Forty-three years of clinical practice — a podcast, a coaching practice, and a library — independent of the supplement, lab, and pharmaceutical industries.
The chart
Estimated global cases of selected non-communicable diseases, 2022. Source: WHO Global Oral Health Status Report 2022.
"Oral diseases affect 3.5 billion people. Nothing else on the chart is in the same order of magnitude. The mouth is connected to almost every chronic disease. Mainstream medicine has not caught up." Dr Ron Ehrlich, A Life Less Stressed (Scribe, 2018).
The Brief
A 5,000-word clinical brief on the oral–systemic axis: periodontal disease and cardiovascular outcomes, the inflammation pathways the rest of medicine treats in isolation, and what to ask your dentist and your GP. Written for the reader, fully cited. Free.
A PDF and a long-form web reader. Read in roughly forty minutes.
One email a month. Never sold, never shared, never spam.
The Library
Not for the algorithm. The corpus is the moat — browse by what Ron has actually thought about, not by recency.
Periodontal disease and cardiovascular outcomes; the oral microbiome; what your dentist and your GP each see and miss.
"Oral microbiome under the microscope" — with a senior hygienist
The PQ work, the seven-week protocol, the clinical case for treating mental fitness as primary, not secondary.
"Why the practitioner crashed before the patient did"
The pillar that anchors the others. Circadian biology, sleep apnoea, why the bedroom is the wrong place to look first.
"Circadian harmony for the shift worker"
What we got wrong about saturated fat. What we are getting wrong about Ozempic. The endocrine story the food system isn't telling.
"From food critic to regenerative farmer — Matthew Evans"
When the clinician's own crash predicts the patient's. The practitioner-conversion thesis: epiphanies that change downstream care.
"The dental hygienist who reframed forty years of practice"
What science learned and what it had to unlearn. The institutional incentives that survived the data. Read against the current consensus.
"COVID, immunity, and the truth we missed — Prof Robert Clancy"
The food system upstream of the chronic-disease curve. Soil microbiome, mineral density, why farms and bodies are read together.
"Why soil microbiome maps the gut"
Sleep, breath, and what dentists see first. The interventions whose returns compound across a lifetime.
"Mouth-breathing and craniofacial development"
The structure of the system you are inside of. For-profit medicine, prevention's negative ROI for industry, and the institutional incentives that follow.
"Five-sixty for prevention — and why nobody buys it"
Eighteen further verticals — men's health, women's health, public health, dementia, mitochondrial function, urban agriculture, longevity, and more. Each with its own bias of the production.
Browse all 27 topics →How a year is structured
01 — A Brief, free.
Forty minutes of reading. The oral–systemic axis with citations. Sent in exchange for an email address.
02 — A consultation, paid.
A structured pre-call assessment, a recorded video consultation, and a written follow-up of three to five pages within a week.
03 — The programme, premium.
The five-stressor assessment delivered fully, the five-pillar protocol mapped to your case. From $4,800. By application after consultation.
For practitioners
A monthly clinical-update call on the oral–systemic literature. The Mastering Oral Health course (5 modules, ten hours, CME-equivalent where applicable). Access to the Advisory Panel.
Apply to the Practitioner ProgrammeIndependence
Not a supplement business. There is no shop on this site. There never has been.
Not a lab partnership. Recommendations are made on clinical judgement, not on the basis of laboratory affiliations.
Not a concierge clinic. The price points are published. A reader can decide what to spend, today, before they speak to anyone.
— Reviewers on Apple Podcasts have written that this practice is "independent of the influences of the chemical, food or pharmaceutical industries." We have not edited the phrase because no edit is warranted.
Unstress Health Membership
$29 /month · or $290 / year
The members' library — the Mastering Oral Health course, monthly Advisory Panel readings, the seven-week Mental Fitness protocol, and a published change-log of what is added each month.
Membership replaces the previous $10/month structure (audit §B.7). The price moves because the content earns it.
Dr Ron Ehrlich
Founded the Sydney Holistic Dental Centre in 1983. Forty-three years in private practice. Six hundred episodes of Unstress. A book published by Scribe in 2018, a second forthcoming. Past President of the Australasian College of Nutritional and Environmental Medicine. Co-founder of Nourishing Australia. Serving on two US health-foundation boards. Fellowships in Nutritional & Environmental Medicine and in Lifestyle Medicine.
Endorsed by Dr Carole Hungerford (integrative medicine), Dr Ross Walker (cardiology), and Deborah Hutton.
The book pipeline
Published, 2018
Five pillars. Five stressors. Three years of writing. Published by Scribe, 2018. Foreword by Dr Carole Hungerford.
Forthcoming, late 2026
Derived from the five-module clinical course. The oral microbiome, periodontal disease and systemic outcomes, the questions to ask your dentist and your GP.
Two further in draft
One on practitioner epiphany and downstream care. One on the structure of the for-profit health economy. Working titles. Drafting in the open.
The podcast
Six hundred episodes since 2013. One and a half million downloads. A long-form conversation with the people who hold up to scrutiny — clinicians, scientists, farmers, sceptics.