Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Listeners of the Tron podcast, welcome back. This is your host, Rashad Woods. Today. I have a very special guest today and it's an honor and a pleasure because his story is very inspiring. It's all about health and making yourself better and he's created a very innovative company in the process. Mr. Larry Oberhue of Fresh Mouth Club, thank you very much, sir.
[00:00:16] Speaker B: Hey, thanks for having me on. It's great to be here. So pretty excited.
[00:00:20] Speaker A: It's been, it's been, it's definitely. We've touched base a couple times and it's been, it's been an exciting episode for me because you have such an innovative business and it's so personal with people because it's oral health, it's people's well being and you create a very innovative club, you know, subscription model, particularly because you come from the healthcare industry and you pivoted into dentistry, even though most people need to don't associate oral health with physical health and well being as well.
[00:00:43] Speaker B: Right, right. So yeah, I come from the health industry. So I was in it for, and still am for about 30 years. So we're pretty pretty big into that. And yeah, I mean, you know, some circumstances with the change, you know, it's Obamacare. So I mean, Obamacare really kind of destroyed my industry.
And so we were a pretty large insurance agency, so 2% in the whole country. So we did a pretty amazing job.
Yeah, I mean Obamacare kind of destroyed it. Luckily we had a little bit of foresight and kind of foreseen a little bit of it. Didn't think it was going to be as bad as it was. So we ended up pivoting a little bit into dental. So that's kind of the road into the dental insurance kind of came in and we started doing dental insurance and doing administrative work for some dental companies. And then we actually created a dental insurance plan ourselves. So, so we're kind of in that space and insurance unfortunately had been and still is, is being politicalized. So, you know, I was tired of only making money when certain people were in power and stuff. You know, I mean, it was really kind of taking apart the industry pretty badly and, and it made it really difficult to make money. So I was tired of, you know, only making money certain times and you know, it was kind of hit or miss. So we decided that I needed to get something outside of the insurance business. So we started looking at some different models and some different things and came basically thought, well, you know, we're kind of in dental. That's kind of what we're doing. Why don't we do something, you know, in the dental field? You know, originally it was. It was, you know, it was kind of a get rich quick scheme.
[00:02:22] Speaker A: I saw that on your previous interview. I mean, everybody kind of goes into business with that.
[00:02:25] Speaker B: It really was. That didn't work out that way. So, you know, but it did. It did a lot of. There was a lot of transitioning going on. And. And. And, you know, it actually was the catalyst to. To start, you know, like an entire different journey, which I didn't see it at the time. You know, we were just looking to try to. Try to get something to make some money and stuff. So. So we kind of, you know, thought, well, you know, here we're working in dental. Why. Why can't we, you know, get a product that, like, we could market to the dental insurance companies, you know, something that was truly preventative in nature, something that would really help orally. And so then the research just began. So I didn't really set out to make toothpaste. That wasn't my goal in life. But I, you know, I said, hey, no, hey, there's plenty of people out there. I don't need to reinvent the wheel if somebody shot something that works. We just need to know why and get some research behind it and just kind of back that and really kind of push that through the channels that we had open to us time, which were, you know, some pretty big insurance companies. So. So that's what it started out. We started looking at. We looked at Crest, you know, I mean, I wasn't even down the whole fluoride rabbit hole at that point in my life. You know, we were just looking for something that was good for us. And hell, I. I'd used fluoride toothpaste my entire life. You know, I didn't really think there was anything wrong with it.
[00:03:39] Speaker A: I mean, everybody buys what's off the shelf, right? You know what I mean?
[00:03:42] Speaker B: Yeah. And, you know, it's just like, you know, like anything else, you know, it's a person of authority. Doctors, dentists and stuff like that. We. We view them as professional, put them on a pedestal, and anything they do or say we just take for granted, you know?
[00:03:55] Speaker A: Right.
[00:03:55] Speaker B: This is, you know, the guy's job. He knows what he's talking about. Well, you know, and so I was. I was pretty shocked, actually, and digging into it so, you know, finding out that that fluoride literally is toxic waste. So I didn't know that. I mean, fluoride is one of the Most poisonous substances on earth. And we put this in our mouth and our kids mouths and it's in our water. It's toothpaste. And you know, this is ridiculous. I mean, fluoride is, I mean, horrendous, you know, for our bodies. So less than a lot of people don't realize. It's less than a gram will kill a full size human being. So that's what we're putting in our toothpaste in our mouth. Less than a gram. And you know.
Yeah, and a lot less than that for a child. So it is based on size and weight. And actually it affects women and men differently as well. Women attacks their thyroid. That's why about 7 out of 10 women have thyroid disorders is fluoride. Fluoride destroys the floor the thyroid. So in men, it, it seems to attack their brains more. It is a neurotoxin.
[00:04:56] Speaker A: That would explain why.
[00:04:57] Speaker B: And it causes. Yeah, it causes add.
[00:05:00] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:05:00] Speaker B: So you know, now they're saying, you know, we got all these kids on Ritalin and Concerta and all these, you know, attention deficit disorder stuff, and it's really the large majority of that is caused by fluoride.
[00:05:12] Speaker A: You know, I did not know that. And you know, that's, you know, I always find things fascinating when people create and invent things, do their research and make successful products. But honestly, you know, we're kind creatures. A habit. Because again, to your point, I remember I saw a commercial one time a long time ago and it showed like this talkative guy and he was talking at work and then he was talking in his inner circle and he was always asking questions. And then they showed him in a picture in his doctor's office and they were like, he just sat silently. And it was the way that it was basically like you ask questions and question everything except when it comes to medical. Right, except, except when it get. Yeah, yeah, like eight, nine, ten years of medical. And I'm not dissing the medical, you know, people who.
This is just where people get uncomfortable asking questions.
[00:05:53] Speaker B: Right.
[00:05:54] Speaker A: Because it's just a natural reaction. You know, people may not question, for example, their pastor or their, or their, or their minister. They may not question their dentist or their doctor because people have exalted titles and things like that, you know.
[00:06:07] Speaker B: Right, right. We're, we're kind of bred into like, you know, respect and authority. We don't question authority. You know, like even our teachers, you know, hey, our teachers, they know it all, right?
[00:06:19] Speaker A: So it gets very, very complicated because then you become the know it all when you Keep at, you know, the kid keeps raising his hand all the time and they're like, hey, I have, I'm the professor, I'm the dean.
[00:06:29] Speaker B: You know, you know, don't question, you know. Well, not, you know, I mean, honestly, it's like, you know, I think a lot of people are kind of waking up to that. It's like, you know, my new motto is question everything, you know, because, you know, I mean, hey, I mean, history is riddled with mistakes that we've made. I mean, you don't got to look far to see that, you know, asbestos, you know, supposed to be not harmful, that, that didn't work out. So, you know, lead, you know, lead in our paint and stuff like that. I mean, you know, so there's mistakes that we made throughout the, the history and, and we kind of corrected it, you know, four eyes. Just one of those things that, that just, we haven't gotten past that to get to the correction mode. I mean, there's other rabbit holes you can go down to. I mean, you can get real friends with this stuff, you know, but, you know, the long and short of it, not good. And, you know, we need to stop doing it. You know, this is another thing, you know, we, we find out stuff and then, you know, then we argue it and litigate it and put it to court. So currently, right now, we're going through a massive lawsuit to remove it from the water. Yeah, I mean, this is like a 30 year, like push to get it out of our water. And we're right there. As a matter of fact, they, they won.
They, they won the last court case in 2023. The fluoride alert network actually sued the EPA and went to court, got it all the way up through. They won the appeals, everything. They went all the way through. They actually won the case. The judge in the case, the EPA could not give any, they couldn't give any reasoning or objections to any of the studies that they all did on how heinous that fluoride is for our bodies. They literally had nothing.
[00:08:08] Speaker A: Okay, but you know what, though?
I know it's been politicized. I didn't know that particular case. I haven't followed that. So.
[00:08:14] Speaker B: Yeah, so, so, but get this. So they, so they win the case, they win the appeal because literally they like, you could watch some of the court things. They have it on their website, fluoridealert.org and they, they, they like literally, they couldn't answer like, hey, this is poison. Yes, it is. And it's not good for us well, that's true. I mean, everything they were doing in it was like, you know, hey. And that's what the judge said. He's like, I am appalled. He's like, this needs to stop now. And so what did they do? They lost, and they lost the appeal, but now they've come back and they're suing Fluoride Alert Network and kind of going back through repulling the case up because they say they didn't have standing. Not they weren't right. Not that they said wrong things. Not that they say, oh, we got new information now that we could prove this.
None of that. It was just like, they don't have standings to bring this case. Well, what happened to just, hey, you know, and now they're. They're getting it. I mean, they're re. They're bringing this case back. You know, something that should be a hard stop. And like, okay, we need to stop doing this. All the evidence is there. No, we didn't do that. We said, oh, well, we'll go back to court just to argue, you know, semantics on whether or not they could bring the case or not. How about, like, were they right? You know, I mean, that would be a better facts.
[00:09:27] Speaker A: What they were right. So, you know.
[00:09:28] Speaker B: Right, exactly.
[00:09:30] Speaker A: You know what's interesting about the history of dentistry? You know, if people always find I find this fascinating, right, because the person who used to work on your teeth was your barber, right? Like, so, like, when people actually, like, right, so, like, for a long time, there wasn't even a link between your actual body. Like, from the neck on up in between your ears. Nothing was ever linked to the rest of your body. It seems corny, right, because you're like, what are you talking about? Like, people get mouth sores, you know.
[00:09:52] Speaker B: You think actually, you know, you. You go way back, though. And, you know, Dennis weren't. You know, Dennis weren't what they are today. Not even, you know, the whole term apple a day keeps the doctor away. That was actually a dentist. So Dennis did a lot more than just clean your teeth today. They've been kind of demoted to just, you know, glorified teeth cleaners, really.
And. And, you know, I'll give some credit where it's due and credence to their profession. It's a lot more than just that.
[00:10:23] Speaker A: Oh, my God.
[00:10:24] Speaker B: And, oh, my gosh, it really is. And I mean, you know, a lot of dentists will even argue that, you know, they don't believe in the connection between our teeth and our body. But there's a Tooth meridian chart. I mean, it's real. You can Google one. I mean, every single tooth is connected to a body organ function.
[00:10:41] Speaker A: I've seen that. I haven't heard that. I've seen and heard that.
[00:10:43] Speaker B: Yeah, and there's. There's lots of physicians now that are kind of saying that, hey, we believe that close to 80% of chronic disorders start to mouth. So that's a big number. You know, that's a lot. We really should be focused more on oral health.
Yeah. And that's part of it, keeping your teeth clean, obviously. But that's not all. I mean, you know, our mouth and our teeth are really important to our body. We really need to take care of them. And everything on the market right now is designed for failure.
[00:11:13] Speaker A: You know, it's also like more vanity and stuff like that too. Right. It's all about, like, how shiny they are.
[00:11:18] Speaker B: Right? Well, yeah, and a lot of the vanity stuff actually ruin your teeth. You know, veneers, they. They literally scrape the enamel off your teeth. And it's irrever. It's not, you know, you can't go back, you know, and, and, and it's not healthy for us. There's. There's other things that they could do, but, you know. Yeah, I mean, everybody kind of goes and tries to do that. You know, I've ran across people that just want to have all their teeth pulled out, put all implants. And it's like, man, what. What is wrong with people?
That's the wrong idea there. You know, implants are not. Because they just want the perfect, you know, don't want to have to work for it, you know, not like, you know, actually time to take care of your teeth, you know, so that they look good, but. But yeah, you know, so we got that definitely a little bit wrong.
Our teeth are. They just did a study in 2019.
They took a thousand women with breast cancer. Just a random selection of women. 90% of them had root canals or cavitations, which is a infection below gum line. And the second or the third molar on either side, on the top, that's directly connected to the mammogram or the. Your mammary glands, I should say. And, you know, so that's huge. 90 of them. And then to make it even more disturbing, whatever side that root canal or cavitation was on was the side the breast cancer was on.
[00:12:33] Speaker A: Are you serious?
[00:12:34] Speaker B: I mean, that's. Yeah, that's like a slam dunk right there. So that's how interconnected we are. I mean, we're talking about cancer, we're talking about ms, we're talking chronic disorders, I mean heart disease and stroke. A lot of this stems from our mouth. And you know, so a lot of people, you know, they want to be healthier nowadays and you know, working out, trying to do the right things, trying to eat the right things. Starts in our mouth though. You know, our wellness starts as the epicenter of wellness is our mouth. So if you can't be healthy there, we're going to have issues in our body. So you got to clean up that first.
[00:13:03] Speaker A: So I had two, a couple questions with regards to your company and, but I wanted to also say that, you know, when people. It also shows the diminishing importance when it comes to dental health because even when it's in somebody's employer based benefits or on the market, it covers the least amount when it comes to actually taking care of like, you know, the caps on them are so low. And what they cover, they've tried to make them more robust because reality is, is that, you know, your dental insurance may cost, you know, 12 bucks a month, but it just covers a cleaning. It doesn't give you the full scope of what your mouth and your oral care actually needs taken care of because it was always looking as like a secondary vanity thing as opposed to part of your actual medical cover for your whole body. And it's weird because it's not, it isn't listed as important or elective, so to speak.
[00:13:47] Speaker B: Yeah, well that's where you get like some division on it. So your, your dentist, you have your biological dentists, which to me are like, you're pretty much your top tier. Those dentists actually treat the entire body. So they're not all about the mouth. They're like, they get it. You know, it's like their connection is there. They don't believe in fluoride, they don't believe in amalogams or the silver, you know, in their mouth. You know, they, they, they believe that, that interconnection is there and they treat our whole body. They're also a lot more expensive than a regular dentist, for sure. But they are the best dentists out there. They use things like silver, that's what our toothpaste is made out of.
And they also use ozone, which is really amazing stuff as well. And we do some ozone products as well. So ozone is really, really healthy for us. I mean, it's a really great product. It really is. So ozone is, they call it O3. It's three oxygen molecules bound together with electricity. And it's very unstable. So but it's one of the most sterile products known to man. So it is 10, 10 times more powerful than bleach, you know, as far as killing bacteria and germs and viruses, stuff like that. So it's very strong and very effective with it. But it only lasts for about 30 minutes because it falls apart. But that's actually really good news for our body because if it falls apart inside of us, it creates oxygen. Oh. Because it just falls apart back into oxygen. Our body's like oxygen, you know, just a little.
So it's really, really healthy for us. Yeah, like oxygen actually is, is what heals our body. Cells, tissues, organs, bone, are all healed through oxygen. So that excess oxygen obviously really does some benefit for our body. And a biological dentist do what they call ozone irrigation. So they use ozone water to irrigate a tooth that would need a root canal. And in about 40% of the time, they're able to save that tooth by doing it. Now, general dentists don't even go there. They just do the root canal.
[00:15:41] Speaker A: And by the way, portion of the population. Just because most employers aren't going to cover something that in depth, right?
[00:15:47] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, exactly. That's what I mean. It's all. Yeah, it's out of pocket. Exactly. Yeah. They cover the exact stuff that we don't want, you know, that, that, that we don't necessarily want or, you know, more of your natural carrying and stuff like that or healing through other.
Other than just, you know, the traditional medical means. So, you know, health and care and health insurance haven't caught up to that. And I think that was intentional as well. You know, I mean, it is cheaper to pay for natural products than it would be for prescription grade. So why wouldn't insurance cover that? Because they're all in bed together. So they all kind of represent and make up this system that we're kind of stuck in. And, you know, and dental is part of it. Medical. Dental. You know, both the American Medical association and the American Dental association, the ada, are both owned by the Rockefeller, Rockefeller foundation, which incidentally, are responsible for, you know, the system that's in place today. They remove the natural healing and the empirical health system that we had prior to the these or, you know, mid-30s.
And, and they came out with synthetic blends, chemical, you know, basically chemical, synthetic blends of natural products. So all medication today is a. Is a derivative of a natural product that they.
[00:17:04] Speaker A: No question, without question. Right. I mean, it. All it does is mimic nature.
[00:17:07] Speaker B: Right.
[00:17:08] Speaker A: And then basically.
[00:17:09] Speaker B: Yep, exactly. So, and they know this and they can't patent the natural stuff, so they've used the synthetic version. And they're finding, now that, you know this, a lot of this stuff is just coming out. Now they're saying that, you know, our bodies don't, you know, we don't process synthetics well at all. Nothing, none of that is good for our body in any way, shape or form. So we don't want synthetics. Our bodies don't know what to do with it. And what it does is the synthetics treat the symptoms and then cause other problems. But this is great news for them because, you know, there's no money in curing people anymore. So we don't cure, we don't heal, you know, we just treat, you know, and they even change the Hippocratical oath, which is, you know, kind of, I think that should be talked about more. You know, heal and cure are taken out and do no harm. So do no harm is taking out of the hypocritical oath. I mean, what the heck is that? You know, I mean, because at the end of the day, none of that matters. It's all about pushing their agenda and getting you, getting you stuck on a maintenance medication that you're on for the rest of your life rather than healing and curing it.
[00:18:15] Speaker A: So, you know, it's, you know, at the end of the day, I think the Internet has allowed people to seek ways to be more informative about themselves, their own bodies, whatever. Yes, they, they decide. You know, the beauty about decision making and free will is ultimately you need to decide what's best for yourself. Right? So if you ask questions and find something like Fresh Mouth Club, which, you know, it's really interesting because you have a subscription based model and then you have Nano Silver. And I really wanted to ask some questions about the company too, because you have a subscription model, you do free shipping, and you have your different types of toothpaste, different types of mouthwashes, toothbrushes.
So explain that hole. When somebody signs up as a customer and decides, hey, this is for me, this guy is speaking my kind of language.
[00:18:56] Speaker B: Sure. So, so, you know, first of all, we don't, we don't require subscriptions. So you can do a subscription as an option. No, that's fine because, you know, not everybody is into subscriptions. I happen to think, you know what, what we do is our subscription is just cheaper, so we make it less money and we give you free shipping. So if you just want to buy a one off, then, you know, you pay Shipping and you pay the getcha. Yeah, we get you, you know, either side. But, you know, the subscription models, I mean, subscriptions are becoming more and more prevalent, and everybody's kind of moving.
[00:19:26] Speaker A: Absolutely.
[00:19:27] Speaker B: They are convenient. They have their downfalls, for sure, depending on the products. You know, I decided, you know, gosh, oral healthcare is a perfect product for that because it's a consumable. We buy this stuff every. You know, we need to get it. You know, you run out. So it's. It's. It's consumable. We got to replace it constantly. So, you know, having it just delivered, you know, is just a better, more convenient way. And we're not in stores, so obviously we're direct consumer, so we make it easier. We can make our product better and cheaper and more affordable and do things like free shipping and stuff.
[00:19:58] Speaker A: Definitely. Definitely.
[00:20:00] Speaker B: Yeah. So, you know, it just fits the model very well. The big thing is the big, you know, a centerpiece product is our toothpaste. So, you know, people are trying to move away from fluoride now, which is. Which is really good, because fluoride really bad for us. I mean, it causes the side effects for fluoride. I mean, the number one cause of tooth decay in America is fluorosis. Now, that's indisputable. I have the specs on it. And that's literally caused by fluorides. Fluoride causes the exact thing that we're supposed. That it's supposed to be protecting. It also causes receding gums, it causes bleeding gums. It causes.
It causes cancer. I mean, cancer rates go up 1000% where. Everywhere that fluoride's introduced, if it wasn't there before.
And that was actually proven back in 1950 by Dr. Burke. And they ridiculed him, you know, for doing that. Of course, he caught a lot of heat for pushing that out there.
[00:20:52] Speaker A: Isn't that always funny, though, when people are, like, kind of like the first person, like, you know, and I hate to cut you off, but you always think of, like, I always go back to, like, Superman when, like, Kyle Elle was, you know, Jor El, excuse me, was saying, hey, Krypton's gonna blow up. And then everybody basically, you know, no, the planet's not exploding. I know this is a kind of a deviation. And then what happens after he has that speech? The planet blows up, and then he's just, you know, that person that wasn't believed is always ultimately have to really stand on their own and their own principles, and then they make it vindicated, even after they die.
[00:21:19] Speaker B: Right? And that's actually what happened. Dr. Burke gets vindicated in 2014. He's dead, you know, but they said all of his research was correct. Now, that's kind of interesting, because this guy said it was the biggest cause of cancer out there. And he literally said that fluoride was responsible for more deaths through cancer than all the wars put together at that time. All the people that have died. That's actually how extreme he said he was vindicated in 2014. Well, you know, it's. What is the year today?
So, you know, here we are 11 years later, and we're still putting it in. I mean, we didn't like, oh, he was right.
[00:21:57] Speaker A: But let's just change in business practice.
[00:21:59] Speaker B: You know, that's par for the course, you know, and then we got to push to try to get it out and remove it. We get a lot of pushback. So then you got to say, you know, like, why are these people pushing back so hard? Why are they able to do this? Why are they using the legal system basically against us to keep poisoning us? I mean, they don't even have a good reason. It's not like they say, you know, we got to keep doing it because it's good for you. And, you know, people are going to have cab this and that. They're not even making those arguments. They're just saying, now we're just going to keep doing it because they make a lot of money on fluoride. So not only do they. Not only do they make money on it, but they also save so much, and that's the big thing. So fluoride is toxic waste. That's what it is. It comes from the manufacturing of phosphate fertilizer. So when they make Roundup in the factories, the waste byproduct is fluoride. That's fact. So highly toxic, deadly. We're talking skull and crossbones, the whole shot. When they put it in their water. I mean, you know that that's what it is. If they have spills, which they have in the past, they got to call in a hazmat team. They got to be fully suited to actually handle that. That spill, because it's deadly. It will kill people. So this is. And we're putting this in our water. Like, okay, this doesn't make sense, but that's where we're at. You know, everything's kind of crazy right now. So they get to defend their position strictly from a financial aspect rather than a health. It shouldn't be that. Right? It should just be like, oh, hey, we have a discussion we need to have here. This stuff is killing people, causing cancer. We need to stop, you know, but they're like, no, no, no, we got to go to court for it and fight for it for no real, you know, they don't really have, you know, any kind of contradiction to that. They just basically want to say, basically.
[00:23:39] Speaker A: This is business as usual. This is how it's going to be. Kind of a deal.
[00:23:43] Speaker B: Yeah, you know, business as usual. Let's just keep it up, you know, so. But, you know, I think the good thing is, is that I think that veil is, is, is lifted. And I think a lot of people are waking up. More and more people are actually getting into the whole question everything, and that means everything, you know, and I think that we're, we're having more and more of these conversations here about, like, just mainstream, every, you know, anything mainstream. Is it really what it's supposed to be? You know, you know, we got the mainstream defending fluoride. For what reason exactly? You know, they can't even give a good one because we want to make money.
[00:24:18] Speaker A: I think one of the best benefits of this show is being able to talk to people who have, you know, this is what the show is all about, to talk to people from, who have carved out different niches and explored different avenues and been successful and are curious. That's what the basis of the show is all about, was to, you know, find people who are curious about things such as myself. And so, and that's why I'm very appreciative of this important topic because I think that, you know, anytime people can kind of go to routine, you know, is the routine, what is what I'm doing actually helpful or is it just something that's kind of a baked in habit, so. So to speak. Right, right. My second question is, is that how has your product been received? And then you say, I know I saw an interview before where you guys were kind of working with dental insurance companies to be, you know, how did you, how did you end up getting into the industry with your product from the outside coming in?
[00:25:06] Speaker B: Well, we didn't actually, so, so we designed it for insurance. We kind of went to the insurance companies and said, if we could design a product that was truly preventative in nature and actually help orally, is that something we could market to all the members? So really we wanted to market it to the insurance company because they would, you know, basically have millions of members and, you know, it would be an overnight get rich quick scheme. Right.
But it didn't turn into that actually, to be honest. The insurance companies actually did like the concept. They were all over it. And actually when we actually put together all the, all the information and all the literature that's out there, the clinical studies, we have all that. And we went to the insurance companies, they were like, we loved it. They're like, hey, just, just put fluoride in it and, and we're good to go. And I was like, whoa, wait, you know, that was the first part of the conversation. Let me go back to it. They're like, no, no, if you put fluoride in it, we'll do it. If you don't, we won't. So we ended up walking away. So I'm kind of not built that way. So we walked away and I said, I could do this myself. I don't need the insurance companies. Of course, it would have been a lot easier, let me tell you.
But we are, we are getting well received, but we're pretty much word of mouth. I'm totally self funded, so we don't have the big budget to be able to do a lot of stuff and throw it on the commercials and do all kinds of big things like that.
[00:26:21] Speaker A: But doing very well.
[00:26:23] Speaker B: We're doing good. Yeah, yeah, we, we get it out there with the word of mouth. I mean, we do a lot of trade shows, exposed health and wellness shows and stuff like that around the country and just kind of spread awareness, you know, and put it out there. So awesome. And, and people, I think today, like we just talked about, people are waking up, people are looking for alternatives. Now we, for the first time, I think we got people questioning their doctors, questioning their dentists, saying maybe this isn't the best course of action for me. We see a lot of that, you know, a lot of mainstream stuff, even mainstream doctors are now coming out saying, hey, maybe we're not doing the best that we could be. And a lot of these things that we're doing are not necessarily helping people. They're helping other people get rich, but they're not helping people health wise. And so that movement's helping a lot. And you know, toothpaste is a big part of that too. We got a lot of people that are, like I said, such a way, yeah, trying to get away from fluoride, which is great. But, you know, here's the rub on that. So all natural toothpaste isn't exactly great for us either. And that's. That. That actually is even more disappointing when you really look at it. And I kind of Think it's almost intentional, to be honest. I think that some of these companies are allowed to exist because they don't work. So all natural toothpaste isn't necessarily great for us. Now, they're not poisoned. So, you know, I mean, so there is a, you know, lightyear jump there. We're not poisoning ourselves with it, but, you know, we're not killing the bacteria that causes tooth decay and gingivitis and stuff. You know, we got a lot of bad stuff in our mouth that does need to be purged. Fluoride does kill it. So that's kind of what they hang initially, what they hang their hat on. There's a couple other things, too, but, you know, that's like the big thing, and that is true in your. All natural stuff just doesn't do it. So that's actually an issue. There's very few products on the market that actually address that. And that's specifically what we do. And we use silver. So silver is one of the strongest killers of bacteria known to man. So it obliterates bacteria, germs, viruses, and fungus on content.
So it's a contact killer. It kills faster than anything else out there. Matter of fact, there's not an antibiotic made today that can hold a candle to what silver can do. So that's. That's a fact. I mean, silver's pretty amazing stuff, but silver also heals and it regenerates. So we use, you know, silver nitrate in hospitals, on burn victims, because it regrows skin tissue. So. And it heals. I mean, you know, in wound care, silver's big because silver heals faster than anything. So, yeah, it heals, it regenerates. I mean, silver estrate actually boosts our immune system more than vitamin C does, because silver, silver is a mineral that belongs in our body. It's an immunity booster. So we use silver. A lot of people use silver when they get sick. It definitely shortens the duration. But if you use it all the time, you just don't get sick. So that's, you know, you just have a very, very strong immune system.
[00:29:05] Speaker A: And you guys have your own dental plan. I'm sorry, I apologize.
[00:29:08] Speaker B: No, no, go ahead.
[00:29:09] Speaker A: I said you guys have your own dental coverage as well, too, right? Through your.
[00:29:12] Speaker B: Yeah, we do. Complete care. Dental is our dental company that's a dental insurance plan. You know, and I mean, dental insurance is a, you know, as a whole, isn't really a great market. It's designed to, you know, basically, you're paying more money than you would for benefits. Our product actually does address that. So we have more of a, it's a discount structured dental plan with paid benefits. So we actually do pay benefits, but it's a discount. So you get to take advantage of a lot of things right away. Whereas normal dental, you got waiting periods one year, two year, stuff like that. For major services, we go in right away. So you get more for the bang for your buck and it's like cheaper. So yeah, we do have a decent plan, you know, for people and, and I, you know, I think a big thing is, is people need to get more into preventative and I think that, you know, I'll get, I'll get a lot of slack from this, from dentals that dentists, that's for sure. But I don't think dentists are quite as required as we, as we think so. So I don't really think we need to go twice a year and everything. I mean basically all they're doing is cleaning our teeth. If they're doing more than that, that's different. And I think dentists need to step up. I think they step up and they need to be doing more for people. There is a, definitely a need for dentists. I'm not saying there's not. But brushing your teeth, you don't really need them to do that. Checkups, I get that. That is true. Silver actually heals a lot of things in our mouth, which is pretty amazing. The, you know, nano silver, that's what we use specifically is actually clinically proven to actually heal enamel. So you know, we got people that had cavities literally heal over in about four to six weeks, tissue regeneration about six to eight months, which, you know, your dentist, these are things that your dentists are going to say that's not possible.
[00:30:52] Speaker A: That's amazing stuff, you know. And you know, it's what you know, with the thing that, that fascinated me the most was that just how successful you guys have been from your inception because people are looking at different things, not at face value any longer. And so you guys, from my understanding, you're based out of Illinois, right? Yeah. You face that.
[00:31:08] Speaker B: Illinois, yeah, we ship all over the country though even, you know, we do international as well. So we have some international clients, we ship out. We don't really have distributors outside the US just yet, but so we distribute here. US based but you know, we'll ship out of country there. So we're kind of looking for some strategic partners at this point, so.
[00:31:26] Speaker A: Well, I'm sure it gets more complicated when you're dealing with things because you have to deal with overseas laws and regulations and things like that. When it comes to, you know, you're not shipping a teddy bear to somebody, right? You're shipping something that's with oral health. So I don't even know if they have to go through the Ministry of Health or they have to go through, you know, whatever. I'm sure you've navigated those waters and you're working on through.
[00:31:43] Speaker B: Yeah, well, the main thing is you can't like you, you know, you can't make medical claims, you can't do this, that. I mean there's a lot of ins and outs which you know, don't even, a lot of it doesn't even make sense because when you really get down to it, they, they, you know, we have clinical proof on stuff, but they're like, you know, to make claims you gotta, you gotta do the studies yourself. Even though the studies are out there. I was like, well, they already exist. What do I need? Well, because you gotta spend money.
Everything's about money, you know.
[00:32:09] Speaker A: So you know, there's a lot of entrenched, you know, you know, I'm sure there's some gatekeepers that, you know, when somebody knocks on the door and says they have something different, you know, there's a. Oh yeah.
[00:32:21] Speaker B: And they're not, you know, the, the, the, the toothpaste industry itself is, I mean, you know, it, it, you know, it's, it's a 23 billion dollar a year industry. It's controlled by about four companies. So that's fact. So these guys don't like people playing in their sandbox. And usually what happens, most of them will, will get bought out. So like, you know, Toms, which is, was an all natural toothpaste, they got bought up by Crest and hello more recent brand, they, they get Scott bought out by Colgate. So a lot of these companies, when they get to a certain size, they just get sucked up by the big guys and they'll bring them in and you know, actually and they end up changing the formulation on it and kind of messing it up and putting fluoride in it. They put fluoride version.
[00:33:02] Speaker A: Well because if you think about it, you get a product, you get backing, financial backing, you get very successful and then the, you know, the investors or the private equity group is like list this number got dangled in front of you, you're taking it, right? And even if the founder, and I say this respectfully, the founder is put in a very, very quote unquote bad spot. Because now you're looking at the people that invested in you versus your personal beliefs versus the money that somebody wants to pay. And then it. I'll leave that up to the people that have those decisions to be made. And I'm not passing judgment by saying this on the show. I'm just discussing the reality for anybody who's listening. But that's where things tend to take place. And the water can get mud, right?
[00:33:36] Speaker B: No, absolutely. A lot of people, you're sell out this and that, you know, but you got to realize, too, that you're. You're with really big corporations. I mean, these guys got pockets that go way deep, man. And, you know, I'll give, you know, that. Like I said, like, we're just saying, you know, give some of those people. You got to give them a little bit of credit because not only is you got, you know, you got to, you know, take care of your investors and stuff like that. You got responsibilities for that. You also have that, you know, these guys are. Are big and they got money, so they're offering you an opportunity with money to. To get out and, you know, kind of do better and help everybody out on this side.
If you. If you refuse, guess what? You know, they're going to come after you in different ways. So that's not necessarily fun either.
[00:34:21] Speaker A: You're right. Right, right, right. I mean, you know, it's like, you know, they'll either. I mean, trust me. I mean, if they. They'll get what they want ultimately, right? Yeah, they'll get what they want, you know, and I'm sure that, you know, there's a.
[00:34:31] Speaker B: There's a story about Chipotle. I don't know if you've ever kind of dug into that a little bit.
Well, they got bought out, you know, so. But prior to that, they did not want to sell. And because they were, like, blazing across the country, they were growing like leaps and bounds. This was a big company. They were growing fast. And then all of a sudden, you know, they had. I don't know if you remember Chipotle had that big E. Coli scare, like everybody nobody would go to. Their stocks plummeted. I mean, plummeted. And guess what? They bought them up. There you go. And then get. There we are. They're back to one of the biggest chains out there now, so. Exactly. So these guys play dirty.
[00:35:10] Speaker A: You know, there was that. You know, it makes you wonder, was there a little, you know, Chinatown thing going on right there with their supply, so to speak? You know what I mean? Like, it's like, yeah, how come all of a sudden this happens to my company?
[00:35:23] Speaker B: Right?
[00:35:23] Speaker A: You know, I mean, being realistic, you know what I mean? Yeah.
[00:35:26] Speaker B: I mean, and that's not. That stuff happens all the time. Then they're able to buy them at pennies on the dollar you know, instead of top dollar, you know, you know, there's. There is that.
[00:35:37] Speaker A: Yeah. You know, and you know, and you know, the. Unfortunately, you know, hopefully, you know, there's. I'd like to think things are figment in my imagination, but movies get made off of things that really took place. And sometimes things are more real than people make them out to be. You know what I'm saying?
[00:35:50] Speaker B: Well, you know, it's all that, what they say. I seen a meme the other day. It was like, I gotta get some more conspiracy theories because all my old ones came true. Right. You know, being a conspiracy theorist today is kind of like a badge of honor.
[00:36:02] Speaker A: Right, right, right, right. Well, you know, it's just like being a geek, right? Like this show right now, like, everybody would have laughed at it, you know, 30 years ago if I was in high school. But now all of a sudden they're like, dude, you're kind of cool. I'm like, yeah, the geeks, like, we're ahead of the curve, man. And like now I'm a geek and nothing changed. You change, right? Because, you know, so I always ask these questions not because they need me, but because I like to ask it respectfully of the guests. Where can people find Fresh mouth Club Larry over here?
[00:36:28] Speaker B: Well, we're online at Freshmouth Club.
And like I said, you can, you can, you can try our products one off, one at a time. You can do subscriptions. If you join our subscription, we just give you, like I said, cheaper price. We give you free shipping. We also allow you to buy at the cheaper price as well. So. So if you just did want to like add an extra tube of toothpaste or you wanted some of our other products, you get to buy those at the discount subscription price. So it's kind of like, you know, being in the club, you get, you know, some preferred pricing and free shipping and stuff. So that's kind of our model. So if you, you know, I tell people if you like it, you want to get it, not like you're not going to buy it anyway. We just drop it off for you and we give it to you cheaper and we give you free shipping. Shipping. So. And, and we're not in stores, so it's not, you know, at this point, I'm not saying that we never will be. But, you know, right now we're kind of focused more on the direct to consumer aspect of it, and we're doing real well with that.
And like I said, there's. There's a. There's a. A big hole in the marketplace. We're trying to fill it and. And get people, you know, better health, better teeth, you know, better overall, well, being in their body. Because the mouth is the start of that, like talked about, but it is.
[00:37:35] Speaker A: It's the gateway to your, you know, to your health. It really, truly is.
[00:37:39] Speaker B: Right, right, exactly. So. And the silver is like a big part of it. I mean, silver is really amazing for our body. So as you're brushing your teeth, you're getting. You are actually getting silver immunity boost out of it. It actually starts, like I said, helps heal a lot of. We're not really like a problematic toothpaste like a Sensodyne or Pro Enamel or Pro Dentix for gums, but we. We heal almost everything in the mouth. The sensitive teeth go away permanently. So it's not a temporary thing. Sensitive gums, Bl gums, inflamed gums. We're the only product on the market that can go below gum line. The nanoparticles are so small, it goes below gum. Silver eradicates gingivitis periodontal, like, pretty much on contact. So regular use of it, it cleans below teeth, which right now, if you have an issue with that, which all of us tend to have some of that for sure. But if it's bad, they gotta cut your gums open and scrape that bacteria out, which is a pretty horrendous surgery. Our toothpaste actually penetrates that every day. So. So it actually keeps the low gum. It keeps our gums healthier. It actually destroys plaque and tartar, which are caused by bacteria. Silver kills those bacteria that cause it. So regular use of it, plaque and tartar can't stick on our teeth. So, you know, it really kind of diminishes the. The need to have those two times a year cleaning kind of a thing. Not saying that we don't need checkups, but, you know, but if you're doing well in your mouth, I mean, you know, you tend to necessarily go there if you have issues or, you know, more preventative, maybe once a year or something. So it keeps you out of the dentist, which that's why dentists don't like.
But yeah, so we do some good stuff there. We have. We do do ozone as well. So we brought ozone into the space so you can use our ozone bottles if you, if you opt for that. We also have some ozonated oils that do some pretty amazing stuff for our teeth. But we do pretty much full line too. That's another thing too. We're not just toothpaste. We do, you know, toothbrush, toothpaste, mouthwash, floss, timer, we have oil pulling, we have whitening, we have, you know, all kinds of stuff. We even do water, hydrogen, water and ozone. And then we do, you know, hydrogen or reverse osmosis water machines that take out fluoride out of the water too. Because we're kind of at heart of one non fluoride company. So, so we have a pretty wide range of products and, and we're starting to try to add other stuff too. We, we just built a new section called MAHA Products and we're going to try to bring more health related products in there.
A silver soap line now too. So you know, with soap it doesn't have a lot of the harsh chemicals and stuff like that in it and we use silver in it, which is amazing stuff. It, I mean, odors are caused by bacteria. Silver kills all those bacteria. So it takes away order odor, keeps us healthier, longer, kind of impregnates and lasts a lot longer throughout the day.
[00:40:19] Speaker A: I gotta say, that was a mouthful. Yeah, I'd say that respectfully, tongue in cheek, man. I couldn't help. I was like, I gotta say that, you know, hopefully it'll come across kind of cool.
I'd be honest with you. This was very informative. You know, I hope that even I get a chance to get, you know, some sample products, you know, and people who are listening on this show. I think that this is one of the stories that people like to hear because this show is all about talking to people like yourself, people who think outside the box, people who have carved in a lane for themselves. And that's why this show was created to have guests such as yourself. So I'm really appreciative of your time and I'm looking forward to hearing about your continued success.
[00:40:51] Speaker B: Great, man. It was, it was a pleasure being on. I appreciate it. Yeah, maybe we can, you know, do another show down the road or something and kind of go through some of that stuff again. So.
[00:40:59] Speaker A: Yeah, appreciate you, brother. Larry Overhugh, thank you very much. Fresh Mouth Club on the Tron podcast. Have a wonderful day, sir.
[00:41:05] Speaker B: All right, you do the same, man.
