the health specialist for the skin there’s specialists for the heart And they just look at that. They’re not looking at anything else, that has to end. I don’t believe in that. And we have to not work in silos. We have to be working collaboratively. I’m a big advocate of working with naturopaths, like I said, and other people that are open minded, understand the connection of the body, where, you know, we can make a bigger impact. And right now we’re doing a lot of that. We work with different doctors from around the country. And we do a us in and we do, we, we. A lot of times, patients are not geographically close to us. In fact, more than 50% of our patients fly to us or come from a distance because of this approach. And so, again, it’s exciting and it’s something that you have to be passionate about. And when we were building this facility, and I can tell you more about the facility, it was really not about us anymore. It was about something that has to happen. We felt the need that this is a something that has to happen regardless. It’s not about me. It is not about one person It’s on my vision and as we were going through this process, it was Almost a spiritual experience because one I had to evolve. It was an evolution experience for me and two So many people came into our lives that that without that this project would not have happened You know, so, you know, you’re doing something right and you’re part of something good. And you’re on the right track when there’s alignment happening. So, so when that’s happening, you, you again, it’s, it, it it’s a deep why. And we felt that, you it’s it’s needed for many ways, or, you know, whether it’s Australia or here in the United States, people are sick. You know people are are sick and they’re overmedicated, overfed. And we are, you know, we have to do our part to make sure that we can create a better model.
Dr Ron Ehrlich [00:16:03] I mean, I think what a wonderful place to be for you with 20 and 30 years of experience between you and your brother and for you as brothers to be on this journey together and stepping in after all that time into this new space. Very exciting time. I think you must have observed many, many times that the that when you’re dealing with patients with complex. Chronic preventable chronic diseases like heart disease, cancer, autoimmune diabetes, etc. How often oral health is the missing link? Just totally overlooked and yet such an important part of the issue. Is that an observation you have made in your time?
Dr Ben Javid [00:16:48] You know, I’ve made that observation. I see it every day and I’m still learning that it’s a bigger and bigger impact than I even realised. Even with this training I went to with this doctor that’s medical doctor, even more so reinforced how much of an impact the mouth has on the body and it just reinforces it more and more to the point where I realise you know it’s just if you the mouth and I hope you know actually I don’t realise I hope the more and people on the medical side realise that if you are treating a patient and if you’re not working with a… Biological or holistic dentists hand in hand to make sure that they evaluate the mouth to just check for sources of toxicities or some of that come in from the mouth then you’re really missing the book you’re not going to get the results that you want and this is what I usually speak on when we I do wellness and longevity conferences and it’s because I want to make sure that other practitioners are actually. Realising that if we all again collaborate like what we’re doing in small body I want it to be done everywhere. The goal is we have to change, we have evolve and this collaboration model is I feel the future and if we don’t all start thinking that way and treating the body in that way then it’s not we’re gonna get more of the same which is a lot of unhealthy people.
Dr Ron Ehrlich [00:18:39] Well, I think for many health practitioners not talking about dentists here, although you might include some dentists in this, too, for many health practitioners, the way they do an oral health assessment is they will say to their patient who’s suffering from stage four cancer or heart disease or autoimmune conditions, have you been to the dentist lately? And the patient will say yes. Anything happen? No, all good. And that is the full extent of an oral health. Assessment, let’s just dive in a little bit here as to what constitutes a comprehensive oral exam in your practise.
Dr Ben Javid [00:19:21] It’s a long process. I have to tell you. One of the things that’s important for us is to utilise current technology, you know. And when I say current technology yes, conbeam CT scans are a big part of what we do. And for your listeners, I’m pretty sure because you’re a holistic dentist, this has come up in the past.
Dr Ron Ehrlich [00:19:50] Let’s just assume it hasn’t. It has, but let’s explain to our listener what that actually means.
Dr Ben Javid [00:19:58] Well, a Cone Beam CT scan is pretty much a 3D image of the jaw and head and neck area, I should say. And this 3D kind of like a CT scan that you go to a hospital, you can see it in slices from every angle. Now, it’s similar in that way with one of those big machines that you go into a hospital, but what’s important is that you get a fraction of the radiation. Similar, the amount of radiation you get is comparable to a full series of dental x-rays and actually it’s even being reduced more so. The new Cone Beam CT scan that we were just about to purchase right now, and we’ve had like three iterations over the many years that we’ve been doing this. The newest one is about 50% less radiation than the one before that’s from the same company. And ours is not even that old. So it’s exciting because we’re getting more and more efficient. In that field. Now, as far as radiation, even the Nomads that, you know, you can get much less radiation for regular diagonal x-rays as well. But the point is we do our cone beam CT scan, that’s important, and we do the regular checkup x-ray, but of course, again, we use some better technology to reduce that radiation. Beyond digital. There are these technologies. The Nomad has become the name that’s popular but these x-ray units that you’re actually in the room with the patient. You’re not going and hiding behind a wall. It’s like a little gun that you shoot and whether the dental assistant or a dental hygienist or wherever the professional is, they’re taking these x-rays. So there’s a series of diagnostics that are done. In our office, we have a There’s other diagnostics that we like besides the x-rays. There is something called, obviously, an ITERO where we can digital scan of the jaw. We get a 3D model of the jaw that shows, you can, it shows the bite and the bite forces in different areas, helps you with seeing certain cavities.
Dr Ron Ehrlich [00:22:08] So, Ben, this would give you, I mean, some people may be familiar with having moulds taken of their mouth where a gooey substance is put in the mouth and it’s not very comfortable. But now the very thing you’re describing is something a little bit like a tiny camera which goes around the mouth and scans it and gives you a 3D image that a model
Dr Ben Javid [00:22:33] Thank you for that clarification.
Dr Ron Ehrlich [00:22:34] Of the mouth. So I think people may have missed it. I knew what you were talking about, but I think the exquisite nature of it is quite remarkable to give you a 3D image within a minute or two of the entire mouth allowing you to assess it. Yes, so go on. We’ve got 3D x-rays.
Dr Ben Javid [00:22:55] We, to your point now, we don’t have to really take those goopy impressions really anymore because we get these digital images and so with these digital images we can see a whole new perspective and the patient can see specifically a whole new perspective. There are other diagnostics that we can do. We’re actually adding a machine for an EAV machine that we we can check the meridians. That is something that we’re adding soon because of this. Training that we just went to there’s no now
Dr Ron Ehrlich [00:23:26] Now Ben, Ben, technology, a terminology here, E-A-V is electroacupuncture, is that what I’m hearing here?
Dr Ben Javid [00:23:35] Yeah, it’s pretty much a machine that uses electrical stimulus to see if there’s blockages on, see I’m going too fast Ron, thank you. That’s okay. It checks on your hands and feet because those are end points on meridians and you can check and see if there’s a blockages on your meridions. And there’s actually a meridian points for your mouth on your hands as well but you can check to see where there’s blockages in your meridians and as we were talking about earlier these blockages and meridians are many times a source of health issues. There’s another technology called Oligascan. Oligoscan is an interesting thing that uses light to assess your tissues. For mineral deficiencies and heavy metal toxicity. So, because we like to make sure, obviously that’s super important for us in the medical and in the dental industry. Heavy metal toxicity is a big thing. A lot of mercury fillings out there. So that’s another thing that we can do. And so we put all this information together. We get an image of what’s happening for the patient. Of course… We’re spending a lot of time explaining and educating. Now most, I should say most, almost all, 99% of our patients that come to us are generally very educated. They have come to find us, to find a doctor that is like-minded, that wants someone, they want someone that is not gonna be pushing fluoride. Once this wants them to get, you know, assess the root canals and get their metal, these metal mercury fillings out of their mouth safely. They already on board with the idea that they don’t want any metal in their body. They’re already on-board with, you know, they don’t really want root canals in their body. There. So I’m not really necessarily going there and explaining that from scratch. I might. Give them more detailed information about why I think this way or the reasoning behind it so they understand it better. And then we put a plan together and tell them how we do it in our office because we have a lot of protocols to make sure that everything’s done correctly. But our patients are pretty educated. They are coming to us pretty knowledgeable. We just like to expand that knowledge and I like to tell patients we want them to be their own health advocate. In other words, we’re not here to tell you what to do. We’re actually here to support you in your health journey. There’s a difference. We’re not mainstream medicine to tell patients, you got to take this medication, take this shot, take these in order to be healthy or in order to get well. For us, it’s a matter of removing sources of toxicities, Remove sources of interferences so your body can actually heal itself and that is up to you if this is the journey you want to be on. It’s not up to me. And if it is, then we’re a great fit. We’re gonna support you and we’re gonna have a journey together and we are here to support. But if someone is not in line with that mentality, I don’t care, it doesn’t work. We’re not the right dentist for everyone. But if they are looking for us, people come to us, like I mentioned to you earlier, from all around the country. And so we’re very blessed to be able to help people now with the help of COVID. Telemedicine became a bigger thing. So, you know, patients from that doctors refer to us from other states, they will go get a Cone Beam CT scan. And because that’s a very basic. Way where we can assess the mouth. With the Cone Beam CT scan, we can see a lot. We can see sources of the main toxicities that are maybe getting them sick. Now these doctors want their patients to get well. They see the benefit of collaborating with a biological dentist. Then what we do is assess their Cone Beam-CT scan together and review with the patient. And if they choose, they can fly in, do a week stay where we have strict protocols with our centre for preparing their body for healing and help their body to heal after treatment too. There’s protocols that we have that we haven’t gone into on our medical side, like hyperbaric treatment, IV therapies of different kinds and red light therapies, photobiomodulation, a lot of things that we do that can help the patient in that process that right now is still not at all part of the mainstream dentists or part of typical holistic or biological dentists that we’re trying to push down with one.
Dr Ron Ehrlich [00:28:50] Now, you’ve mentioned a couple of times that you’ve set up this new centre, which I’m seeing behind you is called Smile Body. Go on, just turn a little bit so we can see that there it is. Smile Body, but I’m just interested. You’ve mentioned a few things there, which are you’ve obviously got your dental practise there, but you’ve also got other things you’ve briefly mentioned other things to support immune function during this time of healing. Just and you’ve touched on it, but I’d like us to just go back a little bit here. You mentioned hyperbaric, you mentioned this. What have you got? Tell us a bit about the vision of the centre.
Dr Ben Javid [00:29:27] Well, you know, we realise, like I was mentioning, there is a lot of technology that we can utilise to our benefit that can help patients on this journey, this health journey that we’re talking about. Whether we’re taking about health optimisation from wherever you are in your health journey. Or in case of when we’re doing actual surgeries or then these are, and a lot of times we have to do surgeries for these patients because we’re removing infected teeth, treating cavitations or otherwise. So we are there to help recover, help the body actually recover. And there’s a lot technologies that can help with that. Now on the medical side, I mentioned hyperbaric oxygen Now this is something that You know, at this point, a lot of people know about it’s in hospitals, usually used for wound care in hospitals or people that were diving accidents. That’s what it was known for a lot of times to help in this oxygenation of the blood. It actually helps oxygenate. The plasma not you know when your blood you have you have your blood platelets right where your haemoglobin has space for oxygen has four sites for oxygen molecules when those four sites are full that’s it right now in that blood goes through your veins and oxygening throughout your whole body that number one new the body is oxygen now with hyperbaric oxygen you are now oxygening the space in between the blood. Platelets and so you’re actually oxygenating the plasma at a high level. So that every part of that blood, that red blood is now more oxygenated. So that liquidy part of the blood can get into areas that the actual oxygen haemoglobin and platelets cannot get to. So you’re now oxygenating, so if they have areas that are having a hard time healing, Then right now mainstream medicine is using hyperbaric oxygen to help those areas heal. They dramatically heal much faster, but it’s used for, it can be used for so many other things as well. Besides that any time we do oral surgery that will help that surgical site heal much faster it can help your Brain fogs and brain fog even eyesight and I mean again oxygen number one near the body at every level The body needs this oxygen and a lot of times we’re deficient. We’re deficient on proper oxygenation So I think red oxygen is useful for a lot a lot that but as far as our protocol surgical protocol It’s a big part of it Another thing is our IV centre. Now our IV Centre, there’s different kinds of IVs that can be done. The typical IVs that people know about is like vitamin C and maybe vitamin B12 and maybe glutathione. And of course there’s like NAD people know about now it’s a boost. NAD is going to be good for longevity and you know these things you know people know Meyers cocktails of different kinds and you they help boost your natural ability for your body to heal and recover then you’re feeling sick but there’s a little a lot of more in our IV centre on ozone for example ozone that you’re I’m sure well familiar with is O3 instead of O2 It’s charged oxygen, and this is what’s found in our ozone layer. Now again I know for the you know about this but for the benefit
Dr Ron Ehrlich [00:33:11] No, no, don’t it now. Now, Ben, you’re just not talking to me. If we were having a cup of coffee, then I’d appreciate I appreciate you acknowledging my knowledge. But let’s not let’s not assume all these things, because, you know, keep going. Keep going. This is fine. I mean, the hyperbaric chamber that you’re talking about is is a chamber.
Dr Ben Javid [00:33:31] Yeah, so I’m still chamber
Dr Ron Ehrlich [00:33:32] hard shell chamber that under a pressure or atmosphere is delivering that oxygen, the IV or the intravenous protocols that you’re talking about you were just mentioning. So no, don’t assume, don’t
Dr Ben Javid [00:33:48] Okay, so the hyperbaric, you go in it for an hour and you’re just, you hang out in there under that pressure and it just does wonders. You feel more clear-minded when you come out, you see a little bit better and there’s different kinds of protocols you can do that for different purposes. The IV, we mentioned, again, there is ozone IVs and for the benefit of people that don’t know what ozone is like we were saying that’s where we left off. The ozone charge oxygen is something that’s you know been around for a long time utilised in surgery rooms back before really the chemicals were used to clean surgery rooms ozone was used to clean surgery room for in preparation for surgeries. It’s a great way to kill bacteria, viruses, parasites, Now, so it’s something that we use in our office throughout. On the dental side, we use it in our water systems. We ozonate our water, so we get a cleaning. We use ozonated water. For surgeries, we want to clean the bone. We use ozone water to clean a bone. We can utilise it on small, small cavities to ozonatate that surface cavity maybe. It can actually. Eradicate some of that bacteria that’s causing that on contact. Actually it’s a stronger killer of bacteria than any antibiotic and so it has a lot of benefits. It also has anti-inflammatory, increases circulation in an area. We can inject it in an area where there was an abscess. So a lot of benefits, but in the IV room in particular we can use this machine actually from Germany. There’s a few different machines on the market now that this one is called a Zosman. There is another called Ebu or Ebu 02. These machines, what they do is they, you can take a little bit of the blood out, you ozonate it, you know, as you run ozone through it, and then that’s put back into the body. And this has many effects. Now, detoxing, anti-inflammatory effects. People that have been exposed to mould, for example, and it has a lot of ways it can help clean the blood and oxygenate it at the same time. Again, having oxygen is a good thing. So ozone breaks down into oxygen, O3 breaks down to O2. Um, and, uh, and so that’s another one, another machine that we do in our, in our IV, uh from Germany also is called the Weber, Weber and the laser, which uses different wavelengths of light from red, infrared, ultraviolet, green, blue, um, to actually, uh on inside the blood vessel and, and it’s, so it puts that light against the actual blood as it’s passing through, and you get the benefits of that wavelength of light. And light being the really light and sound, really, I would say the future of medicine and also a lot of ancient technology comes from sound and light. So we want to utilise this newer technology that we’re talking about, but also AI. And when I say AI, I don’t mean artificial intelligence, I mean ancient intelligence. Interesting. Nice one, Ben. I love that.
Dr Ron Ehrlich [00:37:22] It’s a theme that I feel really passionate about because we’ve got so much to learn from AI as in ancestral information. Go on.
Dr Ben Javid [00:37:35] And we’ve put a blind eye to it, you know why? And whether you’re talking about Ayurvedic medicine, Chinese medicine, these are thousands of thousands of years old. And if you go even farther back, it’s amazing, right? What we can learn. But. We’re ignoring it and obviously the pharmaceutical industry has taken over the medical field and we’re just narrow-minded looking for answers in a pill. And of course not our solution, people up our alley as far as me and you Ron, we want to help the body, yes, but if we can use sound and light. Something called photobiomodulation which is about using light to help your body heal and red light therapy like for example we or we have an amazing red and infrared infrared light bed in our office that patients can utilise. So there is these technologies that are new but at the same time it’s ancient technology. And using sound and light is not new. It’s something that’s known to heal.
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Dr Ben Javid [00:40:23] In our office, you know, we don’t necessarily use the shockwave or I know what you’re talking about, but I’m saying as far as sound has is known to have healing potential. And that’s also light. Now. But in our office, you know, we’re not really utilising those different shockwaves or sound or ultrasound or low-frequency ultrasound. There’s these technologies that can be utilised for healing, for even body sculpting. There’s this different technologies that we’ve actually thought about incorporating. But it’s We know 100% that your body resonates. It’s actually a electronic system of sound and vibration. So your body is not just a car where you’re going to change the carburetor or change the wheels when they worn down. It’s a system that is mainly vibration and light. And sound. That’s really where building blocks are, right? If you go down to the quantum level, there is not really any kind of mass. We’re all empty space and we’re just potential frequencies. So everything that’s in us is just energy and potential frequencies that So what we do right now is, I’m glad, is that this industry where we’re in, and more and more people are looking at is how we can actually heal in more ways than one, which is the only way that has been accepted for quite a while now. From back when Rockefeller got into the medical world, and created the pharmaceutical industry and took over the medical schools and created this dogma and this was the the way it was going to be and that permeated throughout the whole world and where you are and and where I am across the world so yeah this is this is uh our so for now I feel like we are embarking on on something special the next chapter of humanity I feel is very exciting because this philosophy that we’re talking about isn’t fringe, it’s actually more and more accepted. And it’s something that we know to be true, because there’s scientific proof behind it. Now, people like Joe Dispenza that you might know, I’m sure. Or Jack Kruse. What was that? Or Jack Kruse .
Dr Ron Ehrlich [00:43:20] Yeah, yeah, you’re familiar with. But but what you’re talking about is, is this ancient energy which has brought us after four and a half billion years to this point, you know, and that is the quantum, the quantum world that we all live in. Exactly.
Dr Ben Javid [00:43:37] So much we realise that our ability to heal ourselves as far as utilising meditation and our own natural ability to heel and just our own belief and mentality can be so healing by itself. Again, mind, body, spirit is such a big component of health and healing. So getting back to the clinic, to answer your question, we felt that we have to these technologies. Rely on the medical team our nurse our nurses. I should say our MD medical director naturopaths To collaborate with them. We even have an esthetician. That’s Like-minded for the skin, which is the biggest organ of the body So we feel like that’s a big component of your health One of the biggest components of the microflora besides your gut and your mouth is the skin So your skin has a this vast amount of microflora. So these If you want to get healthy from on the skin, then you get that beauty that you’re looking for. Well, you know what? Why not have a esthetician on board? And then another big component for us was the children. So we created a paediatric component to this office too. We have a holistic paediatric dentist on the team and we have a whole clinic. It’s a 7,000 square foot space. It’s big. So we have, we have a paediatric component because that’s, you know, I’d love to discuss kids more with you because that a big, big component and getting them early and addressing their jaw development in airway is super important.
Dr Ron Ehrlich [00:45:22] Well, we’ve you’d be pleased to know we’ve done a programme called Quantum Kids. And and one of my mentors, which is a young dentist. I consider him to be my mentor who reintroduced me to quantum biology. You know, I’ve been on this holistic journey for 40 something years and probably five or just over five years ago. I met him and he kind of said, well, hang on, don’t forget about the quantum world. And I thought. What the hell? How did I miss that? You know, and that’s been a whole very exciting learning experience and empowering too, because it’s so available. I mean, the sun doesn’t get much easier than that. The earth doesn’t get much easy than that and harnessing that kind of energy. Is very inspiring. So this is music to my ears, Ben, and what a wonderful facility. Yes, let’s talk about kids because that’s where it all starts, isn’t it? Really.
Dr Ben Javid [00:46:22] Yeah. And unfortunately, it’s like you said, it all starts the level of unhealth or health that we have in our countries. It starts with the kids. Number one, what we’re feeding the kids, right. And ourselves, but also, you know, how they’re developing, which is related now. Obviously, we know that from the work of Weston A. Price that nutrition is so important for your development, and in the world of Weston A. Price being a dentist in the 30s, and a researcher, that he discovered that when he went to endogenous villages that were not exposed to westernised culture, that did not eat the crap that we eat in our world, the processed foods and sugars and all the crap, that’s out there. That’s not really food. They did great. They were healthy. Their jaws developed beautifully. There was no cavities. Their teeth were straight. Horrible hygiene. They didn’t brush their teeth, but it didn’t matter. They had all the teeth and they were beautiful, healthy people. So that’s why I always tell people it’s not just about hygiene. Hygiene’s great, but about everything else that you do That’s what really matters. So what we realise is that this environment that we live in is creating sick children and what’s happening is the diet number one but and with and then other things that we do like thumb sucking and pacifiers things like that are deforming page these kids mouths now all this the diet these other things. That we do with like thumb-sucking and pacifier. Are deforming our jaws and these kids at these very young ages and also causing inflammation throughout the body with the tonsils and the adenoids. So this combination of the deformed jaw for kids, for adults, that’s a big deal for kids. I would say even in some ways, a bigger deal, even though for adults it’s, it’s probably one of the number one killers that it’s over under diagnosed as far as under being under diagnosed. But for, again, for, for kids jaw development is super important because when their airway is not expanded or jaw is not extended, there’s not enough room. Their teeth are crowded. They’re getting cavities. They can’t breathe at night when they sleep. They get a specific look. It’s a tired look, mouth open, jaw open, jaw protruded, what we call a class two bite where the lower jaw is behind it because it’s always open. Their jaws develop incorrectly. We have the maxillary palate narrowed with a high roof into the nasal passage way. These kids can’t breathe from their nose and then they’re inflamed and they’re adenoids back there. Is blocking the airway and the tonsils blocking their way. They can’t breathe. So what happens when you can’t breath? You’re not getting oxygen during a critical time. You’re asleep. So when you’re sleeping, these kids are sleeping at night and they’re not breathing well. They’re not getting enough oxygen. A very important hormone is not being released growth hormone. So if there’s not enough growth hormone being released for these kids from four, five, six, seven, eight years old during that critical time. Their mental and physical growth is stunted. And they get behavioural issues like ADD, ADHD, and they can’t focus in class. So and then what do they do? Medicate them. Let’s medicate these kids because they can sit still. So for us, obviously, we wanna not medicate kids. We wanna get to the root cause of the problem. And for us our holistic paediatric dentist not only focuses on prevention of cavities and treating those cavities in an environment where, you know, the child feels comfortable and safe and maybe enjoyable with cartoons and all that kind of stuff. And, but all that’s fine. But let’s look at their development. Let’s look and make sure that the developing right if because so many so many kids who were just having a meeting with our paediatric dentist yesterday, Shawn, my brother, and her. About arch development and so many, there’s so much deficiency in their maxillary arch in their arch development. And, and it’s overlooked and it is overlooked and these kids are suffering. So if we address this at a young age and get their jaw to develop, not only are they’re going to be mentally and physically growing. Not only are the nest likely to need races and be years and years of races. What we call this, what we call first phase orthodontics and expansion. All that sets them up so that they can have a adult life that is actually healthier and aligned with on being on a journey of actually health instead of sickness and living in a life where, you know, they’re disadvantaged, they are literally, it’s a big disadvantage.
Dr Ron Ehrlich [00:51:43] I mean you’d be pleased to know that we also did a programme with a paediatric respiratory specialist who shared a statistic that was a real aha moment for me and he said 50% of kids that are diagnosed with ADHD attention deficit have an undiagnosed sleep disordered breathing condition.
Dr Ben Javid [00:52:05] This is it. This is what I’m talking about. There’s countless studies on this, Ron. If you go on PubMed and you do search sleep apnea and ADHD, please, someone go do that right now. And if you do that, you’ll see studies and studies and study and studies. And then all these poor kids are being put on meds. And they’re not. I had one of my assistants of she’s been my assistant for probably eight, nine years. She’s, she’s, you know, she was talking about her child and behavioural issues and they want to put them on meds and he’s having a hard time in class and all these things. And I said, have you done a sleep study? No, no one ever brought that up. No one ever bought it up. So lo and behold, obviously he has sleep apnea. They address the sleep apnea, he’s growing, he is mentally, physically growing, his behaviour has changed, she is just in tears of how much of a difference this was impacting him so much in their lives and they were sending him to speech pathologists and all these things but not ever addressing the glaring fact that he can’t breathe.
Dr Ron Ehrlich [00:53:17] Yeah, yeah. I mean, you’ve you mentioned also that part of a holistic biological approach to dentistry is also about sleep medicine. You got very involved with that. And I have, too. That’s certainly over the last 20 years become a very big part of holistic dentistry. It often surprises me. I’m sure it does you, too, when you’re taking a history that a person’s been on antidepressants for 20 or 30 years. In your next question. Have you ever had a sleep study done and the answer so often is no Has that been your observation?
Dr Ben Javid [00:53:53] Well, there’s so many things that we are taking medications for in our countries that we should do a sleep study for right away. You mentioned antidepressants, which is one of the number one medications that are prescribed. High blood pressure medication, which was one of, you know, top 10, right? All these are going to be top 10. If you had a stroke, right, you’re going to take medication that’s thin in the or something like this these are all highly medicated prescriptions. And another one, in the world of dentistry, if you grind your teeth, you grind your teeth you should get a sleep study. And dentists are not even looking at that at all. And they are just giving them this plastic appliance to wear at night, which does one thing, it keeps from the teeth from rubbing on each other and it protects the teeth, which is great. But is not addressing the root cause. So a lot of our world is addressing symptoms of the world of medicine. Now, our world, I guess, like you can say, Ron, you and I, we wanna address not just symptoms but root cause, so if when we see a patient come in the door… I mean, so many people, we have to talk to them about their sleep and they’re actually surprised a lot of times why I’m talking about their sleep. Yeah. When I see these kinds of meds that we’re talking about or another one, erectile dysfunction. You know, that’s an important common medication people are taking, right? Viagra. So erectile is function also highly correlated with sleep apnea. So again, oxygen again, when it’s the number one need of the body, it affects you in every level. You know, it’s sad, but true. And it’s something that when you look at these things, and again, us holistic minded practitioners, we want to look for root cause. So when we see a patient, that is, you know, has all the signs. We in our office, we do we do a sleep study. And we want to assess and see what’s happening out there. Today, I probably recommended maybe four sleep studies out of my patients. So it’s something that a lot of times it can save a life. Not just the tooth, but you can actually save a For these adults so many times patient piece these people that are fall asleep at night and don’t wake up the next day It’s really very commonly sleep apnea and they had a heart attack because the heart is pumping There’s not enough oxygen getting in to the heart And it gives out after some time So increased chance of a heart attacked by 23 times So these are these this is real and and for us that as you can see I get super passionate about this because it’s so important to be addressing.
Dr Ron Ehrlich [00:57:00] Well, you know, this comes back to when we started this conversation about you commenting that you’re living it, that you take it seriously in your own life. And I often feel that, you know, I’m surprised that their doctors, their specialist, their specialists, all the people I’ve seen haven’t suggested, say, a sleep study or going to see the dentist. This is often a reflexion of the practitioners own life, You know, if they don’t take sleep… Seriously in their life, they will not be recommending it to their patients. If they don’t take their oral health seriously in their life than they won’t be recommending to their patients. One other thing, yeah, go on. Did you want to comment on that? Because I do think.
Dr Ben Javid [00:57:46] No, I’m just going to say the sad truth is that most people in the medical doctors and our dentists, we don’t know the first thing about sleep apnea from school. It’s literally nothing. Medical doctors, at one point after we had a diplomat, we actually were training MDs to screen their patients. Start looking for it. Don’t just wait for them to ask you for it, if you’re not looking for it, you’re just giving a prescription for something that they don’t need. So yes, it’s mind-boggling that something so important is so overlooked in the medical field completely.
Dr Ron Ehrlich [00:58:25] Yeah, and often people are surprised that they’re sitting in a dental practise. And this is the first time that someone has even raised this issue with them. You talked about the mouth as being the gateway to health. Well, it’s certainly the gateway to the respiratory tract, and it’s the gateway to the digestive tract. So if you think sleeping, breathing and eating are important, then we’re in the right spot. I noticed your, um… You’re very excited. You’ve learned recently about meridians and we’ve talked about AI, ancient intelligence, because Chinese and Indian, you know, talk about energy flow through a body in meridian. Tell us a little bit about this journey that you’re now excited about as well and the Meridians that, you know, tell us about Meridians.
Dr Ben Javid [00:59:17] I can say I expanded my knowledge recently on meridians. We know 100%. I mean if you go throughout my office right now, many of the exam rooms have a big poster of the dental meridian chart. And so it’s something that… I’ve been talking to patients about extensively because I understood that, and I’m a big fan of, for example, acupuncture. When I’ve had herniations in my neck and my back, so once in a while it gets aggravated, the muscles tense up. So I go to the acupuncturist and he puts the needles, but it isn’t just put it Your back or your neck, he actually puts it on your hands and your feet also because that’s how we can get some of the energy flowing in the right way on these meridians. And these meridian are energy lines, again, known for thousands of years in many ancient traditions, to that when there is energy blockages in those energy lines. There is health issues that arise along that energy line. Now, there’s different meridians, like the very, probably the most common one is gallbladder meridian that goes from your feet all the way up your side and all the around your head and if there’s a blockage in your in your gallbladder meridian and actually you can have everything any kind of issues from a problem in your feet to brain fog to pain on your side right here because it zigzags right here on the side of your of your body to you know to you can’t it’s hard having a hard time to focus or even even hearing in your ears is ringing, a lot of that has to be is a blockage in your gallbladder So it’s a very common one and it’s, a lot of times, again, not even considered because, again, with our world of Westernised medicine, when I say our world, as opposed to Chinese medicine, we’re in between, but the Westernised Medicine, if you have a pain on your side, they look at that area. But Chinese medicine doesn’t look where the pain is, they look at the whole body. And for us, holistic practises, this resonates because we also like to look at the whole. We don’t want to look at the mouth when there’s a mouth problem. If there’s bleeding gums, we’re not going to just say floss more. We’re going to say well What’s your diet like, what’s your oral microflora like, what’s some mineral deficiencies like, let’s see what your vitamin D levels are. If you have a lot of cavities, let’s look at your vitamin D levels. So we’re looking at your whole systemic health and with meridians, this is also looking at the whole body. Now, one of the things that I learned a lot from this one course with Simon Yu was a little more about parasites because what he shared about is one of mainstays of blockages and is the mouth for him, which is… Heavy metals, infected root canals, and of course something else called cavitations. These are sources of toxicities and dead tissue in the jaw or metals that are causing a block in the meridians. But also for him parasites. For him it’s a big part of what he does is is de-worm. Why are we humans not getting de-wormed where other animals are getting de-wormed. But humans are not and guess what we have them too and that’s causing many health issues from cancers to autoimmune disorders to these blockages in these meridians like the gallbladder meridian and and these and when you address this you heal you get better when you address the blockages. In your mouth you heal, you get So It’s amazing, again, AI, ancient technology, the intelligence that we want to actually embrace and actually to improve health on many levels so more than just fixing a tooth for function and that’s what the dentist’s job has been uh traditionally is fixing a teeth for function getting a patient out of pain and if you’re really ambitious maybe make it prettier but that’s it stop there that’s your zone you’re not allowed to look at overall health but really Again, if you have the right mindset, you can be the quarterback. You can be a quarterback for these patients that usually see their dentist more than their medical doctor. You can the quarterback to help guide these patients in the nice tradition for their on this health journey by looking at them holistically and see it from that angle.
Dr Ron Ehrlich [01:04:30] And I think it’s worth saying, Ben, that you still do. You still do, yes, I think that’s right. That’s right, I guess. Worth reminding our listener to that, even as a holistic dentist, you still to fix teeth.
Dr Ben Javid [01:04:48] Oh, absolutely.
Dr Ron Ehrlich [01:04:50] Because, you know, do you guys still do fillings? Do you do crowd? I go, no, no. I used to say, you know, I had some patients have a very far out idea of holistic dentistry. And I would joke with them and say, no I never pick up a drill. I just put my hands on the patients and they it cures them. It just does that. And people go, really? And I go and no, that’s a terrible joke. We still do dentistry, you know, we still do basic dentistry we just do it with an attitude.
Dr Ben Javid [01:05:19] Well, we do with an attitude, and that attitude is we want to be very choosy on what materials we use. You know, we don’t want to just put in any material in the mouth that the person’s given us in the dental world, the vendor, we were choosing whether it’s obviously we avoid the metals that we talked about, but even the composite resin fillings, most of them have a lot of BPA and so we had to choose wisely which materials we’re using. We want to use porcelain whenever possible so that it’s more biocompatible even for dental implants. We’re placing ceramic implants as opposed to the titanium implants. When we do our surgeries, we utilise something called PRF, platelet-rich fibrin, which is a great way to help utilise your own body’s potential for healing by using your own blood after it’s been centrifuged and get growth factors from your own life. So yes, we do a lot of what mainstream dentistry does. It’s I would say more thoughtful. We actually think more deeply about what we’re doing. Is this makes sense? You know, is this the right way to handle this situation? Can we be less invasive? Can we avoid doing a full coverage crown? By and shave away healthy parts of the tooth. For me, I want to be conservative, save healthy parts of a tooth and do a partial crown. And avoid the typical crowns and aggressive dentistry that’s done that a lot of times leads to the nerve dying. And then a cascade event that leads to a nerve dying and a root canal and then ultimately tooth loss. So it’s for us do less, less is more. But also if you are going to do something, use the materials wisely, use right materials So at least not impacting the body in a negative way.
Dr Ron Ehrlich [01:07:17] Now, you had to mention, and I think our listener may have missed it too, I mean, you mentioned this silver mercury amalgam fillings, which are, you know, they used to be called silver fillings. But hey, guess what? Half of the material is mercury. Who would have thought? But, you know. Removing it is is a challenge. And one could argue you’re almost better off leaving it in than removing it carelessly. And you mentioned the IAOMT, the International what is that, oral medicine and toxicology, something like that. They have what’s called the smart protocols. Just remind our listener, because I think it’s worth reminding them to be a little bit cautious about the removal. And this is true for the dentist as well as the patient. What do you what do you what did you learn from them? What was the lessons from them.
Dr Ben Javid [01:08:09] Well, number one, all metals are toxic to the body. There’s no place for any metal in the body, and mercury happens to be the most toxic. And these mercury amalgam fillings have more mercury than any other ingredient. In fact, more than 50% mercury. And they taught us in dental school that this is an amalgamation of multiple metals. That’s why they call it amalgam. And when you put them together, it makes it so that the mercury is not released into the body Oh, great. Thank you very much. Let’s go play with it and put it in the mouth. But the reality, we know 100 percent. This is not up for debate that mercury is being released by these fillings on a daily level for if you have a mercury, amalgam, silver, whatever you want to call it filling in your mouth. And how is it being released from just any surface tension? Meaning if you brush, if you if you floss that area, if eat or grind your teeth, anything you’re doing when you rub that mercury amalgam filling, there is actually if you go to the YouTube, I’m sure you’ve seen it is a smoking tooth. It shows with the right fluorescence that this how much of this very toxic material is being released, except there’s no order. There’s no taste that you can’t tell it’s happening. You’re just inhaling it and it’s going into your body. Now, when it goes into your body… It gets trapped. That’s why they call it heavy metals and the heavy metals means you can’t get it out but your body in its natural intelligence absorbs it and stores it in tissues. It stores it in usually fatty tissues but that bucket gets full after some time and overflows and it goes into organs. As it goes into organs, it’ll go into maybe kidneys, liver, but also the brain. As mercury being a major neurotoxin. What we see is neurological issues, you know? The Mad Hatter, we knew from well before all this that if you have a lot of mercury toxicity, you go mad. So this is not something new. In fact, back when they introduced mercury fillings in the 1800s, people already knew it was bad. People already knew, they’re like, what the hell? We don’t wanna put mercury in people’s mouths. And the ADA or American Dental Association of that time. It was called something else. I can’t remember, but they said, no, we’re not going to put this toxic material in people’s mouths. But of course with the system as we have it, they took down that system, that, um, Academy and they said no more of that. We’re going to create the American dental association and we’ll put dentists in charge that accept this. And now there’s mercury fillings. Uh, and it’s been that way for, since the 1800s. Of course, we are still treating it horribly in this country, where we are placing it in kids and pregnant women and adults of all kinds. A lot of other countries have actually outlawed these mercury amalgam fillings. And many parts of Europe have outlawded. Actually, I think all of Europe as of 2025 has outlawed it. And Russia outlaw it in the 70s, actually late 70s they outlaw this material. But still in the United States and in Australia we’re still placing it and it’s to the risk of not just the patient but the dentist team when removing this mercury material like you said it’s better to leave it. I always tell people do not take out your mercury fillings unless you do it with someone that’s qualified and trained to do it correctly because the amount of mercury toxicity that is released from that drilling process You know, the drilling process releasing the vapour and microscopic particles of these mercury is tremendous. A lot of people actually get sick after this process when they did it incorrectly. So it’s better to wait and do it the right way. And what’s interesting in our country, we are not allowed to have this material go down the drain. We have an amalgam separator which means that we can’t let it go out of the drain because it’s toxic for the environment, but we can put it in the mouth and we can drill it out and we inhale it. So it’s interesting how they have these regulations that we all have to have this amalgams separator and it’s not allowed to go down the drain, but, we can still drill it and inhale it and the poor souls, these poor, like me and you at one point We were drilling mercury fillings all the time. Unsafely. And we were exposed every single day to this mercury. So it’s unfortunate. At this point, we know way better. But still, this has not changed. So hopefully, we will see it in our countries too. And this material will be outlawed because there’s better options.
Dr Ron Ehrlich [01:13:15] No, no, the irony is in our country that as you say, it is against the law for environmental reasons to put the leftover material into the garbage, the toilet or down the sink. It’s too dangerous for that. The only safe place according to our NIH, it’s called the NH and MRC, or our TGA, which is your FDA. The only safe place, according to the authorities, to store this toxic material is in a human being, which defies logic, defies logic, but it’s sobering. The other interesting thing, Ben, is that I don’t know whether you’re aware of this, but if people Google the 47 worst jobs for your health, this is the U.S. Department of Labor. And I can imagine if a dentist is listening to this. Who doesn’t agree with this, they’ll be going, oh, these guys are this is such a load of BS, you know, this is rubbish. Well, the US Department of Labor do a study of nine hundred and fifty jobs, the worst jobs for your health and dentists, dental hygienists and dental nurses come up in the top five of nine hundred and 50 jobs. So, you, know, hey, take it seriously. It’s affecting our health or dental health as well as patient health as
Dr Ben Javid [01:14:39] It’s a tough job, right? It’s physically, mentally, and not to mention toxic. So it’s a it’s no joke. And a lot of times people ask, why do you think dentists have a high suicide rate? You get that a lot. It’s, it’s a very tough job. And it’s very toxic. And you really have to. Handle a lot, and it’s no joke, it’s not for everyone.
Dr Ron Ehrlich [01:15:10] No, no. And the sobering part of that study in the US Department of Labor is they use five criteria, exposure to toxins, exposure to microbes, exposure to radiation and being seated. And dentists come up in the top five, but they don’t even factor in stress into that. So add stress to that. And it’s a wonder we’re still alive talking to each other as we are now. Ben, but there we are. Listen, so good to catch up with you and talk to you about some of the exciting things. We’ve done a lot of programmes on oral health, it’s a passion of mine, it’s the missing link in dentistry. I wonder if I might ask you this final question because we’re all on a health journey in this modern world as individuals, so taking a step back from your role as a holistic dentist and putting your individual hat on. What do you think the biggest challenge is for us as individuals on that journey in this modern world?
Dr Ben Javid [01:16:10] The biggest challenge as far as being healthy, what’s our biggest challenge of being healthy?
Dr Ron Ehrlich [01:16:16] Yeah, as individuals.
Dr Ben Javid [01:16:17] Well, you know, I think… The health mindset is number one. I mean, number one, I think it starts up here. The head, right? We said the mouth is the gateway, but if you go a little higher up, it’s a mindset. Now, number 1, it is this journey of actually questioning and wanting more answers and just listening and following. I think that’s number one. If you just listen and follow, you’re never gonna be healthy. If you want to just have someone tell you what to do, that’s not gonna be a solution. If anything, we learned that from COVID. But number two, I think a lot of times, as you might know, certain people are not in the mindset of being healthy because they have a mentality of, that is not healthy. For example, they are a victim to their situation. They’re a victim to circumstances and they’re never going to be healthy. So whether it, whether they diet or exercise or, or eat right, they’re not going to healthy because they’re always a victim to every situation. So I think if you have the right mindset of, of, no no matter where you are. In your life or what you’ve been through being present in where you are and looking in the in the direction of where you want to be. I think that mindset has to be there. If you’re focused on what is and what has happened or what could you know, and you know being afraid of all the different possibilities of what could be then you are living in a mindset of disease. So you so number one, it’s I believe it’s a mindset. So if you’re in the right mindset, living in the right vibration, right? If you could say living in that mindset of health and healing mentality. So no matter what is happening in your life, you are focused on health and longevity and feeling well and looking and in that direction. You’ll get there. Now, if you if you constantly looking at your disease or health issues or issues that have happened in the past. Well, you’re going to stay there. You’re never going to grow. And at times, as health care providers, we can’t help everyone. We’re not going to, unless they are ready to take that, go on to that next chapter of actual health, we’re not gonna be able to help them. That’s why it’s great when someone is already there and they come find us and we’re here to support them on their journey. That’s what I always say is we’re supporting them on they’re journey, they’re the drivers on their journeys. So that means that they’re headed in that journey anyway, we’re going to support. So I think the biggest part is that number one is what happens between the ears and how you think about your life and every day if you’re in, if you taking the very important, it’s vitamin, vitamin G. Do you know what that is? Go on. Vitamin G, gratitude. If you’re living in a state of gratitude, that is probably the most important vitamin you can take. And what you’re doing then is you’re aligning your energy with that full potential. When you’re in a scene of gratitude you’re now vibrationally aligned with health. You’re vibrationally align with all the wonderful positive potential out there in this universe. But if you’re not in that state, I don’t care who is your doctor, who is what medicine you’re taking or what even common treatment modalities or detoxes or any kind of heavy metal detox you can do or IV protocol or hyperbarics or all these other technologies and biohacks that are out there. If you’re not in a mindset of healing, actually true healing. You’re not gonna be aligned with that potential.
Dr Ron Ehrlich [01:20:26] Well, Ben, that’s a great note for us to finish on. It’s been such a pleasure to talk to you. I am grateful for your time and your contribution and your journey. And thank you so much for joining us today and sharing your knowledge and wisdom with us.
Dr Ben Javid [01:20:41] No, it’s a pleasure. As you can see, I’m passionate about it. I like to… You know like I said I like to speak at longevity conferences on these topics as you can tell like you keep going on them and it’s exciting I feel like this is what I’m drawn to do and I’m called to do. And I do our different little videos on our social media platforms as well. It’s MySmileBody, it’s our social media handle and obviously our website is also MySmileBody.com so we are passionate to get this kind of information out there so that people can learn and grow and heal themselves a lot of times with some help. Thank you. Ron, thank you. I appreciate you having me on.
Dr Ron Ehrlich [01:21:33] Well, I love that. I love that I feel so enthused and empowered and really it’s a real eye opener for me. And I love Ben’s use of the term AI. No, not artificial intelligence, ancient intelligence. And I have often said that we have so much to learn from the ancient wisdom of our forefathers. And I also loved his vitamin G, which is gratitude. Which is one of the most powerful vitamins we all have access to and should all practise regularly. We will of course have links to Smile Body, their clinic, and I hope this finds you well. Until next time, this is Dr Ron Ehrlich. Be well. Feeling stressed, overwhelmed? It’s time to unstress your life. Join the unstresse health community and transform stress into strength. Build mental fitness. From self-sabotage to self-mastery. And together, let’s not just survive, but thrive. Expert-led courses, curated podcasts, like-minded community and support and much more. Visit unstresshealth.com. This podcast provides general information and discussion about medicine, health, and related subjects. The content is not intended and should not be construed as medical advice or as a substitute for care by a qualified medical practitioner. If you or any other person has a medical concern, he or she should consult with an appropriately qualified medical practitioners. Guests who speak in this podcast express their own opinions, experiences, and conclusions.
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