This is a 'generational' problem

I lay out why I view that there are four different generations of this biomechanical collapse that you can map any country into

If you want this topic is now on Youtube:

Now onto the article…

So let me set the context that I was an avid traveller most of my life. I’ve been to 90+ countries and lived in about 12 of them (US, Japan, China, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, Ukraine, Russia, Spain, UK, France, Australia).

This has exposed to me to lots of different cultures and experiences. Which then helped me conclude something very important about the impact of these biomechanics on societies over time.

With the thesis being that with each successive generation the people degrade based on a set of factors like prevalence of orthodontics, age at which mothers have children, etc

My observations in Kenya

When I was in Kenya in 1998 I took a safari to visit and spend some days with the Maasai tribe.

And I noticed how pretty much everyone had near perfect bodies and similarly shaped heads. Their heads were shaped like what you’d typically find on a professional model or an athlete. Highly symmetric.

Plus they didn’t brush their teeth yet they had beautiful white teeth that were very straight and with wide arches.

All of this seemed strange to the 21-year old me. It was 1998 at the time.

Especially as I began to pay attention to people from Kenya in the US in subsequent years.

Usually the person that migrated was in good shape but the next generation that was born in America or the generation after that would revert to looking like Americans.

Everyone assumed it was them eating too much McDonald’s but I started to realize this wasn’t the cause.

My observations in the USA

I grew up in America in New York. And the US is perhaps the country that pays more attention to teeth for its aesthetics than any other.

Everyone wants white teeth.

And so the US has probably one of the highest rates in the world of cosmetic dentistry and particularly, orthodontics.

According to ChatGPT braces starting getting prevalent in the 1950’s - 1960’s. By the time I was a teenager in the 1980’s I’d estimate something like 5% of teens had them.

And so a good 40-50 years have passed.

Now ChatGPT says 50-70% of US teens undergo orthodontic treatment, which just blew me away. It has exploded!

Also note that America has the highest obesity and neurological disease rates in the world.

My observations in Russia & Ukraine

When I first travelled to Kiev in 2005 I had only a few days but I was shocked. There were gorgeous people all over the place.

It seemed like they were breeding supermodels.

Same thing when I moved to Moscow in 2006 and lived there for the next three years.

Women were beautiful at a far higher density than in the US. And so everyone thought it was their ‘genetics.’

However I came back to Moscow in 2018 to live for a little over a year and noticed that my impression changed a lot. Teens and young adults were starting to look at a lot more like Americans.

The density of beautiful women was clearly plummeting.

What was happening to these so-called ‘genetics’ if things could start declining so rapidly?

Also note that orthodontics had taken off in popularity, albeit not at the same levels as the US.

My observations backpacking around Latin America

I backpacked through Latin America in early 2011 on my own. I made my way though countries like Colombia, Panama, Guatemala and Honduras.

People were poor but they were often very happy. I particularly noticed that the older folks that were 60+ could be dirt poor and sitting in a bar nursing a single beer the whole night, but they seemed happy as shit. And healthy.

A far cry from what most elderly Americans were like. As most elderly Americans at this point are obese and nursing a number of different health ailments.

And if you hang out with them, my experience is you spend a large percentage of your time just talking about all of these various ailments and pills they are taking.

The connection to teeth and pregnancy

In early 2015 I also began reading a lot of Weston Price who was a nutritionist over a century back that had travelled the worlds looking at the impact of diet on different cultures.

He’d put together the conclusion that it was the modern Western diet that was causing the degradation of health in developed countries.

But when I overlayed this with my own experiments with the biomechanics I was dabbling with, I began to realize more and more that it wasn’t about the western diet.

It was about the degradation of the teeth.

Also, in 2018 I had a very impressionable visit to a well known US osteopath named Dr. Jim Jecmen in Missouri. He was a dentist who later became an osteopath but knew how to straddle both worlds.

He was 70+ years old and he told me about how he’d worked on newborn children for many decades and could tell from feeling the damage to their skull what type of misalignment their mother had.

And this was then an accurate predictor of what type of maloclussion (eg. class II, class III) the child would have later in life.

He explained that this damage occurred while the child was inside the mother because of these compensations or during childbirth. But it was not genetic as he could sometimes correct a lot of it.

So essentially a mother could ‘pass on’ her compensations to her child. And this was an important piece to the puzzle.

I started to realize that this was a generational thing

So the more I started following the patterns the more I realized that a mother ‘almost aways twists her child’ before they are born. Meaning that an obese mother almost always gave birth to a child that also has a tendency to become obese.

But not because it was in the genetics. As I explained in this article, it would be illogical to call it genetics when these genes had somehow remained latent for centuries beforehand.

Genetics are wayyyy overrated

Rather it was because the compensation of the mother had literally twisted the child. And then this child would grow up to be obese and twist her own child.

And so on and so on. Each generation gets a bit worse.

Because once the mother is twisted (ie. waist-to-hip ratio is not correct) than from that generation on… things will likely only get worse.

This was also accelerated by the fact that the later in life the mother had the child, the more likely she will have twisted her body (pelvis etc) pre-childbirth.

And this explains what i’d observed in my travels and how people in more developed countries seemed to be further impacted by these biomechanics.

The state of the people of a country essentially depended on how many generations down this downward spiral they were!

We are four generations in

I put together a hypothesis that you can essentially classify any country or people in the world into these four generations below:

Generation 1: These are native cultures that have no access to orthodontics and mothers have children very early (eg. early 20’s)

• Examples include: native tribes like the Maasai in Africa that i mentioned earlier.

Generation 2: These are cultures that are starting to get westernized but have little access to orthodontics and most women have children in their 20’s.

• Examples would be Russia, Ukraine, and China 20-30 years ago. It is why many of the people from these cultures that are 30-40 years old now are very healthy and good looking.

• Another way to look at this is that this is my parent’s generation in the US (who were born in the 1950’s and 60’s)

Generation 3: These are cultures that are westernized and starting to ramp up quickly with the orthodontics. Plus women are giving birth later in life (eg. 30’s+)

• Examples would be Western Europe and now modern Eastern Europe has crawled into this bucket too.

• Another way to look at this is that this is my generation in the US (who were born in the 1970’s and 1980’s)

Generation 4: This is countries that have a history of orthodontics that extends back to the 1950’s - 60’s and there has been time for at least three subsequent generations of people to be born (each a bit worse then the previous)

• Examples would be the US & UK. Which is why things like obesity and neurological disease are highest in these countries.

These four generations map to the history of orthodontics in each region

If you consider that orthodontics started in Generation 4 countries about 80-90 years ago, then it makes sense that there has been about enough time for three subsequent generations (~30 years each).

• Basically ‘Generation 3’ (eg. Germany) started orthodontics ~30 years after the US in the 1980’s.

• Then ‘Generation 2’ (eg. Ukraine) started doing orthodontics at scale ~30 years after Generation 3 in the 2010’s.

• And ‘Generation 1’ (eg. native tribes) still haven’t started it. And so they are generally the healthiest looking and functioning people, despite the fact that they have the least access to modern medicine.

Why do I specifically talk about orthodontics correlating to this biomechanical collapse? Well make sure you’ve read this:

The impact of orthodontics

Starting to see how the puzzle fits?

Now go observe… observe people each day for a decade like I have. And tell me I’m wrong.

I don’t think you will.