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Solving the

MS Mystery

Hal A. Huggins DDS,

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MS

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Acknowledgements Some place in physics

made the statement that two things the same time. Well, my staff would

101 a professor ,

could not occupy the same space

at

Two books, one started 6 years ago, and one started

challenge that today.

30 years ago, were born

at the

same place

at the

same time

in

September

of 2002.

Solving the

MS Mystery began 30 years ago with my introduction to the

connection between dental mercury and Multiple sclerosis. 1985,

1

met

Dr.

Douglas Swartzendruber as

Later, in

my "chief during the next 4

years of pursuing a post-doctoral Masters degree at the University of

Colorado. Immunology and Toxicology were the primary targets of my

DS,

investigations and education.

as

he became known in

my

office,

me from other professors who felt that the ADA would "never tell a lie" and who gave me a bit of grief for my controversial stand. He taught me how to think. Probably taught me a few facts, too, but primarily he moved me from the realm of being a tooth mechanic to being an shielded

observer and recorder.

Tad Wise, an excellent author in his own right, gave me sound advice on how to organize and present controversial material. I still read his suggestions of 6 years ago before writing anything, and his influence is substantial in this book.

John Woods, creative film producer, has never forgotten a word he has heard about mercury

words on the

topic.

book. ... John gave

toxicity.

Now,

if

He has heard and investigated millions of

he and Tad had gotten together to write

this

me ideas on formatting and presenting the materials.

Thanks, John, you were always there for me.

Boyd Haley picked up the gauntlet of challenge from the "scientific" community who was supporting the idea of mercury being safe. Haley may be the first to reverse gears and admit it when he is wrong, but he never backs down one inch from the truth. He has added more to the

Dr.

scientific

achievements of

this project

of eliminating mercury than any

other university professor. His talents will live long beyond him.

Charlie

Brown has

set the legal

profession abuzz with his determination

by generating awareness of the mercury problem. His energy level starts at full power, and never wains. Thanks to "touch a billion people"

word

for getting the

out, Charlie, but

remember, you

still

have a few

million to go.

Donna Hedden showed that not only did she have 12 fingers on the keyboard, but she acquired the nickname "Sherlock" because of her ability to look

where no one find

else

was impossible to completion of these two books, she is

had looked and find information

on many occasions. With the

that

planning on experiencing "post-partum depression" until the next manuscript

is

on her desk. (That

will probably

be

in

6 weeks.)

Then there is the driver. Dr. Patty Boone has pushed, shoved and whatever was needed to inspire these words to appear on paper. Then, as an experienced

comma tracker,

that created the phrase

would

she dissected every sentence with intensity

"do not disturb."

Weston

If all

of her

commas were

put

measurement of dentin tubules. I'll bet her commas and semicolons would reach for 372 miles. Commas led to words, to phrases, to concepts, to the overview. A more intense corrector I have never known. Donna and I shuddered every end

to end, she

time she glanced ever

final.

rival Dr.

at a "final"

And, yes,

Patty,

page, for

Price's

we knew

that to Patty, nothing is

your favorite, the personality according to

endocrine pattern book, Andro-Gynic Factor

,

is

now on the front burner.

How far back should acknowledgements go? I suppose I should recognize my parents for having me in the first place, but in particular for supporting me in my endeavors. Another birth of significance was the day Dr. Olympic Pinto introduced me to the concept of mercury toxicity. He became my twin brother in supplying me information and encouragement when I most needed it. Yes, Olympio, you provided me with a passion to live for.

No Mystery

is

ever solved by one person, and these are but a few of the

people involved.

Patients

who

followed their chemistries to personal

success probably offered the biggest stimulus for

me

to continue, but

those yet to be challenged by dental toxins deserve to avoid contributing to the Mystery.

My gratitude to you all.

Hal A. Huggins DDS,

MS

Table of Contents Preface 1

-

ix

Introduction to Help,

Hope and Recovery

Everything must have a beginning.

My

involvement with

A

1

reason for existing.

MS

creating reversals in the

was stimulated by accidently disease and my shock at seeing it

Data and personal experience soon appeared that pointed my direction for the future - a future I knew happen.

that I could not ignore

and

live

with myself.

I learned

about criticism that follows opening new windows, about exposing old skeletons, and, most importantly, about the value of human

We do not

MS

same way. I examined the potential real causes of MS. 1 found several dragons that needed to be slain and was nearly slain in the process. Ifound the answer to be two questions. Can MS be cured? Can MS be prevented? 2

-

How Do You This

is

life.

Catch

look at

all

the

MS?

a long chapter.

19 It

starts with

MS

being an

autoimmune disease and explains what an autoimmune disease

is.

My

suggestion

is

that there

is

a connection

between mercury and MS, but that s just the obvious It is

link.

not the only one, by far. Noted neurologis, Dr. Patrick

Stortebecker investigated neurological diseases related to dentistry abut the time I started

my

research.

Being an

MD, PhD,

he studied the mechanisms of action that were fascinating to me. We were looking at the same beast. Scientific publications pointed the

same

going, but, as non-clinical scientists, the

same

links.

direction I

was

we were traveling on

road, just to different destinations. I found

How do you get from the tooth to the brain?

some

It's all

people are looking for the results of these communications. there, just few

The mystery unfolds, and clues are bountiful - it sjust that, like birthday presents, "some assembly is required. " Now, those "bizarre " symptoms have meaning and a place in the nervous system. You can say, I'm not crazy after all. I'm not terminal after all. There is reason for hope.

"

3

-

The Three Costumes of Mercury

59

a somewhat semi-technical chapter.

you are interested in that kind of world, this chapter can unfold many of the curiosities that you have heard about over the years. If you are looking for tips of the waves, just read This

is

If

the "brevity boxes.

Silver

way

amalgam fillings

to introduce

are like a Trojan Horse, a sneaky

mercury

into

your system.

When

it is

and finding it to eliminate it is like trying to herd cats. Not only that, mercury changes forms. Different costumes. It ducks into phone booths as inorganic, comes out as organic, then darts into a dark cell to do its damage leaving someone else's fingerprints. released,

it

scatters,

Mystery. It

did take scientists a long time to determine

how mercury

changes faces so fast. Each form attacks a different aspect of the cell membrane, or your DNA or your enzymes. After

why there is no or mercury cure. For instance,

reading this information, you can see

"mercury

toxicity test"

there are detailed neurological problems

and disturbances

Are the two related? Yes, in that they are in the same battle zone, your body, and are subject to the same types of attack. I will expose the team approach mercury uses to accomplish its transportation and destruction goals regardless of where they are. in digestion.

4

-

Conventional Diagnosis of Multiple sclerosis

and Huggins' Views of MS This chapter represents the conventional baseline from which

make comparisons to what I am finding. It is compiled from medical experts and their opinions. It discusses where MS attacks. What are its effects? What can be done? This I

chapter quotes medical exerts in their venture to diagnose

MS. Demographics is part of it. Male, female, young, old, where do you live? Are these causes, predispositios, or just observations? If you move to another state, change your religion or race, will that help? Does nutrition count? Should you worry? Actually this is how conventional medicines looks at you - if you have MS.

n

81

5

-

Textbook Neurology What do

105

the doctors think about you if you have

MS?

This

chapter briefs several textbooks and their descriptions of causes, contributing factors, incidence, diagnosis, signs

and symptoms

and other treatments and the worst of all - Prognosis. This is not happy reading, but some people want to know detail of what faces them from the traditional standpoint. The outlook is rather bleak, and it only stimulates me to continue researching my method of treatment and trying to generate awareness. Our worst results are better than the lack of hope that associated, drug

conventional doctors are taught about MS in school. This is

Just reference material, should

not bedtime reading.

you have some reason for needing

6

-

it.

135

Lie-ability

Are

dentists being told the

truth?

whole truth and nothing but the

How about the public?

Let's

examine some of the

evidence.

7

-

Diagnostic Tests from the Dental Toxicity Aspect

How do you

test for

MS?

I

don

't.

149

I test for the effects of

dental toxicity on your biological systems.

materials alter red blood

cells,

Dental white blood cells,

oxyhemoglobin, sodium, potassium, porphyrins, spinal

and probably lots more, but we have to stop somewhere. Changes in these tests, brought about by dental revision and the immune stimulation program,

fluid proteins, T-cells

provide the key to guiding you through disease into the

realm of health. There

8

-

is

a path. Chemistry

is

it.

177

Cholesterol Let 's pick on another controversial chemistry. Cholesterol

.

The big friend of MS patients, yet the information we are given about cholesterol is similar in nature to the idea of killing off

your immune system because

mercury contaminated your immune system

is

tissues.

it is

destroying

Neither cholesterol nor

misbehaving. Here

is

why.

ill

9

-

MS

Sex and

185

Now that we have talked about violence (and cholesterol), let's -

go

sex.

most popular aspect

to the other

in today's

Dentistry extends into the bedroom.

market

It affects

your

and sexuality. Extended to the uterus, breasts and testicles, male and female are both vulnerable to toxic invasion. Menstrual cycles, pregnancy and birth defects are a package deal under the control of your dentist - and sex

life

he hasn

10

-

't

the first clue.

191

Patient Protection

How much protection do you need during dental revision? Do you wear a belt and suspenders both? This chapter details the ultimate in patient protection. It

used

to exist,

What are the things that could be done ? How much protection do you want? What

but does no more.

Should be done ? is

Now

available?

you

will

have the

ability to evaluate

and ask for protection and know what you are asking for. 11

-

205

Caregivers

No

matter

how tough you

when going through

you

still

need assistance

the dental revision.

Caregivers are

are,

not just there to open the door for you, there are specific duties involved prior to dental revision, plus post surgical

and appointment scheduling. and make sure that you have

care, transportation, clothing

Select your caregiver well,

communicated

12

-

the caregiver duties.

Psychological Aspects of

MS

211

may not like this - actually it's a mean dragon, but it's critical that we face this one if we are to succeed. Never You

say always, unless

escape clause.

case?

A

it is

true.

With

reason to side-step

Think again.

It is

This

is

There

is

Not

and

in

your This

the unwillingness

no other way

the deal breaker.

well on this treatment? Only those iv

always an

You don't deserve wellness. We must

get you through that. health.

life.

is

an undercover dragon.

usually involves self-imposed guilt to forgive yourself.

MS there

to receive

How many people who want

to.

get

13

-

Porphyrins

The Root

-

of All Energy

221

Porphyrins are the primary source of all body energy. Dental toxins interfere with their metabolism, creating a big portion of the cronic fatigue that

is

so common. This

can be corrected within days, according

to the

chemistry

changes.

14

-

Who's Rooting

for

Root Canals?

233

Far more devastating than amalgam, the toxicity of root canals has been known by the medical and dental professions since 1900. Most of our current autoimmune diseases stem from root canal toxins, yet the dental profession hangs on to dead teeth like their lives depended upon

15

-

it.

Wrong.

It is

the patient's

life

that

is in

the balance.

The Price of Success Once

in

257

a while, a person enters our planet looking

everyone

else,

but attains what others can only imagine.

Sometimes the desire and enthusiasm

Sometimes

like

is

present at birth.

Case

in

and Surgical Removal of Cavitations

...

it is

the result of personal experience.

point.

16

-

Significance

One of the

best kept secrets in dentistry

sockets do not heal the teeth.

way

is

261

that extraction

dentists are taught to

remove

Toxins formed here (invisible to X-rays of the bone)

interfere with porphyrin metabolism, lowering the energy,

as well as furnishing anaerobic toxins that contribute to

autoimmune

17

-

Filling the

diseases.

273

Hole

A primary concern ofpeople who elect to have teeth

removed is,

dentistry shines.

" What

about the space that is

root canal

left? "

Here,

They know about esthetics and function.

18

-

277

Dental Materials 101 Like with any business in which a small group of people uses the product, dental materials have a jargon all their

own

that does not always reflect

words.

It is

hard

to look in

an obvious use of the

your own mouth, and, even

if

you are a dentist, you cannot fill your own teeth. The purpose of this chapter is to familiarize you with the terminology that is used by dentists in describing what materials can be placed in your mouth.

19

-

Supplements that Support Chemistries We

tell in

C may

correct

many

chemistries,

advance which ones. Other supplements are specific

for liver function, red blood This chapter details

-

when we can. but we cannot

use supplements that target chemistries

Vitamin

20

287

cells,

white blood

cells, etc.

when and why we use supplements.

Supplements that Hinder For every

action, there

is

299

an equal and opposite

reaction.

One of the big problems we face in balancing chemistry is reversing the damage done by taking excesses of the wrong supplement.

Yes, the right

supplement

is

supportive, but

wrong one (according to your chemistries) does far more damage than good. Unfortunately, advertising is not the

based on improving your chemistry.

21

-

Detoxification

Many

-

309

Retoxification

people are more interested

in detoxification

than

any other part of the Protocol. Logically, if we get rid of the source of the problem, we can return to optimum health. Right? Remember, with

this is

a complex disease we are dealing

and a complex chemical body

biggest problem with detoxification is

VI

retoxification,

and

it is

it is

is

residing

in.

The

that detoxification

usually done too fast.

.

22

-

Treatment Plan for the Protocol

Now that all is said

-

319

what is to be done ? There

for treatment plans for

MS that has proven

other autoimmune diseases as well.

can do

is

a Protocol

to help

No one

many

in the U.S.

of the Protocol, but what are the pieces? You can select the ones that are available to you, and be your all

own case

director

—

if

you know the pieces. Here they

are.

23

-

How to Overdo and Crash (or,

Destroying Your Investment)

Its easy.

329

People do not get sick or "catch" something

beyond their control. Sometimes it is physical, like injury, that predisposes them; sometimes dental toxicity; sometimes within their control, like alcohol or drugs; sometimes psychological; and sometimes lifestyle. For the most part, it is a combination of all of the above. Sometimes friends and relatives can lead you into a situation that is not in the best interest of your health. That brings up the tough part; if you really are serious about getting well, sometimes you have to change playmates - sometimes

you have

24

-

Follow

change playgrounds

.

.

Up

Did you sit

to

339

think that you were going to have dental revision,

through hours of immune stimulating education, and

go home cured? No way. This program gives you a direction when you come out of the starting gate, then, it is up to you to navigate the rest ofyour life. Detoxification is is

a way of life, not a one time visit to the sauna. Nutrition something you respect 3 times a day. Sure, there will be

meals of "living it up, " but the majority of your nutrition had better keep in mind that your chemistry is helping to provide the guidance for your choices. Your choices.

my hope

Yes,

your choices will combine a comfortable lifestyle with your chemistry needs in a manner that allows your health to bloom better from they are yours, but

is

that

here on.

vn

25

-

Following the Mercury Trail This

is

343

worse than following Captain Kidd's treasure map.

Mercury has so many costumes, and each allows it entrance

human body. What I cannot understand is how we survive with amalgam in our mouths. Disease? Easy to explain. Survival - we must be tough. At least those of us who live to endure the ravages into

a

different

door

to destroy the

of mercury.

26

-

349

Conclusion The mystery

is

solved.

APPENDIX /

357

have even more information

that,

put into book format,

would require another dozen chapters. This is pretty heady stuff, but interesting to one type ofperson. The investigator. That may be you. The MS patient is usually a brighter star in the sky, more curious and bulldog-tenacious when he/she gets focused on a topic. For those folks, here are some abstracts - many of you would call them tidbits of research quotations that bear a relation to the alterations in MS patients and are notfound in those "normal " people. It is placed here, past the end of the book, as a postlog. Something that you do not have to read in order to get the ideas that are in the book, but, if you want a bit more supporting evidence, then appendix.

Vlll

it is

for you. Have fun with the

PREFACE watched as the young physician

I

slid to the floor in the hospital

He was

Not just tears, but his whole body was participating. This was the most emotion I had ever seen in one person. He held out his hand for outside the blood chemistry laboratory.

me

to take a look at his lab report.

why he was

It

crying.

only took moments to see

crying.

My

mind went back. Back to Mexico City. The year was 1973. Dr. Olympio Pinto was telling me that his dentist father had reversed leukemia in a young girl by removing her silver-mercury fillings. I

had expressed strong doubt.

Now, any shroud of doubt that remained vanished completely.

On

me was

the floor before

leukemia.

He had "been

a medical doctor

who was dying

of

everywhere, done everything" that his

Unknown to me, he had stopped taking his chemotherapy drugs the moment I started his treatment. medical colleagues had to

It

had been

fillings.

had

to

done

less than

Back then,

I

offer.

24 hours since didn't

I

had removed

know 10%

be a coincidence that

in the right fashion.

I

I

of what

I

his 8

know

amalgam

today, so

had done what was needed

looked again

at the

to

it

be

blood report. Half

of the leukemia cells had disappeared - and the total white blood cell

count had dropped from 235,000 to 176,000.

count in two days. The report became blurry.

I

A drop of 59,000 slipped

down on

the floor and joined him.

"Thank God

I

found you," he muttered through his

"Thank God Olympio found me,"

I

tears.

responded.

IX

This

story, told

people, in

is

my life.

over and over with different chemistries and different

the reason

I

wrote

this

book.

It

used to happen weekly

Hundreds of people found a new life when toxic materials

were removed and their immune systems were stimulated back into action by a Protocol

my team had developed over decades. Immune

system, endocrine systems, reproductive systems, cardiovascular

system, digestive system -

seemed that no part of the human body was "immune" to attack from mercury - from nickel - from root canals, from lots of toxins that dentistry placed routinely. Even today, dentistry is coming up with new toxins, as if they were not it

placing enough.

Changes that

like this

leukemia

is

and the ones

listed in

Figure

1

have taught

another disease you catch in a dental chair.

White Blood Cell Response to Sequential Removal of Silver-Mercury Fillings Key:

p ne -treatment count

•

A

direction after treatment

post-treatrrent count

20,000

Leukemic Extremes 73,700

235,000

18,000

T X 176,000 (2 days) 59,000 change

12,700

16,000 6

1,

(1 week) 000 change

}

14,000

12,000

10,000

8000

6000 4000 2000 Initial

to

white

cell

10,000

count greater than or equal

cells

per cubic

Figure

1

mm. N=18

me

But the

ability to reverse these diseases stopped. Temporarily, but

long enough for millions, yes, millions, of people to experience

And who

declining lives.

bothers

cares?

suppose that

I

me the most. They don't care. They

is

the part that

look, they

know, but

human health vs. suffering. They are active contributors to human suffering. Who is 'they'? The American Dental Association (ADA) who benefits every day that this slaughter of humanity continues. they act in opposition to overcoming the battle between

I

consider the loss of ability to do what you want to do in the prime

of your life, the loss of ability to earn a living, to walk, dress yourself,

remember what happened yesterday and be responsible for yourself to be a slaughter of self esteem. How can I be quiet, when

to

I

know:

it

didn

't

have

to

happen.

To quote the ADA, "...there is no evidence of reactions to mercury from fillings, ...the ADA has researched this issue on a continued basis, ...the ADA has a hundred years of documented research that clearly repudiates patient...."

any apprehension about health risks

(Look at it - not one

article repudiating apprehension.)

"...study after study confirms that the patient

(Produce those studies)

The answer

"...are fillings

an unqualified

is

emitted from an

amalgam

is

NO,

undergoes no

...the

amount of mercury

undetectable...." Lots of statements

.

nearly as sick as the patients

down

risk...."

hazardous to the patient?

- no supportive evidence These untruths make me slowing

to the

who

of their diseases.

seek

me

sick.

But not

out searching for a

Diseases that didn't have to

happen.

No evidence? new clothes,

There is plenty of evidence the color of the emperor's

power that wants to ignore the evidence of toxicity. Why? Liability. Immense liability. Unfathomable liability. Who wouldn't want this to go away if they knew that half of the people in the "civilized" world would wish you great bodily harm if they could get their hands on you? You too might develop but there

is

a

"Lie-ability".

This book targets Multiple sclerosis. Why, because there

is

a tidal

XI

wave of

increase in

its

numbers.

And, because

it is

reversible.

Curable? Probably not. But reversible to the point that you can get

At three days ahead, you can live a normal life without worry about becoming a degenerate and a burden on your family. But! It's up to you to maintain that three day edge. Some assembly is required. You must show a certain amount of discipline. Not hard, just consistent. 3 days ahead of it.

Is

MS the only autoimmune disease that is caused by dental materials No. In

or similar toxins?

fact,

most of the autoimmune diseases

respond to the same treatment cited here - with slight variations here and there due to individual fingerprints that each disease carries. Overall, there to

happen.

is

one thing that can be said for sure. They didn have

We

't

allowed these diseases to happen by allowing an

organization to walk into our lives, unhindered by any policing organization, and

do what it wanted to.

It

(the

ADA) approves toxic

money and/or compliance from manufacturers, schools, and member dentists in order to be allowed to

materials, requires

professional

continue practicing what they alone dictate, allowing nothing outside the envelope, or they bring your career to a stop. Fear. all

The

best of

intimidators against integrity.

What does one case of improvement in leukemia prove? That it can be done again. The 7 year old girl with a 16,000 count that came down to 5800 in 24 hours. The man in his 40' s that experienced a drop from 73,700 to 12,700 in

1

week. This was a drop of 61,000

The 8 year old boy that had two amalgams placed on a Friday, became fussy on Saturday, then was diagnosed with leukemia on count.

Sunday. Doctors wouldn't listen to anything as wild as removing

mercury from weeks.

his

mouth.

He got to experience chemotherapy for 6

He got the week end off to visit home.

His grandmother had

The doctors wouldn't tell the family, but the leukemia had a "spontaneous remission" on the following Monday. He was happy. He felt wonderful. It lasted all week. This frightened the doctors, so they gave him a big dose of chemotherapy. The next day, he was dead. It didn have to happen. the fillings removed.

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An

He was right.

I

I

doubt that you have

was

also right about the

being helpful.

article

published by Dr.

Anne Summers from

of Georgia described a study in which 5 weeks

the University

after placing silver-

mercury amalgam fillings in monkeys, the bacteria in their intestines became resistant to mercury. But! That wasn't all. Another astounding event took place that should have shaken the foundations of modern medicine. Simultaneously, as the bacteria became resistant to mercury, the same bacteria became resistant to some of ....... placing r^, 5 weeks after u * J r the more common antibiotics. They ., ,

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included penicillin, streptomycin and v J

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tetracycline.

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silver-mercury

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in

monkeys, the bacteria in their intestines

Shouldn't a doctor look in the became resistant to patient's mouth for the presence of mercury. amalgam before administering an antibiotic that is not going to work? If amalgam fillings render penicillin and tetracycline - two of the most popular antibiotics - useless - why prescribe them? I

thought that was important, but these antibiotics are in greater

73

use today than they were in the '80's this

when

found out about

I first

plasmid feature.

who may be

For those of you

describe what a plasmid

is all

able to use this information, about.

am

I

sure

you

will

I

are holding

your breath.

Most

That

bacteria die in the presence of mercury.

why

is

Mercurochrome, Merthiolate and other mercury compounds were formerly used as antibacterial substances. There are smart bacteria that

have a survival mechanism for emergencies -

to mercury.

like

exposures

These guys can pick up an extra piece of DNA from

surrounding tissues and attach

it

own DNA. That

to its

little

addition (like an extra thickness of heel nailed onto the bottom of

your shoe) makes that bacteria invading inorganic mercury,

Whoa!

mercury.

Isn't

different.

Hg ++ and

It

can

methylate

now it

take the

into

methyl

methyl mercury (MeHg) more dangerous

than inorganic? Yes, but look at what is happening to the individual bacteria.

Here

Hg ++ is sitting locked inside of a bacterium where

cannot get out, and

it

completely.

is

preparing to destroy the bacterium

Suddenly the bacterium converts

mercury complete with a "get out of is

open.

into

jail free" pass.

highly volatile, can pass out through cell

suddenly the door to leave

it

membranes

methyl

MeHg easily,

is

and

Why stay around to beat up a

measly bacterium when you have the whole world to explore? Zip.

Out

it

goes, and the bacterium

survives.

with methyl mercury.

Suddenly the bacterium converts

it

into

The host is now invaded

methyl

mercury complete with a

This

"get out ofjail free" pass.

accomplished by the bacterium

life-saving

action

with its plasmid, saves the bacteria, but gives

of methyl mercury which

is

MS patient with more MeHg

mess up their nervous system, while assuring the bacterium a long

and happy

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host an additional dose

highly toxic to the nervous system.

Therefore, certain antibiotics furnish the to

its

life.

Plasmids are passed along to the next generation of

bacteria, thus creating the necessity of pharmaceutical

companies

forming the "antibiotic of the month club". Interference in nerve impulse transmission

MS. Can

be related to mercury?

this

nerve impulse the trip

is.

Nerve impulses

from the brain

then stops.

a characteristic of

examine what a along the nerves. During

First, let's

travel

to its destination,

on one continuous nerve.

is

an impulse does not travel

A nerve as such goes for a little ways,

Down the way, another nerve travels along for another

Nerve impulses come to this junction (called a synapse) between nerve fibers, and have to leap across the gap in order to continue their journey. Electric wires have to be touching each other in order for a current to travel from one wire to another. Not so with nerve electrical impulses. This jump across the gap is short distance.

accomplished by an electro-chemical reaction that takes place

at

the synapse. Talk about complex. This jump takes the cake. Let's

magnesium, manganese, calcium, sodium, potassium and chloride have to do a real fast tap dance in order to pick up the

just say that

incoming impulse and put

it

on the track of the next nerve

fiber

down line. Enter a few atoms of mercury.

If

mercury

the nerve fibers, then an alteration of intensity of impulse travel

on down the nerve. This

If a

result in

tingling at the end point of that nerve impulse

transmission. If more fibers stop responding altogether.

become involved, then the target may This is what happens when people

to start using "walkers" or

wheel

chairs.

Actually, the nerve has not died, for there the area.

apt to

few more atoms of

mercury invade, the impulse may be stopped. This may

have

is

altered current can cause the patient

to experience tremors, or the shakes.

numbness or

few of

interferes with a

is still

a blood supply to

That explains why, during dental revision procedures,

some patients experience the ability to move legs and stand within minutes or a few days when the entire Protocol is applied. If the cause is removed, it is logical that the body can respond and experience recovery.

Recovery may not be able

to put

an

MS 75

blood supply to the area.

were in at age 16, but mobility is something that can certainly be

That explains why, during

anticipated.

If, if, if.

dental revision procedures,

follows

the suggestions and

some patients experience the ability to move legs and

really

stand within minutes or a

Remember, what I don't know is which patient will work the

patient into the shape they

Actually, the nerve has not died, for there

is still

a

wants to get better.

sclerosis is

self,

of white blood cells of

and immune

What

cells.

is

MS and, Multiple

it?

Explain.

.

refers to the body's defense

happening

is

is

system

that the white

your immune system are destroying your

briefly rehash

own

blood

cells.

To

what we have discussed before, mercury can attach

itself to the outside

cell

mechanism that causes

the real

an autoimmune disease

Auto means

know

Protocol.

All of this leads up to the formation of MS. Just what

Bottom Line, what is

I

works.

Protocol

the

that

few days when the entire Protocol is applied.

all

If the patient

of a cell. This area is called the cell surface.

with mercury inappropriately attached to

A

"

it is

called a hapten ".

immune reaction - and is not a protein (another requirement for immune reactivity). As a Mercury hapten,

is

it

actually too small to create an

brings with

it all

the characteristics of life (from the

cell)

A

cell with

and

recognizes

mercury

immune system

the it

as a non-self protein.

inappropriately

attached to is

Each of our

it

called a "hapten ".

implanted on specific is

complex, or

MHC.

cells has a license plate

If a cell

surveillance system passes

it

its

surface with our

code carved into

it.

This code

called the major histocompatibility

has your

MHC

by. If there is

on

any

it,

the

immune

alteration, or the

MHC is missing, the immune cells "flag" the cell for destruction. If a cell

has an

MHC, OK,

but

let it

read

MHC-Hg, and all

cells

break loose. The addition of Hg onto your code means that your

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immune system can now identify a "non-self cell, which is an enemy to the realm. If mercury happens to latch onto one of your nerve cells, then your immune system does its proper duty and destroys that

"immune" system

because

cell

destroying your self ("auto")

is

There are a number of autoimmune diseases.

Lou Gehrig's

diabetes,

cells.

Lupus,

personal genetic choice.

It is

is

mercury

own

it

breaks.

toxins from root canals, toxins from

heavy metals or environmental pollutants are

cavitations, other all

-

your

your genetic weak link that will

determine which disease you will subscribe to when to

arthritis,

disease, Scleroderma, Parkinson's and

Alzheimer's are just a few. Which disease you catch

Exposures

Your

labeled non-self.

is

it

contributors to the development of

MS.

why doesn't the MS go away if mercury caused the problem? Remember Noah. Do you

When

fillings

and

fish are eliminated,

think he played golf on day 41?

your mercury, even as the earth

You will never get rid of all of still

has water. But! The good

news is that you don have to. That is not the objective. What you 't

need

is

to

have mercury going out

slightly faster rate than

it is

at a

coming

in

from air, food and water. That's what .., « u t T tU it s all about. When major sources are .

eliminated, and the Protocol followed, nerves can

and muscles can

When fillings and fish ar€ eliminated, doesn't the

why

MS go

away ?

is

start firing again,

start

moving. They

are not dead. Just disconnected.

Which form of mercury attacks which tissue? I'm glad you asked. I

find

it

idea you

interesting, but then biochemistry is

would be

my

bag.

I

had no

interested.

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Hg°, or mercury vapor elemental mercury ,

we

find

most often coming

is

raw form

the

directly off of the filling before being

transfigured into another form. If

it

gets into the lungs,

and hightails

it

all

into the blood stream

nerve

Often

target.

it

jumps

it

jumps

over the body looking for

Actually, the central nervous system

tissue.

that

primary

is its

into the red blood cell thinking

a trolley.

it is

When mercury vapor enters the red blood cell, it becomes oxidized into the ionic

form and

is

trapped.

The vapor form can

enter the

cell

with ease, but the ionic form cannot get out of the

that

can be transported This contributes to chronic fatigue.

While in the red blood cell, mercury takes up a position on the hemoglobin in the seats where oxygen is supposed to travel. This lowers the "oxyhemoglobin," or actual oxygen saturation percentage cell.

Mercury vapor diffuses across the blood brain barrier where it is oxidized by the endogenous hydrogen peroxide catalase system into divalent mercury. Since

the oxidized

form cannot

diffuse out of the cell easily,

Mercury vapor diffuses across the blood brain barrier where it is oxidized by the endogenous

the

hydrogen peroxide catalase

Nervous System due

system into divalent mercury.

original lipid solubility

brain

mercury

in

accumulates Central

the

to its

and

resultant rapid conversion to

the non-diffusible divalent and extremely

Hg ++

,

damaging form.

or the ionic form of mercury, creates toxicity that

is

usually

damage

acute and of high magnitude.

It

vicinity of where

likes organs systems; in particular,

the kidney.

form

is

it is

located.

It

Relative to what

creates massive

we have

in the

just discussed, the ionic

responsible for destroying lysosomes within the cells.

It

also destroys the mitochondrial elements within the cell.

It

also claims responsibility for killing and mutating gut bugs.

Being divalent,

it is

calcium, magnesium,

the etc.,

form

that displaces other minerals like

as described before. This

form interferes

with absorption of nutrients from the gut into the blood stream.

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It

is

a co-actor with organic mercury in the destruction of enzymes

and hormones. Mitochondrial damage the organic form. that

It is

the

form

also a shared event with

is

that is the result of oxidized

does intercellular damage.

Organic mercury methylmercury ,

(MeHg

mercury, di-ethyl mercury, thimerosal - are

organic forms of mercury compounds. primarily dangerous because of

pass through

area.

its

or

CJ^Hg" ") 1

ethyl

names that refer to The organic form is all

ability to enter all cells

and

Upon entering a cell, it may be oxidized form (Hg ++ ) which is highly explosive in its local

all barriers.

into the ionic

Organic mercury

is

active in altering or destroying

stopping cellular reproduction, stopping cell

Hg°

membrane

selective permeability

disease through the

DNA,

DNA repair, altering the

and creating autoimmune

mechanism of ethyl mercury, methyl mercury,

and the interaction of the ionic species.

Haptens can be either

generated from organic or ionic forms. Alteration of the tertiary

3-D form of molecules is the job of organic mercury, but the ionic form can distort them too. In the gut, ionic mercury is methylated into MeHg in order for mercury to be pushed out of structure or

bacteria.

Endocrine and enzymatic alteration is also a joint venture

involving both ionic and organic mercury. Plasmids? Don't know.

Logically

it

looks like ionic, with organic as a backup.

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al.,

The

air.

effect of dental

J Dental

Wranglin, G. Corr Sci, Vol

Res 50: Sept 1981.

9, p.

Wranglin, G. Corr Sci, Vol 14, Friberg, Lars (ed.)

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331, 1974.

"Handbook on the toxicology of metals", Vol I,

2 nd edition, Elsevier Publication,

New York,

1986.

Webb, M., "Clinical Chemistry and Chemical Toxicology of Metals". Brown, S. (ed.), Elsevier, Amsterdam, 51-64, 1977. Unique effect of HgCl(2) on the DNA of CHO compared to the effect of seven other metal compounds.

Canton, O., Cells as

et al.,

Toxicologist3: 165, 1983.

Canton, O.,

mammalian

et al., Similarity in the acute cytotoxic

cells to

glutathione depletion.

mercury

(II)

and X-Rays.

Biochem Res Commun

Canton, O., and Costa, M., Correlations of

and

response of

Damage and

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their repair with cell survival, following acute

exposure to

mercury and X-rays. Molecular Pharmacology 24: 84-89, 1983.

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,

Chapter 4

Conventional Diagnosis of Multiple sclerosis

and Huggins' Views of MS This chapter represents the conventional baseline from

make comparisons to what I am finding. It is compiled from medical exerts and their opinions. It discusses where MS attacks. What are its effects? What which

I

can he done? This chapter quotes medical experts venture to diagnose MS. Demographics

is part

in their

of it. Male,

female, young, old, where do you live? Are these causes,

predispositions or just observations?

If

you move

to

another state, change your religion or race, will that help?

Does nutrition count? Should you worry? Actually this is how conventional medicines looks at you - if you have MS.

Textbook of Neurology provides an excellent

Merritt's

listing

of the

physical and chemical observations regarding Multiple sclerosis.

These are provided here as a guideline so

you can

that

differentiate

between conventional observations and my observations. are based

on having dental materials

as a cause

...

and having a Protocol for j

..

t

..

r

a,

activation and stimulation or the

immune

My views

system. J

attitudes are

_ The conventional ,

based on no known

Physical

and chemical

observations are .

,

,

provided here as a .

,

,.

,-

-

guideline so that you

Qm differentiate

cause and seek only to suppress the

between conventional

immune system or to try one or more

observations

drugs to alleviate symptoms.

observations.

and my

81

Who

Risk.

MS?

risk of catching

is at

demographics, the

tally

looks like

this:

Condensing

all

of the

White - female - age 21

more or less - with a genetic predisposition for MS - living a relatively cold climate - in an upscale socioeconomic

to 40,

in

community. Blacks and Asians rarely catch

MS, white females

catch

it

2 to

over their male counterparts, females are more apt to catch the child-bearing years, genetics

zoom

in

on

10%

as

(It is

growing

MS are 2.6%.

having

rapidly,

The chances of

per year.)

This

is

not

.8%.

Still

random.

that

it".

Among MS There

may be

0.00125% of

siblings of an

much

MS

much

patient's

overall, but thousands of -

child correlation

not really high on the over-scheme, but greater than patients,

15% have

and among identical twins there "catch

is

however, perhaps as

percent higher than random. Chances of a parent is 1

in

a factor, but not strong. Let's

Overall the incidence rate

that one.

the population.

is

it

1

is

is

a

MS,

a relative that has

25%

a slight problem with the

chance that both will

MHC chromosome 6

related to the predisposition to catch

MS.

All of this

indicates that genetics plays a role, but, in order to catch

it,

there

has to be an environmental exposure (unknown) that triggers the disease.

People living in Winnipeg, Canada are 6 times more apt to catch

MS

than people living in

New

Orleans.

There are actually many

show that people living in hot climates are more resistant catching MS - unless they move to a cold climate. People who

studies that to

have had head

injuries

those without head injuries that the incidence

everyone with

MS

.r

mc

Keep in mind that MS was only identified in 1818 - at about the same time that amalgams were first •

placed.

82

•

-r

. *

than

was

investigated.

Not

has had a head injury, so the concept

recognized, rr

MS

have enough higher incidence of

but not listed as

is

a

predisposing factor.

Kee P

in

mind

identified in

1

that

818

-

at

MS

was onl y

about the same

time that amalgams were

first

placed.

MS

is

not considered to be a communicable disease, and for that

good records

reason,

for incidence are not available.

Tests have been developed to determine a "differential diagnosis" for

MS,

many

but, as

things as have been tried, there

definitive test that can be called an absolute diagnosis.

is still

no

The only

definitive tests available today are at autopsy. Let's overlook that

for the

moment and look

CSF. Cerebro spinal it is

fluid has

evident that the brain

the brain tissue.

at testing the living.

is

In active

activated clones of

CSF

"oligoclonal" cells.

been tested for some years, because

involved in

MS, 85%

cells

MS - and the CSF bathes

of the time there are a few

running around. These are called

Oligoclonal cells are actually antibodies

against something that

is

causing inflammation or infections,

although the cause of the inflammation or infection has not been identified.

There

is

generally a greater concentration in the

CSF

than in the blood serum. If any oligoclonals are found in the serum,

we have

a pretty advanced case of

present in the

MS.

Oligoclonals are also

MS plaques which further suggests an inflammatory

origin.

This agrees with Stortebecker's findings on the inflammatory origin.

Immune fighter cells accumulate at the sites of inflammation in MS, and they may be part of the problem with myelin degeneration. Macrophages migrate into the area, along with lymphocytes. One subset in particular, called the T-lymphocytes, produce "cytokines".

Cytokines are called the Tissue Necrosis Factor (TNF), because they are toxic to nerve cells and myelin. Cytokines create

some

of the destruction of the myelin sheath.

Remember -

it's

in their

not really bad guys.

They

lymphocyte job description. They are are only doing their duty of destroying

We

have to eliminate our own non-self cells and prevent them from forming in our children and grandchildren. non-self cells.

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Another popular test is the MRI. Magnetic Resonance Imagining.

Most people don't think of it

as a fun test

-

especially if

you

are

claustrophobic and don't like your head in a drum, but the results are interesting

and informative. They show the

location of lesions in the brain and brain stem.

n, Magnetic Resonance Imagine ..

^

definition, if you

have one

MS, and you definitely have MS. probability of

if

lesion,

you have a

you have 2 or more,

MS plaques are usually

found distributed throughout the white matter of the brain.

CT scan is not good for cerebral the MRI for identifying lesions in

The

better than

cerebellar and spinal lesions.

Evoked potential

in determining the speed of nerve

lesions, but

it is

the brain stem,

studies are useful

impulse transmission.

The

slower the transmission, the greater the interference. In the blood, the total protein levels are generally increased. This increase of total protein indicates that there is

Barrier that

is

a breakdown of the Blood Brain

allowing passive diffusion of antibodies into the

cerebro- spinal fluid from the blood serum.

Although a firm diagnosis

is

not available, for those unwilling to

undergo premature autopsy, diagnostic tests available today include:

A firm diagnosis

you have one brain lesion by MRI or CT, you have a 58% chance of developing MS at some time. Probably sooner rather than later.

is

not available,

-

antibodies in

catch

-

if

-

if

if

you have abnormal oligoclonal IgG your spinal fluid, you are more apt to have or to if

MS.

you have an abnormal evoked either have or soon will have MS.

MS

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potential response,

you may

you have several of the unusual symptoms that others with generally have, you may be headed that way.

False positive readings can be obtained vaccination shot around the time of your

The two

sets

if

first

you have had a symptoms of MS.

of symptoms are identical, so one can be confused

with the other. There think you might have

is

a recommendation that,

MS, do

if

you have, or

not have a vaccination. Especially

flu shots.

Sometimes onset symptoms give a clue of the time, there are

symptoms

to

coming

events.

Most

slightly inconvenient or irritating

little,

that occur periodically, but they are usually passed off

and forgotten. Then one day -bang! Something notable occurs. You may wake up one morning and not be able to get out of bed. This usually catches the patient's attention, and they end up doctor or hospital

bound

in a short period of time.

This

Remember,

this

problem

easily confused

is

with a reaction to a vaccine.

It

may be

a

"normal" reaction to being injected with mercury, aluminum and vaccine products and "not related" to

It is

MS

problem

is

easily

confused with a reaction to

« vaccine.

MS.

not always that dramatic and

may

involve several apparently

symptoms occurring simultaneously. The sudden onset of neuritis, along with other symptoms, is the most common

unrelated optic

primary obvious onslaught.

Other symptoms, or signs, that

may

accompany this event include twitching of facial muscles. Especially those controlling the eyelids. Loss of proprioception. Has a doctor ever asked you to close your eyes and touch the tip of your nose? Movements in which you can touch part of your body without looking at it are called proprioception, or, muscle memory. Your muscles remember where your nose is, etc. If there is an interference in the posterior column of your spinal cord, your finger may get the signal that your nose has been moved. This is a clue, not diagnostic. Urinary frequency

due

to

is

a

common

accompanying urinary

occurrence, and

tract or

is

thought to be

bladder infections.

85

Males and females may both lose their sex drive. Males fail to be able to achieve an erection, and females are not able to achieve sexual climax. Females have far less vaginal lubrication than before the onset of symptoms.

Numbness and and

fingers

tingling

As

toes.

may be

experienced - especially in the

MS progresses, this sensation may extend up

the hands to the arms or legs, and, in

A sensation

the body.

some

cases, other parts of

of a mild electrical current running

what are termed

the back of the neck heralds the introduction of

"weird symptoms".

It is

characteristic of

MS

down

patients to

have

symptoms that are very hard to describe in words and do not relate to anything specifically in this galaxy.

Many

times, these people

are referred to psychiatrists with the diagnosis that their initial

MS

symptoms

are "all in your head".

It is

It is

normal for

T u The reasoning may u inexpenenced be that the

% be referred to

,

_

j

.

be referred to

to

psychiatrists or psychologists for therapy.

MS patients to ,

normal for MS patients ,

,

.

.

,

.

primary r J doctor may J not be familiar with the

.

psychiatrists or

psychologists for therapy.

weird or unexplained symptoms that accompany MS or the fact that depression has set in due to the bleak outlook. Their productive

The

first clinical

life is over.

manifestations are both transient and bizarre.

Patients have unusual sensations that are difficult to describe and

absolutely impossible to verify objectively.

sensation of a I

personally had the

I

mouse running up and down my

leg under

my skin.

called the cat and even used cheese as a lure to capture the

varment, but to no avail. doctor looked at lips,

When

I

described

me with a voiceless

exclusive of his eyes, then

my

sensations,

my

smile that stopped above his

remembered something urgent in

the next room.

Referrals to the psychiatrist or psychologist for counseling are often based on the most FAQ.

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The most frequently asked question.

"What

is

my

What does

prognosis?

reason for the referral

is

that the

the future hold for

answer to the

me?" The

FAQ is "unknown".

There are better answers for AIDS. Not as nice, perhaps, but most people really want to

know what they

reality easier than the

I

are facing. People can face

unknown.

saw a man in movie recently who had to walk through radioactive

water, sacrificing his

own

life, in

order to save millions of people

within the area of a nuclear reactor gone haywire. well done.

The

acting

was

When he emerged from the water with medics waiting

on both sides of him, everyone knew the situation. Everyone behaved in a very mature manner. There was no weeping and wailing, just facing the future with knowingness.

we

Do doctors think

cannot face the future? Yes, sometimes.

Destination unknown. There are no prognostic indicators in

Does

you? Usually

kill

it

because of

its

not.

predictability

get your affairs in order, but

10,20,30 years or more,

it is

and

Death

is

finality.

when

it

probably easier to face

You can say good

failure,

hard to plan. The

as a result of aspiration, cardiac

malignancy, septicemia from bed

ulcers and suicide.

It is

bye,

could be

major causes of death of MS patients include

pneumonia

MS.

the skepticism and

pessimism among physicians

that is likely to

,

There are

no prognostic indicators in

MS.

be catching.

There

is

really nothing they

can do to

coming events and they know so

it is

it.

alter the natural history

of

Doctors don't like to be defeated,

easier to pretend the disease isn't there. There are always

experimental drugs to hang their (and your) hat upon, but none that

have shown much promise. That

is

why

they

recommend

The problem is off their conscience onto a referral They know of nothing positive in your future. You were

counseling. doctor. at the

height of your career, had the "world by the

tail",

were

making plans to change that world, and now the future is a blur. Of course you need a shrink. They may recommend steroids for 87

acute episodes (which isn't such a bad idea) use.

It is

- but never for chronic

They always recommend support groups

too damaging.

and the Multiple Sclerosis Society for discounts on wheel

chairs.

Drugs? Yes, there are many for the various funny symptoms. Want to hear

them?

I listed

some of the drugs from this

attitude

I

text to

have toward recovery from

provide.

Ready?

emphasize the different

MS

than the textbooks

Cyclophosphamide, Baclofen, Diazepan,

Dantrolene, Tizanidine, Vegabatrin, Botulism toxin, Propantheline,

Emerproninium, Imipramine, Desmopressin

acetate, Propranolol,

Clonazepam, Cyothalamotomy, Phenytoin, Amitriptyline, Amantadime, Pemoline, Antidepressants and a well-balanced diet, whatever that is. I may have misspelled some of these, for the spell

checker went nuts and said none except botulism exists in

the English language.

There

is

no "classic" case of MS.

earlier that .„ v classified

r

/

%

.

.

1S

won

mentioned

first

1000 cases

1000 different categories. The reason for

into

my

had classified my

I

I

-

,

a

***

symptoms

i

i

are dependent

1000 different

upon what area of the brain and spinal cord me l es i° ns appear, and the attached nerves

categories,

relative to that specific point.

cases into

I

mentally

picture a dart board, with each square inch

representing a different symptom. if it is

We can work backwards, though,

of any benefit. There are some basic categories of notable

events dependent on the nerves targeted.

MOTOR

-

muscle weakness and intermittent

tremors.

SENSORY - exaggerated responses to changes in touch, pain and spacial position.

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CEREBELLAR

- tripping, gait dysfunction, tremors, nystagmus (quivering of the eyeball muscles), slurred speech, lack of coordination

between arms,

legs, feet

and other bothersome

appendages.

CRANIAL NERVES AND BRAIN STEM particular cranial nerves V, VII

by these

the areas innervated

be disrupting.

50%

of the

-

in

and VIII. Pain in

cranial nerves

MS

may

patients will

experience visual disturbances. Sometimes, these are the first signs of onset. Blurred vision, double vision, visual field contraction, floaters,

dimming

of vision, loss of the ability or interest in and colors.

differentiating shades

and white TV. There

is

Back

to black

no problem with black and

white. Dizziness and intermittent balance problems "fall" into this category.

AUTONOMIC - this is the home of bladder, bowel and sexual dysfunction. Also the loss of ability sweat

is

to

located here.

PSYCHIATRIC -

was not identified as a specific part of the brain) I would call it emotional, and I personally think it hits the Amygdala and Hippocampus portion of the brain. Results are: (this

depression, anxiety, unexplained irritability and

and cognitive abnormalities (which means you can't think anger,

suicidal

thoughts

straight).

MISCELLANEOUS

- Chronic fatigue, but

probably more related to mental activity than physical movements.

I

see this in around

95%

of

my patients.

89

:

Wow!

must be

symptoms of MS, you discouraged by now. If you do not have MS, then

you read

If

pretty

chapter and have

this

you have an idea of how the doesn't

be

this

That

it?

way.

is

It is

why I am writing

it

seems,

who

book.

It

Explains a

doesn

't

lot,

have

to

for

some unknown reason feet

toward the

back one. Kind of a stupid

the life of recovery of the

fell

story,

MS patient as I have seen

it.

you try anything that sounds even remotely promising. Then, you will bail out if you see that you are slipping back more than one foot each night. After this portion of this chapter, you should be at the bottom of the well. From here on, I will tell you how many determined people have improved 2 feet during the day, while slipping one foot back at night. You can get If

you

is

this

During the day he could climb two

surface, then at night he slipped

but that

patient feels.

a matter of choice, once you are informed.

There was a frog, into a well.

MS

are a survivor,

out of the well at that rate, but the important thing

to

is

inform

you, so that your children and grandchildren do not have to into the well in the first place.

It

Here

fall

doesn't have to happen.

is

the

HUGGINS VIEW OF MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS I

do have one big advantage. Most of

because they are

fighters.

my

patients seek

when

MS

patients are first

diagnosed. They often had to overcome obstacles to see

we were

in

at a clinic that

too shabby.

MS?

air".

was

Turns out that our treatment was

in a 5 -star resort

And another point, what does

In truth, part of

me - like

Mexico. You know, "you can't drink the

water and can't breath the

provided

out

They refuse accept the "death sentence"

of hopelessness so often tenured

the 3 years

me

my

on the ocean. Not

a "dentist"

know about

treatment was having the patient look

over the beach and palm trees to the ocean, feel the gentle breeze

and look into the mystic jungle. The other part was the hard

We 90

had

to impart to

them

all that I

had learned about

MS

part.

in the

manner that they would remember it. Oh, I almost forgot. Dentistry was done also. Remember, the dental aspect is only 10% of the whole treatment. This explains why past 30 years in such a

when people

rush out and only have their fillings replaced, they

end up worse than when they

started.

We

had

all

to

work hard

in

order to accomplish success.

I

have seen a few patients who did not recover -

worse.

took a few years before

It

I

in fact

-

got

stopped blaming myself for

Can you believe that some people do not want to get well? If you make them well, they will hurt you in some physical way, because you have taken away their method of those failures.

controlling the family for the

but

it

happens.

If patients

first

time in their life.

It

gets heated,

have parents or churches or some

philanthropic organization pay for their treatment, they have no

personal financial investment - therefore, no reason to get well.

Now I know that "the Protocol works, what I do not know is, who will

work

Tough love some people

the Protocol."

responsibility

where

it

belongs,

I call

call

it.

Put the

it.

What I am about to tell you in the next few chapters is how I came to certain conclusions,

bottom

you is

line

-

up

it is

to

are willing to give.

your body - your life.

that

I

may

and what those conclusions

you

to decide

what

have no attachment to your decision.

I

respect your decision.

- but

love them whatever they do. Your decision

chemistry

is

high,

chemistry

is

low,

up.

I

I

I

really

try to bring

it

do

down.

is

a fingerprint.

it

Each of

autoimmune diseases has a fragment that is unique unto itself. Here are some of the fingerprints, as well as some of the most

the

is

my patients

inform them that

no

I

me.

insult to

If a

my objective is to bring

But there

I

I tell

It

not. I balance chemistry. If a

use a narrow set of blood chemistry

ranges.

commitment

I

give them a real guilt trip

How do I diagnose MS?

level of

But -

are.

now do 1 diaznose

MS 9

I really do not

j balance chemistry.

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obvious imbalances that are encountered most often.

"Normal" on your blood the people died.

That

"ideal" or

who is

test is

wide enough

to accept

95.56% of

got their blood drawn in the hospital before they

not

my target.

optimum

Within that normal range there

When

range.

all

is

an

interferences are omitted

and the dietary needs are being satisfied (according

to

your

chemistries), chances are that your blood levels will be in that

optimum - or healing - mode. Sometimes it is a point, sometimes a narrow range, but it represents the maximum efficiency that you are capable of. Sometimes that's enough to turn around nonresponsive or incurable diseases.

A note to the reader: I

sometimes

have seen work - are

1

my

suggestions

- based on what

80 degrees from conventional wisdom.

why my treatments sometimes work. I have yet to find a neurologist who has taken a man out of a wheel chair and seen him finish the Florida Triathlon on his own two feet. Admittedly, I only have one patient who has done this, but that's But maybe

that is

more than most

What

folks have.

are the things

I

look for

at the first

appointment? As you

how many mercury amalgam fillings do you have? How many root canals? How many nickel crowns? Gold crowns with amalgam build-ups under them? How many cavitations? might expect,

Dental implants? That gives areas that need revision,

now

My

me

a pretty good idea of the dental

let's

look

at the chemistries.

philosophy in the management of

autoimmune disease Immune-fallure diseases occur

simultaneously with

immune

overwhelm.

Why?

failure diseases

is

that

immune-

occur simultaneously with

immune overwhelm. We saw one patient who was out in Spaceville somewhere between Saturn and connection with it.

this

She had no planet or anything on Jupiter.

This case of advanced Alzheimer's had

happened within a few weeks of having a 92

metallic hip implant placed after a

fall that

of her show her detachment vividly. of mine and asked

if

"Sure" he replied

much

overload to me.

I'll

I

broke her

hip.

Videos

spoke to a surgeon friend

he would remove the implant.

to

my

surprise.

"Sounds

immune walk now -

like

accept your opinion. She can't

and she won't be able to walk after I remove the implant, so what's there to lose?"

"I

want

to

remove

the fillings

immune overwhelm,

first,

because they are part of the

then we'll see what

We removed the fillings.

we have

left," I said.

Boy, was that a challenge, for any spacial

from the wheel chair into the dental chair presented about an hour of reorientation by a specially trained,

movement -

like

Would you believe? With the dental challenge she could handle the prosthetic hip. She came out of it without

patient counselor. out,

having to have the metal hip joint removed.

From

the chemistry standpoint,

salt diets.

Looking

MS patients are put on low

physiology of nerve impulse

at the

transmission, nerve impulses

most

jump

the synaptic junction with the

assistance of sodium, potassium and chloride.

On a low

salt diet,

how can you have adequate sodium and chloride? My patients cannot. More than 99% require more salt. BUT! Conventional wisdom

says salt gives you high blood pressure, heart problems,

fluid retention,

and you "gonna

die".

You must I

am

not sure where that concept

came from,

but probably not from observing patients. the blood gets crazy here, and to figure this

one

out, but

it

it

Now

took a few years

works

when work. You

easily

accept the fact that, often, the

body knows

bisL you understand the mechanisms at must accept the fact that, often, the body knows best. When nerve impulses are not jumping the gap, the body realizes that it needs more sodium and chloride in that area, so it

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up the blood level in order to force more sodium and chloride those electrolyte-starved areas of the nerve. Looking at just

builds into

blood, yes, the sodium level in particular

simultaneously

at the hair analysis for

high.

is

If I

look

sodium and potassium,

I

usually notice that in those patients with high blood levels of

sodium, the hair (more representative of cellular conditions) shows very low levels.

as if the blood

It is

sodium

differential that is high in

deficient areas.

add table

If I

blood levels are dramatically first

and second

it

creating an osmotic

to force

sodium

into those

usually the high

salt into the diet,

down within the 6 days between the

test.

Enter another problem. Sea

pure because

was

has

all

salt.

It is

being advertised as being

of the necessary minerals in

it,

and no

chemical processing - bad dog, that chemical processing. People

buy

it.

Conceptually as well as financially.

Would you believe Sea salt comes from the bottom of the world's

biggest

cesspool

—

the ocean.

.

consecutive patients i

o

, I

that

95%

of 100

saw were using some r it come from?

*™ Where does i

•

rorm or sea salt? From the bottom of the world's biggest cesspool. The ocean. All garbage and sewage moves down hill into the ocean, and, once there, it settles to the bottom - along with the sea

salt.

Yes, a great source of minerals. Lead,

cadmium and a bunch that have no known biological connection to human metabolism. The chemical treatment? Water. Dissolve out the sodium chloride, keep it, and throw away all the rest - back into the ocean. mercury,

But there

is

a tiny amount of aluminum in table

salt. I

out easily, but for the super-concerned, Morton salt".

It

pour. Expensive? will last for a

month

94

that I spent

May

shaker,

or

more on

not pour

and

A four pound box is around a dollar.

it

will

But

that

my diet.

Chloride seems to take care of itself when

Funny

makes "pickling

has sodium chloride, and nothing else.

when it rains, but add a few grains of rice to the

can get that

we balance the sodium.

35 years trying to find the perfect point of

balance (finding points the

answer was there

my hobby)

is

all

for these three minerals,

A couple

the time.

of years ago

and

when

I

was studying brain function and Alzheimer's, I ran into the perfect levels for sodium, potassium and chloride for optimum nerve impulse transmission. Jumping the gap. This was at the actual synapse. The normal blood range is rather wide, but I had narrowed it to sodium of 142 mEq (don't worry about it - a measurement), potassium worked best at 4.5 mEq, and chloride at 106 mEq. In this text on brain function, levels of sodium at the synapse are 142, potassium was 4.5 and chloride was 107. How close I was. It seems that the levels that produce the best nerve impulses produce well.

all

other massive functions of sodium and potassium as

You cannot achieve

no sodium

those levels on a low sodium diet, or a

diet.

Oh, but what about the high blood pressure

that will kill

you?

Most high blood pressure I have seen has been the result of having a root canal in the body. Not all, certainly, but I would guess that over

90%

of the high blood pressure

we

see

is

related to the

presence of a tooth-saving root canal. Usually the high pressure

4 days - providing the proper

will drop substantially within 3 or

protocol

followed for removing the root canal

is

teeth.

The adult blood pressure we seek is 1 13 over 70 mm Hg. Sounds low according to normal standards, but that is the level Dr. Melvin Page found in his 50 years of practicing body chemistry, and the level our patients seek naturally if

we

(and the patients) do

everything properly.

Almost everyone

I

fatigue. Again, the

Red blood .

,

the typical

cells t

.

give

see suffers from chronic

blood shows

me

the way.

have a story

me some

to tell, but not „ T r iron story. Intact, .

iron frequently creates a problem.

hemoglobin requires copper, Vitamin B-12 and

folic acid.

iron,

Building

manganese,

Most

Almost everyone I see

„

f

chronic fatigue.

folks that

95

I

see are

way

way out of balance in these areas. Not just a little bit, but

out.

Back

Iron works with copper and

to iron.

manganese

in

forming

hemoglobin and several other areas of energy production. takes iron,

That

is

not good, because out-of-balance manganese

MS.

Virtually all

MS

patients

problem. High or low? Yes. Most of the time level will all

MS

one

can suppress the action of copper and manganese.

it

primaries in

If

produce the same problems.

patients, then?

Because

it

is

one of the

have a manganese it is

low, but a high

Why not give manganese to

will suppress the action of iron

and copper. The secret in juggling and in balancing your chemistry is to

keep

all balls in

the air at the

successful juggler if you drop things.

same

You cannot be a

You cannot balance chemistry

you create excesses while correcting minerals work on a teeter- totter basis.

if

time.

deficiencies. If

Frequently,

one goes up, then

its

companion mineral will go down. Chromium and manganese have a very sensitive teeter-totter arrangement. The interesting thing is that, if you correct one mineral that is deficient, you become physically better, but within a few months you have the same physical problems

Vitamin B- 1 2

is

- now due

to the opposite imbalance.

a methylator of mercury. After amalgam removal,

B-12 from shots and pills spends its time converting mercury from inorganic into the 100 times more neurotoxic methyl mercury. Intravenous B-12 is especially dangerous. I have had several patients who have had IV B-12 and have ended up in a few days being worse than they have ever been. I am talking about being bed ridden. Even 3 years later, they have not recovered. Hard to believe? Just talk to them, and see if you don't come up with the same conclusion. The same dose (1000 micrograms) is given in shots of B-12. Best not to do it. Rarely does anyone report that they have had an increase in energy due to B-12 shots or pills of 250 micrograms, or 100, or even 50.

Where

may 96

is

take

the break even point?

B-12 up

to

20 meg

in

At about 20 micrograms. You pill form without symptoms, but

any more, and there goes your energy. Just remember, Vitamin B12 is not your friend after dental revision. Doesn't B-12 build up your hemoglobin?

No.

Not

in the

MS

Not in an artificial form. B-12 from food is fine. Food sources do not methylate and do not overdose, but artificial -

patient.

I

know

about the other forms, but they

all still

methylate mercury

despite what the "articles that do not do actual measurements" say.

When

mercury

is

a problem, mercury

can get onto the 4 oxygen carrying

sites

from

fillings or fish

on hemoglobin, and

oxygen will never ride there again. Mercury never lets go of those binding sites. Your hemoglobin level may look pretty good, due to

compensating, but

try

looking

at

your Oxyhemoglobin.

Oxyhemoglobin is a measurement of the actual amount of oxygen being carried. There is a secret, however. This measurement is done on venous blood, not arterial where it is usually done. Venous blood shows how much oxygen you have available for physical and mental tasks after you have completed the basic survival duties of keeping all the tissues alive without stress. You should have about 60 to 70 percent oxygen "saturation" left over in your hemoglobin after making the trip through a sitting- still body. From our over 2000 tests, most patients (MS, as well as other people with autoimmune diseases) have less than 40% oxygen left over.

A

small task, like walking across the room, for that person

is

equivalent to running around the block a couple of times for

someone with a 65%

saturation.

You should

feel fatigue.

Let's carry fatigue into the endocrine system. Thyroid

has 4 binding places

much

like the

hormone

hemoglobin molecule, only

they are reserved for iodine. Should mercury occupy one of those spaces, thyroid function

blood

good

is altered.

Even though readings of the

may tell you that you have plenty of thyroid hormone, what is

it,

if it is like

a mutant hormone, and not active in energy

reactions?

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Let's look at the

HUGGINS THEORY OF MRI IMAGES

My conclusions have always sounded pretty good to me, but they were enhanced when

I

presented this material to an audience in

Houston and a man approached look on his face.

"You may

me

afterward with a quizzical

find this hard to believe, son, but

I

am

one of the

MRI. We never thought about this theory of don't know. You might be right. I hope not, for it means

developers of the yours.

we

I

overlooked something big."

Big or not,

it

was fun

to figure this out. It is not that complicated,

make it sound like it is.

but

I

the

number of negative

will try to

"You

MS

can't have

All

fillings.

I

used to kid people about

electrical charge fillings in their

because you only have 5 negative current

MS people have 6. Or more."

had

6, 7,

my

ammeter.

8 or sometimes I

mouths.

more

Well, most

fillings that registered

frequently poke fun at

my new

MS people

negative on

ideas,

because

once in a while someone makes a comment about the obvious that I

overlook.

Someone asked me, "Upper,

Mostly upper.

Yeah.

Electrical current If a filling

Then

I

began

or lower teeth?"

to piece things together.

moves. That is the meaning of the word current.

has a negative electrical charge, then that means that

electrons are flowing out of the filling into

my

instrument.

negative electrons are flowing one direction, what other direction? Positive. Positive current

Proton

is

is

is

are flowing out of the root

flowing the

defined as protons.

another word for a hydrogen ion. Hydrogen

charged, and can flow through tissues.

If

is

positively

What if.... what if protons

end of the tooth

electrons are flowing out the filling part?

at the

same time

Conceivable.

that

How far

from the tip of an upper molar or bicuspid root tip to the brain? Not far. A couple of inches at the most. What if a proton went out of the root tip into the brain? It would follow the path of least resistance traveling through the brain - until it found a barrier is it

that

98

it

could not penetrate. Then

it

would

stop.

What

if

another proton

came

root tip and into the brain? it

same

ran into the

Might

barrier?

same

out of the it

And

filling, ran

down

follow the same path

(he

until

-

the next, and the next

until

was a pool of protons gathering in one location. A location somewhat directly above the tooth with that filling. Protons are hydrogen ions, which have positive electrical charge. That, by there

even another word, called a "base").

be below

7.

is

Acid

and

is

counterpart is

going to

the accumulation of positive charges.

is

So we

How is the body going to respond?

in the brain is unacceptable, so the

body

is

going to bring on

Water accumulating at a specific area in the called "edema". The MRI picks up edema in the brain

water to dilute brain

its

The pH (hydrogen ion concentration)

have a pool of acid.

Acid

described as "acid" (relative to

identifies

brain are

it.

as a "lesion". Is

it

edema caused by

from negative

fillings

through the brain?

If this is true, then

it

possible that the lesions in the

the accumulation of protons escaping

following a conduit of least resistance

How

about that?

one should be able

to

look

at the "top

views" of

MRI films, identify the lesions, and project downward into the head and find fillings.

happen I

is

that

I

have had that happen. Another thing

removal of fillings should make the lesions go away.

noted back in the '70's that

removed

first,

when

negative current fillings were

the patient's blood chemistries and

corrected quickly.

Remove

everything "went south". patients to see

that should

I

symptoms

the positive charged fillings

first,

and

paid for a few extra MRI's on volunteer

what happened

to the lesions after the Protocol

was

administered. At 3 months, according to the radiologist, the lesions

by about 25%. At one gone, or minimal in size. Interesting.

were reduced either

I

in size

thought of another place to look:

There are changes

year, the lesions

were

cerebro spinal fluid (CSF).

that take place in the

CSF that indicate immune

wondered just what changes were taking place there who experience our Protocol. This was the beginning

reactivity. I

in patients

99

of

my

biggest

life

experiences.

and worst of the worst.

I

It

contained the best of the best

heard a sermon yesterday that mentioned

man who had what people

good luck. He asked if it was really good. Then bad things happened to him. People consoled him saying he was having bad luck. He asked if it were really bad. As anticipated, something good came from what appeared to be bad. I'm still waiting. This CSF experiment stimulated the a

writing of this book.

happened, Is that

My

I

Had

called

the consequences of this study not

might be practicing dentistry today instead of writing.

good luck?

personal thanks to Dr.

department of chemistry

at the

Boyd Haley, chairman

of the

University of Kentucky.

He

did

not believe that root canals were bad, nor that mercury from

had much influence on the body. Only because he was a nice guy and was "here to serve the needs of the community" fillings

did

my persistence pay off. He identified mercury from fillings

as the primary culprit in Alzheimer's

and tested the influence of

enzymes of the body. He found that the toxins from root canals did greater damage than botulism. That got his attention, and now he is a world authority on these

root canals on the major

subjects.

He

will deserve

much

of the credit

when

dentistry

stops poisoning people.

Dr.

Haley took our

CSF

samples and tested them by gel

electrophoretic separation looking for individual proteins.

By this

method, he was able to locate proteins in the spinal fluid. Astoundingly, in the first tests (before Protocol) there were multiple strange proteins in the CSF. In the "after" series, there were none except for albumin, which is supposed to be there. That got his attention, too. These proteins were not supposed to be in spinal fluid, and a dentist was not supposed to be able to get them out. That was the first time he really became interested in our Protocol. We had done the impossible. ,

Testing did not reveal which proteins were there, for the addresses

of

commonly known

100

proteins did not coincide with

what was

in

the spinal fluid.

A

Strange.

was

best explanation

few months

before series,

that, in the

fragments of brain tissue floating

some The

we decided the we were seeing

later,

down

the spinal canal due to

toxic destructive action. (Cytokines?)

spinal canal

so that

made

scraped

it

is

sense.

It

was

as if

through the brain, pulling out small fragments of tissue.

Ten to twelve days proteins

coming out of the brain, someone had taken a claw and

the exit route for fluids

later, at

were gone

All.

.

the second spinal tap,

all

of these strange

This included the ones not only from

MS patients, but Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Lou Gehrig's disease (ALS) and

seizures.

Haley was amazed. significance correct that. spinal fluid,

was confused, for I did not grasp the of what he was showing me. It didn't take long to I

Haley taught me a few things I had not learned about and I began to overlay my treatment thoughts on the

scenario. (See Figure 2 in the Preface.)

Soon afterward

I

had an opportunity

group of engineers. do, and

it is

I

like engineers.

easy to present

my

to present this material to a

They think

same way I a manner that

the

chemical logic in

they can interpret.

We

were having a good time with the presentation, and the questions were stimulating and confirming that I had indeed proved (at least to

myself and these engineers)

that dental materials

caused

autoimmune diseases - and that they could be reversed. After all, the other chemistries improved, and these people were getting out of wheel chairs and walking. Hot dog! We had a way to get

these

rid of

MS.

I

was

excited.

So were

three

men

dressed in black in

the back of the auditorium, but for a different reason.

Fear.

Unknown to me, the dental association had "infiltrated" the meeting. Unknown to them, a friend of mine with good ears was standing behind them. He reported to me that one of the men had said, "We cannot afford to let this information get out. We've got to stop Huggins now. And I mean now ." 101

My excitement from this presentation was short lived, as I prepared to

defend myself against charges that had nothing to do with

anything in particular. for

As

a result of

my "refusal to refer patients

amalgam fillings (although no one ever asked),

people for root canals, and the fact that All in Your

Head )

for saying that

I

refusal to refer

had written a book

( It's

that they didn't like for "fraudulent" reasons

mercury comes out of the

nerve system backwards and

is

fillings, travels

-

up the

immune

poisoning human's

systems" - there went my dental license in Colorado - even though

The amount of money the state spent on me would pave several miles of road - but not roads to good health. The implications abounded of what the trial might have been about, and I was - in the eyes of dentistry - destroyed. I

hadn't practiced dentistry since 1984.

I lost it all.

mercury

I

Materially.

fillings

Fearful dentists went back to placing

and root canals. But

was recently offered

my

my

spirit

was

still

there.

license back.

"Sure,"

my attorney quipped. "So they can hang you from a higher

tree for

what you have found out about root canals. They have no

control over

over again."

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you now, but

as a

member, they could do

it

to

you

all

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NOTES

104

Chapter 5

Textbook Neurology What do

the doctors think about

you

if you

have

MS?

This chapter briefs several textbooks and their descriptions of causes, contributing factors, incidence,

and symptoms associated, drug and other treatments and the worst of all Prognosis. This is not happy reading, but some people want to know detail of what faces them from the traditional standpoint. The outlook is rather bleak, and diagnosis, signs

it

only stimulates

me

What do the doctors think

aDout y° u " you have MS?

to continue researching

my

method of treatment and trying to generate awareness.

Our worst

results are better than the lack

conventional doctors are taught about This

is

MS in school.

not bedtime reading. Just reference material,

should you have some reason for needing

First

came

of hope that

the disease.

Then

it.

the description, then defining the

parameters of injury, then establishing the areas to investigate for diagnosis, then the search for a cause.

Talk about round about,

when

under your nose.

all

the time, the

answer was

right

Definition Let's get into a scientific submersible and dive into the black abyss

of scientific knowledge surrounding the disease

MS, surrounding

much the same way that a whirlpool surrounds a center core of air. Of nothingness. Yet it is the nothingness that pulls errant

in

sailors in

toward the center of the earth and eminent death. 105

MS has been

MS

described

France noted

since 1818,

England in 1 823. These dates coincide in time

coinciding

and place with the introduction of dental

with the

amalgam.

nas

t>

een described since Cruvilher in in 1818,

it

and d'Este from

introduction

of dental amalgam.

Dental amalgam was not considered a real threat tQ

healm

until

me

183(rs and

fmaUy

resulted in the destruction of the National

Association of Dental Surgeons in the U.S. in 1840. established at that time between

autoimmune diseases and mercury

- nor is it recognized today - except in the University

who have

little

communication with

clinical doctors.

researchers inject mercury into animals

autoimmune diseases

No link was laboratories

Laboratory

when they want to develop

in the lab animals.

Causes and Contributing Factors

Much

confusion surrounds the research into the cause of

MS,

possibly because the seekers are looking north, while the answers are circling the researcher.

A lot

of progress has been

made

in

determining what happens physiologically and pathologically within the body tissues that explains not work.

I

have found

it

why muscles and

nerves do

compelling to look into the history of

events that have led us to the current depth of confusion in the

vortex of that whirlpool.

The following review and

MS.

is

obtained from several medical textbooks

scientific publications targeting conventional thinking It

helps us to link the dental causes with observations from

the microscope.

I

found

it

fascinating for

some unknown

"Usual and customary" "Usual and customary 97 is a ntra °f

ff^ Medicine. :

106

about

Medicine. This

is

is

the

symbolic of a

reason.

Mantra of

safe, protected

For both patients and doctors. One can argue that safety and predictability is static and inhibiting of harbor.

Security.

progress.

Maybe

that's

what you want

— doing

implies lots of experience

same proven way. Doing the expecting improved results is one the

same thing over and over same thing over and over but the

definition of insanity.

line

between safety and progress?

One should know and

recognize the usual and customary before

he ventures out of a safe harbor.

He needs

found polestar navigation through why, but

it is

MS

at least

TV

intriguing to watch progress

investigator

see

if

One

The audience

mystery show.

Suspense

is not.

he finds out what you

thing about

disease that

is

MS

is

one

is

polestar.

I

I'm not sure

fascinating.

from a distance while

holding another piece of information in my hand. a

Sailing

So where do we

in uncharted waters is also defined as insanity.

draw the

Usual

in brain surgery.

It is

like

watching

given a clue that the

developed by following him to

know from your glimpse.

that has total

agreement

is

that

MS

transmitted from close personal contact.

is

not a

Family

members, husband and wife, work associates - do not run any greater risk of "catching"

MS.

Starting in the 1970's,

became popular

unknown

it

to label a disease of

etiology (cause) as autoimmune.

There was a good

Not too much was known about immunology, and, therefore it was hard to dispute the statement. Earlier, the same could be said of viruses. Science knew they were there, but had no immediate method of finding them, much less identifying them. If you really didn't know the cause, it was simple to link the two and say it was an autoimmune response caused by a virus. reason.

As time went

on,

and

viral identification

became

possible,

it

was

noted that demyelination (loss of the protective fatty sheath around nerves) occurred following viral encephalitis.

connection to

MS.

Later, a

mouse virus

This sparked a

(Theiler virus)

was found

to cause demyelination.

Genetic factors were suggested to

influence susceptibility to

autoimmune demyelination, because it

did not occur each and every time.

107

One

researcher reported that,

"MS

a slow viral infection that

is

produces a periodic autoimmune response directed against the oligodendrocyte resulting in irregular areas of demyelination." (Rivera, 1986)

Antibodies against

many many

serum and in the spinal

the

fluid

inconsistent. (Gilroy, 1990) into

viruses have been found both in

of MS patients, but the results are

You cannot inject one of these viruses

an animal and transfer

MS

to that animal.

With measles,

mumps,

polio and chicken pox, a definite causative virus can be

found.

A vaccine

disease (in theory).

can be manufactured. End of

End of It would be nice to find a bug that caused MS,

and make a pill or shot

story.

would cure or prevent it. But because you cannot transfer the disease by injecting bugs, a causal virus cannot be identified, but viruses are definitely there. They would that

almost have to be considered anecdotal. Since

MS

follows vaccinations more often than randomly,

MS

patients are definitely advised against taking routine influenza

vaccines.

MS follows vaccinations

more

often

than randomly,

Some

doctors

recommend

against

taking any vaccines, but are guilty of

malpractice

if

they do not administer

vaccinations. Patients in

some situations may

refuse to take them. In order to protect the

pharmaceutical industry who manufactures the

vaccines, these reports are classified as "anecdotal", meaning that the reports apply only to humans, not to laboratory scientifically controlled rats.

What what

is is

in a vaccination that

makes

it

so dangerous? To review

presented elsewhere, thimerosal, a highly toxic mercury

compound has been used

since 1929 in vaccines.

No testing on

been done since 1929, yet it appears in many of them. The amount of thimerosal required to inactivate the major enzymes in the body is 0.6 micromolar. The amount in one of the vaccines recently tested was 262 micromolar. You do not have to know how much one micromolar is (very very tiny amount) its

toxicity has

108

to see that vaccines represent a

And,

it is

tremendous overdose of mercury.

injected into the body, not exposed from the outside

where the body had some defenses against Is that the

only problem? No.

Aluminum

invasion.

its

is

also injected along

with the mercury. These are both toxic metals that are supposed to

keep bacteria from growing

vaccines are grown on

over 75

monkey

monkey kidney

viruses

worry, these are difference?

Who knows?

How much

aluminum

enzymes lot

that

more.

enzyme

mercury

tissue,

all,

many

and can pick up

from the surrounding medium. Not

monkey

is

After

in the vaccines.

viruses, not

human

viruses.

to

The

Viruses are viruses to me.

required to inactivate the same critical

micromolar?

kills at 0.6

5.0 micromolar

It

takes a whole

damage and much aluminum is in the

required before nerve

is

deactivation occurs.

How

vaccines? 17,000 micromolar. That should be enough to keep a

human it is injected into? What about those hundreds of thousands of Gulf War Vets who sometimes received 16 vaccines in one day, and became permanently ill from that moment on? Anecdotal. Of no scientific significance. Check to see how many MS patients you know who bacterium from surviving. But what about the

had a vaccine the day they became ill, or more frequently, 21 days after the vaccination. This is how we discovered the 7-14-21 day

immune cycle that we must observe

in

our patients.

MS onset 21

days after vaccines was the triggering observation that led to the identification of that

whole scenario.

The word "elusive" crops up frequently

when the concept of a cause for MS

is

The word "elusive" crops up frequently

discussed. Another word is

"unknown"

when

which

well.

a cause for MS

really describes

agreed that

MS

is

it

It is

an autoimmune

the concept of is

discussed,

mechanism in which white blood cells are attacking the tissues of

its

own

body.

It is

agreed that there

is

a

high probability that there is a genetic susceptibility, and many people suggest a viral role in the demyelination process.

109

Physical trauma seems to precipitate or aggravate this is not true

100% of

the time, so

it is

MS,

but again,

considered anecdotal.

Throughout the past 20 years, researchers have been considering the possibility of mercury as a toxic contributor to neurological

was research by Doctors Friberg and Ny lander in Stockholm at the Karolinski Institute relating the number of fillings in a person's mouth to the amount of mercury found in the brain at autopsy. A parallel study was done in California by Dr. David Eggleston. At the end of Eggleston's study a fresh brain was offered by the pathology department. A woman had been killed in a car crash into a telephone pole at high speed. She had lived for one hour after the accident. Although the study was theoretically finished, Eggleston measured mercury in that brain and, much to his surprise, found over 1000 times the amount of mercury that was in the other autopsy samples he was testing. events. There

Trauma interested me, so we did some mild trauma studies in my office. We set up an area in which we could use infrared photography to capture mercury vapor coming off of fillings in a person's mouth. A volunteer in our office had an amalgam filling in her

mouth.

(New employee who had

hazards of mercury.)

second

of us took pictures about every one

after tapping her tooth twice with a spoon. Pictures

the vapor tooth.

Two

moving up about 2 inches per second from

We

then touched the filling with a dental

A large

half a second and took pictures. filled the It

not yet discovered the

showed

the tapped

drill for

about

cloud of mercury soon

space encompassing her head and three feet above her.

only took about 5 seconds to create a photo- identified cloud of

mercury vapor about 5

feet in diameter.

It

was

interesting, but

no

one wanted to repeat the experiment. The volunteer had her filling replaced soon after the pictures

came back.

Reactions to toxic responses have not been given consideration as a cause for MS.

I

this

110

serious

have glimpsed MS for 33 years

and through over 1000 patients and come toxicity plays a

much

to the conclusion that

major role in the creation of MS. The

first

part of

book tells you the glimpse I have seen and the secrets to solving

MS

the mystery of

predecessors

who

that

Now

identified the intricate

malfunction that explains

can reflect on

have found.

I

why

let's

look

mechanisms of

how nerves don't work. From

our

at

brain

there

we

nerves don't work.

on which research has based its investigation. These statements are a compilation from various books and articles on our subject. First, let's read, then dissect the First, let's

look

at the definitions

verbiage.

Definition of

MS

MS is a chronic autoimmune disease characterized pathologically by multiple areas of inflammation and demyelination leading to glial sclerosis. Almost certainly a virus activates the immune mechanism in the nervous system. The cause remains elusive, although the autoimmune response

is

possibly triggered by

environmental factors and a virus. There is no definitive treatment,

and no cure, so we continue to search. (Gilroy, 1990; Rivera, 1986; Koprawski, 1985)

what was the question?

If that is a definition,

to delve into the

We are now going

world of scientific examination of problems

that

have no apparent solutions.

word "autoimmune". To recap former explanations, auto means self, and immune refers to our white blood cells. Autoimmune means that our Dissecting that definition,

look

at the

and destroying our own In the case of MS, nerve cells and surrounding

own white blood tissue cells.

let's

cells are attacking

tissues are the target.

Pathological changes

means looking at your tissues under a microscope and describing what is there. Abnormal responses are described in terms of comparing what is seen in the specimen to what is "Pathological"

seen in tissue that

is

presumed

to

be free of

all

disease.

Ill

"Inflammation" signifies that white blood

we

cells

have

infiltrated

which of the various 'populations' of white cells are there and the number of those cells gives us a clue as to what might have led the immune system to the tissues

send in

are examining.

of these

all

Just

White blood

cells.

cells are not present in

tissues that are free of disease.

"Demyelination" describes a condition in which the nerves have lost their clothes.

The myelin sheath

protects and isolates nerves

same way that insulation around an electric wire copper wire from exposure to the surrounding elements. in the

In the very early stages of

MS,

there

is

a

cellular invasion. Initially, this invasion is

and astrocytes. This

is

protects

marked increase in led by macrophages

accompanied by perivenous inflammation

(inflammation around the veins that Stortebecker talked about)

dominated by lymphocytes and plasma cells. In the presence of all this immune infiltration, myelin sheaths disintegrate and a chemical breakdown of myelin occurs.

PMS's)

Phagocytic cells (the

are then found to be overladen with fatty degradation

products of the myelin.

The lymphocytes and macrophages

that

burrow

into the veins are

immune pathology in the central nervous system. Add to this ,. the ohgoclonal immunoglobulins characteristic of

These cytokines are J „ , _. a well named "tissue „ necrosis factor because they are .

/.

,

toxic to oligoden-

drogial cells

and

myelin.

.*

,

,

t

,

._„

concentrate into the

,

t

.

MS rplaques. How ^ t

do y° u S et from invasion t0 plaques? 0ne of the lymphocytes is the T-cell (and in some cases macrophages),

that,

when activated by chemical stimulation, produces something called cytokines.

These cytokines are

a well

named

"tissue necrosis factor" because they are toxic to oligodendroglial cells

and myelin. All of this can be found

in

MS plaques.

In fact,

spinal fluid levels of tissue necrosis factor can be correlated with

MS 112

disease activity.

Now,

all

we have

to find out

is,

what gives

the lymphocytes and

macrophages the idea that they need

Any

into the veins in the first place.

ideas?

Demyelination exposes the nerve to fluids of the body

that interfere

with normal nerve impulse transmission. Demyelination characteristic pathological

is

also a

marker that helps differentiate MS from

Although not diagnostic

other diseases.

burrow

to

in itself,

MS

does not

exist without the presence of demyelination.

Glial sclerosis

is

the final stage of a series of pathological changes

in the nerves that

form

in brain

and other central nervous system

tissue. It signifies the destruction

cell that directs

of axons - the part of the nerve

impulses on to the next nerve or muscle

cell.

Sclerosis implies something like a callous that does not function in receiving

and transmitting delicate nerve impulses.

In the acute, or onset, stages of MS, there

is

an active demyelination

of nerve tissues as has been demonstrated by the presence of myelin

breakdown products in the area. The surrounding area contains edema and reactions in the adjacent blood vessels

also that

are the result of the accumulation of lymphocytes. In later stages,

the

end

result, so to speak, there is gliosis, or a scar in the

plaque

and destruction of the axons.

To summarize, tissue

in

MS

the brain and nerve

have scar tissue that doesn't do much.

Result - muscles don't do

Bottom

line

much

- your wheelchair

be your best friend

if nothing is

is

in either.

going to

done

To summarize,

MS the brain

and nerve

tissue

have scar tissue.

to stop

the progress of this nerve destruction.

113

Incidence - or -

how many

people catch

MS?

Estimates by Bauer and Hanefeld are divided into 3 groups.

Age 16 Age 21 Age 41 They say

to

20

to

40

to

50

— — —

70% 12%

MS

that females catch

other researchers say 2 to

then male to female earlier,

12%

is

1

.

about 3 to

This

close to

1

is

to

up

1.

1

over males. Most

to the

menopausal age,

Stortebecker, mentioned

describes a venous transport from the uterine area up to

mechanism as being one reason why younger women catch MS more often than males. The uterus is the brain and credits this

known to be a collection point may have a valid point here. Geographically,

for

mercury

in the female, so

he

MS is known to be more prevalent in cool climates

unknown around equatorial areas. Of course, amalgam placement is relatively unknown there too. But, alas, there is another factor. Even by 1840, it was recognized that MS patients did not sweat. Ever been at the equator at noon? You than hot.

It is

virtually

will sweat. Since sweating is a primary

"no sweat" applies climates, so there

One

fact

I

to the

is

MS patient.

method of detoxification,

It is

harder to sweat in cool

a logical connection.

don't particularly understand

is

that areas of higher

population concentration have a higher incidence of cities, the rate is

and

MS.

In big

30 per 100,000 population, while small towns

rural areas generate only 5 cases per

100,000 people.

Higher socioeconomic classes have a greater incidence, and Caucasians have the greatest percentage of chance to develop the disease. Asians

and Blacks have the lowest incidence.

Everyone mentions the genetic susceptibility, but since there

114

factor.

There

is

probably a genetic

was such a sudden onset of the disease

relative to the time that susceptibility

mankind has walked on

the planet,

are

25%

that the other will

which

great as just being a sibling,

is

you do not have

one twin has Fraternal

it.

MS. This

is

not as

2.6%. Children of an

parent have a 1.5% chance of developing if

If

develop

twins have a 2.4% chance of both developing

chance

appears

does not guarantee one's catching the disease.

In identical twins, the chances are the highest.

MS, chances

it

MS. What is

MS

the general

a close family connection with

MS?

0.00125%.

you have a sibling with MS, your chances of catching 2,080% higher than if you do not have a sibling with MS. So,

if

But there lots

of

is

more

to

MS

than being a blood relative.

I

it

are

have seen

MS patients, and a large percentage have no known relative

that has the disease.

Diagnosis of

On this

topic, there is

NO

100% agreement from all books and articles. test for the diagnosis of MS. Well, there is

There

is

one.

As you might guess, firm

diagnosis

is

specific

available

from the autopsy Comforting.

report. (Gilroy, 1990)

Another point of agreement diagnosis cannot be

made

is

that a

at the first

based on evaluating multiple events from your Diagnosis

attack.

MS

is

history, pathological suggestions

from

neurologic examinations, lab tests and findings of lesions in different parts

There

is

100%

agreement from all books and articles. There is no

—

specific test for the

diagnosis of MS.

— There

is

no

"classic" form of MS.

of the brain that are different from

someone

multiple, mild, transient

guess

at the

There

is

involves

Your history must also be able to show past events before anyone will confirm a

in perfect health.

diagnosis of

MS.

no "classic" form of MS. However, the disease frequently

some

areas and systems

more than

others.

The

optic

115

commonly

chiasm, brain stem, cerebellum and spinal cord are

Not

involved.

one person

all in

at

one time, of course. Kind of a

was a time that some clinicians tried to classify MS into spinal, brain stem, cerebellar and cerebral forms. Since there is so much select and sort available, this classification system has been abandoned. salad bar of pick your poison. There

The

original attack

characteristic itself,

test

but

it

mode

is

The only

usually classified as acute.

of onset

is

that only

one symptom manifests

does that big time. At that time, doctors will usually

your memory for recall of past mild events that were dismissed.

These may include mild urinary disturbances, mild visual disturbances such as blurring of vision or transient loss of the visual acuity in

one eye. In patients I have seen, visual disturbances

symptom, and fortunately, visual disturbances are the first to reverse when the Protocol is followed. are by far the primary

Another characteristic of arise early in the

they alike, and

MS

game can be

all

is

symptoms that "bizarre". Seldom are

that the multiple

classified as

are difficult to describe or verify objectively. Characteristically, these bizarre experiences are

generally brief.

Eyes

go out of focus.

will

Another

Double vision may occur. Color differentiation

characteristic

ma y

of J MS is that symptoms are «*. „

^ Q j QSt .

sensations _

may .

.

Sometimes

fQT a ^ew secon(j s A

it

-.

run up and

1M reels like a

down

z.

under the skin of your

Electrical u , the neck.

.

mouse

leg.

People think you are nuts.

,

..

is

crawling

Weird.

Bizarre.

You withdraw,

because you are not sure yourself. They give

you pills. Say you are depressed and hallucinating. Unless you have been there, you cannot empathize with or know that world.

To be clinically definite, you have to have at least 2 episodes and show abnormal evoked responses, or lesions defined by MRI again,

it

has to be

substitute,

at least

even though

it is

two, but sometimes a

CT

not as dependable as an

scan will

MRI. There

has to be a "stepwise progression" for 6 months. "Progression?"

116

\

Going backwards is progression? Yes, what counts. For insurance purposes. expensive. High maintenance. After

all,

(ADEM)

for the disease.

You

That's

are going to get

you could have acute disseminated encephalomyelitis and not MS after all. They look exactly alike at the

ADEM usually follows

early stages.

Of course,

a reaction to vaccinations.

vaccines are preserved with high amounts of mercury

- and don't forget the aluminum. 17,000 micromolar. What does that mean? You only have to know that neurological symptoms can occur at 5 micromolar. Could be Lyme's disease. That is very similar, also.

What

if all

these diseases were the

in reaction to an exposure.

same thing?

Just a difference

A difference due to your genetics being

few hundredths of a gene point being of the same species. a

different

from another human

What if it is a mimicked disease? Other neuropathies demonstrate slowing of nerve conduction. Even syphilis may mimic MS; however, a blood serology

test furnishes the differential diagnosis.

Very similar progress, however. Sub acute spinal cord degeneration associated with low serum Vitamin B-12 levels resembles

MS.

Brain tumors present similar symptoms, but they usually have a single fixed neurologic deficit bizarre

- not

the multiple orchestration of

An MRI can distinguish the difference.

symptoms.

nodosa and

in the brain also appear in polyarteritis

lupus erythematosus. antibody) level in

is

also elevated,

MS. Both respond

different faces in a

What about

In lupus, the

ANA

titer

Lesions

in systemic

(anti-nuclear

which probably won't be found

to the identical treatment, so are they just

house of mirrors? So

MS

Sjogren's syndrome?

close.

and Sjogren's both have

optic neuritis, spinal cord involvement, psychiatric manifestations,

abnormal evoked

and identical

potentials, similar spinal fluid protein profiles

CT or MRI profiles.

dry mouth and elevated

But Sjogren's patients have a

ANA titers.

(Gilroy, 1990)

117

Doctors are taught that diagnosis of

MS

principally remains a

matter of clinical judgment (Sanders, 1986), and the diagnosis

MRI

can be strengthened by interpretations of

and computed

tomography (CT).

MS diagnosis?

Or is it the major medical fact that, as one respected human being, you have to face the patient and family and "tell them the truth?" Tell them that MS usually affects young individuals who are often at the threshold of life. Tell them that physically and mentally they Is that

what

is

really

behind presenting an

are facing a disease that has

no diagnosis, no treatment, no cure

and no hope.

Most of us can face up to challenges - even ones we do not deserve - if we have some chance of beating the odds. Some degree of hope.

No

matter

The doctor has fact that far

he

is

how

small, just something to hold

to face that internally, too

-

in his

on

to.

own mind - the

pronouncing a sentence worse than

life in

prison,

worse than the electric chair that at least has a quick termination.

How

can you give that patient in front of you a sentence that

includes depression, impaired memory, subtle aphasic manifestations and cognitive loss that

may be

quite apparent to

You will soon lose your visual dexterity. You will lose control of your bladder and bowels. And - by the way have a nice day. Good bye. See me every 6 months so I can family and friends.

monitor your "progress".

What kind of doctor can tell this young budding ready-to-changethe-world-for-the-better beautiful person

wrenching his

own

gut and soul?

they appear on the outside.

nothing to

matter

how

stern

hurts

offer.

Doctors sometimes

try to offer a splash of

new drug experimental 118

No

None.

of that without

them too. As Dr. Robert hope is no hope." Yet, they have

It

Schuller says, "The only false

all

trials.

hope by mentioning

Hope. Only he knows

that there

have been dozens of drugs and drug

This knowledge has produced the skepticism

failed miserably.

and pessimism

They

that

among

neurologists.

Something they can hang

Diagnosis to them

This

so pervasive

It

shows.

it.

A reprieve.

Slow

is

They communicate their pessimism loud and They too must have hope. They look for and pray for a

can't hide

clear.

cure.

and that most have

trials,

the

Hope you

death.

is

is

same thing

saw them

Now,

little faith".

A death sentence.

know there is hope. I used to might as well not come to see

think that people in wheelchairs I

to you.

hope on.

are not in a hurry.

why I get up each morning.

me. Then

it is

their

I

up and walk.

get

I

realized that

I

expect the wheelchair-bound to

I

The more I consistent - and

take a few steps within one week.

was "ye of get up and

stress the

need for

- not harsh - just the more I expect from patients - the more I receive. The mystery is solved.

discipline

Symptoms There

is

a myriad of

MS. Why

is

Why

symptoms involved with being

Measles gives a

that?

like anything else,

problems.

related to area of attack

stricken with

chicken pox

set pattern,

not

is

even polio singles out characteristic neurologic

is

MS

different?

different areas of the brain.

When MS hits

the brain and spinal stem,

it

hits in so

many

Each tiny

part of the brain controls specific

functions of the body.

Because

its

effects

will be seen in accordance with

which telephone line is going to which home phone. There are some generaliza-tions, however, that direct

mm MS m ^ bm(n its

md spinal

effects

m

wiU be seen

n accordance with

j

which telephone line is going to which home phone.

our thinking to which city (to use the

same analogy) compared with

the

individual phone.

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First,

we

will start with general areas, then define

specifically

where information

Motor - muscle weakness,

is

them more

available.

spasticity

and hyper-reflexes.

Sensory - impairment of position sense, pain interpretation and tolerance to temperature extremes, although the extremes usually

run outside the gamut of 65 to 82 degrees Fahrenheit. Not real extremes, but they feel like

it

to the

MS patient.

Cerebellar - impaired gait (stumbling over the flowers in the carpet design), tremor,

nystagmus

motions of the eye),

(side to side jerky

dysarthria (slurred speech), ataxia (interference in coordinated

muscle

activity

such as in walking, reaching for something, or

any movement involved in balancing actions), dysmetria (overshooting the mark - especially with hand movements - that result in things like turning

and dysdiadochokinesis

over water glasses

(inability to

in the brain

dinner table),

perform alternating repetitive

movements rapidly, smoothly and in rhythm, typing or tying a

at the

like playing a piano,

due to involvement of cerebellar connections

tie)

stem and spinal cord.

number V, VII and VIII. Lesions here cause visual problems, ocular disturbances, or problems in the ways eyes track Cranial nerves

and move together,

facial

muscles and tongue control.

Autonomic nervous system - bladder dysfunction, bowel dysfunction, sexual dysfunction and sweating dysfunction. In most cases, this

means lack of control or lack of function.

Psychiatric

- depression, euphoria, cognitive abnormalities. All

strangely sound like mercury toxicity.

Miscellaneous - Chronic fatigue, seizures, headaches, trigeminal neuralgia, facial If

you would

spasms or twitching and

like to

go into more

appeared in the textbooks:

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detail

,

restless legs.

these expansions have

Spinal cord related

symptoms

spastic paraparesis (partial

paralysis in the legs), with increased stiffness in the legs; ankle

clonus (rapid tremor of the foot

when

the mental

command was

just to stretch the foot a bit); progressive scarring of the plaques in

the spinal cord that produce increased traction

on and

resultant

destruction of axons descending from higher centers in the brain that results in

an increased number of spastic movements and

paralysis in the legs. (Gilroy, 1990)

Brain stem symptoms - loss of feelings of touch on the face due to trigeminal nerve involvement, facial

muscle weakness due

to

interference in the seventh nerve in the pons; double vision that

can lead to paralysis on muscles controlling eye movement; difficulty in

swallowing and impairment of articulation (slurred

speech); progressive spastic weakness of

all

4 limbs and loss of

coordination of those limb muscles as needed in writing or walking. (Translated from a bunch of big words in Gilroy, 1990)

Visual

symptoms -

specifically

- blurred

vision, double vision,

diminished acuity in one or both eyes, contraction of field of vision, loss of ability to perceive contrasts of shade

and

sometimes decreased color perception. Retrobulbar

common

color,

and

neuritis is a

may be a partial loss of reflex action to bright lights. Visual problems may be preceded by pain associated finding.

There

with eye movement. (Gilroy, 1990)

Emotional

instability

-

(similar to that associated with

toxicity) resulting in depression, anxiety,

without good reason,

irritability

mercury

sudden laughing or crying

and unexplained anger. Probably

associated with amygdala and hippocampus tracking in the brain.

Muscular symptoms - are quite

common

in

MS.

Facial muscle

weakness and twitching is often limited to one side. Our experience has shown us that

when

this is true, frequently the affected side

has a high negative current amalgam, or a root canal.

As

far as

limbs are concerned, the longer the duration of the disease, the

more

the

weakness becomes apparent.

This weakness

is

not

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They just seem much more quickly than would be expected from the

associated with the strength of the muscle to fatigue

itself.

degree of stress involved.

To add

to this

problem, coordination of leg muscles creates

hazardous walking conditions, plus there proprioception. Proprioception

is

may be

the ability of the

a loss of

body

to

know

where its parts are without looking. It is also called "muscle memory". For example, close your eyes and touch the end of your nose with your finger. The closer you come to the tip of your nose, the better your sense of proprioception. Loss of proprioception results from the presence of lesions in the posterior columns of the spinal cord. This is the functional reason behind why there is so much difficulty in walking. Just to

may

complicate matters, tremors

No more

enter the picture.

waltzing Matilda.

Now we get into personal matters.

Bathrooms have always been individually sacred. Although most people do the same things in there, it is a violation of personal security to have to have help. It is

one step worse than having

show your underwear.

to

Urinary symptoms are common. They include incontinence and frequency or urgency of urination. These are the same symptoms of urinary tract or bladder infections, so differentiation must be

made. Excessive use of antibiotics upsets the digestive system,

and

it

doesn't need any

more

stress.

Urine cultures should be

done.

Back to mercury toxicity and a Huggins observation. I have some ideas on urgency. Usually the "I've got to go - NOW!" sensation is ^ .^, „ What if the /f

, ,

,.

bladder

also has detectors

for toxins located in

its

walls?

followed by a low volume of urinary

excretion. t

,

,

appears to _

1

me

that the

.

bladder has a functlon of S ettin S nd healthy, that of urme If tmn S s

m

-

occurs reached.

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It

when

a certain

You have some

volume

is

distant early

What

warning. Consider

this:

toxins located in

walls? Could

of toxin

is

its

present, there

is

the bladder also has detectors for

if

it

be that when

a call to void before

the bladder lining? If so, urgency

wisdom advice

damage

done

is

to

would be a sign of detoxification

and accommodation for survival. conventional

X concentration

is to

"Usual and customary" This would

drink less water.

more and increase the sense of urgency. patient drinks more water the sense of

concentrate the toxins even

We have noted that if the urgency

is

damaging

,

Why?

lessened.

Toxins are diluted, therefore, not as

to the bladder lining,

and a more normal excretory

pattern can be experienced.

According

to Gilroy, cholinergic drugs

such as bethanechol,

carbachol and pyridostigmine are only marginally effective.

doctors use urine acidifiers such as Vitamin

methenamine mandelate.

antiseptics such as

occasion or indwelling,

C

Some

and urinary

Catheters, either

may have to be used, even though the risk

of infection increases.

Bowel problems

whole other issue, and may lead the more than any of the other problems.

are a

to seeking isolation

Sexual dysfunction

.

patient

This occurs frequently. The problems are a

lack of ability to achieve an erection in men, and lack of lubrication

and

failure to reach

orgasm

counseling. Yeah, sure.

in

women. Most advice

Obviously

confronting the problem does offer other,

and

that is

an advantage.

I

have

some

my

is to

seek

doubts, although

lack of blaming each

Papaverine injections into the

vacuum devices may increase penile blood flow and help to a certain degree. From zero to quite successful. In women, lubricating agents are recommended. Remember that all such lubricants and contraceptive gels contain massive amounts of penis and

mercury. Not just a few parts per million like in water, but in the percents concentration, like in rat poison.

counseling can be a help, but

it

takes

My opinion here is that

someone who

is

able to seek

out the "real" problems and address them. In addition,

I

suggest

getting rid of the causes.

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Sensory can be expanded to include numbness and tingling in the

hands and but,

This

feet.

from the

is

not given

clinical aspect,

symptom more

much

see this as a

I

often than any other.

within a few days after the Protocol years ago, It

I

press in the textbooks, first

and continuing

also tends to

It

is initiated.

go away

Relative to 30

am also seeing more "burning" sensation than formerly. now

used to be in isolated areas,

over their bodies. Burning

is

patients are reporting

it all

often a prelude to weakness, visual

more debilitating drama. (Gilroy, 1990) I cannot help but wonder if the increase is due to the massive increase in loss or other

mercury release from the pre- 1976

fillings that is

amalgam fillings.

Motor symptoms

are

still

now 50

In this case,

times the release of

more cannot be better.

concentrated on paralysis or lack of

coordination of arms and legs. Not a whole lot more can be added to this problem.

Mental symptoms are probably more frequent than one would expect, relative to the impairment of a person at that point in time.

Again, mercury can do

To

line

them up

irritability,

and one

Some

I

this

without destroying the nervous system.

you may

from depression, unexplained anger, impaired memory, cognitive loss for choices,

see fairly often that

is

select

hard to identify. Exaggeration.

people react by exaggerating numbers -

many

extreme. I've told you a million times not to do a zero at the end of something, so that

an exaggeration, but

why do

it?

There

it is

that.

times to the

Maybe just

fairly evident that

it is

a compulsion. Another

is

symptom. If this progresses, it extends into exaggeration of their MS symptoms to the point that a doctor would become

bizarre

confused trying to separate fact from In about

50%

fiction.

of the advanced cases of

MS,

patients

who have

demyelination of the periventricular white matter of the brain often

show explosive emotional responses

in conjunction with

inappropriate laughter or crying during a non-confrontational conversation.

They may

also experience deterioration in their

intellectual functioning. This condition results

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from interruption

of an inhibitory dopaminergic pathway connecting the thalamus

and the frontal lobe. (Gilroy, 1990)

Drug treatments

A note of caution

that have been tried

Even though there is no treatment plan for MS, drug companies are not remiss in making suggestions. The emotional response of an MS patient is to try anything that shows .

any possibility of helping. "Nothing can be worse than

common statement. Not always true. slow progressive

MS

this" is a

In particular, patients with

should conscientiously (non-emotionally,

ha-ha) evaluate the possible benefits of drug therapy versus the potential adverse effects of drugs.

There are few,

if any,

drugs

do not have a notably longer list of side effects than of effects. Drugs do alter the body's natural biochemistry. Sometimes this is

that

beneficial;

sometimes

it is

not.

Even though most physicians and researchers involved in

Even though most physicians and

frankly

no treatment for MS, still lots of drugs and therapies

admit that there there are

MS

is

researchers involved in

Even a blind squirrel nut sometimes, so many J

that are tried. n

.

t

finds a

is no ,. ,, c treatment for MS, ihm are gm hts of

that there

.

^

avenues are explored in case one has

something therapy

is

to offer.

As

drug

far as

concerned, there are

MSfhmUy «*»* .

drugs and therapies

many

^at are

t

have been tried. Gilroy (and others, noted separately) give the following reports on the opinions on drug

tried.

that

therapy.

High doses of IV corticosteroids may arrest the progress of MS, and may be suggested for the initial attack when it is severe. Methyl prednisolone given for several days may offer six months of remission. Side effects are insomnia or hypomanic Corticosteroids

.

behavior, but they usually stop

when

the drug

is

withdrawn.

(Durelli, 1986)

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Chronic oral steroid use has no merit, either daily or on alternative days, because steroids do not alter the course of the disease.

Immunosuppressive drugs such as azathioprin, cyclophosphamide or cyclosporin have been used in

MS. When

they are employed,

your doctor must monitor your red and white blood

do suppress you need one.

Immune suppressive drugs your immune system. There are times when

Cyclophosphamide. Benefits are uncertain because have given conflicting Azathioprine

trials

clinical trials

results.

may have

a slight benefit, but this

because of its high degree of

IFNB

count and

(Hughes, 1986)

platelet count weekly.

really

cell

gave good news

may be

offset

toxicity.

-

bad news

Significantly

reports.

lower exacerbation rates were noted, as well as less abnormalities.

It

does give

are quite uncomfortable.

treatment

is

stopped, but

natural history of

MS.

MRI

symptoms which These symptoms do stop when the all

it is

patients flu-like

the first treatment that alters the

Admittedly,

further investigation because

it

it is

not a cure, but

it

merits

does modify the natural history of

the disease.

Baclofen (Lioresal) spasticity resulting

is

the

most effective drug

for the treatment of

from lesions of the spinal cord.

the frequency and severity of painful spasms.

It

It

does decrease

has very

little

on spasticity in patients with cerebral lesions, but does not produce the sedation and generalized weakness noted from diazepam (Valium) or dantrolene. effect

Diazepam (Valium) helps some in spasticity from spinal cord lesions. It does have some notable side effects, however. Patients experience somnolence, light headedness, insomnia,

anxiety, hallucinations, hostility, increased spasticity and addiction.

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Dantrolene (Dantrium) acts directly on the contractile mechanisms involved in spasticity. It does help spasticity in patients who cannot walk.

muscle weakness, therefore, is of less consequence for those where muscle power is not a factor. Other side effects include damage to the liver, drowsiness and Its

resultant induction of

lightheadedness.

Less dramatic, although effective treatments that most doctors agree are beneficial include:

Complete bed rest This sounds like a wonderful thing - until it becomes part of your "sentence". The recommendation is to first .

remove the

the patient

from

self-care responsibilities

home environment. When they improve

and worries of

(sounds like a step

is

missing here), then physical therapy becomes paramount. Physical therapy psychiatrist It

.

All patients with

and placed

in a

MS

should be evaluated by a

graded program of physical therapy.

should be modified in accordance with the reactions and side

effects of corticosteriod treatment.

Physical therapy should be

applied judiciously with the goal of maintaining mobility and

remaining ambulatory.

Swimming

in cool water is considered

the best physical therapy. (Schiffer, 1988)

Diet therapy and vitamin supplements are frequently advocated, but no special supplementation or elimination diet has proved to

be more beneficial than a well balanced diet that maintains correct

body weight and provides sufficient roughage for bowel management. Other therapies such as hyperbaric oxygen, plasmapheresis, intravenous immunoglobulin, cobra or bee sting

venom and acupuncture treatments

Community

Any

response to these

usually a result of spontaneous remission so often

is

seen early in

are unproven.

MS. services

.

Patients should avail themselves of social

service consultation and advice often. This can result in a smoother transition

from hospital to home. This service can help you through 127

the bipolar and unipolar affective disorders that frequent

MS

Since these disorders result in unsuspected depression

patients.

and marital problems, worker. They

it is

well to deal with an experienced social

may be able to refer you to an appropriate marriage

counselor, psychologist or psychiatrist. (Schiffer, 1988)

Prophylactic measures

Prophylactic usually means preventing

.

the problem. In this case,

it

deals with preventing rapid progression

and momentary setbacks. Obviously, things,

knowing

that, in truth,

MS

it

pains

can be prevented by avoiding

certain dental materials. But, to the text:

Avoid prolonged exposure

to direct sunlight or hot environments.

not have to be told

this,

me to even list these

MS

patients usually

do

because any heat is highly uncomfortable.

Restoration to moderate temperatures brings about recovery,

although

it

may

not be until the next day.

Because of the immuno-suppressive drugs

that

an MS patient may

be taking, infections must be treated rapidly and thoroughly. The use of antibiotics

immune

is

generally advised. With a less than favorable

system, small challenges can create large problems.

Physical activity, especially the athletic type, create unnecessary fatigue

which can contribute

to relapses.

Pregnancy carries a risk for exacerbation of MS of the expected relapse rate. is

Another factor

at three

times

to consider is that there

an increased risk of the offspring being more susceptible to

MS

than the general population. (Birk)

Immunologic and genetic factors what is it? Actually chromosome 6 may be the guilty party. There is a major histocompatibility complex (MHC) on chromosome 6 that gives There

is

always talk of the genetic

instructions for

how

factor. Just

antigens (bad guys) are presented to T-

lymphocytes for destruction. T-lymphocytes are supposed 128

to get

rid

of

immune

It is felt

challenges, and the

MHC tells them

do

to

it.

that misdirection here results in the T-cell not getting rid

of the bad guy called antigen.

Of

indestructible (like mercury), the

MHC

just the

how

bad guy

cell called

is

CD-4, but

a decrease in

the bad

if

may

directions

worse than expected.

is

destroyed. There

course,

Maybe

it

guy be

is

OK,

cannot be

numbers of the T-lymphocyte

activity is greater.

its

Antibody secreting B-lymphocytes are overactive in

MS.

immunoglobulin

The amount of

Antibody

in the spinal fluid is

secreting

increased, and the rate of manufacture

Something

increased.

is

a immune system does

attempting to destroy

it.

is

out there that the 1-1

not* like.

T.

It

B-lymphocytes are overactive in

MS,

is

That something may

be a "hapten" described elsewhere, a combination of mercury with a natural cell. Because only a few clones of spinal fluid lymphocytes are activated, the response is called "oligoclonal". These specific cells are rarely found in any other inflammatory diseases except spinal fluid,

To me,

if

and only rarely

in the

MS. They

are found in the

blood serum.

oligoclonals are not found in the blood, but are in the

cerebrospinal fluid, that suggests that the inflammation did not

come from the usual portals of entry is,

the nose and mouth.

within the body

itself.

It

for infectious diseases

suggests that the entrance

- that

may be from

Like retrograde transport from the pulp

chamber up the trigeminal nerve

into the brain. Oligoclonals are

antibodies directed against the infecting agent. In

MS, that antigen

And

probably won't

is

known

to exist, but cannot

be as long as science

is

be

identified.

looking for a virus.

Biochemical analysis of the

MS lesion

Biopsies of autopsy tissues are performed in order to try to work

backward to link the end products of disease and tissue destruction 129

with potential causes.

We

could look

at the

plaque from an

MS

same way. Biochemical analysis reveals a decrease in both protein and lipid components of normal myelin. There is a decease in cholesterol, glycolipids, phosphoglucerides and lesion in the

sphingomyelins. Basically, there

of

is

a loss of lots of different types

Because of the engulfing action of the PMN's and the

fats.

lysosomal activation, myelin breakdown products, primarily polypeptides, cholesterol, glycerol fatty acids and triglycerides,

MS. Sounds like a confirmation of autoimmune disease. The immune cells are eating natural body tissues. But why? What started this cannibalism? Did somebody identify self as non-self? What made the self cell appear nonself? Is this the natural or unnatural behavior of immune white blood cells? Are they just doing their job, or should we kill them are abundant in the lesions of

off with immune-suppressive drugs?

Laboratory data looking for the solution

What

is

the benefit of laboratory data?

where the bomb was when

it

exploded.

It I

can

tell

investigators

have found

that, in

MS,

there are a variety of places that can be out of function resulting in

similar malfunctions that

have seen evidence clues as to

why

all

be given the

will

title

stem and brain

that the brain

of

itself

MS. We can give

body malfunction. It depends What was limited, or what was

certain parts of the

on what interference was created.

destroyed. Laboratory tests point the way.

Although there

MS,

the

is

agreement that there

MRI, CT

is

no one

scan, cerebro spinal fluid studies

potential studies are utilized as being far

guess.

MRI

MS patients. and

is

definitive test for

more

and evoked

directional than a

show white matter lesions in over 85% of the MRI is more sensitive than CT for cerebral lesions

films

superior in detecting brain stem, cerebellar and spinal

lesions. (Gilroy, 1990)

Changes in the gamma globulins (IgG) of the 130

spinal fluid are useful

in suggestful diagnosis.

The presence of oligoclonal IgG bands

by electrophoretic analysis of spinal Fluid is the most frequently abnormality. These bands are not seen in non-MS people, and are

MS. IgG bands

only seen in

are rarely seen in the serum, but are

present in spinal fluid of about

nothing to

70%

100%, probably because

is

of the

MS

is

MS

Again,

patients.

an individual reaction

an individual exposure in accordance with personal genetic

guidance.

When the is

total protein content in the spinal fluid is elevated, this

an indication that there

is

a breakdown of the blood brain barrier.

This breakdown has allowed a diffusion of antibodies into the cerebro spinal fluid from the blood serum. There explanation to there

this.

Our observations from

were many abnormal proteins

electrophoretic separation,

may be

was

that

Upon

gel

spinal taps

in the spinal fluid.

another

we could not identify individual

"total

protein" type proteins as being individually manufactured proteins.

They were more

like clumps.

Eventually

we

decided that they looked more like scrapings

of brain

tissue. It

was

as if someone took a

claw

and scraped it over the brain, pulling out chunks of brain tissue, not individual manufactured proteins like hemoglobin or muscle tissue.

Approximately 10 days

we found

_,,

.

more

^

.

,

1 nex looked

scrapings of brain tissue.

after dental revision,

zero proteins (except for albumin,

which normally

lives there) in the spinal fluid.

This was not interruption of abnormal protein synthesis, but the stopping of brain destruction.

Maybe

the blood brain barrier had

nothing to do with spinal fluid proteins. The blood brain barrier is definitely affected during MS, but the problem may be that

something proteins

is

destroying brain tissue, not infusion of manufactured

from another

part of the body.

The Big Hope I

have been

criticized

because

— PROGNOSIS my life's work indicates that there 131

hope for people with MS. The dental association and the MS society have accused my successes of giving people false hope.

is

According

to

one of

my

favorite people, Dr. Robert H. Schuller,

"the only false hope

is

no hope".

According to one of my

jo mv way f thinking, the prognosis offered b the me< iical profession and the MS F people, favorite , c T, A Society is no hope. It is as if their slogan n v h n were, "Abandon all hope, all ye that enter K h 11 "th here "' That s not original, someone said it oily false hole years ago - I think it was over the door to is no hope". the underworld. In other words, if you have MS, go to .... Well, you might as well. It feels like our concept of what the underworld might be. Progressive degeneration with no light at the end of the tunnel. Not even a tunnel. Just a brick wall. ,

.

.

.

.

.

,

'

I

do know one

Who

will

The most

work

thing.

The Protocol works. What I don't know

is:

the Protocol?

often asked question, and usually the

first

one

after the

doctor has delivered your sentence, "You have Multiple sclerosis" is,

"What

direct

and

is

my

prognosis?"

Doctors are instructed to be very

with the patient and family so that they can

realistic

immediately begin to accept the sentence and deal with consequences.

They

will

need

to find out

its

what services are

available to them.

In a way,

it is

unfortunate that there are no reliable prognostic

indicators available.

No way to measure the speed of your decline.

who really wants that anyway? Would any of us really like to know how many days we had to live? Movies have been made But,

about

this topic. It

that is not

always changes people

to live better lives, but

an everyday occurrence for most of

would invalidate the concept of live each day Live your life one day at a time. 132

like

us. it

Besides,

it

was your last.

What does

the

MS patient have to look forward to?

Minimal disability for the first 5 years - for most folks. Exceptions do exist. (Learn to accept them.) That prognosis is valid, of course,

you are 35 or less at the time of onset. Also, you must have had only one symptom during your first year. If that symptom was a mild optic neuritis, then you may look forward to minimal only

if

disability for the first 5 years.

invalid.

Sounds

like the

you drive off the If

than that, the warrantee

guy who wrote

One

guarantees for used cars.

More year,

sales lot.

first year), like

(2 or

more symptoms

tremors, gait problems, vertigo or greater

visual disturbances, your sentence

is

extended to poor prognosis.

employed 10 years after your original diagnosis, then your prognosis is good. If you are not employed, you probably had spastic paraparesis, poor coordination and bladder dysfunction, which are part of poor prognosis. If

you

wrote the

one thousand miles, or when

you have had a polysymptomatic onset

during the

this also

is

are

still

gainfully

Anyone can improve

by avoiding stress, treating infections immediately, avoiding heat and direct sunlight, physical therapy, learning the proper transfer methods from wheelchair to their prognosis

bed, eating a balanced diet and seeing your doctor twice a year.

Be sure to see your social services personnel to obtain information for the correct type of wheelchair

you

will need,

and keep your

morale up.

What about

death? Does

MS kill you?

Only

indirectly.

MS can

lead to lung problems and aspiration or respiratory insufficiency that

can cause death. Other indirect causes include cardiac

failure,

septicemia, decubitus ulcers, urinary infections and suicide (a sure sign of hopelessness).

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Rowland

MD

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et al.,

Multiple sclerosis and

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Chapter 6

Lie-ability Are dentists being told the whole

How about the public?

but the truth?

some of the

As

truth

and nothing

Let's

examine

evidence.

a subliminal warning to dentists practicing in the year 2000 in

California, Dr. Robert Christoffersen (president of the state dental "

board) told dentists, dentistry does not

fit

Tmercuryl free

the current practice

The ADA has done extensive

"...[mercury] free

studies to see if there are negative effects,

dentistry does not

of dentistry.

...

&

and has found none ."

the current

practice of Possibly, the

dentistry.

ADA found no negative effects

"

How can I say won a TV Emmy for

because they did not look. that?

Tom

Bearden

his role in producing a 5 part series

the early '80's.

During

on dental amalgam

his investigations,

toxicity in

he traveled from the

National Institutes of Dental Research (NIDR) in Bethesda,

Maryland

to

ADA headquarters in Chicago trying to find out who

was being touted by "dental authorities". He found that no one was doing research on the biological implications of dental amalgam. It was one big lie.

was

It

actually doing all of this research that

was Tom that forced the

issue such that the

ADA NIDR had to -

produce the "meeting" that had been suggested, but not really planned, for Chicago in 1984. Then, they would not allow Tom or other media to attend.

Tom was

given a ticket and attended.

found a "consensus of the conference"

draft that

He

was printed two 135

days before the conference was completed. Another big

Tom's consensus of the whole ADA - amalgam was a contest between Lie Ability and Liability

issue

lie.

was

that

it

.

The 1984 meeting did bring about change. Many of the dental amalgam manufacturers - in fact, all of the ones we found records of- increased their product liability insurance by 1000%. Another change, as a ethics".

result

of the meeting, involved the "code of

Prior to 1984, if a dentist discovered something that

affected the health of the profession or the patients, he/she

was

make that information public as soon as possible. After the Chicago meeting (in which Huggins exposed what was happening to patients), the "code" was altered to say that if any dentist removed mercury due to health issues, that action would obligated to

be considered unethical and the dentist might face expulsion (for being an inverse "quak").

Why

do people

lie?

ALS, Alzheimer's,

Self preservation.

by lie?

— Self

preservation.

if

half of the

MS,

Parkinson's, arthritis, birth defects, chronic fatigue

Why do people

What

and unexplained depression was caused

dentistry?

What would

the liability be?

More than 87.4 quintillion dollars. And that is more money than there is in the Universe. After having your foot stuck in your mouth for 170 years of placing amalgam, how do you suddenly say, "Sorry," without precipitating

With thousands of lawyers looking for cases - what do you do? Lie. It has worked for decades. How many? Lots. Clear back into the 1840's. The following selections are from my collection of reprints titled "They really should have known." liability?

—

was argument of placing mercury amalgam in

In 1840 the National Association of Dental Surgeons

disbanded over the

people's mouths. At that time, if a dentist placed mercury (called

Ouaksilben from the European word for mercury) in a patient's 136

"

mouth, he was expelled from the Association. He was labeled

"Quak"

—

for placing mercury.

In the 1980's if a dentist

license and

was

DID NOT

place mercury he lost his ,

called a "Quack".

Early in this battle

ADA,

a

(Amalgam War III),

under the direction of Dr.

P.

the

L. Fan,

made the statement, "We have 100 years of documented research that

frequently

clearly repudiates

any apprehension about

"We have 100 years of

documented research that clearly repudiates

toxicity to the patient".

I

got tired of hearing this statement without

any apprehension about toxicity to the patient.

"

substantiation, and, having been told that

the

ADA had

the largest library of dental

articles in the world, I started a

Dr.

a

Fan

list

campaign of letters and calls asking

to please furnish these reprints to

me.

Finally,

me

he sent

of over 1600 references. They dated from the 1880's to the

most current 1931. It took a very powerful magnifying glass to read this list, but I was shocked to see what was in the list. There was nothing affirmative about mercury safety. Up until that time, I

had believed

Here

is

a

of some of the

ADA.

They give an idea they should have known.

list

the 1800's,

in the integrity of the

titles.

— "Death caused by swallowing amalgam

filling."

large

Dental Advertiser,

that,

even in

Proof of safety: "Death caused by swallowing large

1881.

amalgam filling.

—

"Diseased eyes and amalgam fillings." American Dental Review,

Dental Advertiser, 1881.

1858.

— "Mercurial J.

necrosis resulting from

amalgam fillings."

Dental Science, 1899.

137

—

"Irritation

of the larynx caused by an

amalgam filling."

Stomatologist, 1900.

— "A shameful case of Malpractice -Amalgam

fillings".

Dental Items of Interest, 1886.

Becoming more

current:

1933 - "Sufficient evidence has now accumulated

to

indicate definitely that dissimilar metals in the oral cavity

can be responsible for local lesions and general symptoms."

Hyams, Canadian Medical Association

J.

1934 - "Amalgams cause trouble of a more or less severe nature in accordance with the distance that separates in the (electromotive) series."

them

New England Journal

of

Medicine.

1955 - "Poisons such as colloidal (smaller than 2 micra) gold and silver

may

marrow activity to The Management of Oral

depress the bone

produce aplastic anemia." Text: Disease".

1957 - "Mercury poisoning

may result in a primary severe

vascular injury in specific portions of the intestinal tract."

Textbook, "Synopsis of Pathology".

1961 - "Curious similarities exist between symptoms of certain acute disease of unknown etiology

and symptoms

of acute heavy metal poisoning. Treatments are frequently

Segment from a post-doctoral masters thesis filed at Georgetown University and abolished by NIDR by threatening to have Dr. Olympio Pinto deported

quite similar."

if

he continued

this line

of investigation.

1990 - "Uptake of mercury vapor from amalgam is

138

a prominent source for inorganic mercury

fillings

among

segments of the general populations. ...in conclusion, we consider that dental

amalgam, from the

strictly

toxicological point of view,

is

an

unsuitable dental filling material.

It

is

our opinion

_

.

.

that, in the future, steps

".in conclusion,

*e consider

that

t"^^"!?' m eSn y

, f toxicologic^ point .

o/y

^

fc

M

should be taken to use as far as possible

umuitable dental

other than amalgam.

fating material."

In the interim,

we find it highly appropriate to classify the mercury used in dentistry as a

Class

of

III

device." Lars Friberg,

WHO Toxicology

-

Public Health Service

MD, PhD,

statements /

made

former head

to a

combined

FDA panel. FDA transcript

3-

15-91, p 81.

1957 - Medicine used mercury for many purposes throughout the years. It was a form of treatment for syphilis, it was given to George Washington the day he died, it has been used in vaccinations since 1921, skin lighteners for black races who want lighter skin is popular - diuretics used to be mercury, contact lens wetting solutions had thimerosal in them, preparation H (short for Hg), Mercurochrome, Merthiolate - there were hundreds of medicines - probably still are some that have not been caught (mercury

is

the primary spermicide in

contraceptive creams and gels), but medicine decided to

reduce the use of mercury.

In a parting

comment,

Shoemaker said, "Despite the obvious utility of the (mercury) compounds used in the past, their toxicity overshadowed their usefulness." NY Academy of Science 1957.

Yes, they should have known. In fact, they really did know. That's

what makes

this

such an unethical issue.

139

'

Who's I

have noticed

liable?

in the

conflict is to determine

Who's passing

newspapers

the buck?

that the big objective in

any

"who is to blame?" What happens is played

blame someone. A scapegoat. Passing the buck. Letting the cat out of the bag. The only non-animal comment down; the game is

is to

for whistle blowers.

The only firm comment the ADA has made was recorded in the 'Tolhurst case" in which the ADA ducked the mercury issue by claiming:

'

These cases

generally hold that 'trade associations (no

longer calling themselves a professional association) do not "..trade associations (like the

ADA) do

not

owe a duty of care to warn the public of various dangers which the association

may

owe

a duty of care to

warn

the public of various dangers

which the association may be aware of

"

Then, the biggest deceptive

lie

of all:

."

be aware of

"The ADA did not manufacture, design, supply or install the

mercury-containing amalgams. The those

ADA does not control

who do ."

Let's start with "manufacture".

Who paid for the development of the high copper amalgams that were patented in 1975 and 1976? Who got the patents? Who licenses the use of those patents for the manufacture of amalgam?

U.S. Patent 4,018,600 - inventor, Richard

Assignee

:

Waterstrat

American Dental Association Health

Foundation, September 29, 1975.

140

M.

"

U.S. Patent 4,078,921 - inventor, Richard M. Watcrstrat

Assignee: American Dental Association Health Foundation, August 12, 1976.

Now

let's

examine the Control

"The

Issue.

« Th

ADA does not control those who do."

A

AnA not

control those

Manufacturers cannot advertise in the

ADA

wn0

do.

trade journal unless they have passed inspection

of their formulas and the

ADA criteria

"good" amalgam (and paid a big price). unless they have

No one can sell successfully

"ADA approval" for the supplies they sell to dentists.

And, they also have

One

for a

to

pay the

ADA for their "seal of approval".

improper business practice. The seal of not granted by an independent study group of men in

suit alleges that this is

approval

is

white coats in a laboratory.

It is

a joint business venture.

They

are

in business together.

remember when

was a freshman in dental school, we had an ADA certir fication inspection coming up. The * % n T j I asked whole faculty r J was in a panic. one of the professors why it was such a big deal? "If we do not get ADA certification, the State removes our funding, and there is no more dental school. We are all out of a job, and you

I

I

rj,,

.

•

,

i

"If we do not get

ADA certification, J ,

the State removes -

A and our funding, there k nQ more dental school .

,

We are all out of a job, and you will 9 not be a student/

will not be a student."

Recently,

I

received a newsletter from that same University, with

had survived an ADA certification visit. The dean told of all the preparations that had gone on in order to get the blessing of the ADA. They were certified, therefore they

the dean stating that they

DO NOT CONTROL? BEG YOUR PARDON. I THINK ADA LIE ABILITY WAS JUST INCREASED. could

exist.

I

141

A 2000 law in Arizona, Senate Bill

1

dental hygiene school. Their school

must be a "recognized" dental

hygiene school.

155, addressed the topic of a

What does "recognized" mean? That it "maintains

standards of entrance, study and graduation approved by the board

and accredited by the American Dental Association commission of dental accreditation."

Arizona also has a

Who's

in control of lie ability?

teeter-totter law,

however.

Section "n" also

states that a dentist is subject to sanctions if he/she

performs "any

conduct or practice which does or would constitute a danger to the health, welfare or safety of the patient or the public". Is mercury

exempt? Confusion reigns, for "section bb" if

a dentist

is

states further sanctions

guilty of "failing to inform a patient of the type of

material the dentist will use in the patient's dental filling and the

reason

why the dentist is

using that particular filling." But

do use the word mercury, you may be

selling

Survival. Integrity vs. Intimidation.

Good book title.

if

you

used cars next week.

What about State Dental Associations? Who directs their activities?

Where is the office of the national located?

In the

ADA

state

board of dental examiners

headquarters building in Chicago.

Any

problem with control issues there?

Even

the "independent"

address as the told

me

Academy

of General Dentistry

lists its

ADA building in Chicago. A former friend of mine

he was due to go up

in the chairs of the

AGD,

but could

was ever seen with me or even talked to me. He could no longer be a referral source for me to send patients for amalgam removal. He believed in the mercury issue 100%, but was more not

if he

interested in his political future than in the health of his patients.

What

size suit will

that I can't

you wear? There

142

many

potential suits

even pick a color, much less a size. Follow this scenario

of potential buck passing.

—A

are so

dentist places a filling.

— The day 21

patient after

comes down with

an immunization

— The pregnant

MS

because

it

was placed on

shot.

dental assistant's fetus develops cleft palate that

day due to the exposure of mercury vapor from mixing

— The

becomes

that filling.

from his exposure to the mercury vapor, runs a stop sign during lunch and collides with a child on a dentist

irritable

bicycle, killing him.

What

is

going to happen?

Can the now-informed patient sue the dentist for placing an amalgam without telling her about mercury and its hazards? Can the assistant sue her dentist employer for not providing a safe environment and protection against an element known to produce birth defects?

Can

the parents sue the dentist for negligent driving, due to lack

of hand-eye motor coordination and ability to concentrate on driving?

Should the dentist sue

him about

his dental school for neglecting to

inform

the hazards of mercury to his patients, his employees

and himself? Should the

Or should he sue that

he

the state board for insisting

know how to place mercury amalgams

and be trained

in such in order to obtain a

license?

dentist sue his

dental school

for neglecting to inform him

about the

Should the

state

board sue the dental

association for requiring that they test for

hazards of

mercury?

capability of a dentist's ability to place

mercury? Should the board, the

state association, the dentist, the patient

and

143

the assistant

all

sue the

ADA because

it

controls

all

sections of

amalgam placement? "No," says the ADA.

"We have no duty to warn of the alleged danger of dental products which the

ADA undertakes to research.

a duty were imposed, to the

it

such

could result in limitless exposure

ADA for every dental-related injury or illness."

Stating other legal cases about responsibility, the

"The Tire and Rim Association had no duty tires

If

might explode when improperly

ADA noted that: to

warn

that

installed."

'The National Automobile Parts Association (NAPA) had no duty to warn that an automobile battery might explode."

Ready

for this one?

"The American Tobacco failing to

Institute

could not be liable for

inform the plaintiff of the dangers of cigarette

smoking." "Various chemical associations in Pennsylvania had no

duty to warn of the risks of bladder cancer from inhaling

chemicals used by the printing industry."

But the

ADA has made statements about their amalgam product:

An editorial response from the ADA journal to the question, amalgam

fillings

hazardous to the patient?" was:

"

"are

the answer

is

an unqualified NO. Study after study shows the patient undergoes

no

risk." (Interesting that,

upon

inquiry, the

ADA was never able

to locate those "study after study's".)

Chandler published in the

144

ADA journal

that "the

amount of

mercury vapor emitted from an amalgam

own

is

journal later reported that chewing

undetectable". Their

gum

for 10 minutes

increased the amount of mercury released by fillings by over

1500%. Chew in 1991 published that 34 micrograms daily (well above some of the safety guidelines world-wide)

one amalgam just

came

sitting in sterile

off

water

without compression for 2 years.

34 micrograms daily (well above

some of the

safety

guidelines world-

As more and more

patients

were asking

dentists about the safety of mercury, the

ADA printed a bulletin called the "ADA Special Report to Dentists".

sitting in sterile

water without It

instructs

compression for

the dentists in the following way:

"But

came off one amalgam just wide)

2 years.

mercury poisonous?" you should answer, "When mercury is combined with other metals such as silver, tin and copper, it reacts with them to form a biologically inactive substance ." If the patients ask,

isn't

In response to this statement, Dr. Douglas

Biologically

Swartzendruber, Chairman of Biology

inactive

at the

University of Colorado, and former Dean, said

"They must have discovered alchemy."

substance ??

They must have

More safety features were printed in the ADAs

discovered

Guide

alchemy!

is It

to

Dental Materials and Devices which ,

a sort of bible of the safety of dental materials. states that

"amalgam does give

off small

amounts of mercury, but this evaporation stops as soon as the filling

Most scientists from physics, chemistry and toxicology would tell you that when multiple metals are warmed up to mouth temperature, then coated with an electrolyte like saliva, by definition you have a battery. In this case, the efflux product from this filling-battery would be mercury. Either as is

coated with saliva".

mercury vapor, inorganic mercury or methyl mercury

some

if it

touches

bacteria.

145

Countering

its

own message of

unqualified safety, the dental

association instructed the dentist to use a

NO TOUCH technique,

so that his fingers would not touch the amalgam. this

was

that

The reason

he might get mercury on his fingers, and,

if

for

he ate a

sandwich, he would be apt to transfer the mercury from his fingers to the sandwich.

sandwich

-

Then he would swallow

resulting in a toxic exposure.

for the patient

on the

the mercury

No concern was offered

who was going to lick those fillings that were made

from the same material 24 hours a day from Training others in "lie ability", the

that point on.

LA Times

quoted California

Dental Association spokeswoman Judith

Babcock The benefit of using '

amalgam th

(mercury) amalgam

what is

(mercury)

as saying,

the cost.

(Interjection:

me CQSt of MS ? ) It is about half the cost

of other fillings, and

.

is

"The benefit of using

is

.

it is

stronger.

,

,

...

,

concrete research that shows that

„

is

There's no

•

,

it

(mercury)

toxic."

Another dental spokeswoman, Maria Merkling,

^Amalgam

is,

stated for the media,

There

in fact, safe

is

monitoring

"Amalgam is,

in fact, safe.

ongoing research, and the it

ADA is

closely."

Mr. and Ms. Dentist, has Mother ADA abandoned you?

What about deception? Attorney Charles

Brown

of Washington, D.C. has

made

a lot of

charges that he feels represent deceptive practices on the part of

ADA. Just what are they? I'll just list them and let you make up your own mind whether you have been deceived or not. the

— Seal of acceptance

-

sounds like a public service, a

protection for the public. Is this

146

deception!

It is

a joint venture business.

— Safety of mercury amalgam. state

on the product

that

it is

If

the manufacturers

potentially harmful,

is

the

ADA

deceptive toward dentists and the public claiming that it is safe?

— Silver

fillings

deceptive in that

of the of

its

it

-

the

is

name

"silver" in itself

implies that the major component

filling is silver? Is

naming

it

silver just

because

color deceptive?

— Despite

its

claims, the

ADA has never supplied any

research that "proves" that mercury in the mouth safe.

in

Is it

deceptive to

make

is

those claims without

substantiation?

—

and other personnel are working

Dentists, assistants

which they assume are safe. The ADA has never informed them that they are in a hazardous in offices

environment. This

— Females of

deception.

is

child-bearing age are not told of the birth

defect hazard of working in a dental office.

close to criminal, and a soft

word

This

is

to describe the

situation is deception.

— Dental

students are not informed of the hazards of

working

in a large

room with many

students

contaminating the atmosphere simultaneously with

mercury vapor. There are no recommendations from

ADA to place mercury vapor detectors or air cleaners in the clinics.

This failure to inform constitutes

deception.

— Most dental schools students

how

controversial.

to place

are told not to teach dental

composites because they are

The controversy centers around mercury,

not composites. This

is,

indeed, deception.

147

— The new ADA code of

ethics forbids a dentist

from

removing dental mercury on the basis of mercury being toxic.

How can it be unethical to not place mercury in a child or pregnant

The new ADA code of ethics forbids a

when

is it

woman?

Since

ethical to contaminate

an unborn baby with mercury?

dentist from

— Some

removing

investigators across state lines to

dental

encourage people

mercury on

against mercury-free dentists.

the basis of

this

mercury

another deceptive practice?

being

state

boards have sent

moral and

to file suits

ethical, or is

Is it

toxic.

—

The presence of multiple

organizations allegedly controlling

the various aspects of dentistry organization, the entities.

actually one

funneling instructions to

This intertwining of organizations

deceptive.

148

ADA,

is

is

all

in itself

Chapter 7

Diagnostic Tests from the Dental Toxicity Aspect How do you test for MS?

I don't. I test for the effects

on your biological systems. Dental materials alter red blood cells, white blood cells, oxyhemoof dental

toxicity

globin,

sodium, potassium,

I

porphyrins, spinal fluid proteins, T-cells

but

and probably

we have

Changes

to stop

lots

effects

on your biological

brought

about by dental revision and the

immune

of

dental toxicity

more,

somewhere.

in these tests,

test for the

systems,

stimulation program,

provide the key to guiding you through disease into the realm of health.

Some

There

of this material on blood

is

a path. Chemistry

tests is

is

it.

repeated elsewhere, but

I

remember that I did not learn all of this from one exposure, so maybe it would be well for you to hear some of it again. Some will be new - and perhaps even exciting, for chemistry is what makes people

alive.

All dental materials challenge the

immune system. The only things immune reactions are the teeth,

in the

mouth

gums,

etc. that live there naturally.

that

won't create

Decayed, dead, abscessed or

dying teeth are a huge challenge to the

immune system, and dental

materials can be less, or more, challenging than unsound teeth, so

where

is

the trade off?

What can be

substituted?

149

Mostly, the dental trade off will be selected on the basis of the

Which dental materials challenge the immune than decayed or abscessed teeth? Blood serum

"lesser of the evils".

system

less

compatibility testing can material will offer, but

tell

doesn't

it

how much

us

tell

challenge a dental

us where the

damage

will

be

Frequently different blood tests can give us that

directed.

information. This chapter will

we have done and

you about the various testing have led to the development of

tell

the results that

our Protocol.

Which

biological tests

most out of balance. All

The ones that are the of value, but some just tell us

us the most?

tell

tests are

which area is not out of imbalance. That is important, too, we do not have to waste time "fixin' what ain't broke".

in that

The first place I look with MS patients is the CBC. That stands for Complete Blood Count This includes the count of both red and white blood cells. The red cell count tells about oxygen transport, which fits into my theory that all disease is due to a lack of oxygen - somewhere. Without oxygen, .

nothing operates. But the white blood cells are

The first

actually the first part of the

place I look

attention.

MS

with

patients

the

is

start fighting, is

do glance

at the

reds to get an

overview, then focus in on white blood

CBC

stage

I

CBC that draws my cells.

White cells provide a general statement about what condition the immune system is in - but must be considered in light of what the patient looks like. White cells have a pattern when they then reverse that pattern while defaulting.

the patient in?

Do

Which

they appear in reasonable health or

look like the dregs of humanity? Either way, they can be in trouble.

Many

people look great, but aren't.

I

describe this condition as

"but you don't even wear a band-aid". Looks can be deceiving,

but not

if

a patient

is

in a

rough downswing.

Unchallenged white blood 150

cells, just

hanging around as a peace

keeping force, will number between 5000 and 6000

When there

millimeter of blood.

is

a challenge, they go up.

become fatigued diagnosis is, "Where are you

stay there until they

question in

cells per cubic

,

The

then drop.

They initial

in that scenario"?

more reaction will occur in the blood when a challenge occurs. The most severe example of this I have seen is leukemia. To me, when a challenge, like mercury, comes along and the immune system thinks it can Strangely,

it

appears that the healthier a person

destroy the invader, the white count goes up. is still there,

up even higher -

the count goes

system keep making more white blood the

body

cells. Killing life

and

signals "leukemia"

it is

the

Then to

no

cells until

if

the invader

avail

- so

the

something in

starts killing off the

white blood

your own soldiers

from mercury invasion.

book, for

is,

my

who were just trying to save your You may not find this in any text

personal observation.

A conclusion

based on

watching over 30,000 blood chemistries over 33 years. Most of us are not healthy enough to have our this harshly to a

mercury challenge. True, leukemia was not around

before amalgam, but that

In

most MS

will elevate

patients,

two

is

another (very similar) story.

when amalgam is placed, the white cell count

to four

have only the foot

thousand points. Unchallenged systems

soldiers,

lymphocytes and polymorphonuclear

leukocytes (PMN's), present. is

immune systems respond

When

it

discovered that these two foot soldier

ln most MS patientSy

cannot kill mercury, the monocytes - the next most powerful soldier - are called to duty. Monocytes

placed, the white cell

can't kill mercury either, so they recruit

to

types

the eosinophils.

yet.

count

is

will elevate

2

4 thousand points.

Eos represent Sherman

tanks in this battle.

powerful

when amalgam

As

They

are

more

they die off of mercury poisoning, they put out

most severe attack they can muster. The atomic war heads, or Basophils. Basophils cannot kill mercury either, so all the heavy artillery either dies off or leaves the scene of the battle, and the white cell count goes back down. Because they the call for the

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won? No, because becomes

they

the question

you have Let's look

lost

If

when looking

white

at the

Where

lost.

at

are

you

in this scenario

your

first

CBC.

anyone else take a

cell warriors, did

red blood cells

An

.

interesting finding.

Conventionally, males are considered normal

red cell values than females.

One

for males

As

hit?

if

they have higher

a result there are two ranges.

who don Y, and one

for females

who do have

this

/blood letting experience once a month. The concept of two ranges

seems

to last

throughout the entire

life

of both males and females,

and we forget about menopause.

,

I

r

,

,

,,

have noted

presence of u amalgams, females do have lower red cell

Well,

In the absence both sexes trend

toward the same red cell levels,

*

that, in the

A

levels than males, but

aw

i

-

in the

absence of

amal g am both sexes trend toward the same >

levels.

It

appears that estrogen dominant

more sensitive to mercury than testosterone dominant tissues. Red and tissues are

white cells are not the only place that demonstrates

over

80%

Why are

of the mercury toxic patients female? Because their

tissues react

level

this.

more severely than males. What

is

that

optimum

we seek? Red

cell count:

5 million

Hemoglobin:

15 grams

Hematocrit:

46

%

The perfect point -not a range. Few people I see have these levels initially, but all trend that way during treatment - if the proper Protocol is followed. These represent the

targets

Following these changes

.

is

another

way

to determine

not the doctor's diagnosis and treatment plan equally as important - a

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is

whether or

correct

- and

way to check whether or not the patient is

performing their part of the Protocol.

Blood values provide

a

double-edged sword. They watch both doctor and patient with impartiality.

At the first exposure, mercury binds to the oxygen carrying sites and stays there forever. Forever, in the case of a red blood cell is a maximum of 120 days, in the case of a brand-new red blood cell. This means that if a hemoglobin molecule has 4 binding sites and an atom of mercury binds to one of them, that hemoglobin molecule

more than 75% of its capacity again. Should two sites become contaminated, you are now down to 50% capacity. The body can detect this right away, therefore, the bone marrow compensates by manufacturing more new red blood cells. will never be able to transport

If

you

have amalgams emitting mercury every second from

still

fillings, the

new red blood cells

also

become contaminated within

minutes, but you, meanwhile are crippling along with inefficient

some point in time, you have so much chronic you go to the doctor to find out what's wrong.

red blood cells. At fatigue that

According

to the stories

my MS

usually draws blood for a cell

CBC,

patients

then points out the extra high red

count (compensatory) and asks

The next questions involve your your children, your job, for situation. in

It is

if

you

are an

Olympic

athlete.

relationship with your spouse,

he finds some place

to place

blame

gently broken to you that your problems are "all

your head", and you are given the name of a friendly psychiatrist

who can help

If

until

have told me, the doctor

you.

we look one

another clue.

step further I

worried over

problem for several years \

- into

„

O xyhemoglobin we might find ,

this fatigue

until I investigated r ^u x „ a .

oxygen carrying capacity or the red blood cells. There was another brick wall here, the

for percent saturation, as

it

routinely measured on arterial after

coming out of the

is

called, is

blood -

just

,

the idea I got °

^

„„„„„„ U1 A venous blood for oxygen saturation,

heart. After 3 years of

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disappointment, saturation.

I

got the idea of testing venous blood for oxygen

Ah-ha! That showed

me what I needed to know. What

happens to oxygen delivery into your system?

day or two

to find

what

was looking

I

for.

It

didn't take but a

After furnishing

all

the

oxygen you need for survival to your cells, how much do you have left over for other tasks, like washing the dishes, the car, mowing the lawn or grocery shopping? If

you have

70% oxygen

saturation left over after tending to

you can do about anything you normally should be able to do. But, if you have 40% oxygen left over (about the average of MS patients), you don't have much oxygen in your savings account, and can easily become fatigued. maintenance of your cellular

At 40%

life,

same amount of oxygen reserve as someone who has been out running a few miles. That's why you can walk across the room and feel like you just ran a mile. Your available oxygen level is equal to that. Now we know far more about not only chronic fatigue, but also the inability to saturation,

you have about

the

repair tissue at a health maintaining speed.

So how can we build up your oxygen

Number one, we have So how can we build up your oxygen level?

cause.

to get rid of the original

The source of mercury. There

basic sources.

Amalgam

fillings are

cells to transport

Removed how? right,

lower

is

left, etc.)

.

The quadrant of your mouth (upper

that has the highest negative current filling

Then

first.

negative charge until

ability of your red

oxygen.

Sequentially

should be replaced

all

the quadrant with the next highest

negatives are removed.

positively charged fillings take precedence. is

two number are

number two. If y 0ur amalgam fillings are removed sequentially, one, and fish or sea food

you can get a response in the blood

level?

Then the highest

When this technique

followed, the red cell changes described in the next few

paragraphs will happen.

Why? 154

I

have not the

If not,

first clue.

you

will not see the changes.

I

have observed

me

people give

going on. like to

I

phenomenon

this

many

what is would sure

their ideas, but nothing really explains

suppose

doesn't matter,

it

do a PhD on the topic.

and testing

since 1979, have had

I'll

bet

it

it

But

works.

I

would take years of research

to identify this fascinating

mechanism, but

that's

Sequential removal affects your red blood cells and

academic.

oxygen level now. There

is

another variable in restoring red blood cell oxygen

transport. Liver function is

going to happen to your red blood

removed is

Total bilirubin levels can predict what

.

when

cells

the fillings are

sequentially. If the bilirubin level

when

0.7 or above

fillings are

removed, Total bilirubin

the red cell levels will drop initially.

levels

what is Zoin8 t0 aPP en ° y° ur

Let's follow the hematocrit (percentage of

composed of red blood cells) M1 as the example. The hematocrit will

blood that

is

.

,

_

.

can predict

red blood

.

cells.

generally drop 4 percentage points (unless it is

at the transfusion level)

removal. After 6 weeks,

it

within a few days after

will climb

up

to

its

amalgam

original level, then

trend toward the optimum.

Oh, my. low,

We

have ruined the

patient.

The red

cells

now we have dropped them into the cellar.

with the patient to see not had this

can that be?

if he/she is really

much energy Here

is

provides the answer.

were already

Well,

let's

dead or not. "Wow,

check I

have

may be the response. How new test, the oxyhemoglobin,

in years,"

where our

Generally, the oxyhemoglobin will have

20% oxygen

same period of time that the hematocrit dropped. What has happened? We have brought in new red blood cells and are no longer contaminating them with mercury. The new cells are carrying more oxygen per hemoglobin molecule than the ones we just disposed of; therefore, we have an increase in oxygen saturation. increased 10 to

saturation during the

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— Then why

a massive evacuation of contaminated red is

the

we have precipitated cells. ("Why or how"

the drop in hematocrit? Because

PhD academic question.) As the red cell count has dropped,

the urinary excretion of mercury has gone up tremendously.

no longer have "retention

toxicity", but are ridding

mercury. Hallelujah! (my real

Another variable. What

if

function

more

is

either no, or very

The red cell

little

when

With lower

faster.

is

lower than 0.6? What

that this particular portion of liver

efficient than

chemistry happens

your body of

name).

first

the bilirubin

happens then? That indicates

You

drop in red

the levels are higher, so levels of bilirubin, there

cells after sequential

level immediately starts

is

removal.

up - and the oxyhemoglobin

will follow suit.

We can encourage increased red cell formation in cases of elevated by giving

bilirubin levels

of specific

We

B

the high bilirubin patient a combination

vitamins during the 6 days

will usually see small drops of

we are awaiting retesting.

maybe one

or

two percent

hematocrit, instead of four points, and do not have to wait 6

in

weeks

to reach the initial level.

Is it really that

simple? No.

We are just going one step at a time.

We must also factor in the serum total protein level and the BUN level that monitor protein metabolism.

protein and

If

we have

a low total

BUN (as frequently seen in vegetarians), we will not

see these dramatic changes. Protein

more. Cholesterol

is

is

required.

But wait! There's

also necessary for building red blood cells.

About 23% of the red cell membrane is made of cholesterol. That gives :

° es ero j.

'Id'

blood

q

flexibility

required to travel within tiny capillaries that

have

less

diameter than the 7 micron red

fl€C€SS(lKy tor

h

it its

d

cells

blood cell.

If

we have low cholesterol levels,

reconstruction of red cells will be slowed due to lack of

raw

materials. If

we have

decent

cholesterol levels, the reading can be expected to drop as

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much

as

20 points

in 6

days while the body

is

shunting the cholesterol from one compartment to another in order to

fill

demand

the

more red

for

cells.

How do we know we are really building red cells and hemoglobin? We can count the red cells, but there is one more step that confirms that

mercury (and other dental materials)

hemoglobin

Where does hemoglobin come from? The

formation.

From

inhibiting

is

inside your body.

materials (succinyl

Kreb's cycle

is

It is

manufactured internally from raw

CoA) coming

that vast

dental student has to

stork? No.

out of Kreb's cycle.

Horrors.

chemical cycle that every medical and

memorize

Something

in biochemistry.

like

22 chemical reactions with long names take place millions of times Aside from forming ATP, an energy

per minute in the body. molecule,

I

was not aware

until fifteen years

that

ago when

I

it

had much other

practical value

found that one of these chemicals

follows another pathway and ends up forming hemoglobin.

Succinyl

CoA turns into porphyrin

with 8 "side chains" on

it.

.

Porphyrin

Cleave off

all

is

a giant molecule

we

the side chains and

-

are left with "heme".

Add

we have hemoglobin.

Mercury, nickel and other chemicals - from

root canals and cavitations

a globin to the heme, and suddenly

- can interfere with this cleaving process

and render the situation hopeless by causing the porphyrin excreted in the urine. At this time, the porphyrin

waste product. The more partially-formed heme

is

be

considered a

(in the

porphyrin intermediary) in the urine, the more energy

down the toilet.

to

form of a is

going

Literally.

Figure 15 shows a complete porphyrin profile of a person

who

never had any dental materials in her mouth. Twelve micrograms for total porphyrins

marvelous efficiency.

shows what is possible. This indicates Figure 16 shows an MS patient with all

kinds of dental interference in her mouth.

Within 10 days of

you can see that the total amount of porphyrin its various stages of cleavage - dropped from

starting the Protocol,

being excreted - in

2100 to 200 micrograms. Is it any wonder that people can get out of a wheel chair and take a few steps within a few days? This is 157

Urinary Porphyrin Profile on a Patient

With no Previous Dental Treatment

,,300

c

mm*

X §150 2

m

2

o

4

6

Total

Urinary Porphyrins

Figure 15

Pre vs Post Dental Urinary Porphyrins

on a Patient with M.S.(Amalgams Crowns & Cavitations) 5

2500

faooo §1500 o

X

2*1000 S

| 2

500

8

[

6

Total

Pre-Dental

Post-DentaS

Figure 16

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not a miracle,

it

is

simply ridding the body of biochemical

blockages, building more ATP energy, more oxygen transport and stimulating the

immune system

do

to

its

own

thing.

can be directed to muscle action and building hemoglobin

If energy

to transport

work more

oxygen, then

it is

Of course, my continuous

efficiently.

body should

just logical that the

point

is

that "it

didn 't have to happen ". Mercury and root canals did not have to

be placed. Science and the dental profession have known for 80 years about the dangers of root canals and over 100 years about the dangers of mercury.

More on

that in another chapter.

We have taken close looks at the proteins in the spinal fluid before and

after the Protocol in relation to Alzheimer's, Parkinson's,

Amyotrophic

lateral sclerosis

The

(Lou Gehrig's disease) and Multiple

same in each disease, but I will concentrate on changes measured from an article we published that focused on the MS patient. sclerosis.

Take a look

picture

is

essentially the

Figure 17.

at

It

represents gel electrophoretic

separations of proteins in the spinal fluid.

would think

that

it

represents 4 tests.

The

At

glance, one

first

Actually,

it

represents 8

test in the left

hand part of each

box represents the before Protocol and you can black "banding" where proteins were found.

easily see lots of

tests.

4 befores and 4

afters.

How this works is that the the top of the picture as to both

we

sample of spinal fluid see

is

introduced

An electrical charge is

it.

move in this

electrical field within the gel in

with their molecular weight. Heavy molecules do not far,

and

end.

applied

ends of the column and a current is passed through the

Proteins

light

gel.

accordance

move

very

molecular weight molecules go almost to the other

down, and down is up. (kilodaltons) are the heavy ones

For interpretation purposes, up

The proteins represented at 97 kD that do not move very much. The banding

at

at

is

proteins represented

by black

14 are the light weights that can easily move.

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From

the aspect of interpretation, a protein

mark

will always represent

band

at

one particular protein, because they

stop migrating according to their molecular weight.

more or a few

less,

one specific

and the protein would stop

A few atoms

at a different place.

We could not identify

What surprised us was that, knowing this, we could not identify the proteins found in the spinal fluid. Later, we

the proteins found in

deduced

the spinal fluid.

we deduced that they must be

Later,

chunks or scrapings of brain

tissue.

that they

must be chunks or

scrapings of brain tissue, floating

down

the spinal fluid and not individually

manufactured proteins. Whatever, they

do not belong

in spinal fluid.

They

are

abnormal. The only protein that should

be in the spinal fluid

is

albumin

-

noted

here between 55 and 65 kilodaltons.

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After the treatment Protocol was

Within 24 to 48 hours

exercised and the second test was

after the last offensive

comparison, an astonishing discovery was made.

denta l material was

Within 24 to 48 hours after the

absolutely

analyzed

for

removed, there were

last

offensive dental material was removed, there were absolutely

NO

extraneous proteins in

NO

any of the spinal taps.

extraneous proteins in any of the spinal taps.

be

Albumin was

the only one

left,

and

it is

supposed

to

there.

To me, as well as the audience I first presented this information to, it was evident that dental materials caused MS. Of course, the dental association fought this tooth and nail and caused

have

my

me

to

license revoked. Their overheard

statement was,

"We

information get out.

now." This

is

the

cannot afford to

We have to

let this

stop Huggins

commentary of a "health"

"We have to stop

Huggins

now"

profession?

no miracle that these people recovered. The cause may have been exposed by this test, but that just increased the Again,

it is

resistance

many fold. Perhaps dental association liability is a more

important issue than quality of

life for

MS patients.

Viability

So you have X number of lymphocytes - good immune fighters. Is that good or bad? Hey, that's your immune system we are talking But how do you know whether those lymphocytes are about. dead or alive? Most people have never thought about that, because, on a glass slide under a microscope, dried and stained, all white blood

cells are dead. In the

blood stream,

live,

but that is not always the case.

Yes,

we can.

we prefer that they

are

Can we study live lymphocytes?

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lymphocytes

And what makes lymphocytes die? At the University of Colorado, we tested various dental

die?

materials to determine

What makes

cells

of the

immune

if

any of them killed the

system. Interesting.

you draw blood, separate the white blood cells out, then stain them while they are still alive. Depending upon the stain, some cells will glow under fluorescent microscopes, and others won't. You can select stains that make the dead cells glow brightly and the live ones look like ordinary cells. Here, it is easy to see how many are dead vs. alive. (Alive is viable, thus the term "viability test".) When I was taking my post-doctoral Masters at the University of Colorado, one of my classes involved doing these "viability tests". I tested the viability of cells when exposed to nothing (controls) vs. the same samples exposed to mercury and nickel. There

is

a test in which

Figure 18 shows what happens to cells called

human immune white blood

lymphocytes when exposed to tiny concentrations of

LYMPHOCYTE VIABILITY WHEN EXPOSED TO MERCURY 100

100

97

100 UJ

> -J < LU

p o o X Q. >-

80 60

40 20

DAYO

DAY 2

CONTROL

Figure 18

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DAY 4

MERCURY

mercury

in a test tube. Viability

showed 100%

counts on the day of blood drawing

were

of the cells

alive.

On day

two, viability was

again counted on the control cells and the cells exposed to mercury.

During the two days, viability of 97%.

3%

of the control cells had died, leaving a

On the same day, the mercury exposed cells had

92%. But look at day four. By then, the control group had remained at 97%, and the mercury exposed group viability had dropped to 21%. If 80% of the lymphocytes were dead, how good a job do you think they could do of being your a viability of

immune

Now

defenders?

which lymphocytes were exposed to mercury, copper and zinc. These are all common dental

check Figure 19

nickel,

On the day

materials.

groups had in the

100%

mercury

viability.

in

of blood drawing, both the control and

viability of

test

lymphocytes.

By day

two, just like

groups, the control group had dropped to

Nickel dropped the viability of the

test

test

97%

group to 90%.

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83

80 50

60

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40 21

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shows only day four for all metals. By day four, the viabilities were 97% for the control group and 50% viability for the nickel exposed group. So half of the lymphocytes were dead. Is this significant? Can it have meaning to a person exposed to nickel crowns or braces? I looked into that too, for many MS patients have had braces at some time in their past.

The

figure here

It just

At the

ppm. This is the level of mercury that is considered "safe" in fish, but do not eat fish with more than that. At the 0.5 ppm safe level, mercury killed 79% of the lymphocytes (immune cells) in this test in four

0.5 ppm

tested at 0.5

safe level,

mercury

dawned on me that all four metals were

killed

79% of the lymphocytes.

days.

At the University, we studied human lymphocytes when the patient was exposed to nickel in braces. No test tube, the patient's blood stream was the

Now

test tube.

information you need to

know

there

about

is

a significant piece of

this patient.

second time orthodontics had been done. The

20 years

prior.

a system of

When

memory

first

an exposure occurs to the

This was the

time was about

immune

system,

you would expect an antigen (nickel in this case) upon

cells is established, so

increased reaction against the

"second exposure".

A

lymphocyte histogram

cytometry

is

is

shown

in Figure

20

in

which flow

used to actually count thousands of lymphocytes

at

very high speed in a sophisticated instrument called a flow cytometer. In this histogram

it

is

separating T-lymphocytes from non

which we were interested, and all other classes were lumped into the non-T portion. The first peak represents the non T-lymphocytes and the second peak the T lymphocytes. The distribution was far better than most T-lymphocytes.

T-cells are the active cells in

people, and represents a histogram of a very healthy

immune system.

Two days after the placement of orthodontic braces (stainless steel, otherwise known as nickel), the patient began to act strangely. 164

Figure 20

Figure 21

Uncharacteristic emotional outbreaks were frequent, and she slept

went on for two more days, then we decided to repeat the blood tests. The conventional tests looked

more than 12 hours a

day. This

165

we ran another test on her T-subsets.

you can see that the non-T cells are there, but there are virtually no T-cells at all For practical purposes, this means There are virtually that she had no immune system working no T-cells at all. for her. If this were to remain for 2 to 3 For practical days from this reading, the patient could purposes, this means easily pick up something simple like a that she had no cold and be dead within hours. It was immune system decided that the braces should be working for her. removed immediately in the interest of preserving her health and in preventing a potential life threatening event. Her immune system did recover, odd, so

In Figure 21

.

but

it

took several months.

Figure 22

That's not

A few

all,

days

folks.

later

one of

my

fellow students

came

to

me

with a

some of my lymphocytes. I was the only student in class who could draw blood, so I always had lots of samples left over in the refrigerator. Not an unusual request, and

request to "borrow"

I said,

166

"Sure."

I

added that the blue rack had samples I had already

completed, so she could take any one of the tubes of lymphocytes she wanted. She picked one.

The next day the instructor called me aside and asked whose blood that I had let the other student use. I told him. He said, "I was afraid of that.

Come

look

at the

DNA results."

Figure 23

Figure 23

is

actually demonstrating something else, but the

shows. The idea

is that all

DNAs

chromosomes. Humans have 46.

on the

chart, the others are

DNA

have a single peak count of

two peaks or more malignant by definition. Figure 24 If there are

shows what the student had found when

testing for

DNA content

in lymphocytes. Definitely 2 peaks. Definitely malignant.

Figure 24

167

By

placing orthodontic braces, a malignancy had inadvertently

been created in her immune system. Think about that for a minute.

Who

created a potential problem,

who

would ever know, and who is responsible?

By placing

ortho-

dontic braces, a

malignancy had inadvertently been

created in her

immune

system.

The patient would have paid the supreme price, and no one would have ever suspected whodunit. Do you suppose this is an isolated case that has never happened before - and will never happen again - to your children? Are your children tested before and after braces are

had an adverse

Should dentistry

placed to see

and medicine be made aware of

effect

this potential

children? Should dentistry and medicine

problem?

be made aware of this potential problem?

to

if

the braces

on their DNA?

know

this

Do you have a right

information about your

We shifted gears into balancing her chemistry with as much enthusiasm we and the patient could muster - and she turned out to be quite an interested participant. Within 2 months, we had a normal, nonmalignant DNA, and nearly back to normal T-lymphocytes. The as

patient

had returned to her normal sparkling personality within a few

days of removal of the braces. Today, she could care

less that she

has some small discrepancies in her tooth alignment.

still

A "representative of the ADA" from

A

the Colorado School of Dentistry

recommended

that

we

of the

place braces

if

ADA"

recom-

mended that we place

would happen a second time. Both the patient and her husband had things again to see

"representative

the malignancy

braces again to see if the malignancy would

happen a second time.

to tell the dental school professor that

were not too

scientific, but

very direct and to the point. Bottom

line abbreviated translation:

Another

test

No.

not seen too often

is

photography of the retina of the

what it is called. The back of the eye - where the retina is located - is called the fundus. We found through many retinal Mercury can photographs that mercury can be identified in eye.

"Fundus photography"

the retina of the eye.

somehow related to some people have.

he identified

It is

the astigmatism that

Remember

is

that the eyes are the first to

symptoms during the early

in the retina

of the

eye.

show

stages of MS? Well,

MS patients are not the only ones to show alterations in vision due to

mercury exposure. You can see

it

- if you know where

to look.

Figure 26

169

you can see a crescent shaped dark area right around the optic disc. There is a wide variety of darknesses that occur, and this one is pretty distinct. As the dark areas disappear, vision In Figure 26,

improves

I

substantially.

have asked many groups of people

they

first started

if

anyone can remember when

wearing glasses. Usually about half can remember

when it was. Then I ask those glasses wearing people, how many can remember when they had their first amalgam filling exactly

A fair percentage can, unless

placed.

ask

how many

months

it

was before age

percentage.

Remember

that I said earlier,

prescription changed during the first 6

removal? There alters

Next,

I

people started wearing glasses within less than 6

having their first amalgam placed.

after

5.

is

a reason. Mercury,

by

Wow.

do not get your lens

weeks its

Pretty high

after

amalgam

presence or absence,

your vision.

Any question about mercury affecting the eyes? You can actually see the changes through fundus photography.

Urine mercury Urine contains both the inorganic and organic form of mercury.

With organic - the methyl mercury form - being 100 times more toxic than the inorganic, we tend to watch that one more. But watch for what? This is another one of those "watch it for a few years and you see it

Low

levels

mercury

of

in

the urine

mean

that you

are retaining

mercury.

differently" stories. Usually,

chemistries, high

means high, and low means

Not so with urine mercury. It took a f comparing the CBC with few years mercury excretion to come up with the low.

concept of "retention toxicity".

now, but

it

sure

was not

urine investigation.

170

when watching

at the

It is

obvious

onset of the

High

levels of mercury in the urine signifies that the

Low

rid of mercury.

therefore

mean

levels

that

I

noted that

had low levels of urine mercury, they were

- and

getting ,

when patients

sick, their chemistries

were bad, and they were not very emotionally better

is

you are retaining mercury

becoming more toxic each day.

recovered, the

body

stable.

When patients

CBC and chemistries looked better, they felt much mercury had gone up. After a few months

the urine

of watching for this trend,

it

became evident

excretion of mercury had to increase a

minimum

that the urinary

of

100%

before

other chemistries improved, and, in particular, there was no

improvement in the "feeling of well being" until the urine mercury had increased over 100%. There

is

a lot of talk about the

pH of the urine,

and what high and

pH (acid content) means. Here is an example of not knowing how to alter pH for sure, so I monitored it as a side effect of what low

else

was happening.

and patients

abilities

It is

easy to see that as chemistries improve

improve, the urine

pH quickly trends toward

pH 5.5. The closer the protein metabolism, fat and carbohydrate, the

CBC,

the

oxyhemoglobin - as

their ideal values, the urine

all

of these indicators approach

pH approaches 5.5

and usually does

it

quicker than the chemistries respond.

Sodium, Potassium and Chloride

What is a neurological disease without nerve impulse transmission? Simple. MS. Well, there are many other autoimmune and upon nerve impulse transmission. In fact, is there a function in the body that does not depend upon nerve impulses? What is a nerve impulse, anyway? In its simplest form, sodium and potassium changing places along a nerve fiber neurological disease that depend

constitutes a nerve impulse.

Here

is

where

I

have

to see

blood chemistry and hair analysis

simultaneously in order to figure out the potential for nerve impulses to occur. After watching the serum sodium, potassium 171

and chloride levels for years, 142

determined that the ideal point was

I

mEq for sodium, 4.5 for potassium and

point values occurred most often

were

optimum

at their

brain metabolism,

I

the rest of the chemistries

Then, while studying nerve and

points.

found

when

106 for chloride. These

in the textbooks that

jump the synapse best when the sodium is

How close.

But the clincher is, what do these

levels really

and the chloride

really high?

My

is at

potassium

at 142, the

107.

at 4.5,

nerve impulses

mean?

146

Is

conclusions were that the hair analysis

representative of cellular function, and the blood

represents what

is

is

mEq more

an extension

is

of the grocery

store.

The blood can

also create an osmotic differential that will correct

what

is

It

going on in the

nearly every time in the

This

cell.

is

available to the cell.

is

what

I

see out of balance

MS patient.

Today's wisdom says do not eat originated, but certainly not

salt.

I'm not sure where

that idea

from monitoring the biochemistry of

the body. People scream about high blood pressure and death due to heart disease as a result of eating salt. Yes, high is

not desirable, but what

disease, for that matter.

presence of root canals

is

the primary cause of it?

From Price's is

blood pressure

observations,

it

Or

heart

appears the

a primary factor. Other dental materials

can create high blood pressure almost as well, but the most often culprit is the root canal tooth.

After the dead tooth

then look for another contributor,

if

down adequately. There are foods,

artificial

is

removed,

the pressure does not

come

sweeteners, yes, other

contributing factors, but look for the Salt

is

primary

first.

Salt

not only invo i ve d in nerve

not only

involved in nerve

impulse transmission,

is

-

,

ge transmission but also in aU u ^u the mechanism that gets nutrients in ,

but also in the ,

.

,

mechanism

that gets

nutrients in

and waste

materials out of the individual

172

cells.

,

°

,

and manufactured products and waste materials out of the individual

Sodium

involved in the sodium potassium pump. We could

cells

-

is

membrane permeability. Without the proper balance of sodium and potassium, we create major also call

it

cell

inefficiency.

Which one?

Inefficiency leads to disease.

them. Efficiency of all biochemical transport

Looking

is

what

is

All of

important.

one cause and one solution gets us into nothing but frustration and bad health. for

The Romans used

"Are you worth your

to ask,

Because the warriors knew

that

men on low

Why?

salt?"

had low

salt diets

endurance, and, therefore, were poor fighters. Part of their salary

Thus the origin of the word salary. Are you worth your salary? Originally the word salary stems from the word salt. In today's "wisdom", salt is given a black eye, when it is still one of the most important substances in the body.

was paid

in salt.

If I find a

serum sodium

are that

we have

we have

I

a person on a low salt diet.

look at the hair analysis. million,

146 or above,

that is

Is the

sodium level is

figure the chances

To confirm 10, 20,

Low

a correction going on.

creates a compensatory call for correction,

this, I

30 parts per

cellular

sodium

which the blood can

provide by boosting the sodium level up. This creates an osmotic differential

such that the serum level is high, trying to force sodium

into the deprived cells. is

(A

cell

membrane

permeability problem

usually concurrent with a sodium problem.) In these patients,

we add lots more salt. We even have them take salt capsules if the neurologic problems are severe. Within 6 days, the serum may drop from 146 to 140 or even lower. That confirms that the

cells

were starving for sodium, and the serum was correcting.

may

It

take several months for the serum to be restored to 142, for there are

many

have

to

billions of

sodium starved

body

that will

be raised before homeostasis can be achieved.

What happens

to the

blood pressure

trends toward 113 over 70,

The

cells in the

at this

time?

It

generally

which is the optimum "point" in adults.

patients usually experience

suicidal thoughts are reduced

more of a

feeling of well being,

and the neurological malfunctions

can be expected to demonstrate physical improvement. Getting 173

up out of a wheelchair and taking a few steps is something I expect and usually see by the fifth or sixth day on the Protocol. Did salt do all of this? Not by itself, but without it, we will not see this type of response.

Potassium

is

Sodium and

every bit as important as sodium.

potassium are one of the 3 twin pairs that

I

see in hair analysis. If

you move one, the other will move in parallel. Unless one has been moved artificially. This Sea

salt is

from

the

happens with potassium. sea sa jt as

bottom of

It is

of everyone's

,

jr

people are using

dietary source of

salt.

toilet.

I

know

that

goes against

you have seen, but look

the advertising

chemistries. That's the only place salt

salt is

not pristine there, but the bottom

cesspooL

Sea

Sea

from the bottom of the world's biggest cesspool, the ocean.

uissest

me

Many

I

all

at the

find answers.

furnishes a form of non-biological potassium that messes

up sodium- potassium biochemical reactions. "Lite salt" is potassium chloride, and it does the same thing. Also, watch out for a new half and half mixture that contains half sodium chloride and half potassium chloride.

When

a non-biological form of potassium

is

present in the diet,

both sodium and potassium will go up. Sometimes the potassium

goes up higher than the sodium in the hair analysis. That

is

really

When I see potassium higher know we really have a serious

a bad sign for neurological problems.

than sodium in hair analysis,

I

problem.

Extremes of both sodium and potassium will show up is

if

a person

drinking water, washing clothes and bathing in water treated by

a water softener.

Specifically,

one

that has

an "ion exchange

chamber". This exchanges harmful calcium, magnesium, zinc, etc., is

for a

form of sodium

that is in this "non-biological" form.

It

a contaminant.

When 174

this

high sodium contamination from the water softener

occurs, the blood has to go into another corrective mode.

serum sodium goes way down, in an effort contamination form of sodium. Hair analysis action, because

it is

to

draw off the

will

confirm the

generally quite high in sodium.

biological form of sodium.

Hair sodium levels

hundreds or even in the thousands

if

The

The non-

may be

in the

the patient has been using a

water softener for several years. Again, a good form of table

salt

must be added, along with a good

form of potassium. Most potassium supplements provide a nonactive form of potassium for reasons I cannot find. Many look (on paper) like they should be active, but chemistries, they are contaminants.

when you monitor

When

the

both sodium and

potassium are used in the proper form and dosages, correction will occur,

What salt.

is

and function can be restored.

a correct form of sodium? Try plain old Morton's table

There are others, I just do not happen

brand names.

OH, HORRORS!

to

be familiar with the

some people That is what makes

say.

There

is

aluminum silicate in that salt. it pour when it rains. Makes the salt slick. Also iodine. Well, you may need the iodine, especially now that you are not eating fish, but the aluminum can be a problem. It can create neurological problems. Actually, aluminum is fairly easy to get out of the body on this program but for those who would like to avoid another source of aluminum, Morton makes a salt called "canning and pickling salt". It has sodium chloride and nothing else. Almost

all

over-the-counter medications will deplete the body of

potassium.

Low

potassium levels are a constant finding in

neurological diseases, so

we expect to

all

find a severe imbalance in

sodium and potassium in all of these patients. Highs, lows, cross matches, you name it - sodium and potassium will be anything but correct.

I

said

low potassium

levels are an always.

and hair levels will read high. Yes, but

Sometimes the blood

this is generally reflective

175

of the non-biological forms; therefore, the body

is still

deficient

form of the mineral. Upon adding sodium and potassium to a chemistry that is showing these elevations, the levels will drop - and drop - and appear to be going into the cellar. The in the active

levels will continue to drop until all of the contamination

form

is

eliminated, then will climb up out of the cellar and stop at the

proper level. Provided, of course, that the patient Protocol as designed by chemistry changes. Patients have to

I

do

itself as the

not magic.

It is

half of the

sodium

it

sometimes gives a clearer picture of whether

consuming enough good sodium chloride or Non-biological forms of sodium can move the blood and hair

or not the patient

is

levels, but chloride

does not seek

proper kind of sodium chloride at 102, the truth.

176

It is

makes table salt. Actually, the chloride takes care of sodium and potassium are corrected. I monitor the

chloride level, for

not.

staying on the

their part.

have not mentioned chloride very much.

chloride that

is

1

is

present.

its

107

If the

know that the sodium is

mEq

level unless the

sodium

is at

142 and

fake. Chloride has told

Chapter 8

Cholesterol on another controversial chemistry.

Let's pick

The big friend of MS patients, yet the information we are given about cholesterol is similar Cholesterol

.

of killing off your immune system because it is destroying mercury contaminated tissues. in nature to the idea

Neither cholesterol nor your immune system misbehaving. Here is why.

is

The Adolph Coors Foundation provided funding in 1996 to pay for a massive number of blood chemistries demonstrating the effects of amalgam removal on body chemistry. The study was limited to amalgam replacement only. No nutrition or drug changes were made, and all patients had only amalgam in their mouths.

No

crowns, bridges, removable partial dentures, no root canals;

just test,

remove amalgam and

retest.

Actually the

test

continued

amalgam again, retesting, re-removing amalgam and re-retesting. Can you imagine volunteering to go through such a study? There may be more to mental disturbance

to include replacing

with amalgams than

I

originally thought.

I

love these dedicated

who actually enjoyed participating in a study whose purpose was to expose what amalgam does to the human body.

people

mentioned cholesterol being a friend? What about eating butter and eggs, your cholesterol going up and killing you? This is the

I

implication

we gain from watching television and listening to the

general population (including the medical people) give their opinions

—based on what? 177

My opinions are based on examining a few thousand chemistries and looking

at the current literature,

cholesterol lowering drugs.

not on the advertisements for

My basic premise is that cholesterol

has a use, and, given a chance, the body produces about the amount

of cholesterol that

it

Dental materials can create

needs.

interferences that prevent cholesterol from doing what

supposed

to do. Dr.

Melvin Page, based on

his over

it

is

50,000 blood

chemistry observations, determined that there

Dr. Melvin Page, based

on

of

his over 50,000 blood

chemistry observations,

determined that there

was a moderating point

optimum

have seen

slightly over

patients.

I

30,000

chemistries,

conclusion

was a moderating point of optimum cholesterol

that occurred in his

the same. This

is

my

and is

not

popular opinion when presented in the fashion that that occurred in his dentistry has control over your patients. cholesterol level. Have I mentioned that dentistry is the primary controller of your immune system? Both may become evident by the time you finish this book.

Now, how

is it

that cholesterol

the fluidity of cell

real

a

membranes,

membrane exchange, and

can help you? Cholesterol affects cell

membrane permeability,

intracellular signal transmission.

the precursor for 5 major classes of steroid

Cholesterol

is

hormones.

affects gluconeogenesis

It

trans-

and immune function. And,

highly significant

-

the transport forms,

lipoproteins, serve as vehicles for the fat-

One of the

big

soluble

vitamins,

antioxidants,

advantages of

medications and toxins. (Sabine, 1977;

cholesterol

Fielding, 1982)

is

that

Wow!

Cholesterol plays

a toxin

multiple critical roles in both tissue

neutralizer.

maintenance and in biological functions.

it is

How One of

it

get so

much bad

the big advantages of cholesterol

neutralizer. (Alouf, 1981)

178

can

It

is

that

press?

it is

a toxin

inactivates multiple bacterial toxins,

some

even a marker for a variety of toxic exposures. (Chi, 1981; Watson, 1975) and, in

Many

cases,

is

elevated serum cholesterol levels result as a protection

reaction after exposure to pesticides.

(Kossman 1993; Risk, 1985;

Bloomer, 1977). Cholesterol appears for a

to offer a protective effect

wide range of toxic exposures, including mercury and other

heavy metals.

A

mercury resulted

subacute

exposure

in

dogs involving

methyl

in a progressive increase in total cholesterol

weekly serum biochemical profiles (Davies, 1977). Men with low serum cholesterol levels have an increased incidence

measured

in

of cancer. (Schatzhin, 1987) Oops!

I

had a physician

tell

Where

did that

come from?

me once that he wished he had a cholesterol

To me, that indicates that not everyone is getting the message. The message is certainly clear. There are lots of references in the scientific literature regarding low cholesterol and cancer, as well as to many other conditions that you would probably not want to incur. Take a minute to look at the titles of just a few of the available articles and see if it doesn't give you the idea that you may not have heard everything that is going on in either the of zero.

cancer or the cholesterol world. (Davis, 1982; Keys, 1985;

Isles,

1989; Knekt, 1988; Kark, 1980; Williams, 1981). Impressive

titles,

but you should read the articles themselves for an eye-opening experience.

Here's something you don't read in the margarine advertisements.

Although cholesterol lowering in deaths

trials

have demonstrated a decline

from coronary heart disease,

total

deaths from a

number

of non-cardiac sources had increased substantially in those people

with low cholesterol levels.

A

number of

studies have

shown

statistically significant increases in

violent deaths resulting

from

suicide,

The

totals

show

nearly a doubling of the

ow

\

mte ofdeath

in

cholesterol

homicide, accidents and other forms of

people than in high

unusual violence in those with low

cholesterol people.

179

The

cholesterol levels.

show

totals

nearly a doubling of the rate

of death in low cholesterol people as compared to high cholesterol

Should we be interested

people. just

in the total death rate, or death

from heart disease?

Let's look at these deaths associated with

low cholesterol

in light

of the detoxifying properties of cholesterol and the problems generated by mercury toxicity.

Is it

possible that these perplexing

deaths associated with low cholesterol are the result of an

exacerbation of underlying mercury toxicity that

is

being

inadequately neutralized by inadequate levels of cholesterol?

Irritability,

depression and emotional instability are hallmarks of

chronic mercury poisoning. (McFarland, 1978; Agency, 1989; Gerstner, 1977; Taueg, 1992).

muscular function. unchallenged, to fits of rage

to the

in

When

irritability

Mercury also impairs nervous and such toxic effects go especially

and emotional

instability

can progress

and homicide. Similarly, depression can easily evolve

commission of suicide. Deaths from accidents can increase

frequency as motor reflexes and coordination

compromised by

skills are

a greater presence of un-neutralized mercury

toxicity.

low

Clinical studies have reported Clinical studies have

serum cholesterol concentrations

reported low serum

among

cholesterol concert-

diagnoses of violent or aggressive

trations

among

,.

people

with

conduct disorders (Virkkunen, 1984,

criminals, people .„

criminals,

-

with diagnoses oj

,^/w---^^^ violent or aggressive conduct disorders.

in~,n\

•

i

•

rr

i

-^

,

1979), homicide offenders with .

.

r

.

.

t

.

.

.

histories of violence and suicide

attempts and people with poorly internalized social

minimal

norms and only

self control. (Jenkins, 1969)

This data from the scientific literature points out associations

between low serum cholesterol behavioral improprieties.

180

levels, neuronal function

and

As mentioned

before, the scientific literature has an

abundance of

evidence that cholesterol can neutralize a wide variety of toxic materials in both animal and

human

bacterial toxins, pesticides, inorganic

metals, even

It is

studies.

It

can inactivate

mercury and other heavy

MeHg.

indeed possible that introduction of amalgam into the

human

body not only challenges and diverts immune activity, but increases cholesterol levels as an additional detoxification defensive

High cholesterol

measure.

challenge as

much

may be

levels

indicative of dental

- or does dental challenge challenge? Remember, Dr. Price showed

as heart challenge

relate directly to heart

that the implantation of fragments of root canals

produced bacterial

toxins that created heart attacks in animals where the root canal

was removed from a human who had had a heart attack. Is there really much difference between immune challenge from mercury or from root canal toxins? Not so that you would notice. Another interesting story of cholesterol elevating potential involved a lady in Arizona

examination. car,

who had

just

had a routine medical physical

She walked out of the doctor's

and backed up into the path of an

1

office, got into her

8-wheeler doing about 20

The truck hit the car and spun her around, throwing pavement. The doctor heard the commotion and came

miles per hour. her on the

running out.

and bruises asked

if

He checked her and found that aside from a few scrapes and being shaken up, she was medically OK. He then

he might draw her blood again, just to see what effect the

accident had on her values of 20 minutes before.

had gone up about 1000

points. Stress

Another case of a lady married high cholesterol

when

when

she was

to

can have

cholesterol

its effect.

an abusive alcoholic showed

home

with him and lower levels

she was visiting friends and relatives.

to help us in times of stress?

Her

Looks

like

Is cholesterol there

it.

From this material, it is possible to infer that low cholesterol levels, whether from dietary or drug reasons, predispose the body

to

181

One

greater health risks than high cholesterol levels? particular

showed

8900

that of

study in

patients, high cholesterol people

had heart problems, low cholesterol natients had mental

What was

the

cancer and

coordination skills problems, thus

cholesterol value in

^» the center of that "U"

,

.

,,

.^ mg%. ^

optimum cholesterol that Page

of the P eo P le had an y of the above problems. What was the cholesterol

T

,

.

,

„ r safety zone: 221 .

What was

the

sought? 222

sought? 222

mg%.

J.,

Fielding,

optimum

body

Cholesterol. Marcel

C,

fluids.

Fielding,

Med

Watson, K., Kerr

P.,

Clin North

E.,

S., et al.,

al.,

Page

health have not.

Decker Pub,

Inc.,

Am 66:

New York,

1977.

363-373,1982.

Functional role of cholesterol in infection 1

(7902): 308-310, 1975.

Blood serum lipoproteins

ofthe chemical plant

Schatzkin, A., et

that

Cholesterol transport between cells and

and autoimmunity. Lancet

Kossman,

safety

Advertising has changed over the decades,

but perhaps the targets for

Sabine,

"U"

value in the center of that

mg%.

optimum cholesterol

I

A

,

T T

producing curve. At the h a U-shaped F \ r TT bottom or the U-shaped curve, none r

r

at

in

overhaul workers

Jaworzno. MedPr44(2): 103-108,1993.

Serum cholesterol and cancer in the NHANES

epidemiologic followup study. National Health and Nutrition

Examination Survey, Lancet 2 (8554): 298-301, 14-24, 1987.

C,

Serum cholesterol levels and cancer mortality Evans County Twenty Year Follow up Study. Amer Oil Chemists Davis,

et al.,

Society, 892-900, 1982.

182

Keys, A.,

et al.,

countries study.

Isles,

C,

et al.,

Serum

cholesterol and cancer mortality in seven

Am J Epidemiol Plasma

121 (6):

870-883, 1985.

cholesterol, coronary heart disease, and

cancer in the Renfrew and Paisley survey. Brit

Med J 298

(6678),

920-924, 1989.

Serum cholesterol and risk of cancer in a cohort of 39,000 men and women. J Clin Epidemiol 41: 519-530, 1988. Knekt,

Kark,

P., et al.,

J.,

et al.,

The

relationship of

serum cholesterol

to the

incidence of cancer in Evans County Georgia. J Chronic Dis 33:

311-332, 1980.

Williams, R., et

JAMA 245:

al.,

Cancer incidence by

levels of cholesterol.

247-252, 1981.

Virkkunen, M., Pentinen, H., Serum cholesterol in aggressive

conduct disorder. Biol Psychiatry 19:435-439, 1984.

Virkkunen, M., Serum cholesterol in antisocial personality.

Neuropsychobiology Jenkins,

Med 31:

5:

27-30, 1979.

C, et al., Psychological traits and serum lipids. Psychosom 115-128, 1969.

183

NOTES

184

Chapter 9

MS

Sex and Now

we have talked about violence (and

that

cholesterol), let's in

today s market

go -

most popular aspect

to the other

sex.

Dentistry extends into the bedroom.

It affects

your sex

and sexuality. Extended to the uterus, breasts and testicles, male and female are both vulnerable to toxic invasion. Menstrual cycles, pregnancy and birth defects are a package deal under the control of your dentist life

and he hasn

't

the first clue.

MS patient.

Sex and the

Yes, there

is

a relationship, and, as might

be expected, with interrelationships into in together if you look long enough.

dentistry.

does

It all

tie

Males do have more difficulty

achieving erections and females have more difficulty in

becoming

lubricated, as well as

That

in achieving sexual climax.

... .« ,, , „ enough, but there are other things as well. *

.

1

1

.

.

,

Adding b root canals

,

,

•

i

to the subiect, J

female has mercury or a root canal, anticipate lots of "abnormalities".

you generally gains

much

when a she may

Not the type

talk about,

and not the type

attention

from the medical

community, but not healthy

The menstrual period

may

is

en sry

bad

is

extends into _

,

_

the bedroom. T

.

„

.

your an ^

It affects

sex

^

sexuality.

that

either.

designed to

last 3

and a half days. With

extend to 6 or 7 days, or in a few cases, swing

amalgams,

it

to the other

end of the spectrum and be

1

day.

Both extremes tend 185

to trend

toward 372 days when the Protocol

revision and

immune

stimulation.

I

don't

the period had to be 372 days, but that

chemistries approach their

optimum

is

followed in dental

know is

that

anyone said

the result

when

the

levels.

Lumps and bumps and fibrocystic disease in the breasts tend to occur in females who have mercury amalgam and root canals pestering their immune systems. Of course, there are other factors involved too, so

let's

give them

some

lip service.

Caffeine, most

often found in coffee, will encourage breast problems. Another

common

detriment

is

the use of antiperspirants.

I'm not talking

about deodorants, but the aluminum chloride used to slow Perspiration has a purpose.

perspiration.

down

one of the major

It is

detoxification methods. In particular, under- the-arm perspiration is

the primary drainage portal for breast tissue.

When

the exit

ramp is clogged, toxic materials can back up in the breast, and no good will come of that. We have found that elimination of aluminum antiperspirants and stimulation of liver function can help eliminate lumps and fibrocystic problems - in conjunction with the diet that your blood

mention

Many

say

is right

that offensive dental materials should

for you.

Should

I

be removed too?

people use white vinegar in a spray bottle to squirt into

arm

their

tests

though.

pits.

It

Not recommended

right after shaving the area,

does well as a deodorant, but not too

much

effect

on

We need that for detoxification.

perspiration.

What about when one amalgam removed, and

What about when one

that

partner has

had amalgam removed, and

partner has had

the other not?

can create a problem.

If the

Yes,

female has

had mercury removed AND has cleaned up her act, applying the appropriate dietary principles and lifestyle activities, she

is

a

the other has

different person.

After 4 to 6 weeks, her

not

immune

beginning to recover. At

'

activity is

that time, small exposures to

rekindle

186

all

of her original symptoms.

There

is

mercury can quite enough

sperm of a male with amalgam in his mouth to stimulate a secondary immune response in his partner when

mercury

in the

introduced vaginally. If the female partner has

MS,

then watch

and mental fog problems. Actually, any of the original symptoms can come back, and frequently in greater for the usual walking

intensity than they

Here

were prior

to dental revision.

an interesting avenue of attack

is

that root canals

perform on males.

If a

VJ

.

,

,

,

,

canal will atrophy to about half the size

a male has had a , r root canal on one of the 4 upperfront teeth before the age fl8, the testicle on

of the other one.

the

,

,

,

,

_

t

If

,

male has had a root canal on one of the 4 upper front teeth before the age of 18, the testicle on the

same

side as the root

,

same

side as the

root canal will Yet,

we

still

do a reported 50 million

root canals per year (in the U.S.).

What

other effects on reproduction does that

Reduced sperm count

have?

atrophy to about half

& °f the other

the si

one

is

frequently mentioned in infertility stories. figure of about

Recently,

I

heard a

20% of the male seniors in high school were sterile.

What might that lead to?

And

'

Note: don't count on

it

for contraception.

speaking of contraceptives - the use of mercury containing

contraceptive creams, gels, foams, lubricated sperm-killing

condoms

expose both the male and female to additional extremely high level exposures to mercury. Mercury is the best all

contraceptive, for

it

can

kill

everything.

Since

it is

everywhere for that purpose, then everyone knows

mercury does not have female

(in particular) is

to appear

exposed to

it,

used almost

and the word

on the labels. Again, if the mercury by this method, all of

Mercury probably follows Stortebecker's "venous plexus drainage from her original symptoms will return for a few days.

the pelvic region into the brain" concept.

method of procreation. Recently, the Today Show, People Magazine and several books have addressed the

Let's look at sex as a

187

problem of women retiring from the corporate arenas and wanting to

By the age of 35, according to those reports, about 7% of the women can conceive normally. A full page

have a family.

only

ad in the Colorado Springs newspaper asked, "Trying to get

My comment is, if there is a problem,

pregnant?"

why?

There are many expensive medical methods of creating pregnancy, but what

if

materials?

pregnancy does not occur because of faulty raw

Would you buy

them? Your body does not like faulty tires, so

the

it

male or female

tires for

your car

like birth defects

if

they had flaws in

any more than you

will try to prevent pregnancies

when

either

is

bringing faulty raw material to the table.

in

pregnancy can create "Sister Chromatid

Take a lesson.

Mercury involved

Exchanges", or simply put, genetic material changing places, due to

mercury binding with nucleoproteins. (Curie, 1987; Gruenwedel,

1966).

Low

amounts of mercury

(that easily pass

through the

placental barrier) can produce a high frequency of cleft palate

[10

mg/kg produced cleft palate in 22% of the fetuses, and 20 mg/

kg produced cleft palate in 100% of the test animals], skeletal deformities and hydronephrosis. Low level exposures during sensitive developmental days can produce fetal mortality. (Mansour, 1974; Fuyuta, 1978; Harris, 1972; Inouye, 1975; Olson, 1977)

It is

even known what day mercury exposure

is

required to

create these defects.

do not recommend pregnancy in the MS patient, but I have had several who had me monitor them every other month, followed

I

the

immune

stimulating program religiously, followed nutrition

according to their blood chemistries, carefully selected detoxification, and had great pregnancies and successful healthy deliveries. One woman even had twins. That one really had me nervous, but she showed me that she could handle it. And she did.

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Curie, D., et

al.,

Methylmercury

toxicity: in vivo evaluation

teratogenesis and cytogenetic changes.

AnatAnz

of

153: 69-82, 1983.

Gruenwedel, D., Davidson, N., Complexing and denaturation of

DNA by methylmercury hydroxide.

J

Molecular Biology 21:1 29-

144, 1966.

Mansour, M.,

et al., Placental transfer

methylmercury

in the rat.

Amer J

of mercuric nitrate and

Obstet and

Gyn

119: 557-562,

1974.

Fuyuta, M., et

al.,

Embryotoxic

effects

of methyl mercury chloride

administered to mice and rats during organogenesis. Teratology 18:

353-356, 1978.

Harris, S., et

al.,

Embryotoxicity of methylmercuric chloride in

golden hamster. Teratology

6:

139-142, 1972.

Innouye, M., Murakami, U., Teratogenic effect of orally administered methylmercuric chloride in rats and mice. Congenital

Anomalies Olson,

F.,

in

Kyoto

Massaro,

15: 1-9, 1975.

E., Effects

of methylmercury on murine

fetal

amino acid uptake, protein synthesis and palate closure. Teratology 16: 187-194, 1977.

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NOTES

190

Chapter

1

Patient Protection How much revision?

protection do you need during dental

Do you wear a

belt

and suspenders both?

This chapter details the ultimate in patient protection. It

used

to exist, but

does no more. What are the things

done? Should be done? How much protection do you want? What is available? Now you will have the ability to evaluate and ask for protection and know what you are asking for. that could be

How far do you want to go? I

could

make

In 1990

1

wanted

to see just

the dental revision procedure.

I

how

safe

put everything

I

could think of into a "clean" dental operatory (the Bubble Operatory) that was as safe as doctor and assistant. Truthfully,

you cannot find

criticize

could

make

it

for the patient,

Concepts used there are presented here. all

they are presented as a guide.

do not

I

of these items anywhere today, but

The unattainable ultimate.

your dentist for not having

all

Certainly

of these things

was an experiment that I paid for myself just to see if we could get even better results in our patients. It was expensive. Over $100,000 for one room in 1990. It worked. It was the ultimate in protection, and the ultimate in criticism from the state Attorney General and administrative judge. They said we charged too much for its use. It was free I paid for it personally. She said that it implied that mercury was dangerous. Maybe this description will serve as a stimulus for someone to duplicate it some day. In 1998, the Bubble Op was destroyed, along with part of my soul. available. This

.

What's the

first

operatory (the

thing you run into

name

of the

when you

room where

enter a dental

the dentist does dental

191

What is

treatment)? Air In normal dental operatories, .

the

there

first thing you

of mercury vapor in the

is lots

air.

"But

run into when

my

you enter a

Yeah, I've heard

dental

pounds of it in replacing mercury fillings every

operatory?

year.

—

Air.

mercury any more."

dentist doesn't place that,

but he/she cuts out

A dental drill moving at speeds in excess

wades into an old amalgam puts an enormous amount of mercury into the surrounding air. Some can be removed by filtering it through the dentist's, assistant's and patient's lungs, but there is a lot left over. I know. I've tested the air in dental operatories for mercury vapor. of 100,000 revolutions per minute as

Certain air filters filter

filters

can do

can remove mercury from the

They

that.

under the control of a

and vapor

fan.

They

negative ion generators. particulates

mercury as

trap

in the air

it

air.

air cleaners are

electrically charge the it

Charcoal

passes through the

Probably the best

and collect

it

mercury

in a receiver

on the

other side of the room.

Some negative ion generators just charge

the particles in the

and

deposit

it

the paint.

on

air,

let

nails in the walls.

They

the mercury drop to the floor or

You can easily

spot the nails under

turn dark grey.

The Bubble Operatory was

circular in shape.

Thus the name,

Bubble. There were no corners, the room was round. True, there

were some square cabinets, but the overall air flow was circular. Someone once described it as looking like a great big pumpkin. I

was light

rather insulted, then looked at

orange in color, had

its

own

it.

It

was

large, round, rather

filtered air conditioning

and

heating mounted on the top - sort of like

The Faraday cage a whole room covered with a wire mesh that was grounded onto a

—

a stem, well,

DID

look like a great

big pumpkin.

A pumpkin with a wire mesh covering it.

rod that ran 8 feet

it

That was the Faraday cage.

The

whole room was covered with a wire

into the earth.

mesh 192

that

was grounded onto a rod

that

.

ran 8 feet into the earth.

Much

of the electromagnetic radiation

from radio, TV, cell phones, police frequencies, and so on, were grounded so they did not enter the Bubble. Fillings and crowns have electrical charges that travel up into the brain which is just 3 inches away.

Many

of these charges are from 100 to 1000 times

greater than the brain operates on, so sudden removal of the large

charge can alter brain function.

compare this. If you are trying to walk into a 90 mile an hour wind, you may be able to do it if you leaned forward far enough. But what would happen if the wind suddenly stopped? You would fall on your face. This is what happens in the brain. It is compensating for the enormous electrical beating it has been taking from the fillings, then, when the fillings are removed, brain Let's

function goes berserk. This can precipitate emotional events that are the reason

we like for a patient to have someone with them for

the first 24 hours after filling and

When

crown removal.

electrically charged fillings are

removed, possibly the

brain could be influenced by external radio, microwaves, etc.

We have had environmentally ill patients Op and within first

walk

into the

seconds remark that their anxiety

is

Bubble

gone for the

time in years. This - in a dental operatory? That's got to

be weird.

But

it

encouraged

other operatories that

we

demonstrated by patients

me

to install a

Whatever it does is easily reactions, so - why knock success? built.

implies that mercury hazardous." Thanks, Judge Nancy.

"Because

Faraday cage in

is

it

When

the

A huge diffuser pumped circulated air into the

electrical

room under slight pressure. Suction at floor level removed the air, thus producing a

current in

condition

known

as "laminar air flow".

fluorescent lights hits the

Positive air pressure at the ceiling, negative air

pressure at r

n floor

i

i

level.

xt

*•

ion Negative b

generators were cleaning the air as circulated

.

vaporizes,

•

it

.

.

«...

giving off the waVe-length

j mercury. 193

What about the lighting? Fluorescent lights contain mercury, and when the electrical current hits the mercury it vaporizes, giving off the wave-length of mercury. Can this affect

OK,

the air

is

ready.

people? Dr. John Ott warned of this radiant exposure. to his

We

wisdom.

I

subscribe

installed incandescent lighting in the

whole

building.

Is the patient

ready to enter

now? Not

yet.

There are several

things that should be observed prior to entering a dental office.

Number one - did you take Vitamin C today?

Vitamin

you can anticipate p-a-i-n. Vitamin C taken by mouth can negate your local anesthetic, and you will feel p-a-i-n. Do not take oral C for about 24

C

If

taken by mouth

hours prior to your dental

can negate your

strange thing

local anesthetic,

40 g rams

and you

will

wm

Jfeel p-a-i-n.

f

is

that

it

did,

visit.

Now,

you can take 20,

Vitamin

C

the

30, or

intravenously and

it

nQt affect the anesthetic _ but haif of ,

.,

,

,

,

one gram by mouth - and good bye anesthetic, hello p-a-i-n.

standpoint,

you

From the scientific

could be proven that the reverse should be

from the practical standpoint - try

it just

to see

- if you like

true,

but

p-a-i-n.

Your appointments should be arranged according to the 7-14-21 day immune cycles we discovered by accident. Briefly, when the immune system receives a challenge, it goes into action - producing

more immune cells and migrating to the challenge area. Seven days from that challenge, the immune system reduces its effectiveness by getting rid of old cells and making new ones. It appears to undergo something like changing of the guard. 14, there is

On day

an even greater lack of immune vigilance, and on day

21, a near shut

down

of

immune

protection occurs.

Should you

schedule another mercury exposure appointment on day

7,

14 or

you can easily trigger onset of an autoimmune disease you didn't even know you wanted. 21,

Our

first

experience with this discovery happened to involve the

onset of MS. This

194

man had a dental amalgam placed 21

days after

having a bad case of the flu. Another involved an immunization shot (preserved .

.

x

^

i

i

,

r

.

experience with

t

i

with mercury) 21 days before dental J J amalgam placement. One was 21 days

...

happenedto

between dental amalgam replacement procedures.

It

onset.

a 7.

involve the

didn't take too long to

determine that 2 1 was a bad number for

,.

this discovery

onset of MS.

MS

Then we noted a 14 day spread. Later Over the years we have seen many confirmations of

7-14-21 day cycles. But wait

—

the

there's more.

more mild, there is a 42, 63 and yearly cycle that can influence your health. The year is not exactly a year. It occurs at someplace between day 356 and 360. During these immune cycles, you should be well advised to 'chill out'. These 42, 63 and 360 day cycles are days marked by a slight reduction in immune competence. Should you add any additional immune stress on those days, there is a chance of precipitating flu-like symptoms or worse. Just be sure that you do not schedule your folks' 50 th wedding anniversary party, the neighborhood cookout in your back yard or something similar on those days if it can be avoided. You Although

far

don't have to be paranoid, just cautious about your

own health.

What does that have to do with today? Your dental appointment? What happened 21 days ago? It might be wise to schedule your first appointment in accordance with the past. The way I learned this was that we had a tough farmer who reacted very poorly after

Upon

his first dental revision appointment. possibilities, his

wife mentioned that he had been run over by a

He was

tractor 21 days before that appointment.

didn't think to mention

today.

Oh, yes,

delving into

it

it

does.

because

it

tough, so he

probably had no influence on

Check your personal

history before

scheduling dental appointments.

If surgery is

scheduled for a dental day,

it is

of surgical supplements the day prior, day

well to take two tablets

of,

and day

after surgery.

This provides an ionic form of calcium that you need for healing,

195

but that you cannot get from milk, cheese or most calcium

One

supplements.

cc of calcium chloride in your

IV

will help if

the tablets are not available.

Another thing to do prior to surgery (root canal or dead teeth being removed, cavitations or

gum surgery) is to take one capsule of an

antibiotic that fights anaerobic bacteria that will

any of these surgeries. Generally,

we do

m

is

..

offensive area.

touches the

After that, your

immune

you need something to stop the bacteria from seeking refuge in your

before

after the cold

or

surgical knife) first

first

system can come charging to the rescue, but

30 minutes

steel (forceps

the first 30 minutes after the cold steel

(forceps or surgical knife)

antibiotic is the first

more than one you really need it

not use

capsule, for the time that

The time you really need an

be released from

it

gets there,

brain, heart, liver or kidney.

touches the

which place

offensive area.

y 0U

w jij

You won t know '

for about 2 years,

and by then,

iave forgotten about the dental

j

procedure.

Some

doctors like to wait until an infection

the patient a

week of antibiotics.

is

This, to me,

you know. By

obvious, then give is

locking the barn

damage is already done. I am not particularly fond of antibiotics, so I would rather use one or two prior to surgery, than 20 later. The intestinal tract door after the

can usually

horse...

one or two

resist

then, the

antibiotic capsules without getting

too upset.

Now

that

we have

Eye covering

-

that

drill.

is,

made

it

to the dental chair,

what next?

protective glasses, can be placed

some of

on the

by the high Protective face shields can be used by the dentist and

patient to deflect

speed

finally

the slurry sprayed around

assistant.

Next,

we

address a section that

treatment. In 1979,

1

is critical to

the success of the

found that chemistries corrected

far better

and symptoms improved faster if we removed fillings and crowns 196

in sequential order.

Bottom

line to a long story of

to this conclusion is that fillings

their electrical current

how we came

must be removed according

(amperage, not voltage) readings.

fillings are like little tiny batteries,

All

and they produce a current.

the fillings with negative electrical charge are

removed

to

If

first,

chemistries do well, and patients feel quite good. If fillings with positive electrical charge are the is

removed

first,

wrong way, or do not move at all. Certainly the patient response

minimal.

The big It is

why? Not the first clue. evident when things are done

question,

certainly

you are having fillings and crowns removed under Unless!

incorrectly.

If

conscious sedation, then the sequential requirement

t

is

that's not the

When

using

no longer

re

in effect.

only thing that just

local

is

t

2 hours, or

immune

changed.

anesthetic,

suppression will set

Under conscious se a

on>

e

sequential

r

In fact,

appointments should not be longer than

It

move

the chemistries

removal requirement

is

no longer in effect.

in.

usually requires four 2-hour sessions to

remove

all

the dental irritants under local anesthetic.

conscious sedation,

all

Using

of the "removal" dentistry can usually be

accomplished in one 6-hour appointment.

When using conscious

you can cross the midline, do whatever, and the immune system doesn't seem to care. sedation,

There is a time compression, such that six hours seems of hours, but then,

who wants

to

remember

like a couple

the details of their

visit to the dentist?

Sequential removal? Out the window.

We usually do it anyway,

some - again, unknown reason - when conscious sedation is used, the electrical charge does not have the same effect. This method of filling removal has been the biggest boon to the whole Protocol that I have ever seen. The immune system seems to celebrate when it is all over, and healing responses are quite rapid.

but for

197

There

is

significant reduction in cost, for the

program

is

several

days shorter with conscious sedation. Dentists and assistants are working under high pressure and in

They get hot. Patients are just lying there trying to think about Bermuda, and, despite the visions of palm trees, they can get cold. The room is generally 70 degrees tiny stress producing areas.

Fahrenheit or lower, so plan ahead. Let the patient have a blanket so they don't develop frostbite.

Next comes the protective rubber dam. Oops Wait. There !

person under ointment (not

this sheet oil)

is

of rubber. Put vaseline or Vitamin

on the patient's

lips

before the rubber

a

E

dam goes

The rubber dam provides a shield between the high speed drill, its slurry of mercury laden water, and the most absorptive areas of the body - the inside of the mouth. There may into place.

be a few bacteria sloshing around high suction to remove

this debris,

in that slurry as well.

It

takes

and then another thing comes

into play.

In order to reduce the

speed burr is in

drill, it is

itself.

amount of mercury released by

that high

well to have the assistant squirt extra water on the

The temperature

at the

junction of burr and

amalgam

the 4 digits. This elevated temperature releases lots of mercury

the only thing that reduces mercury exposure,

vapor. Coolness

is

so extra water

the best

going to go?

is

way

to provide that.

Where

is

the water

Up that high suction hose that the assistant is holding

in her hand.

After the amalgams and other offensive materials are removed,

what most

be used to

will part,

fill

up the holes?

but gold lasts a lot longer.

We use composites for the More expensive? Put your

money where your mouth is, and you won't have to go back to the dentist for a long time.

As

far as

composites are concerned - well, either

for that matter,

198

we

filling material

use only materials that have been tested by a

blood compatibility

test to

see

if

they are compatible with your

immune system. Only fillings that have minimal reaction with your immune system are selected. The tooth is the only thing that is perfectly compatible, so we use whatever is next best. About 60% of the composites will react with you, and 60% will react with me but - the problem is - they are not the same 60%. Reactions to plastic fillings, called composite, are dependent upon what your immune system has seen over your life time. If you spent a year in Viet Nam, you reaction is not the same as your twin is

who stayed in the U.S.

About 60% of the composites will react

and 60% will react with me but - the problem is - they are not the same 60%. with you,

This

entirely individual.

Even golds are not all gold. Gold is too soft to use as a filling material, crown or bridge unless it has hardening agents in it. Some "golds" contain only

85%

2%

gold.

That's not right.

Some

contain

or more, and have platinum as the remainder. Those are

wonderful. There are 20 other metals that are alloyed with gold to

make cheaper

materials, but gold

and platinum are

still

the only

metals that consistently receive high marks for being compatible

with your

immune

system.

Now I get picky. No one in the U.S.

uses the entire Protocol. In

most dentists do only about 10%, a few 15% of it. OK, better than placing amalgam in most cases. fact,

I've learned to live with that.

when

get torqued left

I

rumored be, but

ice cost for

that I I

am

No one in the

I still

U.S. uses the

see the simple things

out of surgical procedures.

much does

But!

I

entire Protocol.

mean, how

an ice pack?

opinionated. That

do have a reason behind

that's

It is

may

my

Most dentists do only about 10%, a few 15% of it.

opinions. Thirty-three years of experience in successes

and learning from mistakes

made by anyone

that

do not have

to

be

else.

199

Are you ready for this? Here is where patient protection is violated most often, and does the greatest damage without anyone knowing - or caring. I'm not sure which. Boy, what an intro to surgery. you have to become your own doctor if you desire to have

Bottom You have

to

line is that

maximum patient protection.

become your own doctor if you desire to have

Surgical removal of root filled teeth or

maximum patient

cavitations

protection.

in dental revision.

is

the last thing that

We

is

done

had one patient

that insisted that surgery

be done

first,

and the dentist accommodated. Six months later, I received an X-ray showing what sloppy surgery my dentists did. There at the bottom of a molar extraction site, sat

amalgam filling. mouth cleaned up,

a small piece of

rubber dam, the is

no danger of that happening.

the mouth, and there will find

its

device on

removal

way

it.

is

is

to the

If

amalgam

is

then the surgery

If a scrap

cut out under

done, there

is

of amalgam

is set

free in

a fresh extraction site near by, that scrap

bottom of the socket

Since that time, surgery

is

like

it

had a homing

only done after

all filling

completed. Always.

To me, oral surgery

on infected or root canal teeth

is

the

most hazardous procedure a patient can face in the dental chair.

To me,

oral surgery

canal teeth

is

on infected or root

the most hazardous

procedure a patient can face in the dental chair. These teeth contain toxins that are toxin.

more deadly than botulism

When the cold steel touches that

infected tooth, what happens?

These

toxins are liberated into the surrounding

bone, and in turn, can travel into the blood stream - then everywhere. Here

is

where patient protection

is

most

critical.

We have already discussed taking one anaerobic fighting antibiotic. In addition, the intravenous Vitamin

C

should be running prior to

the surgery and continued for at least half an hour after surgery.

Vitamin

200

C can neutralize some pretty heavy toxins,

so

I

want that

.

in the

blood stream before the bugs and their byproducts get

there.

You cannot provide this with oral Vitamin C, because it will negate the anesthetic, in addition to

its

not being able to achieve that kind

of blood level of C by taking tablets.

After the tooth

is

removed, the periodontal ligament - the area

in

which these toxins are concentrated - must be removed with a dental burr. Not scraped with a curette. Curettes push the toxins into the surrounding blood stream,

and the patient

experience flu-like symptoms for 6 days afterward.

of

is

apt to

A strong stream

water should be concentrated on the slow moving burr

sterile

so that the toxins can be

removed and flushed down

the suction

apparatus.

We recommend

against the placement of cadaver bone, bone

We

transplants or artificial materials into the socket area.

found a magical material that helps It is

called a blood clot.

in recovery of the socket area.

Bone regenerates by having monocytes in

the blood clot convert into osteoblast cells

bone. They cannot do this

if

The periodontal ligament is like removed after the delivery process. major objective

If

it

heals properly and forms

a successful case.

we

have problems throughout the whole body and immune system. That is why you will see such will

picky things in the next few paragraphs

Most of

It

must be

new

bone,

If

something disturbs the socket healing process,

the afterbirth.

is still in

in these procedures is to take care of that

extraction site socket.

we can have

who know how to form

the periodontal ligament

place.

My

have

.

,

,.

..

% major objective My

in these procedures }s

t0

^fa care f

that extraction site socket.

these things you, the patient,

can have control over.

I like to

place a temporary removable plastic partial denture over

the extraction site within minutes after the surgery. Esthetically, that is nice in the front teeth, but the

back teeth leave bigger holes, 201

and they need protection even more. These dental appliances are called flippers, and after wearing one for a couple of days,

you see

where the name came from.

You can flip them out with your tongue, so use discernment. They cover the surgical area so that you can eat your soft food without ramming bananas or mashed potatoes into the socket. Be kind to that socket. Note: It doesn't work unless you wear it.

A primary controlling factor post- surgically is the use of Protamine Zinc Insulin. We have used it for over 30 years, and find that it is number one event in the control of healing and reduction of pain. It was taken off the market in the early '90's - not the

manufactured

at all "in the

countries with U.S. labels on

it.

educational lectures to doctors

of insulin". it

It

replaces

we found it in other many uses. One of my

world". However,

many

It

has

is titled

far

"The 55 non-diabetic uses

more expensive medications, so

does damage the pharmaceutical industry's bottom

line.

One

PZI and you may not need meds twice a day for the rest of your life. Other countries now have it again, and some pharmacies in the U.S. make it for $275 a bottle. Used to be $5 a bottle. Still, it works miracles. Use it if you can find it. One bottle is probably good for 75 patients, so it is still inexpensive if the doctor is working in this area more than once a month. injection of

procedures mentioned are followed, then a medication

If all the

like

acetometaphen (Tylenol)

at three

capsules every three hours

will probably take care of pain control.

Try to use non-narcotic

pain medicines. Especially avoid codeine. Codeine makes

many

people nauseated - a condition you do not need right after oral surgery.

It is

also constipating.

Another condition you don't need

- anytime.

When

all

surgical procedures are completed, ice packs can be

placed right away on the face over the surgical

sites.

These are

on for 30 minutes, off for 30 minutes, back and forth, on and off for 3 to 4 hours. You are still in the dental chair when the first ice pack is placed. Small magnets may be taped onto your left

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face before the ice packs are placed if

the surgical area

is

large.

pain

if

is

Magnets can be

anticipated; that

left

is,

taped to the face

day or two. They speed healing and reduce pain. By the way, the ice packs dramatically reduce the potential for swelling,

for a

pain and discoloration.

Then

the really super important part:

acupressure.

Acupressure

is like

acupuncture in that it focuses on "neurological

pulses" that travel through these the body.

I

was

invisible electrical wires in

pretty skeptical about

these pulses existing until

showed me how whatever.

little

someone

to find them.

Acupressure

Well,

acupuncture in that

We have used acupressure in

it focuses

our practice for over 25 years and would not be without it

it,

whether

I

It

pulses" that travel

through these

really

mres

and reignite nerve muscle interactions at the

during treatment of

little

invisible electrical

does a superb job in helping to restore

when used

on

"neurological

can explain

or not. Don't knock success.

is like

in tne "°"y-

appropriate times

MS patients.

A word of caution. Make sure the acupressurist is really trained, and not someone who had a three day course somewhere.

One of

those critical times

dental fillings.

As one

is

immediately after the removal of

therapist

remarked

to

me, "Removing

those electrically charged fillings scrambles the pulses". think

I

can relate to

I

all

sort of

that, for I certainly see a difference in the

outcome of patients who have been treated with acupressure, and those who have not. The following day after removing teeth and fillings, very few patients who have had acupressure require pain medication, and they generally have that "feeling of well being" that is so important to restore.

following day to

rest,

yet

We tell surgical patients to take the

more than

half will

show up

at the

educational classes with pen in hand, ready to learn more. That doesn't happen

if patients

do not have acupressure.

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Preferably

we have

the acupressure treatment

dental chair, but sometimes the chair

so they are

moved

needed

is

performed

for other patients,

another room. In your homeland, you

to

have

to travel to

up

super important point. Minimize your (ravel.

a

remain

Again,

that is the

in the

optimum

service and

Slight exaggeration

three mile limit.

Riding

produce enough vibration

even think about

know

He

a

clot.

Go

to a

motel

for 24 hours.

home alter surgery. have the same area re

miles to get

Guess why? Top notch surgeon. Not

much trauma

yourself.

aeross the world

You have a Rolls Royee will

blood

has had to return several times to

surgerized.

too

it

man who drove himself 72

a

way

Its worth the investment in you. Airplanes? Don't

lor the night.

I

even

to disturb a

after surgery.

emphasis.

for

ear

in a

half

prefer that a

always available.

not

is

i\o not travel

I

one hour

surgical chair for

After surgery, however, you

home.

may

another office to receive the treatment. That brings

patient

to get

in the

You

to the soekel after surgery.

are delicate. At least

at this

his fault. Just

Please he kind to

point in lime and spaee.

Fuss, fuss.

The next day after surgery, halt an

we

Anodyne machine for about area. Anodyne is an infrared

use an

hour oxer the surgical

generating device that eauses the red blood cells to seerete

oxide around them.

This

makes them almost

"slick", SUCh that

they go into areas that they might not go ordinally.

bruised area. Post surgical bruising paeks, but in

it

ean

still

happen.

the other things that speed

It

lot

up healing.

of fuss and bother, but, to me,

through what could have been a for lite" the next

:im

day or two.

lot

1

C

and

iee

this bruising

speeds up healing along with

were removed, we use the Anodyne daily

A

Like into a

minimal with IV

The Anodyne reduces

minutes, while reducing pain.

all

is

nitric

it

is

Where

for

several teeth

4 days.

worth

it

of trauma and

to see

people go

come

out "ready

1

Chapter

1

Caregivers No matter how tough you are, you still need assistance when going through

the dental revision.

Caregivers

are not just there to open the door for you, there are specific duties involved prior to dental revision plus

post surgical care, transportation, clothing and appointment scheduling. Select your caregiver

and make sure

that

well,

you have communicated the

caregiver duties.

Dental revision and applying the Protocol to a sick body can be as

recommended

-

if you

do not have a caregiver.

It is

that all of our patients bring a caregiver with

them

traumatic as staying sick

to assist in the recovery process.

Because of pain and discomfort?

meds are not usually necessary 24 hours after surgical procedures - if you have a caregiver and follow instructions. Not Rarely. Pain

everyone does patients that

Most

this.

It is

the compliant vs. the non-compliant

have taught us the importance of having a caregiver.

sick patients are invincible and have

an immortality complex, are tough on the inside,

the

even

if ill

on the outside. Can't

I

do

program in one day instead of eight, many

executive types

Sure, !

i

reply.

Fast

demand?

I

always

« j There are two ways to do this program.

- and

right.

that correct?

compromised

I

.

And you want it fast, mean it. Fast results

results.

Personally

I

There are two

wa$s ~_ v, .

FAST richt .

is

in

prefer successful cases, but

I

cannot accomplish that without your undivided attention and cooperation.

I

have made a bunch of mistakes in judgement in

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treatment, and

now

try to

avoid them.

Healing takes time,

commitment and application of basic principles. I am very flexible. Be reasonable - and do it my way. The reason behind this is that I want patients to have the best opportunity for a healthy life, and you do not have to repeat my mistakes that your health will have to pay for. Remember, we are not working with my opinion as if it were a pagan religion, we are working with your body chemistry reports as a guide for your needs, and follow up chemistries as a monitor of "are we going in the right direction?" Did I make the right suggestions, and are you following them? Chemistry is a two-edged sword.

It

examines both of us equally.

Caregiver selection.

Ultra important.

supportive mate, so don't think

it

Not everyone has a

has to be your spouse, a relative

or significant other.

You need

to

choose

someone who knows you; someone you feel safe around when you are otherwise vulnerable; someone who is responsible and reliable -

You need to choose

someone who knows how to encourage you to eat when you don't feel like going to the trouble; someone who can influence you enough to make you slow down when your feel that first surge of new energy and would like to overdo; someone who won't take it personally when you need to experience mood swings. Whew! Does that sound like the someone who knows you.

unselfish;

requirements for a Hallmark Valentine card? Could Mother Teresa fill

the bill? Actually,

you probably know someone who can fulfill

the responsibilities.

What The prime

are those responsibilities?

Actually, the prime responsibility

responsibility

of

the caregiver

is

the day before

the day

before surgery and two or three days

Why? Because we can be slowed

your surgery and 2 or 3 days

What

after.

appointment

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is

have found that healing

down by

clothes to wear -

after.

how do I

decision making.

what time is the get there - what and -

when should

eat.

I

Not earth shaking decisions - unless you

are

Simple decision-making slows healing and recovery. As a patient, your only responsibilities are to rest and keep the patient.

breathing.

What's the big deal, anyway? Most of it involves new brain configurations. Fillings and crowns generate a hundred to a thousand times more electrical charge than the brain works on. Three

nanoamps of

to nine

current will transmit e-mail from

one part of your brain to a nerve or muscle for action. Fillings create microamps to milliamps of current, which is a hurricane of activity into a normally organized electrical brain system.

Consider that you are walking into a 90 mile an hour wind.

You might be forward. Flat

able to compensate

But!

on your

What

if

the

When

face.

if

you leaned

far

enough

wind suddenly stopped? Right.

fillings are

removed, the

electrical

- and??? There are consequences. Those changes also require accommodation. Rest is the only way to accomplish

current stops

those times of readjustment.

The day before dental revision, be take any Vitamin

C supplements.

SURE that the patient does not Vitamin C - B Y MOUTH - will

negate the effects of the Novocain type local anesthetic. give a quart of Vitamin

You can

C IV with no effect on the anesthetic,

but

500 milligrams by pill will knock out the anesthetic in 10 minutes. The patient will experience PAIN. Please make a note. Immediately after the appointment, fine; just not 24 hours prior.

When possible, massage is surgery.

Massage

scheduled the day - 2

is

OK - prior to

will talk the lymphatic drainage

system into

getting things in order for post-surgical cleansing of the area.

The big

And!

massage mobilizes the right form (ionic) of calcium required for healing. Normally this takes about 10 days thing

is that

to occur after surgery or trauma, but

we can

use that calcium

immediately if we want that super blood clot. Non-biological forms of calcium supplements will work against healing, so don't do yourself any favors by taking those.

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If surgery

has been done during dental revision, as with removal

of root canal teeth or cleaning of cavitations, see that ice packs are placed immediately after the appointment. In the dental chair, while acupressure

See that ice

is fine.

packs are placed

is

going on,

Ice packs are to be held (either with a

"jaw-bra" or by hand) on 30 minutes, then off

immediately

30 minutes, for up to 4 hours If conventional ice

after the

appointment.

after the surgery.

packs are not available, the

make one by

caregiver can easily

putting

few tablespoons of water in a Ziploc bag. Be sure that a wash cloth or some similar material is placed between the actual ice pack and the patient's skin. several ice cubes and a

The day

after surgery, patients

may

follow one of two pathways.

Hopefully, they will be sleepy and spend

and being

much of the day sleeping

quiet.

healing occurs

They have their

there to "prove

manhood"

whether male or

—

female females are more prone to this scenario than males.

is

This

is great,

when you

because

sleep.

Then

the other type. Energy abounds

and they have to "prove their manhood"

- whether male or female. In fact, females are more prone to this scenario than males. Males are silently surprised

and just

when

sit

around in a daze, wondering

they are going to slip back into

fatigue.

Women

are

more

apt to

want

to clean out the attic, paint the garage, etc., in

order to prove that their problems were not "all in their

was a problem. Oh, brother. These cases have one target. Six weeks until the major crash. They overdo, and find themselves flat on their backs for about another 6 weeks. Attention caregivers! Here is where you head".

See, I'm not a

are needed.

It is

wimp. There

really

your job to keep the patient hog-tied, hobbled,

chained to the bedpost - use your

own ingenuity - but keep them

Read to them. Go for a long taxi ride. Whatever it takes, but keep them from over-expending their new found energy. Energy still.

can go for healing or doing something stupid.

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Keeping the patient

still is

not as easy as

it

sounds, but

is

very

important.

There are two major goals of surgery: one other

is

to create a healthy

clot, there will

blood

is

to

remove toxins,

the

Without a healthy blood

clot.

be compromised healing. The best way to destroy

and patient recovery - is to smoke a cigarette. Cigarette smoking - aside from the sucking action that can pull a blood clot

out a clot to

air.

-

-

causes a dislodgement of the clot and exposure of bone

OOOh,

Bone exposed

the pain.

kind of pain. Healing doctor's intervention

is

then shifted into another category, and a

required to recapture what you can.

is

Caffeine from coffee,

to air is about the worst

drinks and chocolate will also

tea, soft

encourage the loss of a clot and the resultant "dry socket".

The best way to form a good blood clot is to have given the patient two surgical supplement tablets the day before and the morning of surgery, have PZI (Protamine Zinc Insulin) injected immediately after the surgery,

have the IV-C going during and

after surgery,

and to have acupressure immediately afterwards, while dental chair, if this

is

still

in the

And don't forget the ice packs.

a possibility.

All of that keeps the patient quiet and allows good clot formation.

DO NOT

miles in a car to a hotel

formed clot can handle.

I

is

about

kind to your

is

to three

DO NOT

the

newly

if it is

a Rolls

travel after

Be

&e surgery.

all

don't care

Royce on new pavement - there

vibration.

clot.

Caregivers must see to surgery.

Up

travel after the surgery.

it

that the patient is not over-stimulated after

Massage, IV Vitamin C, acupressure, sauna, hot baths,

body disciplines - are more than two a day are allowed.

reflexology, Trager, Feldenkrais, any of the

categorized as stimulants.

Then, there

is

No

the surprise challenge.

conscious sedation

is

used, but

it

I

have never seen

happens

at least

this

when

one time in 10

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with standard dental procedures. Occasionally the actual dental procedures, but

most often

shows up during the middle of the

it

in

night, the patient will experience a flashback of forgotten fearful

moments.

It

might be an attack by a dog when they were 2 years abuse totally forgotten, a death of a family

old, verbal or physical

member never completely

resolved

-

you name

it.

We

all

have

incidents that upset us at the time, and our subconscious never

forgets

it.

your care wakes up sobbing

If the patient in

uncontrollably in the middle of the night, just be there.

ask what

is

wrong or

everything will be

try to

all right.

the patient, hold their invasive, and let there, but

it is

be a psychologist, or

hand

them cry

it

something that

out.

They

not

now, now,

You may want to hold

Just be there. -

say,

Do

is

relatively non-

are "processing". Just be

extremely important to "be there", for they are

undergoing something of relative magnitude that they are probably as unaware of as you are. Just be there. Quietly and lovingly.

After the removal procedures are complete, the caregiver must see to

it

that the patient is kept nourished.

are greater than normal

when

the patient

Demands on good food is

healing in addition to

just living. After surgery, feel like eating

The caregiver must see to it

numbed by

that the patient

to eat in

is

kept

nourished.

many patients don't

because they are emotionally

the changes in electrical activity

They need to be encouraged order to overcome this feeling, but if

in their brains.

many

teeth

have been removed, patients are

hesitant to eat anything for fear of pain. This

by preparing foods that are high in protein, then running them through a blender. Lots of foods can be mixed together in a blender and come out tasting far better than one might expect. A few sips of food, followed by a few more sips a few minutes later, can do wonders in returning the patient to a feeling of well being. Recovery can be rapid, but that requires food delivered is

with TLC.

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alleviated

Chapter 12

Psychological Aspects of

MS

Recognition of the Dragons It really is "all in

You it's

your head"

may not like this - actually it's a mean dragon, but critical that we face this one if we are to succeed.

Never say always, unless it is true. With alvjays an escape clause. A reason to side-step life. Not in your case? Think again. It is an undercover dragon. This usually involves self-imposed guilt

MS there

is

mean

and

aragon.

the unwillingness to forgive yourself.

You don deserve wellness. We must get 't

you through

that.

to receive health.

There This

people get well on

want

Third then

filling

all

is

is

this

no other way

the deal breaker.

How many

Only those who

treatment?

to.

down and two

to go.

Things were going smoothly,

of a sudden the patient was emitting tears

down her cheeks,

flooding the rubber dam, dripping onto the dental napkin with no

end in

sight.

Her eyes were

closed, but her body language

no sign of physical pain. Mental anguish,

showed

yes, but not dental pain.

This called for some kind of color code. Not blue, not red, but

something common, because

Doc

it

happened

at least

twice a week.

or one of the psychological counselors were to be contacted

immediately to help the patient into a exact Protocol

is

followed,

many

soft landing.

When

the

patients experience flashbacks

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of something that

is

preventing them from getting well. They had

go through this life review if they were to come out really whole on the other side, but it required gentle and knowledgeable to

guidance

at this time.

you could understand rubber dam language, she was also saying - "It's OK, go ahead and finish." "No, no," the patient signaled.

"You sure?"

If

the dentist queried.

"Yes. Sure," she answered, but continued to cry gently.

was summoned as the case was drawing to a close, and the rubber dam was being removed, for the dentist knew that even though the patient was a two year employee of our Center, she could bend the rules, but not get away from them altogether. I

"Dragons?"

I

asked, as the dental team slipped out of the treatment

suite.

"Yes. Dragons

I

know were in there, but I knew right

didn't even

away what was happening.

It

seen you handle these things so last until still

many

"When I was I

let

them

times that

I

finish.

knew

I

I've

could

they finished, but thanks for being here now." She was

teary eyed, but gaining control

routine

OK to

was

13,

my

father

more each minute.

became

would have followed

ill,"

she began, knowing the

in questioning.

"When I was 14, he died. I could not cry. Even at the funeral. I don't know why, because I loved my father, but the tears just were placed just before he died. When those fillings came out, I was at the funeral - as you can guess - in super great detail. I could tell you what everyone was wearing, what people said - everything. And that was 25 years ago. This is the first time I have been able to confront the situation. Now I really know why you are called the 'Dragon slayer'. They are all over the place." wouldn't come. These

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last

two

fillings

'Yes,"

replied.

I

"There are

many more dragons

than mereury,

nickel, root canals and cavitations.

There are the ones that hide in your mind, and only come out when chased

the deep reeesses of out.

Otherwise, they live there forever."

Emotional releases used original Center.

We

to

oeeur two or three times a week

our

in

expeeted them, heard some super exposures

of times gone by and totally forgotten. Bad things happened, and

people pulled the eurtain down. released trauma from people

We

Vivid detail every time.

Dental revision occasionally

when they were only

9 months old.

eautioned patients and earegivers to

be with the patient for 24 hours after the

quadrant removal.

first

The bedroom and bathroom doors are slightly ajar never elosed. Weird things happen. People wake up erying. Don't rush in and ask "what's wrong?" Just be there. Hold them. Don't engage conversation. Just be there. Sooner or later they will open up

may just to themselves.

With conscious sedation, procedures

at

But don't

Just be there.

in

which we can do

one time, we do not see

this

ail

Jet

Back

1984,

in

behind the

title

J

we do without

wrote the book

was

that

most of

the dental removal

emotional release occur.

we do

"] agree, the

problem

is

He informed.

Your Head

The idea

All in

my

patients had been referred to

.

all

that

my commentary

At

that time,

in

your head, but look

lower third of the head, not the upper third."

was only

not

It's

upset the patient's biochemistry.

was,

sedation.

no one could find the dental dragons

psychiatrists because

-or

them be alone.

Psychological discussions are easy and eventful, but see the big release like

in

Now know I

the

in

that

I

partially right.

True, removal of dental toxins by a carefully

orchestrated scenario was critical to improving the cases

I

saw, but there was

another dragon lurking that

J

did not

know

There was

another dragon lurking that I did not

at that time.

well.

I

know

at that

Permission. Permission to get

had heard about

this concept, but

213

was

hesitant to present

nerve.

A

The

patient

it

to patients. Finally,

went something

story

had come

to see us

one day

I

got up the

like this:

because of rapidly advancing

MS

that

appeared to be linked to the placement of a root canal. That

was

the trigger.

He and

I

hit

it

off real well, and

comfortable sharing personal items that

anyone".

Finally,

we would

decided he was the one for

I

we

both were

not

me

tell "just

to ask the

question.

"I

heard something the other day that really

He

People don't

upset me,"

really get well

waiting for the next comment. "I learned that

until they give

people don't really get well until they give

themselves

themselves permission to get well.

I

began.

leaned forward,

"

permission to get well.

"Really? That sounds interesting,

let's

discuss

it."

We

Then

did.

I

leaned forward and said,

something that upset

me

"And

I

found out

even more."

"Whazzat?"

"You have want

"Boy

to give yourself permission to get sick.

I

really didn't

to hear that one."

is

that right!"

he replied with enthusiasm.

"Oh?" I questioned with relief,

for

I

didn't

know where to go with

this conversation.

- and did a fantastic job. I was twice as fast as anyone they had ever had. Everyone was always asking me how I did things. I loved showing them. I was really happy. Then, one day the boss came by and said he was promoting me to management because I was so good. He pushed, and we had "Yeah.

214

I

was on

the line

remember that said, i'd management.' Almost did it, didn't I?"

several confrontations about

die than

go

into

it.

I

I

was astonished. Here was the whole story. It was out in the open. We talked about it. His attitude changed. He was already what I thought was OK, but now I could see that he was stepping over his dead dragon and ready

rather

I

to give himself permission to heal.

There are a

know

lot

of dragons out there.

that a big part of healing is "all in

something too big for you

one

Now

in charge, there is

Either one

is

remember I

said

Vd rather

go into management. Almost did it, didn't I?" die than

I

your head".

to solve yourself,

If there is

and you are the only

always disease or death as an escape route.

socially acceptable, so

trying to help

"/

your subconscious mind

starts

you solve your unsolvable problem.

Many people cannot get well because they feel they don't deserve it.

Not openly. Not the

sort of thing

you

talk to

your best friend

about, but, deep within that realm of forgiveness, something there.

Sometimes

desire, to forgive it is

it is

the lack of ability, or

someone - but most often

the lack of the ability to forgive yourself.

There are things we have

some

guilt trip attached.

baggage than rightly so,

others,

all

done

Some

that

have

with more

some with real guilt and

some with out of proportion,

inflicted or

is

self-

Many people cannot get well because they feel they don't

deserve

it

imaginary guilt baggage that will

Those are the ones that keep us from healing - even when all of the Protocol has been done to the "T". not

let go.

Abuse. That's a big one. Verbal, physical, mental or sexual abuse

- either way. You can be the giver or the receiver, and it can gnaw away at your self-esteem until you are convinced that you are guilty Your and deserve punishment, or that you caused the event. 215

- especially with something incurable - and of course, you do not deserve to get well. You inherited a lot of money you did not work for. Everyone in your platoon was punishment is becoming

killed,

ill

and you survived. War survivors are really tough

to treat,

What a difference it makes, when Life is really out there. You walked

unless you can unlock the door.

they can forgive themselves.

away from the accident. Your spouse, child, parent did not. It was an accident by all legal standards, but to you it was murder one.

Men

or

women were

sexually assaulted or mentally or

physically abused as children by a family

whom

they loved. They will never

member

or neighbor

They would rather die than face up to the family devastation that exposure would create. If you cannot die, MS is close enough.

Was your

tell.

perception of self image as a child based on your

performance evaluation by a parent or teacher? Self image big key to giving yourself permission to

become

is

a

ill.

One woman became pregnant from a man who was supposed to leave his wife. He didn't. She had an abortion. Committed murder. She does not deserve being forgiven. She does deserve her MS. After all, only she, the unborn child and God know the awful deed she did. God wants her to have MS. She wants to have it - as atonement. She did not get well, even after exploring the event for the first time in

30 years.

her to accept forgiveness

As

No one knew.

- even from

MS

It

was

still

to big for

herself.

had driven a high school girlfriend to an abortion clinic. They were both 16. She was too young to be an unwed mother. Too much shame in that, so my patient had agreed to drive her to the clinic. She waited outside. Then she drove her pal somewhere to recover afterward. Recover? My She was an patient never did. She was an accessory to accessory to murder. murder. She could not forgive herself even though they were friends. She was helping a a teenager another

patient

friend out of a seemingly unsolvable solution.

216

Yet in her mind, 20 years of condemning herself resulted

developing her

Hey!

Is

it

own

punishment.

really that big a deal? Yes. Absolutely.

MS.

over 1000 patients with

some dragon hiding Something

that

may be big,

in

in

I

have treated

Yes. In nearly every case, there

is

your head that requires forgiveness.

must be purged,

identified, slain

small, insignificant or imaginary, but

and buried. it

must be

It

slain

to experience recovery.

One man claimed

was nothing in his past. I listened. Within 5 minutes, this tough guy was in tears. In his younger years, he had been in a gang of racketeers that enforced its way on business people in the community. Death was not beyond the punishment for those who did not comply it

did not apply to him. There

with the dictates of the big boss.

them bad," he

told me.

We

"I hurt a lot

He

talked.

Hurt

of people.

resolved his self-

punishment, and he recovered.

I

guess

ignore

I it

had known about unless

it

was

this for

a long time, but chose to semi-

really obvious.

Back

in the late '70's,

I

was The

body chemistry counselor. A family had come in. wife had MS and was in a wheel chair. She had a loving husband, attentive, cute, supportive children aged 7 and 9. The MS had set in right after 3 amalgams and a root canal were placed. The disease had progressed rapidly, and, within 6 months, Mom was in a wheel training a

This trainee had been with

chair.

saying much. to her

and

me for 3

As we walked out of the

said,

"Watch

this case.

days, observing and not

consultation room,

I

it's

looked

not," she replied. at

"She

is

turned

Talk about dramatic onset, the

recovery will be just as dramatic. This case

"No,

I

is

a shoe-in."

not going to improve one bit."

her rather astonished, for

I

had almost 10 years of

experience dealing with dentally-created diseases, and she had 3 days.

Such a

snip.

"What makes you

think so?"

I

asked.

217

"Look at her. She living, her

is

treated like a

husband does

Queen. In addition

the grocery shopping, the washing,

all

ironing, takes care of her in turn also take care of

What does she stand to gain by getting well?

Well,

we

did see

who

Mommy - what does

do the grocery shopping, food preparation, washing and ironing. There no advantage

who

who was

Mommy

family with

kids,

well, she gets to

guess we'll see

I

and the

she stand to gain by getting well? If she gets

is

"Well,

to earning a

to getting well."

is right," I

They

right.

said smugly.

are

still

one

wheel chair directing

in a

all

little

happy

the family

no participation - except from the receiving end. All of her life, she had had to do others' bidding. Lots of brothers activity with

good of the family. Couldn't go to college because there wasn't enough money. Her first job involved taking orders. Never being able to suggest anything, even though she was brilliant in her observations and ideas. This was the first time in her life she was in control. and

help raise.

sisters to

Sacrificing for the

more than removal of

Healing

is

immune

system.

Watch for the

it.

We must settle

terrible things

the choice of

„,

^

.

,

^

Watch for the

self-dest

t

\)U flon

want

to

and stimulating the

We all have one, we just choose

self-destruct button.

different times to press

toxicity

the score for

all

of the

we think we have done. We have forgiving and forgetting - if we

- and -

as they say in the vernacular

-

buy a ticket and get a life. Occasionally, a friend will do the job, but usually it involves a psychologist rather than minister or psychiatrist.

Whoever toxicity issue

is

and the healing

must be apprised of the disease choice. These concepts

listening

vs.

are not standard operating procedures in the field of psychology,

but they are necessary in the

218

MS case.

some

Evaluation: Here are

You may

evaluate your answer

"How would my I

questions. Just answer. Don't think.

life

change

later.

if I

were suddenly whole? What would

it?"

Write the answers

down

How would I react if

were well? I

have

to

do? Would

I

like

quickly without pondering. Think

about your answers in the privacy of your

own

mind. Slay your

dragons.

Slay your dragons.

Those

MS

patients

gaining a

new

objective.

You

future.

really

can get

we

are told

To love

preventing your

recover learn to forgive, forget, and, by

move forward toward a new a life. A new life. Focus on the to "love our neighbor as we love

perspective, can

Biblically

ourselves".

who

new

others,

we must

love ourselves

first.

Is that

life?

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220

Chapter 13

Porphyrins

-

The Root of All Energy

Porphyrins are the primary source of all body energy. Dental toxins interfere with their metabolism, creating

a big portion of the chronic fatigue that is so common. This can be corrected within days, according to the chemistry changes.

Literally.

No

energy flow can happen without permission from

the porphyrins. Porphyrins are probably the secret of

why dental

some people produces a sudden burst of energy; can get up from a wheel chair; can feel human again - right after dental

revision in

revision. All of these things are related

to

what our dentist does with our

porphyrins.

Dental toxic materials

prefer to send porphyrins into the urine,

Porphyrins are

probably the secret

of why dental revision in

thus robbing us of energy for healing

some

-

or just of being.

people produces a

sudden burst of energy.

Interesting that the

symptoms resulting

from low porphyrin

MS

levels

and those

...Interesting that the

if

symptoms resulting

both porphyrins and MS have the same

from low porphyrin levels and those of

of

look similar.

screenplay writer.

It is

almost as

Changes

in

porphyrins levels are rapid, and, as

MS look similar.

usual, under the control of your dentist.

more than half of the cases of MS that we have treated over the past 30 some years, neurological improvements have been noted In

221

within a few days

- and sometimes within

a few hours. This has

always seemed on the verge of something between the impossible

and magic. Investigations into the metabolism of porphyrins hold an explanation as to

why

these people

can experience rapid recoveries and, Porphyrins are

same time, prove that a n i n their head".

may

the problem

at the

was not

«

precursors, or

forerunners, of

What energy * J systems. J

anyway? You seldom general conversation -

are porphyrins, ^u

,

,

.

hear about them in

,

even with your doctor - which

somewhat

is

surprising, since porphyrins are precursors, or forerunners, of our

When porphyrins

two basic energy systems. this a

guarantee that there

is

appear in the urine,

interference in our body's energy

no porphyrins in the urine. And even an imperfect body with no amalgam will have very minimal urinary porphyrin. (Gets manufacturing system.

technical for a while.)

In a perfect body, there will be

Porphyrin

itself is

side chains called carboxyl groups

a molecule that has 8

(COOH).

synthesized in the body by combining succinyl

originally

It is

Co A from

Kreb's

cycle with the amino acid glycine.

This forms alphaaminolevulinate which continues reacting chemically to form a

tetrapyrrole that has a slot with

we

it

that

can receive

iron.

(Ah-ha, a

familiar

word

There

a series of diseases collectively called porphyrias. These

is

-

clue

-

are

headed for hemoglobin.)

diseases are the result of an accumulation (or excessive excretion)

of a variety of different chemicals

known as porphyrins.

In normal

metabolism each of the 8-side chain carboxyls from the porphyrin molecule

is

cleaved off by specific, individual enzymes, one

time, in a process chemically called "decarboxylation".

at a

This

means, de - removal of- some of the carboxyls - (COOH). As

may be 8-carboxy, 7-carboxy, 6-carboxy, carboxys (COOH) side chains are broken off.

found in the urine, there etc., until all

of the

After these enzymes have performed a sculptor-like chiseling

away

of the carboxyls until only the central basic molecule

is left,

what

that,

when

remains

222

is

called "heme".

Another familiar term

combined with globin, forms hemoglobin - which has the from the last paragraph shoved into its center.

iron

Mercury Nickel

J L

Root Canal Toxins Cavitation Toxins

Figure 27

As you can

see from the Figure 27,

when

porphyrins are halted mid-sentence, and

goes your energy,

literally, right

down

interference occurs, the

fall into

the urine. There

the toilet.

Who would interfere with your porphyrins? Why, your

fillings, nickel

canals.

mercury from

from your crowns and toxins from your root

Mercury ions

most effective

Interference?

are perhaps the

in preventing

rinogen oxidation by

porphy-

GSH. (Woods,

Aluminum

is

found

in almost half of the

1988)

composites used to

Aluminum should

not be forgotten,

replace amalgam, .

for

it

also causes accumulation of

8-carboxy and 7-carboxy porphyrins in the liver as well as the red

blood

Aluminum

cells.

(Abdulla, 1979)

found

in almost half of the

is

composites

used to replace amalgam, so

this

can

.

.

Many people

have mercury removed, only to

find out that they are worse off than before dental

amalgam removal. 223

represent the "frying pan into the fire" syndrome. (This

is

why

we do serum compatibility testing before randomly placing a composite.) Many people have mercury removed, only to find out that they are worse off than they were before they had dental

amalgam removal. This is one of the reasons why. Add to that the aluminum from under the arm deodorants where the absorption

down

is

extremely high, and you

the toilet.

Look

still

also to non-stick

have your energy going

cookware and just plain

aluminum pots and pans. This shows why

the entire Protocol

so important, for leaving out correction of one part can

you

still

is

leave

in a mess.

Getting back to heme, not

(Techy again.)

all

of

goes to

it

make hemoglobin.

Heme is the prosthetic group necessary in proteins

such as hemoglobin, myoglobin, catalase, peroxidase and cytochrome C. Another major pathway for heme

is

to activate

your cytochrome

oxidase system which produces a surprising amount of adenosine

triphosphate, or ATP.

ATP

is

cycled and utilized almost

immediately, but, over the period of one day, your body

may

90 pounds of ATP for immediate use. This is your primary energy source for all activity in your body. Rather produce as

much

significant.

And

toilet in the

you Just

as

dental materials are washing

right

form of partially broken down porphyrins.

down

how

efficient

Figure 28 shows

who has

No wonder

can the body be in creating porphyrins and

is

heme and ATP?

how much

porphyrin

is

in the urine of a person

never had dental metals in her mouth.

Very

little

waste.

an example of high efficiency.

Contrast that graph with one of an

MS

patient before and after

removal of amalgams, root canals and crowns (Figure 29).

224

the

feel fatigued.

converting them into

This

it

Urinary Porphyrin Profile on a Patient

With no Previous Dental Treatment

,300

250 §250 x200 |150

§100 f? 50

^0^,

o

^G^

J2-p

mPy

Vi

* a

Total

Urinary Porphyrins

Figure 28

Pre vs Post Dental Urinary Porphyrins

on a Patient with M.S.(Amalgams, Crowns & Cavitations)

S1000

i | 3

500

8

[

4

6 Pre-Dental

Total

Post-Dental

Figure 29

225

In the initial test, there

down

were 2100 micrograms of porphyrin going

were only 200 micrograms. Where did the other 1900 micrograms go? In the the toilet, and, in the test 10 days later, there

MS patients, that increase in usable energy can make the difference in getting out of

wheel chairs and walking, or staying wheelchair

bound. Energy

in these cases is directed to the

No

good chemistry.

miracle, just

Heme

has

many homes. We have heard

ability to transport

nervous system.

of hemoglobin and

its

oxygen, and, perhaps, of myoglobin, that

contains the oxygen found in muscle tissue, but, in the case of

MS,

let's

expand

to include the nerves.

Interesting to note that

amalgam

Woods, who

issue, writing in a

is

familiar with the dental

textbook (Goyer 1995), presents his

findings that "Changes in porphyrin parameters typically appear prior to the manifestation of clinical toxicity and persist after the

cessation of metal exposure consistent with the clearance of metal ,

body burden". It is

obvious on viewing our porphyrin changes that when the

entire Protocol is applied,

it

only takes about 10 days to show

hundreds of percent in changes in urinary excretion. The body does seem to require assistance relatively short period of time.

who

are able to

if

good changes This

is

are to occur in a

exemplified by people

walk a few steps within hours of treatment.

Impaired heme biosynthesis within the nervous tissue can result in a deficiency of essential hemoproteins,

such as microsomal

cytochromes required for oxidative phosphorylation (basic energy production). Nerve dysfunction from improper porphyrin

metabolism nerve cell

is

heme

synthesis within the

itself.

This supports is

the result of lowered

my suspicion that, in neurologic diseases, the nerve

not dead -just running at suboptimal metabolic speeds.

Many

cases of neuromuscular control surprisingly return within a few

226

.

hours or days after dental revision when _ r the rest or the Protocol is applied. rr

suspicion that in

Monitoring porphyrins takes the magic out

neurologic

.

,

.

.

,

_

.

of the event and offers a scientific explanation of

why

„-

.

my .

diseases, the nerve

action can return so

(s

not dead -just

running at suboptimal

quickly.

Removal of dental

fillings

metabolic speeds.

alone does not

generally result in the benefits that

when

.

f

This supports

,

.

the entire Protocol

we see

applied.

is

Frequently

filling

removal alone will

Removal of dental

stimulate the

immune system for about six

fillings alone does

weeks; then the patient collapses back to

not generally result

where they were prior

IM tne benefits that

to dental pro-

we see wnen

cedures

tne

entire Protocol is

Now, watch

between porphyria and

MS

symptoms of porphyria. familiar.

^

a

carefully for interconnections

as

See

Mental fog, chronic

I list

if

ie

'

the

any of these symptoms sound

fatigue,

unexplained abdominal pain,

symptoms such as unexplained anxiety, depression and irritability, sinus tachycardia, muscle tremors sometimes leading to seizures, urinary tract infections and high blood pressure. There are a few more symptoms that I have observed in both MS and ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease). They are constipation, psychological

photosensitivity, or increased sensitivity to light,

peripheral muscle weakness,

and

feet,

numbness and

muscle wasting,

tingling of the hands

and, occasionally, deformities of the hand musculature

(from "Disorders of Porphyrin Metabolism, 1987). to note that porphyria occurs

and more often Perhaps

we

in their 30's

more often

and

40's.

It is

interesting

in females than males,

More connection?

can make a few more MS/porphyrin connections

reviewing a book by Scientific American (1988). In discussing porphyrin metabolism, they included frank psychosis, cranial nerve dysfunction leading to difficulty in swallowing, and a pain in the back. Shades of our Gulf War studies.

227

One of the Gulf War Disease Vets mentioned that he had had severe lower back pain ever since being given the mercury- and aluminum-containing vaccinations during the Gulf War. The pain

had disappeared within 36 hours of dental revision and IV procedures. (Porphyrin reduction?) I then asked the group, and every man and woman described the same type of lower back pain. When we were half way through the treatment, all patients reported the complete absence of lower

back pain.

When we were half

is

the

same as for all autoimmune problems. The body has a limited amount of resources

way through

the treatment, all

for fighting

patients reported *

i

mmune ,

,

the complete , *j

,

.,

_

system J

absence of lower backpain.

is

against

As immune

challenges.

several are removed, and the

t

,

The connection here

,

stimulated, action can be taken '

the

remaining

offending

challenges, and health can be restored.

Since that time,

I

have asked

all

MS

had lower

patients if they

back pain, and over 90% have admitted to having the problem. In those cases where

it

existed, all reported

its

disappearance within

a few days. Is this related to kidney function as reported in the

porphyrin literature?

May be.

Interesting to note the

American.

recommended treatment

in Scientific

"Therapy consists of the use of symptomatic

medications such as meperidine and phenothiazine for pain relief."

(An

aside:

These medications must be detoxified by the kidney,

putting an extra load on

it.

Excess detoxification load

the reason for pain in the kidney in the

pouring fuel on the

flame?)

fire instead

place.

probably

Are we not

of removing the source of the

"Intravenous infusion of glucose (sugar)

approaching 20 g/hr is recommended. insulin

first

is

If high

at a rate

blood sugar results,

may be administered. Beta blockers have been advocated

marked tachycardia (rapid heart beat) and (high blood pressure)." It gets complex when each medication's side effects must be treated with another drug. for treatment of

228

These symptoms are considered the diagnosis of porphyria.

diagnosed with

in patients all

I

have seen

MS,

all

more

but,

importantly,

MS

of them disappear in the collective

porphyrin levels

when associated with of the same symptoms

irreversible

come down. No one

patient

I

have seen

- when

the

patient has all of the

symptoms, and not all of the symptoms go away in every patient, but overall - collectively - 1 have seen all of them appear, and all disappear

-

Seems

just in different folks.

to

be related

how

to

well they follow the dietary regime in the Protocol. Also, do not

expect porphyrins to drop

when amalgams

are haphazardly

removed, nor when root canal teeth and cavitations are left in the mouth.

Do not expect These observations would suggest

that

porphyrins to drop

may be

wnen amalgams

an indicator of the extent of the disease

are haphazardly

porphyrin excretion in the urine

we

call

MS, while

others

may

call

removed, nor

it

Porphyria. Sort of a to-may-toe, to-mah-toe

when

What difference does a name make, anyway? As for me, I balance chemistry. High urinary porphyrins

teeth

situation.

root canal

and

cavitations are left

m the mouth.

should be reduced regardless of color,

name of the disease. may suggest spending

will admit that the

race, creed or

I

the disease

a bit

name of

more emphasis on one

segment than another, for there is usually a "fingerprint" condition

more tweaking than in other diseases. there is a bit more emphasis on potassium.

that requires a bit

instance, in

Woods

MS

(1993) suggests that urinary porphyrins

biomarker of exposures to mercury.

may

For

serve as a

He studied dentists and found

preliminary evidence of urinary porphyrin changes as a biomarker

of low level mercury exposure.

Echeverria (1994) suggested

mercury and porphyrin studies might be of value

in assessing

neuro-behavioral function. She compared urinary porphyrin levels

of dentists to an assessment Profile of behavioral related.

tests.

As might be

Mood

Scales plus 6

expected, the scores were dose

Poor mental concentration, emotional

liability,

were 229

related to levels of urinary mercury.

As I might

expect, based

on

my observations of "retention toxicity", her "changes in cognitive and motor junction combined with the others were not significantly associated with urinary mercury".

have concluded

I

mercury (not porphyrin) levels are low, an interference in

cell

that

because the body has

it is

membrane permeability

plus loss of ability

of the kidney to excrete mercury.

Low

aspect,

levels

low

levels of

when

mercury

From

this

in the urine

indicate the

indicate the retention of mercury, rather than

retention of

small exposures.

mercury rather

urinary mercury can be increased, chemistries

than small

and symptoms improve.

In

my

experience, as

exposures.

Echeverria found that increases in the 4-carboxy form of porphyrin in urine "was associated with deficits in digital span and simple reaction time".

These results seemed to become apparent as 36 micrograms of mercury per

liter

dentists excreted over

of urine. Since that level

is

well within the "normal" range, she said that this "suggested the

need for a more comprehensive study

to

determine the threshold

In her study, the proposed biological of adverse biologic effects. threshold for mercury in the urine was 25 to 50 micrograms per '

liter

of urine.

From my

micrograms appears acute exposure.

to

clinical observations, anything to

abnormal symptoms and of

agree, the

whole system of mercury be re-evaluated. I might go

be related

Yes,

I

above 10

measurement versus health needs to so far as to suggest that the whole system of placing toxic metals in patients should

be re-evaluated by toxicologists, immunologists

and people without financial

interests in dentistry.

This whole scenario of similarities between heavy metal reactions

and

MS symptoms demonstrates why I see names of diseases as a

compensation for another. Is to the

it

slight modifications

from one "diagnosis"

possible that slight modifications of immune response

same challenge

is

dependent upon individual genetic side-

stepping that results in a different twist to the response?

230

to

To me,

autoimmune diseases is the same. Balance the chemistry. Dr. Emanuel Cheraskin, another one of my mentors, used to give a talk called, "The name of the game is the name". His point was that far more time was spent in the basic treatment for

determining the

name of the

all

disease than in finding

its

cause and

cure.

Woods,

J.

S.,

Attenuation of porphyrinogen oxidation by

glutathione in vitro and reversal by porphyrinogen^ trace metals.

Biochemical and Biophysical research communications 152: No.

3,

pp. 1428-1434, 1988.

Abdulla, M., et

al.,

Antagonistic effects of zinc and aluminum on

lead inhibition of alpha aminolevulinic acid dehydratase.

Arch

Environ Health 34: 464-469, 1979.

M. B., eds., Toxicology of Metals Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology,

Goyer, R. A., and Cherian,

Biochemical Aspects,

Vol 115: 19-52, Springer

-

Verlag, Berlin, 1995.

Woods, J. S., et al., Urinary porphyrin profiles as a biomarker of mercury exposure: studies in dentists with occupational exposure to mercury vapor. J Toxicol Environ Health 40: 239-250, 1993. Echeverria, D., et

mercury among Metabolism.

al.,

Effects of

dentist.

low

level exposure to elemental

Neurotoxicol Teratol, 1994.

The porphyrias, Ch.

5, Scientific

American,

Inc.,

1988.

231

NOTES

232

Chapter 14

Who's Rooting for Root Canals? Far more devastating than amalgam, the toxicity of root canals has been known by the medical and dental professions since 1 900. Most of our current autoimmune diseases stem from root canal toxins, yet the dental

profession hangs on to dead teeth like their lives

depended upon

it.

Wrong.

It is

the patient's

life

that

is

in the balance.

and comedians frequently target

Practically everyone. Cartoonists

root canals and lawyers. true,

and number

2,

Why? Number

no one

really

one,

all

the stories are

knows what goes on

in the inner

sanctum of these ivory walls. Patients like root canals because they

removed. Dentists

like

do not have

to

have a tooth

them because they can place crowns and

bridges on them, and maintain a higher

number of

Removable bridges and dentures are like a wooden leg. Better than nothing, but not as good original teeth.

as the original equipment.

j Uke root

canah

on iy because they

make my treatment look good.

I like

my

root canals only because they

treatment look good.

make

When we

properly remove root canals and clean out the socket areas in

conjunction with the Protocol,

we jump

start the

immune

the blood chemistries improve, diseases get better or

system,

go away,

emotions are under better control and people's lives are improved.

233

— The other side of the coin is that, with the ADA encouraging dentists to do more and more root canals, more and more patients can potentially enter the rapidly expanding world of autoimmune diseases. The ADA pushed for 30 million root canals a year by the year 2000, and attained that goal by 1999.

hear

I

now

that the bar

moved up to 50 million per year. At 30 million a year, that is about 85,000 per day. When we see patients at one of the Centers in which I teach, we may remove 8 root canal teeth per day. We're losing ground. The only way I can catch up is with your help. I has been

need

to educate

you about root

you

canals, so that

consider having one, nor want to live with

its

will not

even

consequences.

Why do we need root canals? Usually because of pain.

Physical

injury to a tooth, an abscess or decay entering the nerve

chamber

all

produce pain that leads you to seek dental service. Usually

you have two choices. Remove the People are getting a

little

tooth, or

trigger happy.

do a root

canal.

Recently, one of our

famous media personages had 8 root canals placed in one day. Does that sound a bit extreme? Like having 8 babies in one day. A few weeks ago, I referred a man to a young dentist because of slight discomfort in a tooth with a temporary crown on it. The

"You will probably need a root canal. I'll schedule you for one." He was a friend and former patient of mine - well educated in dental toxicity - so he replied, "No root

receptionist immediately said,

canal."

She argued with him, then eventually

examination appointment.

check the

bite for

it

I

told

sounded

him

let

him have an

to suggest that the dentist

like there

was a high spot on

the

temporary crown. The dentist adjusted the high spot, and lo and behold, the pain went

Facing 85,000 new « ; root canals per day, how do we stand a chance of having a healthy

system?

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immune

away within two hours - without a root canal. But look at the initial thinking "Discomfort calls for root canals." X7 Beware. You must become your own

~

L

Facing 85,000

how do we

,

new root canals per day,

stand a chance of having a

immune system? Since I started educating people about mercury in 1973, the rate of amalgam filling placement has

healthy

dropped from nearly one million per day day.

During

over 200,000 per

however, root canals have made dramatic

that time,

Autoimmune

increases into people's mouths. increase too.

to just

diseases are on the

Would the high copper amalgams with their 50 times

more mercury

release, plus the increased

numbers of root

canals,

be influential in these autoimmune increases? inner sanctum with an obvious question,

Invading that sacred

what

is

dentist

wax.

a root canal? That

is

what the procedure

removes the nerve from a tooth and

It is

fills

sort of like replacing the lead in a

The root of the tooth is

still

is

called

when

a

up the hole with

mechanical pencil.

there, just the center, or

"pulp chamber",

has been replaced.

Is a

root canal tooth considered dead or alive, since the

surrounding bone

is

alive? That question has elicited powerful

arguments from the dentists the "nerve"

is

gone.

It

who perform

root canals. In truth,

contained the nutrient delivery system

involving arterioles and venuoles for blood transportation. These

have been replaced with a piece of wax.

Actually, the bone

surrounding the tooth has calcified with condensing osteitis and

no longer has a blood supply. Dentists don't like the implication of the word dead any more than they would say they place "mercury" fillings, so they refer to root canal teeth as "pulpless teeth". Semantics. It's

still

dead.

Root canals have been around

in

years. Their original objective

1900 and 1910,

Mayo

one form or another for over 100

was

to "save the tooth".

Brothers Clinic began to investigate the

wisdom of root canals. The idea was, losing the patient?

Some

are

there

seems

to

we

saving the tooth and

of the finest microbiologists the world

has ever known were alive during this time. for quality of personnel.

Between

Mayo was no exception

They investigated dental bacteria because

be a relationship between these bacteria and non-

responsive diseases.

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Enamel

Crown Dentin

Pulp

Chamber (Nerve)

Root

h

Periodontal

Ligament

Apex Figure 30

There are basically two types of bacteria. Aerobic, or those that

oxygen for survival, and anaerobic, or those that require an oxygen free environment for survival. We are far more acquainted with aerobic, who form pus around splinters and require

require

antibiotics to destroy. either.

They are not pleasant, but not life threatening

Anaerobes, on the other hand, produce waste products called

toxins, that are quite lethal. Tetanus

more famous, painfully.

and Botulism are some of the

for extremely small doses can kill quickly

Anaerobic bacteria are strange bugs. They can

as aerobes, then get into an environment with diminishing

start

and out

oxygen

- and, instead of dying, they transform themselves into an anaerobe. Then, as the oxygen level continues to drop, they undergo what

known like the

as a

pleomorphic change. They change forms.

worm

that crawls in

one end of a cocoon as a

crawls out the other end as a butterfly.

Same

is

Sort of

worm and

animal, different

body form.

As

these bugs crawl

down

a root canal, the dentin tubules or

accessory canals - and especially the periodontal ligament, they

become more treacherous

at

every compensatory pleomorphic

change. Every time you bite down, a few molecules of these potent toxins flow out into your body, looking for a home.

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Most of the

bacteria like the nervous system, but

Every time you

endocrine, immune, digestive, they are

bite

very adaptable in their ability to attack.

It

was Frank Billings MD,

president of the

AM A

(1

down, a few

molecules of these potent toxins flow

the 55 th

out into your body,

902- 1 904) and

looking for a home.

Dean at Northwestern Medical Schools in

Chicago who encouraged study

this arena.

in

Systemic diseases related to oral infections were his

favorite topic to discuss.

the relationships in depth.

microbiologist

Mayo was investigating Rosenow (of the Mayo Clinic), was the

By

1913, Charles

who really brought to a head the importance of the

very difficult procedures involved in culturing anaerobic bacteria.

This was important, because anaerobes were the bugs causing

all

the big problems.

Rosenow and Weston Price became friends and colleagues. Price hired several microbiologists to work at the Research Institute for the dental association, and they began investigations on the

anaerobes in root canal teeth. They soon found that they could implant a root fragment from a patient

with a specific disease into a rabbit,

and within a week or two, the rabbit

would die of the disease that the patient had died from. They routinely implanted 30 rabbits with the same root fragment, removing it when the rabbit died and implanting it into another rabbit.

In over

90%

of the cases, the

disease could be transmitted into the

They could implant a root fragment from a patient with a specific

a rabbit, and within a week or two, the rabbit would

disease, into

die of the disease that

the patient

had died

from. rabbit, unless the tooth sat

around for

a few weeks before being re-implanted.

Even

at that,

some 2 year post

extraction teeth were put into

incubators, cultured, and, with care, the anaerobes were able to be

resurrected again.

The journey of toxins and anaerobes from

root canal teeth could

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1

be traced from the tooth to the heart, lungs, kidney, system, digestive system, and endocrine system

-

liver,

immune

there were not

many limits to where the anaerobes and their toxins could end up. These implanted toxins did show a definite preference for the same tissue that

was involved

in the donor.

These discoveries led Price

to explore the

assumptions about the

value of X-rays in determining the condition of root canal teeth.

Assumption #1

:

If the

X-ray

is

means no visible tooth is OK.

negative (which

pathology), then the

Calcium forms a

Microscopic examination of extracted root

dense protective

canal teeth and re-X-raying the socket

layer

around an

infected tooth.

This makes the tooth look very

healthy on an X-ray.

areas sometimes revealed the presence of

a heavy line of calcification around the

found

to

be condensing

osteitis.

forms a dense protective layer around an infected tooth. This

Figure 3

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was Calcium

tooth outline area of the socket. This

makes

the tooth look

4

Figure 32

very healthy on an X-ray, because the high density to

is

interpreted

be bone, not an infective calcification process.

Root canal

by condensing osteitis are quite unhealthy and very hard to remove. The teeth usually fracture into many pieces during the extraction process. Healing was noted to be slow and painful. In our practices now in the 2002 period, we find that we must take a dental burr to the socket and remove all of the condensing osteitis. It usually requires removal of one to three millimeters of bone and associated osteitis. An experienced dentist can usually detect the differences in bone density "by touch" of the burr on the bone. Once the infected bone is removed, the blood clot can furnish monocytes that are converted into the bone forming cells called osteoblasts, and healing will occur. teeth surrounded

Where there was no condensing osteitis, the immune system was attempting to reject the tooth. Bone surrounding the tooth was found to be relatively soft, and the tooth was easy to remove. Healing was generally fast, effective and not especially painful.

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Assumption #2

Pulp chambers without exposures from fracture

:

of decay are not infected.

From the clinical standpoint, Dr. Price had found infected teeth that did not

fit

that criteria. Microscopically,

penetrated at least half

way through

he found that

if

decay had

the dentin toward the pulp (as

seen on X-ray), the bacteria had already colonized the pulp chamber.

n

.

They had preceded the decay by migrating down the dentin tubules. °

.

°

Bacteria are associated with

an

As an

active fluid flow

from

the oral cavity,

>

Dr Ral P h Steinman

University of

-

Loma Linda in

and 1960's, showed

through the enamel rods, through the dentin tubules

aside

at the

the 1950's

that bacteria are

associated with an active fluid flow from

and

the oral cavity, through the enamel rods,

into the pulp

through the dentin tubules and into the

chamber,

pulp chamber.

This

is

a biologically

active process, so bacteria can be ushered

into a progressively

more anaerobic condition - encouraging

pleomorphic changes into powerful anaerobic bacteria.

This

explained the presence of abscesses on the root tips of teeth that did not have "pulp exposures".

Assumption #3

:

A

poorly done root canal

is

better than

an

extraction.

After finding that root tips from extracted root canal teeth could

autoimmune and degenerative diseases in rabbits that were similar, if not identical, to those harbored by the original human patient, Price decided that patient health would be better if root canal teeth could be removed. There was no such thing as a good or poor root canal. All were hazardous. create

Assumption #4

:

Dental infections have no relationship

to

systemic diseases.

Obviously, there were no supporting data to convince Price that

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this

was

true.

He

could prove under the microscope that diseases

could be transferred from

human

implantation of a root fragment. root canals

would be

to rabbit through the

medium of

He could not assure patients that

safe for them. If anything, the opposite

was

true.

Assumption #5

:

Local comfort

is

a measure of successful

treatment.

when there was little or no pain associated with a root canal tooth, the immune reactivity was very low in the area

Price found that,

of the tooth.

Toxins around a root canal tooth could infuse

throughout the entire body, for there was nothing to deter them. Pain was a good sign.

Pain indicated that immune reaction

was

trying to neutralize the toxins, and

t was lots of activity localized in the _ /. area. The important thing r & was that the infection was being confined to that area. Lack of pain indicated that systemic ,*

r

!

there

j

i

•

,*

,

When there was or no pain associated with a root canal tooth, ..

the

.

immune

reactivity

very

was

ow

i

invasion and potential infiltration of the

whole body was occurring. Today,

we

find that antibiotics can offer a false sense of security.

Antibiotics halt

immune

activity in the area of the involved tooth

and encourage the infective condensing osteitis to form. This limits healing activity and allows the toxins to spread systemically. eradication of pain

healing

is

makes

The

the patient and the doctor think that

doing well.

In order to test the concept of

all

root canal teeth being toxic,

Price took 1000 extracted root canal or abscessed teeth and

them in the ADA laboratory. He used conventional canal cleaning techniques in the chamber first, then flushed them with chemicals far too caustic to be used in a live human. He used phenol, alcohol, iodine, formocresol, formalin and 35 more chemicals in an attempt to sterilize the chamber. After 48 hours, sterilized

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he broke the teeth and tested the internal areas for

sterility.

990

He

then

out of 1000 teeth plated out bacterial contamination.

autoclaved some teeth and found that none of them plated out bacterial contamination.

Where were the bugs?

Why weren't they killed by the chemicals?

Microscopic examination of teeth revealed that there was frequently more than one canal, even in front teeth. They are what are called "auxiliary" canals.

These are offshoots of the primary

pulp chamber that travel laterally from the primary chamber to the outside of the tooth.

The majority of

these are in the bottom one third of the

The primary areas of infection

were

root.

Price once found 75 auxiliary

canals in one tooth. Again, deferring to

centered around the

the microscope, Price found that the

apex of the tooth and the areas where these

primary areas of infection were centered

auxiliary canals

entered the

periodontal ligament

around the apex of the tooth and the areas

where these auxiliary canals entered the periodontal ligament. There is no physical

way

to clean these auxiliary

canals, so they contain not only bacteria,

but dead nerve tissue as well.

Chemicals cannot be forced into

these canals either.

Ifyou connected all dentin tubules

in

a front tooth, the

single tube

would

reach for 3V2 miles.

Then there is the issue of dentin tubules. These are like tiny garden hoses that communicate from the pulp chamber to the periodontal ligament

on the outside of

the tooth. Price once estimated that if you

connected

all

dentin tubules in a front

would reach for Vli miles. That could house a lot of bacteria. No wonder root canal teeth cannot be sterilized except by autoclave. Mechanically, by the time you had cleaned everything out that can grow bacteria, there would be no tooth left. tooth, the single tube

What 242

is this

periodontal ligament that keeps coming up? This

is

between tooth and bone. Teeth are not actually

the connection

connected directly to bone. Fibers grow out of the bone, and fibers

grow out of the

These

root.

fibers intertwine to

form a hammock

attachment between tooth and bone. That gives a sort of shock absorber situation, such that the action of teeth hitting together during chewing

not so traumatic to the skull. This provides the

is

center of focus for infection. Toxins produced in auxiliary canals

and dentin tubules migrate down the tooth

to the periodontal

ligament and concentrate there.

The next consideration in a root canal procedure is preparing the pulp chamber to be filled with the wax. Files and reamers are used to remove the contents of the chamber. That is not as easy as it sounds, because if you are lucky enough to find the canal in a root, it may be curved, may have calcifications that make cleaning all

the

way

to the

end impossible, or

it

may be

too small to get a

file into.

Assuming

all

the filing and cleaning have been done,

item on the agenda

to

is

fill

up the

Wax

hole.

now the next

cones (called gutta

percha) of various sizes are provided, and the dentist must heat a

metal instrument shaped something like a long, thin metal toothpick

make the wax soft. Then the instrument can be used to compress the wax into the tiny canals. X-ray can be used to determine when the wax is all the way to the end. so that the heat will

Unfortunately, that story, not the end. .

7

1

shrinks. t

is

the beginning of the

As

the

wax

cools,

it

m r Then chloropercha, a chloroform ,

,

,

t

,

r

.

additive that softens the gutta percha wax,

begins to evaporate and further shrinkage occurs.

The

action of compression of the

^

°f the

24%

shrinkage occurs ^

_

^

at the

one area

fc

^ mmt

critical to

have

sealed

the apex.

wax tends to rebound, allowing it to shrink even more, and the result of all

this action

shrinks the gutta percha opening the area at the apex. Shrinkage

more noticeable in thin than thick areas, and where is the thinnest area? At the apex. So, much of the 24% shrinkage occurs at the

is

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one area that canal.

the

is

most critical to have

The bottom of the

sealed.

The apex.

no adhesion between gutta percha and the smooth dentin of the tooth, shrinkage readily pulls the wax away from the Since there

is

walls of the canal, and space appears.

School of Medicine,

later called

Some

professors at Case

Case Western, studied the amount

of shrinkage and compared the space with the size of bacteria.

The smallest bacteria are about 0.005 millimeters, and the space available was up to 0.075 millimeters. This left plenty of room for bacterial invasion. Even if the chamber were sterile when the gutta percha was placed, it would not take long for a re-invasion of bacteria to occur up inside the canal next to the gutta percha

wax

cone.

But the concern

is

not just that bacteria are growing in the tooth,

in the periodontal ligament

and

in the surrounding bone.

The real

what kind of bacteria are there? These are anaerobic

question

is

bacteria.

The ones that grow in the absence of oxygen and produce

the

most deadly

toxins.

How deadly?

In laboratory tests comparing aerobic vs. anaerobic bacteria, the

equivalent of one cup of aerobic streptococcus in a 70 kilogram

man can produce

Using an extract produced by a root canal tooth in an injection, it took only one microgram to produce death within one and a half minutes in a rabbit. It is

sickness, but not death.

hard for us to conceive of a toxin so powerful that can

produce autoimmune diseases and death molecular

level.

who

everyone

at practically the

In addition, these toxins potentially exist in

has a root canal.

Using very diluted solutions of the root canal liquid extracts, Price

was able

to get

some animals

to live for 2 to 3

weeks

after

being

At autopsy, they exhibited acute myocarditis, hyperemia of the liver and kidney and marked atrophy of muscles. (Sound

injected.

familiar?)

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When a dentist looks at an X-ray and says he does not see a problem with a root canal tooth, he

be

like saying

I

took

my

is

telling

it

like

he

is

binoculars and looked at

could not see any street signs.

would the moon, and

seeing

it.

It

We are looking for molecules at the

root tip and invisible auxiliary canals.

Why aren't more people sick?

They are. They Wft? aren t just don't know where their sickness is coming more people from. Look at TV ads. Sickness is big business. ey Can you name three industries that make more are money than the pharmaceutical industry? The ads are now telling the strange names of drugs so often that we can pronounce them when we go to our doctors, self diagnosed with the aid of TV actors, and "Ask our doctor if XXX drug is right for me?" y

Many

people will say that they have no health problems

They just take

their

at all.

medication for high blood pressure, diabetes,

thyroid dysfunction, digestive problems, and a blood thinner. Just like all of their friends, they are in

People expect to take drugs as they get

are not in the hospital).

older

-

say,

"good health" (meaning they

over 40. They are not educated to the fact that

all

of

these problems just mentioned can be root canal related; therefore,

both curable and preventable.

High blood pressure drugs to treat

it.

is

We

an accepted condition. There are

see a lot of high blood pressure patients.

Very few require drugs

after their root canals are

provided the periodontal ligament

procedure

is

many

followed.

is

removed -

removed, and the

rest of the

Remember that radio show I did with Dr.

Robert Atkins? "If you have had an incurable disease diagnosed within 6 months of a major dental procedure, call us and

name of the disease, in between."

diagnosed by

tell

the

the dental procedure, and the length of time

Who won after two hours MRI within 90 days of the

of phone ins?

MS

placement of a root

canal.

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How many people that

less than half

it is

know

have root canals?

that

something

don't know, but

I

of the population. In contrast to

in the nature of

95%

of

my

I

suspect

do

that, I

patients either

have root canals or have had them removed not long ago. Even having the root canal teeth extracted, the patients

after

still

have

the cavitation left over that harbors the anaerobic bacteria.

Why

doesn't everyone

each of us link.

genetically

is

who

has a root canal have

programed to fall victim

MS?

to his

Because

own weak

could be heart disease, ALS, breast cancer, diabetes,

It

depression, unexplained suicidal thoughts, digestive problems, or

How many autoimmune diseases can you name?

Parkinson's.

All

of these diseases have increased, some exponentially, since the advent of the high copper amalgam with

its

50 times greater release

of mercury and the push to place 30 million root canals per year. Yes,

did leave out vaccines, and their role due to containing ultra

I

high amounts of aluminum and mercury as preservatives. They

do play a this is

The

significant role as an additional

one thing

immune challenge. But

that a dentist will probably not inflict

upon you.

rest is dental.

Price published dozens of articles on

how

root canals interfered

with calcium metabolism. Interference with calcium metabolism

what causes the "mental cloud"

is

as he called

my

fog" as

it,

or the "mental

patients call

it.

Calcium

deposition as cataracts, kidney stones Interference with

/ ,. , calcium metabolism _

^ what causes the ,

is

,

"mental cloud" as

A r a u and hardening of the arteries he „ attributed to root canal interference. As ,

,

-

..

a cause

'

.

Price found that during the

he called it, or the

formation of condensing osteitis to

"mental fog" as

shield the root canal tooth

my patients

body, the serum ionic calcium in the

call it

from the

blood was dropping. So? Calcium

is

necessary, but very picky in selecting its

levels.

It

has a balance point, and too high a level gives

precipitation problems,

246

and feelings of "impending doom" and

''mental fog" appears.

Calcium

levels that are too

low give slow

healing problems and the tendency to pick up autoimmune diseases.

There

is

an ionic and a pathological form of calcium.

The

makes kidney stones, hardening of the arteries, calcium deposits on teeth and cataracts. The ionic form stimulates many necessary enzymes to function properly. It also is responsible pathological form

for nerve transmission control.

Healing of any sort requires ionic calcium

(Most calcium supplements cannot supply pathological, non-biological

at a particular level.

this, for

they are in the

form and will be contrary

to healing.)

Infections like those around a root canal tooth cause a notable

drop in the ionic form of calcium as measured in the blood. As

serum ionic calcium drops, one becomes more susceptible to nervous system attacks. These might be mercury and root canal the

toxins being

moved by

retrograde axonal transport up the cranial

nerves into the brain.

It is

best to obtain your calcium

believe

it?),

eggs and

butter.

from foods

like lettuce

(Can you

Milk and cheese are not recom-

mended. After pasteurization, the calcium

in these products is

not biologically available and forms what

is

called calcium

contamination. Calcium deficiencies are not found too often, but

calcium contamination was found in probably patients

I

80%

of the

MS

have seen.

do MS patients have so many auxiliary diseases and symptoms simultaneously? It is the multiplex attack that makes

Why

the disease so hard to diagnose initially.

combination of events?

It is

Is it

a disease, or a

hard to say, but, possibly, both

same condition. One part of the explanation lies in the various toxins produced by the anaerobic bacteria. Which toxin is formed is dependent upon how far down on the tooth the bacterium lives. The farther down, the more anaerobic, the more damaging the toxin. questions address the

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As

down

the bacteria crawl

the periodontal ligament, there

As

is

oxygen concentration decreases, the anaerobic bacteria undergo a "pleomorphic" change into a bacteria that can live in even less oxygen. Each change results in slightly different metabolism in the bacteria and the progressively less and less oxygen.

the

resultant waste products (toxins) are different.

Different toxins

immune system in different ways, and different genetic people respond differently to immune challenges. That is why it irritate the

is

remarkable that Price was able to transfer the same disease from

human

to

animal

80%

Blood tests on rabbits

As would be

to

90%

of the time.

after root canal implantation

were interesting.

expected, the ionic form of calcium in the serum

Blood glucose also dropped,

dropped.

as did uric acid. In fact, Price injected a

Blood tests on rabbits after J

,

ZplaZtion were interesting.

.From

minute amount of root canal toxin into a r uu .. A A r rabbit and found over a period or several

this

*

•

da ^ S that the bl00d SU S ar ( S luC0Se) went from 97 S % U P t0 149 § % and stay ed elevated for one month. From this

m

m

information, Price

information, Price suggested that root

suggested that root

canals were not the treatment of choice

canals were not the

for the diabetic patient.

treatment of choice

of an inserted root canal fragment, the

for the diabetic

rabbit experienced a drop in blood sugar

patient.

and a drop

This best

is

Upon removal

in uric acid.

about as sound a proof of cause as one could call

we heed

for,

so

the warning.

amounts of root canal extract, because Price describes an experiment in which one milligram (equal in weight to one strand of hair 2 inches long) was injected into the vein of a rabbit. He knew that seizures should occur, and These must have been

tiny, tiny

was prepared to measure the number of jumps the rabbit attempted and the length of time from injection till death. The jumps were 248

too violent and too rapid to measure, and the 30 pound rabbit was

dead

in less than

around

your body

in

root canal

It

same stuff that is running molecular form as a tooth is dying or a

one minute. This in

the

is

done.

is

makes you wonder why

MS is all that you caught.

Sometimes people cannot relate to root canal teeth being a problem because "they do not hurt". Especially are in

good

As mentioned

health.

no longer confined

earlier, if a

that

When and

to the tooth.

where will symptoms

root canal tooth does not hurt, that the toxins are

they

if

means

They are traveling all over the body. When and where will symptoms become noticeable? TT71

.

When your resistance J Price called

a

it

"

.

,, n

noticeable?

,

is

become

down.

„ r When your ,

resistance

break in resistance ".

is

down.

Something has overwhelmed the immune system so that it can no longer maintain "homeostasis".

was

I

hear this described almost

do anything I wanted to do, and then the next week...." "Whatever" disease appeared. There was a break daily. "I

fine, able to

in resistance.

What causes a break in resistance? Price called this an "overload" to the system. What are the things that he found that created overload? Here they are:

Influenza

The

flu.

the flu. all

It is It

hard to imagine the

immune

drains the stores of Vitamin

suppression created by

C to almost zero, and affects

the systems in the body. Price, suspecting a role by root canals

number of people having the flu so be hospitalized. He divided them into those

in susceptibility, recorded the

bad

that they

had

to

with root canals and those without. hospital admittances

had root canals

He found that 72% of the and 28% had no root canals. 249

In

my own patients,

I

have heard the story of people becoming

ill

As

with an autoimmune disease after a root canal was performed.

you might expect, those people most often report the onset of symptoms 7, 14 or 21 days after the root canal. Surprised? I'll bet.

Pregnancy Pregnancy increases the

on the female body

stress load

many pregnant females must

greatest extent. In today's society,

work

until the last

lifestyles.

That

their challenge to

added

is

nutrients with the

minute

growing

mama.

in order to maintain their

may be

all that is

chosen

stress, in addition to the sharing

of

Endocrine changes contribute

fetus.

All of these things combine to lower the

resistance of the female, and the addition of

canals

to the next

needed

to

mercury and root

push them over the brink into

an autoimmune disease.

Grief and

They

Worry

create an overload of mental strain that

more susceptible cavitations. This after the flu, in

makes

individuals

to dental infections like root canals

and

segment is a tie with pregnancy for second place,

breaking resistance. Although hard to

treat, if it is

recognized, addressed and processed, the stress can be reduced.

People can either

let

grief and

worry lead

their lives, or,

by facing

them (usually with good counseling, for most of us do not know how to deal with them), can overcome them.

Of course,

the dental procedures bring

and loss"

(a close relative) if

canal teeth removed. That

is

up something called "grief people have to have dead or root

another stress that

prior to the dental procedure.

much

Back

teeth

as front for vanity reasons, but

is

best handled

do not worry people as

it still

represents loss of a

part of your body. Conscious sedation helps to reduce the trauma, for during the procedures there

consequences of tooth

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loss.

is less

thought directed toward the

I

address vanity as being

OK. Most people

embarrassed by feeling vanity.

are distressed and

inform them that

would not want them as a patient if they did not have vanity and have feeling of loss toward their teeth - and I mean it. That is part of your I

I

body, and you must completely understand and accept the reasons for the

removal of these

teeth.

There

and a space between your teeth

is

a trade-off between health

that a dentist

can do a good job of

replacing esthetically and functionally. All of this must be addressed

if

we are to have a successful case. See why people get

worse when they just have rest

their

amalgams removed and forget the

of the person?

Trauma

We

are speaking of overload to the

irritations that result in active

the white blood cells of the

immune

system.

Acute

inflammatory processes bring in

immune system to that specific

area.

This produces a short term challenge to the defenses of the body, but do not result in the same "overload" to the system as "chronic

means long term, and that is the same thing receiving from a root canal. Something that does not

infections". Chronic

you

are

have an is

initial

strong beginning, a battle and a resolution. That

what the immune system

arm wrestling withstand

is

designed

Can you imagine

for.

for three days without sleep?

that, but, for a

30 second bout, yes,

let's

warrior-like grunting and groaning, then build just before exhaustion, followed

That's

No body up

could

see the initial to that point

by a win-lose take down. Hey.

good immunology.

Chronic infections that

call for

more immune

cells

every 15

minutes become a real drag to the system after a few weeks, months or even years. This

The system

is

is

what toxic dental materials do to the system.

designed to fight hard for a short period of time,

then rest for a long time before the next fight. Chronic, low grade

make the body more susceptible to overload which gives an open invitation for autoimmune disease to take over.

infections

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Even eye

strain that creates a

influences on the

immune

need for glasses has long term

system.

and reported many cases of people

Price

was

interested in this

who did not require corrective

lenses after root canals were removed.

We

have noted the dental revision has that effect whether root

canals are part of the problem or not.

It is

recommended

that

you

not have a correction in your eye prescriptions for at least 6 weeks

Some

after the Protocol is finished.

people have had corrections

weeks and find that, 3 weeks later, they have to have another correction. Fundus photography has shown changes for two years after 3

amount of mercury

in the

in the retina.

This grossly affects

astigmatism and other eye diseases.

Exposure Excessive, especially extended, exposures to either heat or cold will bring the

immune system to

its

knees in a hurry. Changes in

barometric pressure or humidity will also play a role on resistance.

more common with the advent of jet planes that can take a person from Alaska snows to the Bahama beaches between Today,

this is

sunrise and sunset.

Provided that Alaska had a sunrise that day.

Often vacations are unpleasant because of these sudden

immune

challenges combined with a few Mai-Tais on the beach and dietary

popular

in

The other way around

is

sinning that

is

vacation spots.

probably worse, for low temperatures

are generally associated with drops in barometric pressure. Years

ago,

I

calls

noticed that people in trouble tended to call in groups.

of recurrences of symptoms for several days, then a half a

dozen

in a

Later,

I

morning - from the same general geographic

investigate.

It

symptoms

or onset of diseases, so

took a while, but

in barometric pressure, the

mercury

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location.

learned about falling barometric pressure being related

to generation of

high.

No

found that when there

body loses

its

began is

to

a drop

ability to excrete

when the barometric pressure is human barometer phenomenon. You

in the urine as fast as

This explained the

I

I

probably

know some

old person (over 50)

weather prophet and can

tell

tell

has become a

you when the weather

turn precipitous because their "arthur-itis"

That person can

who

is

going to

acting up. Right?

his/her increase in uncomfortable

that the pressure is dropping.

is

symptoms

Barometric pressure drops usually

the day prior to onset of "bad weather",

meaning

rain or

snow

precipitation.

How

can one explain that from the physiological or

scientific

standpoint? Not only does the body slow the excretion of mercury, resulting in an increase in circulating

symptoms, but our old simultaneously. Double

This

is

mercury and re-creation of

friend, the ionic calcium, drops

whammy Two explanations. !

where massage comes

in.

Massage - firm, yet gentle - not

the painful type, will increase lymphatic drainage

AND increase

Remember, the non-biological forms of calcium, dolomite, bone meal, milk and oyster shell do not qualify

the ionic calcium. like

here.

Between heat and

cold, cold

is

more worse. Chilling

the

body

throws the ionic calcium below the threshold of tolerance, allowing streptococcal infections to

Even

overcome

sitting in a draft or sleeping

local defense

mechanisms.

with a breeze over your neck

can lower local resistance such that a minor floating strep can invade those tissues.

Nutrition and

Hunger

remember going to see Dr. Melvin Page 34 years ago and coming down with a cold the minute I hit Florida. I told him that the day before I had parked Faulty nutrition creates a susceptibility.

the car 4 blocks

walk

in

from a concert

blowing snow

in

I still

Colorado Springs and had

that distance twice,

and as a

to

result caught

this cold.

"Didn't have anything to do with it," Page told me. "Ate chocolate."

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"It

was 16 degrees and

wind was blowing,"

the

I

complained.

"Ate chocolate," he retorted unswervingly. "But, but, but

...

well,

I

did have a hot fudge sundae after the

concert, but that didn't have anything...

."

"Eating chocolate will precipitate a cold in the dead of winter or heat of summer.

It

will in

you

in particular,

because you have

cleaned up most of your diet - except for chocolate. That's about all that's left,

decades.

so

it

had

to

be chocolate. Have seen

it

too

many

That should show you that chocolate suppressed the

immune system. Does to everyone, but stands out like a sore thumb - or sore throat - in your case. Clean up the rest of your diet and you might live a while longer. Living's not what counts, though, is

it

the quality of life."

He never explained much. Left that's the way I remember, and he

Lots of education in that old bird. that for

knew

me

to dig out.

But,

it.

Hunger?

Who goes hungry today? We all do at one time or another,

for this type of

hunger

is

acute - not weeks with no food. This

our "don't have time to eat" lifestyle hunger.

is

A good example is a

grade school teacher who doesn't have time for breakfast and runs to teach a class of kids sneezing

good example

is

those of us

time to fix breakfast.

On

and blowing

their noses.

who race to catch

Another

a 6 a.m. flight.

the plane, they only bring in

No

25%

as

much fresh air as before the fuel prices went up several years ago. Much of the air we breath is re-circulated, but not filtered or certainly not fresh. As a result, we breath in a lot more of people's secondhand germs than we used to. Doctors should not go into wards with people with infectious diseases on an empty stomach

- regardless of the masks. Skipping breakfast leaves the body temperature low, and lower

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at its night

time

body temperatures makes you more susceptible

to

a hostile take over by germs.

When you eateh an

your body temperature increases

infectious disease,

That

to "fever", right?

is

because

human-invading bugs. Conversely, lower body temperature invites invasion. Ever heard that breakfast is higher temperatures

the

kill

most important meal of the day? This

is

another reason

why

that is true.

Physical, mental, emotional

Try

to

draw

lines

and nervous exhaustion

between those events.

It

cannot be done. But,

probably doesn't matter. All of these events overlap and they

do the same thing

to the

immune

system. Suppress.

invitations, to the strep in particular, to invade the

They

all

it

all

give

weakest part of

your system. This results in chronic, long term challenges to the

immune system resulting, in turn, with less immune cells available to fight other

more

You

lose.

the idea.

serious battles. Divide and conquer? That's

Chronic use of alcohol, even one glass of wine a day which

is

advertised to do something for your blood pressure, heart,

immune competence. Now,

what may come as a surprise. If you drink only once a month, that one time event is going to make you feel like you are hit harder whatever, will lower your

who

than someone

immune

drinks daily. This

reaction in the

way

it

is

for

almost like a secondary

feels.

This once a month

not really very harmful - unless. Unless

indulgence

is

on the day

that

you

it

slept in a draft, or ate chocolate, or

occurs

was 21

days after a dental appointment or whatever else created an

immune compromise. Chronic alcoholism probably goes without saying. chronic infection or chronic alcoholism will

more susceptible

when

the

to generating

immune system

skirmishes,

it

is

make

Yes, a

the

body

an autoimmune disease. Again,

otherwise occupied fighting

cannot adequately care for rest of the body -

especially in the presence of already constantly challenging

root canals and mercury.

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NOTES

256

Chapter 15

The Price of Success Once

in

a while, a person enters our planet looking

everyone

else,

but attains what others can only imagine.

Sometimes the desire and enthusiasm

Sometimes

like

it is

is present

at birth.

the result ofpersonal experience.

Case

in point.

Why did Price spend

so

many

years of research on root canals at

no salary? He was highly lauded by the leaders of the medical community such as Charles Mayo and several presidents of the A and medical schools. The American Dental Association held a dinner "In Tribute" to the contributions of Dr. Weston Price.

AM The

document was signed by 27 past presidents and the president of the ADA at that time. This was an honor that has not been matched to this day. Today, the ADA says his work was flawed and of no benefit. official

who soon died of a heart He removed the tooth after the boy's death. He implanted this

Price placed a root canal in a 16 year old boy attack.

root tip into 100 rabbits. All one hundred died of heart attacks.

I

was

touched (truthfully devastated) to read the dedication of his second

book on root canals

to the

memory of that boy. I'm sure this was the

driving force for his next 35 years of research.

To

my wife and our deceased son,

Donald,

Who at sixteen, paid with his Life The Price of humanity's delayed knowledge Regarding these heart and rheumatic involvements This volume

is

lovingly dedicated.

257

— In 1988, a

man came up

chemistry in California. asking

me

to

me

my

after

There were

body of people talking and presentation on

lots

questions after the lecture.

He spoke

directly into

my

ear as if he were saying something that far superceded the

surrounding conversations.

"I've got something very important that

Give

me

I

am

your card with your address."

going to send you.

The nameless man

disappeared into the crowd.

A

few weeks later I received a box of papers, books and photographs. Old papers. Meaningless. What was this about? It took a few weeks to track the boxes back through UPS, through a packing company, to the payee of the mailing fees. sender, Dr. Dale Kirkendall

(DDS), and asked what

I

called the

this

package

represented.

"Weston Price was a friend of mine," he

me

said.

"A few weeks before me 'My work is too

him and told important to die with me. Find someone with a heart and love for mankind. Someone who you think will carry on my work and give it the proper place in the medical and dental community the community dedicated to saving lives and increasing the quality of the life they have. When you find him, give him these papers with my blessings. They represent me. They are the best of my work and I want my legacy to survive.' That was 40 years ago. When I heard you speak last month, I knew you were the man." he died, he called

to see

Now I know that I am.

Sometimes when my soul is touched, I respond by writing Such is the case with Price's situation. Here 258

is

what

I felt:

poetry.

i

THE PRICE or success ;

Our God

can plant

That cause a

man

But seeds

to

grow

A

A

soul

mind

To

To

The most divining seeds To achieve impossible deeds Meed undivided love That fit like hand in

Inspire

Create

To To

And

then

Surprise

You're

With

men

With minds

That think

The

truth

The The

light

Shines there

fact

That

look

Accept lie It

A

worked

brought

war For he

point

visualize the goal

bet upon your soul

lie learned

The

A

A

war

By rights Too gave

glove

in

the midst of battle like

roaming

for

Gods good truth

tempest

all

cattle

to see

gifts

are free

about disease in

That he had

the seas

really

won

His only begotten son.

Hal A. Huggins, 2002

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Chapter 16

Significance

and Surgical

Removal of Cavitations One of the best kept secrets in dentistry is that extraction sockets do not heal the way dentists are taught to remove teeth. Toxins formed here (invisible to X-rays of the bone) interfere with porphyrin metabolism, lowering the energy, as well as furnishing anaerobic toxins that

contribute to

autoimmune

diseases.

When I was a small child, my grandfather used to take me into the back yard just

at

sunset to see the "gwynters".

see and hear, unless

you were a great

They were hard

hunter.

He

to

could always

When I could see and hear them, he would take me out and teach me to hunt with his favorite old 22 caliber rifle - my ideal. I still have it. He did teach me hear and see them, but

I

never could.

how to shoot. But I have yet to see a gwynter. One better, however, I

can hunt,

see, find

and clean cavitations.

There are a couple of problems with cavitations.

Few

people have heard

of them, most oral surgeons claim they do not exist, and you can't see

them on X-rays. That did not deter me. After all, I had hunted gwynters.

My first exposure to

cavitations

was

in Australia in 1986. After lecturing

from one end of Australia to the other (there

is

really nothing in the middle)

for 16 days,

I

was

treating

myself

There ar£ Q CQuple

of problems with cavitations.

Few

people have heard

of them, most oral surgeons claim they do not exist, and you can yt see them on X-rays.

to

261

scuba diving on the Great Barrier Reef with the great white sharks.

Not that I really wanted to see a great white; if fact, if I had, I could possibly have shown you how to walk on water with fins on. Landing

at

my

Brisbane to link up with

anticipation about the reef.

prescription implanted into

wife,

to read dental

for years.

state

was going swimming with

I

did return to Adelaide.

me,

I

I

them out

zero. Zip. to

I

me, yeah,

Now,

15 years

He

What is

I

to fuss with, I

can say

MD

who can

to

had studied them intensely

me

about dental X-rays.

the great whites.

did teach

me

something about dental first

100 he showed

When he pointed

could sort of define what he was talking

I

later, I I

have developed a much more keen

can spot most of them on a routine

more often than

a cavitation?

this

didn't identify even one.

sense of imagination, and basis. Certainly

with

had the second panorex

had never seen. Cavitations. Of the

saw

about.

I

going to teach

I

X-rays

X-rays?

of Colorado.

No "MD" was

filled

'You can't go," she announced.

"You have to go back to Adelaide and meet teach you how to read dental X-rays."

be delivered to the

was

Brand new goggles with my vision the face plate, I was ecstatic about my

lifetime goal about to be attained.

Teach me how

I

I

can find gwinters.

Now that I have no co-author or copy editor it.

It is

the proverbial "hole in your head".

you just can't see it. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computed tomography (CT), X-ray - none of them can see it. Yes, you can see it with radioisotope bone scans. Or with the naked eye. There.

I

said

it.

But

it

really is a hole,

A maxillofacial surgeon was talking to me in a dental office one day just

after

I

knew the dentist had finished cleaning a cavitation.

The surgeon and I were discussing mercury toxicity and root canal toxicity when I brought up the subject of cavitations. He told me that he had heard about them, but that they were just a myth. They really did not exist. After all, he was a board certified maxillofacial 262

anyone would be aware of them, he certainly admit, I enjoyed listening to him dig himself a hole.

surgeon, and,

would.

I

I

nodded

if

him

to

me, then

to step into the dental operatory with

asked the dentist casually,

"Did

this patient

have a cavitation?"

"Big one," he replied. "Like the Grand Canyon". surprised, because

I

had easily identified

this

I

was not

one on the X-ray

prior to surgery.

"Can you show this doctor where it is?"

I

said,

winking as I nodded

toward the surgeon.

The

up an instrument with a long snout on it and pointed to the gum on top of the wisdom tooth area. The flap of tissue had fallen back into place, and, at first glance (except for a dentist picked

light film of blood),

it

looked like the area had not been touched.

The surgeon glanced, shrugged

his shoulders

and

said,

"So?"

The dentist let the instrument drop into a centimeter deep hole in the wisdom tooth area, and moved it forward and backward more than two centimeters. (About an inch) The surgeon caught his breath, then

ducked out of the operatory and went into the bathroom

for several minutes.

We never saw him again.

Talk about the Grand Canyon.

one time.

I

think

This was an area where

I

found the king of canyons

I

did not expect to find a

The oral surgeon had spent two hours removing this particular wisdom tooth ten years prior. If an oral surgeon spends over 30 minutes on an impacted wisdom tooth, one can bet it was a real challenge. My comment to the patient was that, with that much surgery, more than likely the ligament had been destroyed in the process, and the socket would have healed. But! Since X-rays showed absolutely nothing, I was going to look cavitation at

all.

-justin case.

263

Well,

it

was a good thing

over the area, took a

make

that

moment

I

looked.

to decide

the initial incision and, while

I

I

positioned

which angle

was

my I

scalpel

wanted

to

thinking, the scalpel

was wet Kleenex. The blade disappeared. Grand Canyon. I had some "contrast media" that is used to inject into heart vessels to help visualize them on X-ray, so I squirted in about 5 or more milliliters of the solution and took an X-ray of the Canyon. Here is the result: dropped through the tissue

like

it

Figure 33

Check

it

out!

Not only had

from the time of the

it

not healed,

original extraction.

it

The

had apparently grown contrast

seen running almost to the border of the mandible.

media can be

The bone,

if

you want to call it that, was soft and mushy. It was full of necrotic bone that prevents the formation of blood vessels needed for healing. she had been in an accident involving a blow

This suggests

that, if

to the jaw, the

jaw could have broken and never

healed.

So there is a hole, so what? Where did it come from? What's in it? Teeth are not attached directly to jaw bone. There are fibers that 264

come

come

out of the root, and fibers that

out of the bone.

They

Teeth are not

intertwine to form

attached

what is called the periodontal ligament That .

directly to

forms the connection between tooth and

the jaw bone.

bone. The ligament forms the barrier that

bone not

tells

to

grow any

farther

- there

is

a tooth ahead.

When a tooth is removed,

schools generally

to leave the periodontal ligament alone.

tell

Do not touch it.

the comparison to delivering a baby. After the

you must also deliver the problems. is

ligament

baby

is

Consider delivered,

Otherwise, there will be

afterbirth.

If the periodontal

the dental student

is left

removed, healing has a great deal of

in place after a tooth

difficultly.

The bone

adjacent to the tooth feels the trauma of extraction, then rushes to the scene to see

what happened. The bone cells see the periodontal

ligament standing guard over what used to be a tooth, and, knowing that they cannot invade that territory,

they go back

home and

forget the matter. Healing has stopped.

In order for full

new bone growth

to occur,

we

require a blood clot

of monocytes and an entry directly to fresh bone. To

fulfill

removed to bone. Then normal

these requirements, the periodontal ligament must be

cause "bone perturbation" - to perturb the

bone healing can proceed - with a few modifications. If a tooth is

removed and a blood clot allowed to form in the usual

and customary way with the periodontal ligament the top of the socket will

and the internal hole.

A hole

clot will

left in place,

form a couple of millimeters of bone, eventually dissolve away - leaving a

lined with the periodontal ligament that has been

invaded with a few bacteria from the mouth. Being in an anaerobic environment, these bacteria convert into anaerobic bacteria and set

up housekeeping.

Anaerobic bacteria do not behave the same way that aerobic bacteria do.

They do not form pus,

create a fever,

do not create edema and,

265

generally,

do not produce pain

at the site.

Some

people feel an

"awareness" in the area, but nothing that stimulates anyone to action.

Generally, there are not too

They eventually cause is

many anaerobes, and they work slowly.

the surrounding

called necrotic (dead or dying) bone.

bone

to die, creating

From pathological

of tissues removed from these cavitation

sites,

studies

there are about 25

different pathological descriptions of various cells that are found.

what

and dead tissues

Necrotic bone reveals not only dead bone, but

gives a glimpse of the processes that took place during the death

of the bone.

These anaerobic bacteria produce toxins These anaerobic

that are very similar to those

bacteria produce

r0 ot canals. These toxins slowly seep into

toxins that are

^e

very similar to

diseases and interferences with normal

those found

found around

body and can create autoimmune

metabolism.

around root canals.

As an excellent example of interference with normal metabolism,

who had

all

amalgam and

previously. Cavitations

Remember

root canals

we

treated a patient

removed

several

months

were the only dental immune challenges left.

porphyrins ?

They

are the internally

produced

chemicals that are converted into hemoglobin and the energy

Review that chapter if you need to. Urinary excretion of porphyrin was running 366 micrograms per 24 hours. molecule ATP.

Within a week, the second

test

recorded zero for the 8-carboxy

and 4-carboxy porphyrins that had totaled 366 the week before. That represents a

way you want

lot

to live

of energy for healing or just living

life

the

it.

Now that we have established that cavitations are a drain on your what does it take to get rid of them? There are basically two schools of thought on this matter of surgical correction One removes a lot of bone and pays little attention to biological system,

.

266

The other pays

the biological aspect.

a lot of attention to the

biochemical aspect and removes only about

or 2 millimeters

1

(about an eighth of an inch) of surrounding bone.

am

concerned with the biological aspects, so

surgical technique.

You may note

I

Obviously,

I

will describe that

a lot of similarity between this

and the root canal removal technique. In 1986,

when

was studying

I

at the

we

University of Colorado,

started trying to locate cavitations, since

they were so difficult to see on X-ray.

We

used infra-red, ultra sound, ultraviolet, speed of sound -

lots

of ways to measure

Eventually, other people

the elusive.

picked up on these techniques and developed ways of identification. I personally cannot visualize what these instruments are seeing, so

I shall

Now that we have established that cavitations are a

dminonyour biological system,

wnat does it take get rid of them?

to

wait until

they are more user friendly before depending upon them. Now, but most of

all

-

use an X-ray for

I

especially in the

wisdom

its

limited value,

tooth area

-

I

visually

look.

We take we

a dental

drill

and

drill

will generally fall into

there,

go for

we miss

a cavitation,

cavitations in

within 2 to 4 millimeters.

If not, take the tiny drill out, the tiny

it.

within a day and the patient If

it

a test hole. If a cavitation exists,

is

If

it is

hole heals

not aware that anything was done.

we will not have

a successful case.

I

find

99% of the cases in wisdom teeth areas. When Levy

on cavitations and analyzed 354 wisdom tooth sites, only 88% were actually recorded as cavitations. Now I look back and wonder if those dentists were really looking in the right places. I remember one time I had gone in 6 millimeters and and

I

wrote the

decided to stop.

article

A doctor watching me asked if he could look.

I

stepped back, he went in another sixteenth of an inch, and plop!

There

it

was.

Anyway, say we have found one. next?

What

is

A wisdom

tooth

site.

What

the surgical correction ?

267

Procedure

The usual precautions

are performed involving taking necessary

supplements, anaerobic antibiotics (one only) and having an intravenous Vitamin

C infusion going during the entire procedure.

Be

sure the patient

Vitamin Precautions

C

is

pre-informed not to take

for 12 to

24 hours prior

to the

procedure, and no antioxidants for 3 days or

more. Antioxidants interfere with the clotting

mechanism, and Vitamin

C

orally will

keep

from working properly. Ionic calcium aids healing, the non-biological form hinders it. the local anaesthetic

We are taught in school to give the patient 4 to 8 days of antibiotics after surgery, or to wait until there are signs initiate antibiotics.

From

of an infection, then

the aspect of logic, the

immune system

takes over within 30 minutes of initiation of the procedure and

supplies soldiers to fight off the surgical intrusion.

You need

protection during those 30 defenseless minutes, not the next day.

That

is

the reason for administration of pre-surgical antibiotics.

At the University of Colorado, we found that many antibiotics inhibit, slow, or prevent bone growth. For this reason, I prefer to

Figure 34

268

depend upon the PZI, surgical supplements, IV-C, for healing,

and not apply antibiotics

against healing, unless there

That

is

what

Figure 34

is

that are potentially

working

an obvious infection. Then, yes.

antibiotics are for.

an example of antibiotics retarding or stopping bone

The

growth.

is

ice packs, etc.,

plate is surfaced with

bone

cells,

and the area of

white around the "button" of antibiotic shows where antibiotics inhibited

Make

Now back to the action:

bone growth.

an incision over the estimated area. Flap the tissue back to

expose bone, then take a #10 round, long shanked surgical slow speed burr and

start drilling the test hole.

but have found that an 8 chatters

does not. first to

What

are

you going

know. Usually

it is

to

I

used to say #8 round,

when removing bone. A #10 find? The surgeon will be the

just a hole

- 95% of

occasionally there will be a gel-like material in

But

the time.

it.

Sometimes a

small, green, pea looking item, but, mostly,

They can be

a cavern by oral standards.

anywhere from an eighth of an inch

What are you

in

going

diameter to as big as a quarter.

to find?

The surgeon

Sometimes the hole will have an area of soft bone in it. This gets removed first. It is highly necrotic bone.

Be

w "* De tne first to

know.

sure the assistant

has the suction and water flush under good control such that this infected

bone does not escape into the highly

absorptive mouth. After the area "feels" (for you cannot see unless

amount of bone has been removed off of the top) like the soft bone is gone, then remove about 2 millimeters of "good" bone. That will remove the periodontal ligament. a large

Now, here comes another judgement harder than normal bone,

it is

call.

If the

bone

probably condensing

feels

osteitis.

much This

must be removed, or the patient may experience fibromyalgia, which is total body pain. We have observed that fibromyalgia usually comes from toxins in the condensing osteitis that forms a 269

"protective shield" around sick, dead, dying or root canal teeth.

Whether or not all of the condensing osteitis is removed can be determined on the post-op X-ray. (See Figures 3 1 and 32 in the Root Canals chapter, pages 238 and 239.) Saline solutions must be squirted into the cavitation by syringe

while the burr

is

moving

to

prevent "burning" the bone.

Overheated bone will not heal, and you will end up with another cavitation for a different reason.

The socket is flushed thoroughly

with saline after the surgery, then flushed lightly with half a carpule of a non- vasoconstrictor anaesthetic.

After surgery,

I

foam

transplants, gel

the socket. healing.

I

do not

like

cadaver bone,

or other healing promoters placed within

have found a secret ingredient

The blood

clot.

Blood

blood

/ have found a secret ingredient

that creates

bone, bone

artificial

that creates excellent

clots furnish

cell that

monocytes, a white

changes into an osteoblast

the precursor of real

bone

cells.

PZI, as

described in the Patient Protection chapter, is

then administered close to the surgical

s jt e

excellent healing.

Then

the real healing starts.

possible, leave the patient in the chair, or close to

Movement can

it,

disrupt the clot formation. Travel

for

is

When

one hour.

limited to 3

miles after leaving the dentist's office. Find a motel close by necessary, but do not disturb the clot by riding in a car. to success is formation of a stable

blood

clot.

The

During

if

secret

this hour,

the patient should have magnets (if used) taped to the face at the surgical site, ice packs placed against the face,

and half an hour or

so of acupressure to reestablish the neurological pulses. Whatever

they are. After twenty years,

I

know

they are important, but

still

have never seen one. Gwynter category.

Want to really mess up a blood clot? And undo the help you might have received from the procedure? Just smoke a cigarette. Bingo - dry socket, or formation of a new cavitation. 270

How do you prevent a cavitation after the

removal of a tooth? Any tooth can

generate a cavitation. do, but

from forming

all

have the

Lower

potential.

and flushing procedure

front teeth rarely

Just

do the burr

after the removal.

It

takes about 4 minutes, and can save the patient

a lot of grief with

autoimmune diseases

later

How do you prevent a cavitation

from forming after the

removal of a tooth?

on.

Ill

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Chapter 17

Hole

Filling the A

primary concern of people who elect to have root canal teeth removed is, "What about the space that is left?" Here, dentistry shines.

They know about esthetics

and function.

That

is

what

dentists

do

best.

have people ask, "What do

It is

their specialty.

Every day

I

do about the space where the root canal tooth was removed?" Not to worry.

Ask your

dentist.

Immediately

I

There are answers.

after a tooth is

removed,

Filling the holes

— that I

dentists

what do best

is

prefer to have a temporary removable partial denture placed.

Oh,

how

people

word "denture", so let's introduce you to the word from the profession. The secret word: "Flipper". Removable partials are called flippers. After you have worn one for a few days, you will see where the name originated. Probably from a patient. hate the

A flipper placed within minutes after a tooth is removed can tell the blood clot

how

to form.

It

also protects the

new blood

clot

from having foods (even mashed potatoes) forced up into the clot area. By now, you know that clot formation is one of the most important issues to me.

Be

sure that the flipper

is

constructed

from clear acrylic. Pink acrylic is used almost every time, so you must request it in writing. Dental laboratory technicians are subject to habit just like everyone else. The color pink comes from compounds of cadmium and, oh, yes... mercury. You just exchanged one mercury source for another if you have a pink acrylic dental 273

appliance in your mouth.

The color pink comes Jfrom , compounds of

cadmium

Esthetics and

Then

protection are the objectives at this time. ,

.

n

what?

u Heal ffor a ffew months. .,

,

and,

Permanent gold bridges with laboratory processed composite where esthetics are

on ves mercury.

needed are both strong and functional. Some people recommend "no metal in the mouth".

I

recommend no extractions, no fillings, and no decay. Reality check. These are tall orders to achieve. Once you have fillings, etc., you are

now in the world of compromise.

requests for no metal and have been

ended up being

They can

my fault.

I

have tried to follow people's

met with disastrous results that

Plastics are just plain not that strong yet.

be, but they are not available routinely.

After 3 to 6 months, healing

is

adequate so that a permanent

replacement can be considered. "Fixed bridges" are space that attach to the teeth

a tooth

on both sides of where

was removed.

down

They do involve

the adjacent teeth,

After 3 to 6

cutting

months, healing

disadvantage.

fillers

which

The advantage

is

is

a

that

replacement can

permanent bridges do not have to be removed and can be treated like the original tooth. A small amount of extra care is

be considered.

required with dental floss, but, basically, you

is

adequate so

that a permanent

don't

What if there

is

know

they are there.

no adjacent tooth? Then you may have

to select a

same thing.) Removable appliances have an advantage, in that they do not require that other teeth be cut down. They do have to be removed after every meal in order to clean them properly.

removable bridge. (Removable

Nickel

is

partial denture is the

used for most removable appliances, and

nickel (stainless steel) causes cancer

The only metal

immune system 274

let's

that

avoid that one.

up well and does not react with the Titanium. Plastic permanent partials can be

that stands is

— so

we know

made with gold clasps, and they are satisfactory, but not as durable as Titanium.

What about implants?

I

asked

my

professor

about implants one time, and he replied that

What about

anything implanted into bone will generate an

implants?

autoimmune response (in other words, an autoimmune disease). The only difference was time. Some will create a disease in months, others may years, but

it

will happen.

I

have personally seen

MS

require

stimulated

week of placing Titanium implants. The compatibility test showed Titanium to be compatible, yet it caused MS. Why? Because sitting in the mouth is one thing; sitting in bone is entirely another. The patient who caught MS from the Titanium implants came to see me after having the implants removed. I made her within one

removable is

partial dentures.

Out of what? Titanium, of course.

highly compatible in the mouth, while being

when placed

too much.

The problem with

the space there, if

shifting can alter the bite It is

Keeping the

best to

it

doesn't

that is that teeth shift if they

do not have teeth above them, below them or next problems.

reactive

into bone.

What about doing nothing? Leave show

immune

It

to them. This

and create a whole new world of

mimic Mother Nature when you

integrity of the dental arches is a

TMJ

good way

can.

to

avoid bite problems.

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Chapter 18

Dental Materials 101 Like with any business in which a small group ofpeople uses the product, dental materials have a jargon all their

own

that does not always reflect

words. if you

It is

hard

to look in

an obvious use of the

your own mouth, and, even

are a dentist, you cannot fill your own teeth. The

purpose of this chapter is to familiarize you with the terminology that is used by dentists in describing what materials can be placed in your mouth.

Silver

Mercury

Fillings

(Amalgams)

Mercury comprises about 50% of the most common filling in the world called silver-mercury amalgam. Amalgam also contains copper, tin, silver and zinc. It is silver colored when first placed; therefore, the name "silver" filling. After it has been in the mouth, it begins to tarnish. The blacker the filling, the more tarnish has taken place. Fillings have an electrical current which can be measured. The higher the current, the faster mercury is being

As of 1976, the new ADA sponsored (and patent holder) high copper amalgam started taking over the market. Mercury is released 50 times faster from high copper (around 30%) amalgam than the "conventional" amalgam of before that time. released.

Composites Composite

is

another word for a specific type of plastic that can

be used to fill teeth. place, or

sometimes

It is it is

frequently the "white filling" that dentists called "porcelain".

It is

not porcelain, for

true porcelain is fired at very high temperatures,

and cannot be

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fired in

your mouth. The term porcelain

is

used only because the

filling is tooth colored.

Some composites can

last as

long as amalgam, but, most of the

time amalgam will outlive composites. The question becomes,

which

more important,

is

the life of the filling or the life of the

patient? Composites are not always the white knight, for they

some chemicals that leach out, also. Do these chemicals sound like something you want in your mouth? Acrylate, aluminum, formaldehyde, hexane, hydroquinone, phenol,

contain

polyurethane, silane, strontium, toluene and xylene. These and

more

constitute composite fillings. In general,

it is

true that they

are not as toxic as mercury and copper, but there are blood tests that

can

tell

immune

you which composites are more compatible with your

system.

Unlike amalgam, composites can bind to the tooth structure

itself

thereby making the filling stronger by holding the fragments

Amalgam sits passively in the hole that the dentist drilled into the tooth. Neither filling can stand much chewing force without

together.

breaking, so they are both limited in size. If a filling

over

40%

amalgam

is to

replace

of the chewing surface of a tooth, materials other than or composite should be considered.

Composites require more time and so one can expect

them

to cost

skill to

place than amalgam,

40 or 50% more than amalgam.

Bridges

-

Fixed

There are two types of bridges, "fixed" and "removable". Most of the time the term bridge refers to an appliance that teeth,

and cannot be removed.

is

cemented

to

For a description of removable

bridges, see the next section.

The purpose of where there

is

a bridge

is

one or more missing teeth

a tooth (called an abutment) on each side of the

missing teeth. The enamel

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to replace

is

removed from

the abutment teeth

made replacing the amount of enamel that was removed with metal. The missing teeth are also made of metal, or and a crown

is

combinations of metal and tooth colored porcelain or all

After

the pieces are constructed, the segments are soldered together,

and the whole bridge in

plastic.

one

is

usually cemented onto the abutment teeth

unit.

much like your original teeth, and require only

Bridges feel very slightly

more care

in cleaning than

normally be expected to

last for

your original

teeth.

10 to 20 years

if

They can

they do not

more than 2 teeth. Longer span bridges do not last as long. The disadvantage is that, if the abutment teeth are whole teeth, good teeth have been cut down in order to make the replace

abutment crowns.

Bridges

-

Removable

There are a lot of names describing appliances that replace missing

cemented into existing

teeth.

Usually a fixed or permanent bridge

teeth

and cannot be removed. Removable bridges, or removable

partial dentures,

can come out

chrome

-

removable

at night.

is

partials, all refer to

something that

They may be constructed out of

cobalt combinations, plastic, titanium or gold.

Gold and titanium

are the safest.

Gold

is

really expensive

heavy, but patient acceptance and tolerance

is

super.

are thin and light. Nickel

is

the

and

Titanium

about the most biocompatible material, and the partials it

nickel,

is

made from

most common (sometimes called

stainless steel) and, for toxic reasons, is not

recommended. All of

these removable appliances have cast clasps that hold onto existing teeth.

Plastic

removable

into them.

partials

may or may not have clasps embedded

The clasps may be gold or nickel.

with or without clasps, do not

fit

Plastic partials either

nearly as tightly as the metal

based partials with cast clasps.

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Regardless of what they are constructed from, food can catch under

removed and rinsed under a faucet after eating. The advantage of removable partials is that you do not have to destroy adjacent teeth by cutting off the enamel like you do for a permanent bridge, but they do require more care and cost about half of what a fixed bridge costs. the partials, and they should be

Gold Crowns Gold crowns are made from gold alloyed with many other metals. The actual gold content can range from 90% to as low as 5%. Gold in its pure state is too soft to withstand the rigors of functioning in the mouth. Platinum or palladium are frequently

added

to

harden the gold. There are some disadvantages. Both

raise the already high melting point of the alloy.

Platinum

is

expensive, palladium has been outlawed in

some

and both turn the gold color to

silver.

countries because

it

is toxic,

Copper is added to restore the gold color, but it has a reddish tint, is toxic, and forms bubbles in the alloy. Silver can be added to get rid of the red color, and zinc is a toxic metal, but it is used in small quantities, and it will eliminate the air bubbles. The latter metals also reduce the melting temperature.

Gold crowns

are

the patient.

They

cemented

to the teeth,

and are not removable by

are tough, can withstand

chewing without

breaking, and usually last from 10 to 20 years. Porcelain or plastic

can be attached to the esthetic parts of the crowns, and they can look quite

life-like.

Care

is

the

same

as for the natural tooth.

Laboratory Processed Composites

When a person does not want the hazards of porcelain, what options are there? Probably the best, at the current time,

"laboratory processed composite".

used for tooth

fillings,

is

what

is

called

Composite, a plastic that

is

can be modified, made harder and more

durable by heating the resin in special ovens. They can be formed into

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crowns

in

and of themselves or processed onto a gold thimble

that fits the tooth.

good

as porcelain,

porcelain,

Although

90

to

and the durability a couple of years

many people

show" and reduce

their esthetics is only

95%

as

less than

are electing to use these in "teeth that

the toxic challenge to their bodies.

Nickel

Crowns

(Non-Precious) Non-precious metal used in dentistry

is

a term that generally refers

crowns made of an alloy of nickel, chrome, cobalt and molybdenum. It further means that there is no gold or platinum in them. They cost much less than gold crowns, for you can easily to

see that a melted

Nickel

is

the

than mercury

down

nickel coin could easily cover one tooth.

number one cancer -

stimulating metal, even worse

because mercury usually

kills cells,

whereas nickel

Although cobalt and chromium individually do not cause cancer, if they are combined into one

just turns the cell malignant.

mixture, they will cause cancer.

Sounds pretty unsafe doesn't find

it

in

removable

it?

But

it's

cheap That's .

why we

partial dentures, orthodontic braces, adult

crowns and bridges (especially as the base under porcelain crowns) and children's "chrome crowns".

My personal advice is totally against the use of nickel in dentistry, but, I will allow

you

to

choose whatever you want

-

as long as

you

are informed.

Ceramic/Porcelain Crowns I

became curious about

the composition of porcelain

called one of the manufacturers.

pure ceramic. Thanks.

I

I

was

crowns and

told their porcelain

was

what their ceramic called another and asked

called another and asked

was made out of. Porcelain I was told. I what their porcelain ceramic was made out of. Natural products. Knowing that mercury was "natural", I went to scientists other than manufacturers. Natural porcelain ceramic is made from clay B kaolin, specifically B which is 45% aluminum oxide. 281

Oh! So porcelain crowns are really aluminum. The aluminum does come out of the crown, and I have personally seen some tragic cases of poisoning from dental porcelain ceramic aluminum crowns. Obviously, not everyone has violent reactions, but they occur,

Porcelain

it is

is

not a happy

most often

site.

fired onto a metal base that fits onto the

tooth. Occasionally these are gold bases, but,

strong and cheap substitute, nickel. definitions.

Porcelain

It is

when

most

Check out

often,

it is

the

nickel in these

highly carcinogenic, or cancer producing.

and more durable than

is prettier

its

competition

the

-

laboratory processed composite plastic. Considering what

immune system and nervous system, is the esthetic value worth it? Your choice, now that you are informed. aluminum does

to one's

Orthodontic Braces There are many types of orthodontic appliances

in use today.

time honored "bands" of "tin grin" fame are giving

way

The

to less

conspicuous methods. The conventional bands are composed of nickel,

chromium,

cobalt, iron,

and possibly a few other metals.

The nickel is not desirable. Sometimes a wire mesh is impregnated with plastic, and this combination is used to cement a bracket that hold the action wires in place. This brackets (ceramic

is

is

Ceramic

called bonding.

another word for aluminum oxide) are

now

popular.

Usually nickel wires (called arch wires) are used to guide the tooth

movement. Other metals good. Titanium the

is

are available.

a metal that

mouth and not

is

Titanium arch

very low in reactivity

if

is

quite

used in

inserted into the bone. Plastic brackets are

which offer minimum challenge, but many orthodontists do not care for them because due to the wear in the plastic, they available

do not

offer the accuracy of directing forces that metal offers.

How do you know if a reaction is taking place? Notably, allergies either appear for the first time, or worsen.

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Behavior

may become

"teen-age", which, in this case, that

is

a toxic reaction, not a monster

suddenly appeared that certainly has

family. School grades

from a B

to

roots in your spouse's

about a point and a

half.

That

is

C-minus. Should any of these problems become issues,

you may want not doing

may drop

its

it

to think about another

at all.

The

solution

is

method of moving

yours to

teeth, or

call.

Chrome Crowns When children's teeth have cavities that are large, it is common to take a preformed nickel, chromium, cobalt alloy crown, trim

down

to

fit

the tooth that has also been

shaped object, and cement dentist can

it

make one of these

on.

trimmed down

With a

little

practice, a

cone

good

in a short period of time.

The cutesy name of "chrome crowns" has been used and these crowns allow baby teeth

two to five permanent teeth

replacing the baby molars are usually in by age 10 or front teeth, they are quite ugly,

for decades,

to last for another

years. That is usually all that is necessary, for

on the child's

to a

it

1 1.

Used on

and usually have some influence

self esteem, but in the

back teeth they are not usually

seen.

Behavior

is

a notable change. If your child becomes cranky and

misbehaves, when, before the crowns were placed, he had a pleasing personality, check

it

out.

What can you do? These can be

replaced with composite crowns

chrome crowns. You may have to twist your dentist's arm severely, but compare your child's health and behavior to pre-crown days, and you should be able to make a determination as to whether or not you feel it is worth it to change the

same shape

as the

the crowns. After

all,

the choice should be yours.

Root Canals Root canal is a term applied to a tooth that has been treated by removing the contents of the nerve chamber. The pulp chamber, 283

as

it is

called, contains small arteries, veins, nerves

and a lymphatic

removed and replaced most of the time with a wax material called gutta percha. The root of the tooth is still intact, and, for practical purposes, the whole tooth is the same size and shape that it was originally. The tooth is now dead, and the body must come to some kind of agreement with the tooth as to how much necrotic tissue the body will accept in exchange drainage system. All this

for providing a

From

much needed

dental prosthesis.

the outside, a root canal tooth looks like and acts like a

normal

tooth.

Sometimes they

awareness. This healthy, for the to the

is

and

most

it is

are painful or produce a feeling of

a sign that the patient's

is

rejecting a

immune system

dead item. Root canal teeth are strong

part; in fact, they frequently act like they

bone when a

is

dentist tries to

have fused

remove them.

Implants The term implant usually refers to something inserted into the bone of the jaw, although, occasionally, one will see fillings referred to as implants because they are in a body tissue, and are not readily removable. Dental implants are metal (nickel, titanium,

and other metals), or ceramic (aluminum oxide) devices that are placed into holes that are drilled out of the bone. After bone has filled in

around the implant, dentures, crowns, or bridges can be

fitted to

them and they

As

offer great stability.

far as the biological aspect is concerned, the

body

will launch

an autoimmune response against anything that is inserted into bone.

The only

difference

within days, others

is

the speed of the reaction.

may go

Some may

react

for years before the reaction is noted.

Even relatively non-reactive metals

like titanium

can be used as a

crown or removable partial denture in a person who has been shown to generate an autoimmune disease when the same titanium is implanted into their jaw bone. This is not good news for many dentists and patients, for implants are becoming quite popular.

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Cavitations Found under a series of names, such as NICO (Neuralgia-Inducing Cavitational Osteonecrosis) and Alveolar Cavitational Osteopathy,

a cavitation

hole

is

is

a hole within the upper or lower

jaw bone. This

roughly the size and shape of the root that once occupied

that space in bone,

because that was

its

origin. It is

an area of

incomplete healing.

If a tooth is

removed and the ligament is

left in place,

a cap of two

to three millimeters of bone heals over the top of the socket, leaving

a cesspool of these chemicals lining the hole and sealed within the bone. X-ray has a hard time identifying these areas, for one

is

taking a picture of a piece of air within bone.

After the tooth

is

removed, or years

later

when

the cavitation

is

being cleaned, the walls of the socket must be cut out with a dental burr. Just scraping

it

out (curetting

into the lymphatic drainage system, ill

is

the term) pushes the toxins

and patients frequently become

knowing why.

for several days without

Dentures This

is

a term that describes an appliance that replaces teeth.

It

can be a full denture, or a partial denture. Full dentures (commonly called "plates") replace all the teeth

formed between

tissues

and

and are held in by the attraction

plastic

due

to the saliva in between.

Full dentures are constructed of plastic with either porcelain or plastic teeth.

The

gums. The pigments

mercury

sulfate,

pink to assimilate the color of

plastic is colored that are

cadmium

used to form the pink color are usually

sulfate, or a

combination of both. r

"Immediate dentures" are placed immediately

removed and

after the teeth are

are a type of splint to hold the tissues in place while

healing takes place. for shrinkage of

They need

bone and

worse each day. Relining

to

be "relined" in a few months,

tissue takes place daily,

is

adding

of the denture so that an improved

new fit

plastic

and the

on the

fit is

tissue side

can be established.

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"Partial dentures" are dentures that replace several, but not

the teeth in either the upper or lower arch. plastic that holds the teeth,

metal framework that has

little

the remaining teeth. There teeth, but

it is

offset

by the additional

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and the

is

of

They generally contain

plastic is processed onto a

arms called clasps

a bit

all,

more

stress

that

hold onto

on the remaining

by the added chewing surface area provided

teeth.

9

Chapter

1

Supplements that Support Chemistries We use supplements can.

Vitamin

cannot

tell in

that target chemistries

C may correct many chemistries,

but

we

advance which ones. Other supplements

are specific for liver function, red blood

blood cells,

when we

This chapter details

etc.

cells,

white

when and why we

use supplements.

The following is a list of observations of what certain supplements can do to the chemistries monitored in

nutrition.

Observations,

nothing more.

In following the Protocol,

we

try to

use

supplements that have a direct effect on chemistries.

About

problem we face

the third biggest

is

correcting the

About the third biggest problem

we face is

imbalances created by randomly taking

correcting the

supplements because "they might be good for you from what the ads say". Another chapter addresses which supplements give us the most problems

imbalances

in balancing chemistry.

created by

randomlly taking supplements.

The following

are the ones that assist chemistries.

Which ones? Read

on.

Surgical supplements are our starting point, because they appear

membrane permeability. We use 5 basic minerals necessary for proper cell membrane function.

to increase cell

that are

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Surgical supplements can enhance post-surgical healing and

maintenance. They enhance the absorption of other minerals, for

we see corrections of minerals that are not in the supplements and In this way,

are not particularly increased in the diet.

a

it is

springboard for other corrections as determined by the chemistries.

We suggest the use of 2 different types of digestive enzymes.

They

reach their goals by different means, but both have been noted to

reduce serum uric acid, optimize the

BUN

(that

raises

is, it

below 13 mg% and lowers levels above 18 mg%). Such enzymes have been noted to optimize Total Protein levels if they are below 6.7 g% or above 7.3 g%. Albumin will tend to optimize toward 4.6 g%, but globulin is more dependent upon how much immunoglobulin is being produced by the lymphocytes. levels

C has so many effects that you could write a book on Tom Levy, MD, has just finished what may well be the

Vitamin In fact,

it.

book ever on Vitamin C. While writing the book, he would call me daily with some new discovery he found in early writings on Vitamin C. For our purpose, we concentrate on what most

definitive

it

Vitamin C can enter a cell and look around

C starts

Vitamin

does in detoxification.

the machinery for

for toxins like lead,

that cell to create

cadmium.

glutathione.

target,

but

1

•

-w-

C

Mercury, of course,

we have no

(+

If

either.

mercury and

•

mercury

starts the

is

our

love for the others

•

is in

i

11

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T'

j

'

the cell, Vitamin

machinery for

that cell to

create glutathione. Glutathione can attach to mercury, escort

it

an elimination depot and see to

it

out of the that the

cell,

transport

mercury

is

it

to

excreted.

Glutathione can be given intravenously and stimulate the same effect.

Given by mouth,

molecule

is

not very effective, because the

too large to be absorbed through the intestinal i

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it is

tract.

Vitamin

C works on the cell membrane integrity,

detoxifies

other chemicals, kills off bacteria and viruses and aid to healing.

ever finish listing

same

I

sort of like

It is

of

all

What does

air.

assets?

its

We

air

many

a wonderful

is

do? Would you

view Vitamin

C

with the

respect.

mentioned

earlier that

"fingerprint" that

each autoimmune disease seems to have a

unique to that disease.

is

fingerprint that differentiates

MS.

Either the

Potassium

is

the

MS patient uses more

more or doesn't absorb it adequately. Whatever. MS patients need more of it. Now, here is the problem. Almost _ , Each autoimmune .„ „ r on a daily

basis, excretes

.

.

sources or r potassium given as pills & r or tablets have the effect of being in the all

non-biological form.

It is

,.

"fingerprint"

easy to find -

just look at the hair analysis.

,

disease seems to have

...Potassium

If the

is

the

fingerprint that

potassium level is higher than the differentiates MS. sodium - no doubt. Excess elevations are most often in the non-biological form. Even potassium chloride, given as a sodium substitute under the name "lite salt", is in a form that dissolves in water in moments, yet, in the body,

it

Explanation? Sure,

I

doesn't

work

well.

It is

non-biological.

were

in the active

are rich in potassium.

Eat a few

could easily explain

it

if it

form.

What about bananas? They bananas each day.

The problem with using food

to correct a

Bananas have more content than just potassium. Do you know what those things are and what effect they will have on you? When you have an excess

problem

is

that

or deficiency, to correct

it.

food

is

you need

usually in balance

to apply the opposite

membrane

There

is

imbalance in order

Besides, bananas are rich in sugar and can increase

your blood sugar level beyond what cell

.

Complex

integrity.

no one disease

-

one

pill

is

appropriate for

maximum

situation, disease, isn't it?

correction for

autoimmune

diseases.

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Potassium and sodium travel as a

pair.

Anything you do

to alter

the course of potassium alters the sodium. All aspects of blood

and hair must be viewed simultaneously It is

easy to look

at one, lose sight

in order to correct both.

of the other, and end up creating

a problem with both of them.

If

you look carefully

at the "side effects"

prescription or non-prescription,

you

of most medications,

one of the adverse

will find

body of potassium. Hot weather makes you sweat out potassium. Why do MS patients avoid hot situations? They are great for detoxification, but the side effect of

reactions

is

to deplete the

potassium loss

not worth

is

it.

Potassium requirements are not consistent. You during hot weather, yet you

may just

as likely

cold weather. Monitoring your chemistry

is

may need more

need more during

the only

way to keep

up with your needs. Well, maybe not the only way. Sometimes MS patients have a symptom that is particularly sensitive to depleted potassium, and, once aware of the connection, they learn to spot the situation within minutes.

heart beat.

Some, a

coordination. If

you

As an

are smart,

loss of

Some people have an irregular

muscle strength.

Others, a loss of

MS patient, you learn to listen to your body.

you

act

when your body

talks to you.

Magnesium I call Mother Nature's house cleaner. You have heard me mention the non-biological forms of minerals in many chapters.

Why?

Because they are a big headache and detriment to progress.

Magnesium I call Mother Nature's

body of many of the non-biological minerals. Watch the hair analysis for the easiest information. The blood responds, but it is more complex than I can show

house cleaner.

here.

Magnesium

will rid the

The primary minerals

that will shed their

non-biological forms during treatment are calcium, magnesium, zinc, copper, iron

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and manganese. In you watch the hair analysis

in light

of

it

being a gauge, you will think you are being ruined.

All of these levels

may be deficient, and

even more. Guess what? You were

still

they will

really deficient,

come down

because what

you were seeing in the analysis was mostly non-biological. wonder you were in such bad shape.

High

levels

Why?

may come down

Again, you

still

to

optimum, then continue

No

to drop.

have some non-biological material present.

magnesium may help to rid the body of the inactive form of these minerals; then, when they are all gone, the levels will tend to climb up to the optimum and stay there. Unless you do something you shouldn't. Then, the analysis will Surgical supplements and

tell

on you. Great guide.

Many magnesium supplements are in the magnesium oxide form. Not reactive in human chemistry (with the exception of furnishing non-biological material), but cheap. It is ground up rock. Just like dolomite. The way to determine whether or not your magnesium is active is to watch the hair analysis and the blood chemistry to see if all values are trending toward the optimum or away from it. If the calcium is non-biological, the hair level will increase, and the blood will decrease in an effort to correct the excess problem. Magnesium is active in about 78% of the enzyme reactions in the body, so

upon

its

by

yes,

has a lot of places that are dependent

being in an active form.

Magnesium it

it

is

useful in

many

areas that do not require following

Used in high altitude, painful menstruation, energy, very good for these and many other uses. This section is

analysis. it is

just addressing

changes in chemistry that have been noted over

the years.

Zinc activates about

many

80%

of our

enzyme systems,

reasons to be present in an active form. Zinc

atom around which insulin

is

so is

it,

too, has

the central

manufactured, and a zinc deficiency

can occasionally be traced to problems associated with the control

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of blood sugar. Protein chemistries will not behave as expected there

is

an imbalance in zinc.

It

if

has the behavior, similar to

magnesium, of being

a junior

house

cleaner. Fresh, biologically-available zinc

Zinc.similar to

can eliminate the non-biological forms of

magnesium

calcium,

magnesium and zinc itself. One must be cautious when taking both zinc and magnesium to make sure that they are

in

being a junior

house cleaner.

kept in balance and do not fight with each other.

In our patients, the primary cause of zinc contamination

is

hard

cheese, primarily that produced in the U.S. European cheeses do

not

seem

in both

to

have the same action.

When the hair analysis

calcium and zinc, usually hard cheese

is

is

the problem.

high

Both

calcium and zinc in the non-biological form seem to inactivate the other minerals in this section. That zinc, copper, iron

is,

calcium, magnesium,

and manganese.

Copper, iron and manganese (plus iodine) are required for balancing the red blood cell count. In

fact,

one should add Vitamin

you want to complete the issue. Many people are told to take iron because their hemoglobin is low. That can be counterproductive more often than not. Again, as always, much of the iron is in a nonyou-know-what form, and it creates contamination. Building a red blood cell is quite a chore and requires lots of design planning and implementation. It is not a task met by just adding iron. We use PowerMix in addition to protein. The B-12 is necessary in this formula, but note that it is far less than the 25 micrograms that seems to be the launching pad for methylating mercury. Remember that males and females are headed for the same values B-12, folic acid and protein into the diet

after dental revision. Also, monitor.

if

You can become overdosed

on most anything. Speaking of advertise

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iron, did

100%

you know

that the breakfast cereals that

of your daily requirement of iron attain that level

of exactly 100.0% by adding iron filings to your cereal? Organic, biological iron

is

Ziploc bag, add

The

magnet.

not affected by a magnet. Put your cereal into a

some water to mush

the

whole

thing,

and apply a

iron filings appear in the

design of your magnet. Talk about a non-

Here

biological form.

example.

to

their iron

your perfect

wasn't sure about the magnet

I

and humans, so

magnet

is

I

drew blood and put a

Red blood

it.

cells,

with

all

of

and hemoglobin, are not affected

by the presence of a magnet. 4 to

advertises

If your cereal

8% daily ration of iron, you

100%? Unsafe at any Why do you think so many people

Many people are told to take iron

because their

hemoglobin is low. That can be counterproductive

more

often than

not.

are probably safe.

speed.

are suddenly that

showing up with excess iron

does not come

iron, too,

Now,

down readily? Check out your bread for extra

while you are doing your scientific testing.

the real biggy.

Manganese Manganese is probably the most .

MS. Of course

I

and might have about zinc, and surely

I

important mineral in

but

now

I

really

occasionally, that

mean

it.

Yes,

said that about

magnesium,

minerals are important, but,

all

someone has a good

said that about potassium,

level of the other minerals, but

can hardly ever be said about manganese.

In nerve firing

(complex reactions), one segment requires magnesium

to fire the

impulse, and manganese to recover, so the impulse can

fire again.

Without manganese, the nerve just stands there and

stutters.

It is

not dead, just cannot get off the next impulse.

It is

like playing catch.

throw the ball possession.

if

the other

guy has

This drives the

When manganese

is

You can't it

in his

ADA

nuts.

a primary problem

with MS, and the right balance of minerals is

supplied, sometimes the muscles

start

working within hours. They say a disease

The impulse

—

It's like playing

catch

— you

can't throw the ball if the other

guy has

it

in his

possession.

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cannot be cured in hours.

I

agree, but nerve impulses can fire within

minutes of being provided with the right ammunition to create that firing.

So,

if

you have MS, take

think?

It is

lots

of manganese? Right?

What do you

never that simple. Jerk out amalgam and take manganese

and be cured overnight. Yeah. Sure. In the case of manganese,

it

has a teeter-totter relationship with chromium. If you take lots of

manganese, you will deplete your body of chromium, and end up with exactly the same problem, but for the opposite reason. Then

you can take chromium until ... wait, let's balance both simultaneously and not keep recreating the disease. This provides the fun of balancing chemistry. Like chess, you have to think a step or

two ahead of what you

are actually doing in order to keep yourself

from becoming vulnerable

in the

immediate

future.

Where would we be without it? You may have heard me comment that there are only two organs that count. The Liver function

liver

.

and kidney. Without clean blood, what do you need a heart

for? Liver function

is

also critical in the turn-over of red blood

you get rid of contaminated ones and make new ones. How do we improve liver function? In chemistry, liver function is measured by monitoring bilirubin, SGOT, SGPT, and, to a certain cells as

extent,

LDH enzymes. An old doctor in southern Colorado gave

me a formula he had used for 30 years. He had received it from a who also had used it for 30 years. They had good have we in using it. I looked over the old folded

previous doctor success and so

piece of paper, and, I'm not sure, but

it

looks like the

first

name

on the formula might have been Adam.

We

use a combination of

something, seems to formulas.

It

In six days,

make

B it

vitamins, but the ratio, mixing, different

from other B vitamin

doesn't take long to find out whether or not

it

works.

we see positive changes in not just liver function tests,

but in red blood cells as well. This formula can compensate for bilirubin levels

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above 0.6

that is discussed in the section

on red

blood

When

cells.

it

is

used, there

is

not as

much drop

in

hematocrit, and the drop corrects within a couple of weeks instead

of 6 weeks. Overall, any liver function within a few days, and levels of

take

it

we

rarely use over

one bottle

If

total.

SGOT and SGPT are several hundred, then a person may

for several months, for that

E

Vitamin

respond

test will usually

E is good

is

a sign of severe liver damage.

helps in special cases of red blood fragility. Overall,

for general antioxidant activity

- up

to

400

units daily.

Over that, and you can interfere with the red blood cell's ability to transport oxygen. Back to fragility. Sometimes when blood is drawn, the red

cells are so fragile that the

force of the cells hitting against the glass

blood drawing tube ruptures the ,,

the

cells

,

!

and

r

serum turns pink instead or straw

The liver enzyme alkaline J phosphatase may be quite elevated. Taking colored.

400

units of Vitamin

E has been shown to

aid that red cell fragility within a less.

week

or

Up t0 400

units

daily of Vitamin

— over

,

that

you can

.

.

E

and n

interfere

with the red

Mood

ceWs ao mty

to

transport oxygen.

How can that happen? You have 30

trillion

red blood cells, and they are turning

over every 120 days, not every week. Vitamin E may have something

membrane of those cells rather than just creating new ones. Makes more sense. Anyway, 400 units can be quite beneficial, and more than that can be detrimental. to

do with remodeling the

cell

We use micelated A which Beta carotene is two Vitamin As hooked

Vitamin A helps the white blood is

actually beta carotene.

together.

It

cells.

breaks apart and yields two Vitamin

When white blood cells

molecules.

low - like 4000 per cubic millimeter, over 7000, I use anywhere from 5000 to 25,000

or high

-

units of

A per day.

like

A

are

This will vary according to the severity of a

problem and the spread of individual populations of white blood cells. There are 6 "populations", and the number of patient's

variations

is

considerable.

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most important one of all. Sound familiar? I may not have an American Express credit card, but I never leave home without charcoal. Charcoal went to college. It is smart. If you have a bacterial attack in the intestinal tract, charcoal can kill off the unfriendly bacteria and leave the friendlies alone. Over a century ago, one of / never leave me British researchers (whose name escapes home without me although he was famous) had one charcoal pharmacy deliver enough strychnine to "kill Charcoal

is

the

>

12 horses" and another pharmacy deliver charcoal - of equal weight - to a presentation he was giving before the British Medical Society.

mixed the

In a demonstration, he

two ingredients together, and swallowed them before the group. They were sure he had committed suicide, but he had no problem. Charcoal can neutralize almost any toxin.

where you do not know the recipes of everything you are eating, your stomach will inform you of the problem right away. That assumes that your chemistry is in balance and your dental revision has been completed. A bit of charcoal immediately will usually solve the digestive problem within 5 minutes. It is available in capsules of anywhere from 100 to 285 milligrams per capsule. 285 might be constipating, so smaller capsules are generally a Should you inadvertently eat pork

better idea.

the nipple.

I

carry an old eye-dropper bottle with a large hole in

A few

sprinkles of charcoal

or water with too

estimate that

at a restaurant or party

much

when I use

chlorine will

it

on any suspicious food be adequate. I would

on food prophylactically,

I

use about

Not much is required if it is there prior to getting an upset stomach. Mexican restaurants use pork to flavor many of their foods. After a digestive problem becomes obviously apparent, it may require a whole capsule or two to calm things down. Charcoal is the most wonderful detoxifier in 15 to 25 milligrams.

the world for toxins in food or drink.

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DMSA

,

or dimercaptosuccinic acid,

Even though

has 4

it

initials, it is

is

another chelating agent.

my favorite chemical detoxifier.

It

binds very tightly to mercury and can escort

-

if it

not overdosed. Again,

it

out of the system

speak almost daily to people

I

who

have been overdosed. 250, 500 and 1000 milligram doses are not appropriate in mercury toxic patients. I hear about heavy detoxification used to get the

problem over with quickly. that way.

You have

doesn't

It

more mercury

far

your body than you could get billion days at 10 or 20 (billionths of a is

gram)

rid

/ speak almost

work

daily to people

in

who have been

of in a

overdosed.

micrograms

daily. Fortunately, that

not the objective. If you have just slightly

more mercury being

excreted than you are bringing in by exposures in

air,

food, water

you can be healthy. If you have a few billionths of a gram more coming in than going out, then your chemistries are a mess, and you feel lousy. or dental amalgams,

It

takes 2 to 4

weeks before you

will note the lifting of brain fog a

DMSA.

few minutes

after taking

to take

dosages of 50 milligrams Monday, Wednesday and

it

at

Then,

it is

a nice

lift

to

your life

Some people feel best at 25 milligrams per day. They do not make capsules at this dose without charging an arm and a leg, Friday.

so you can take 100 milligram capsules, cut the end

out approximate amounts. 5 or 10 milligrams stage.

that

is

off,

and shake

not critical at this

Unless you cannot even tolerate

much. For the one

in a

hundred who

has difficulty tolerating 25 milligrams,

we

This can he a

suggest putting 25 milligrams in an 8

wonderful drug

ounce glass of water, putting

for people,

refrigerator

and taking a

it

into the

sip every time

you walk by the refrigerator. So far, I have not found anyone who could not tolerate that

amount.

like

who have had a really

dentists,

superfluous dose

of mercury daily for years.

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Like

all

chemicals of

this nature,

DMSA

can accumulate.

It is

two a month if you are taking it daily. people have a day or two off each week, so the

best to stay off of it a day or

The M-W-F chemical

is

not apt to accumulate. This can be a wonderful drug

for people, like dentists,

who have had

of mercury daily for years.

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a really superfluous dose

Chapter 20

Supplements that Hinder For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. One of the big problems we face in balancing chemistry is reversing the damage done by taking excesses of the wrong supplement. Yes, the right supplement is supportive, but the wrong one (according to

your chemistries) does far more damage than good.

Unfortunately, advertising

is

not based on improving

your chemistry.

My third biggest challenge is untangling the chemistries that have been torqued by taking the wrong supplements. Maybe wrong the

wrong word.

Incorrect might be better.

We all have different

needs, but excesses are just as bad as deficiencies. a disease

like

autoimmune

MS,

we become

frustrated with the medical profession's

an overnight cure and

go out looking on our own. Those people who continue to search are more apt to win back some degree of health than those

who

just roll over

criticize those

who

and seek.

die, so I

do not

Many times the

supplements people take are necessary, just not in the

When we catch

or any of the

diseases,

inability to grant us

is

My Mrd Mggest challenge

is

untangling the chemistries that

have been torqued by taking the

wrong

supplements.

dosage they are taking or in

a biological form that can be used and

absorbed by the body. Sometimes they are counter productive to what is desired. Here is a list of warnings compiled from people

who have

sought and missed the mark.

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Calcium ageing

This

.

is

is

the biggest problem

calcification.

That

may be

by

far.

true.

I

I

have heard

have certainly seen

evidence to support that comment.

„

,

,

We

are

"You

victims of calcium advertising. ° never out § row ^ our need for calciunL all

.

,, Calcium is the biggest problem jyyfan

that

How

can you grow up and be big and strong without your calcium?"

"Your bones require a constant supply of calcium." OK,

want

to calcify.

Calcium

in

your

arteries,

you eyes, kidneys; nowhere if

does precipitated calcium offer you any advantage.

Most calcium supplements of dolomite which ...if oyster

is

are

composed

a rock, dead

cow

horse bone "meal", or oyster shell that

shell

calcium carbonate.

was soluble, you would not find it

was

I

have always

or is

felt that

you would not in the ocean. find it in the ocean. Calcium is not always calcium. You have heard me talk of the "non-biological form" of lots of minerals by now. Calcium is the prime example. Without an enzyme system attached, calcium is a contaminant. For this reason, the condition it

causes

is

if

oyster shell

soluble,

Enzyme systems cannot Calcium in lettuce is a far better source; yet who

called calcium contamination.

latch onto rocks.

ever thinks of lettuce as a calcium source? Deer and elk lose their antlers

pounds

each year, and the next year grow a larger in the case of

drink his milk?

He

He can

our salad.

an

elk.

How

set.

does he do that

if

Maybe 20 he doesn't

eats leaves, or the elk equivalent of lettuce in

absorb the calcium, and so can we.

Butter

good calcium source, also. So do eggs. Calcium deficiency does not happen very often in the patients I have seen. Are they different? Yes, they are sick. They have excess calcium furnishes a

over

80%

of the time.

appears to

me that non-

biological calcium blocks the metabolism of calcium,

magnesium,

From watching chemistries for 33 zinc, copper, iron

300

years,

it

and manganese. Probably more, but

that is all I

can identify. As long as calcium correcting any

autoimmune disease the calcium

generally get

all

some cases

which

in

present in excess, progress

is

I

we need from

a general rule,

until

can

foods, but there are

suggest one to two 20-milligram tablets of

an ionic calcium supplement to correct a current

As

We

equally slow.

is

in

need.

critical

ask patients to avoid calcium supplements

I

we can see what they are doing to the chemistry and until we

can establish a need to correct a deficiency.

Vitamin B-12

is

people are taking reason iron

body

is:

it,

list.

Both because

and because of the damage that

Vitamin B-12

can be severe.

my

number two on

to build red

is

blood

it

lots

of

does.

It

advertised a lot for the

cells.

Yes,

it

does

that,

same

and the

micrograms of B-12 per day in order to accomplish that. So what are the doses? 250, 500, 1000, and now the new economy sized 2000 microgram pills. B-12 and folic acid are on an important teeter totter. As one goes up, the really needs 5

other goes down.

Folic acid

is

necessary for

many body

functions, and deficiency of folic acid produces lots of symptoms

mercury toxicity symptoms. Low folic acid High doses of B- 1 2 create folic acid deficiencies

that are identical to

does not help

us.

by upsetting the

B-12

is

teeter totter.

also a methylator.

It

converts

inorganic mercury into the far more neurotoxic methyl mercury.

If a

person

—

B-12 a methylator

— converts

has mercury fillings in his mouth, a bit of

inorganic

methyl mercury (MeHg)

mercury into

upset the

immune

immune system

is

is

not going to

system, because the

the far

already in the cellar,

neurotoxic

and doesn't care to go to war with anyone.

more

methyl mercury.

removed from the mouth and the immune system is stimulated back into action, it develops a resentment toward mercury. Its secondary immune response comes into play, and a But! After mercury

is

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rejection reaction

is set

up against mercury. As Vitamin B- 1 2 converts

mercury into MeHg, the patient can become violently ill.

many

I

have seen

people have Vitamin B-12 put into their IV bottles causing

neurological reactions that have lasted for over 2 years.

Occasionally, physicians argue with

me

about

this

and say

the hydroxocobalamin form does not methylate mercury. also say that the

methcobalamin form

is safe.

that

They

Look at the patients. They are put out of

They are the ones that tell me the story. commission for years, no matter what kind of B-12 they were given. The scientific literature also supports the fact that these forms of B-12 methylate mercury. Shots of B-12 are usually one milliliter, which is the same 1 000 microgram dose that is given in the IV bottles. In tests

I

many hundreds of patients,

did on

it

appeared that any

dose of Vitamin B-12 over 25 micrograms reduced the level. feel.

It I

many

folic acid

could also produce the crash that amalgam- free patients

presume

calls

that not

about

it

that

everyone crashes with B-12, but I

am

I

get so

not able to assure anyone that they

can take Vitamin B-12 supplements without experiencing severe

With chronic

consequences.

fatigue, a high priority with

MS

patients,

B-12

One

of steak furnishes about 125 micrograms of Vitamin B-

bite

is

frequently prescribed.

So why doesn't a whole steak give people the same problems as the pills? Obviously, the B-12 in meat is not the same as the artificial forms sold in most supplements. We watch the protein metabolism chemistries in prescribing how much protein a patient should eat, but rarely prescribe B-12 supplements in dosages over 25 micrograms. There are people who are not able to absorb B12.

12 from foods, and they have to be supplemented, but not in the

500 or 1000 microgram dosages. Watch the chemistries.

Chlorella has brought

few years. 302

me over 1 000 telephone

calls

over the past

Many doctors prescribe chlorella because, "if you take

your urinary excretion of mercury will go up". Sounds good, doesn't it? A capsule that detoxifies. So why the calls? Again, it,

they were from people

who had had

their

amalgams removed.

immune systems were beginning to function. A typical example might be of a person who had been taking chlorella for a Their

month, had

fillings replaced,

and now experienced symptoms

like

the flu for several weeks.

Haley told

Dr.

me

of experiments in which people would take

chlorella and the urinary excretion of

mercury would go up. But, take chlorella that

had been raised

in a laboratory in the

Chlorella raised

complete absence of mercury and the urinary excretion

would not go

up.

in "natural"

conditions in

The answer

lakes or streams became simple. Chlorella raised in "natural" picks up high conditions in lakes or streams picks up high anioun s oj amounts of mercury. It scavenges mercury out of the water ways, then, if you ingest it in a capsule, all that mercury goes into your body - thus the increased excretion of mercury.

As

these people

who

called

me

got their

amalgams removed and

lessened their exposure to mercury, they had a secondary

response to mercury from the chlorella, and that

is

immune

where the

flu-

symptoms came from. Take them off of chlorella, suggest some other detoxification methods, and, voila - better health. like

Cysteine has

many good reasons to be considered a great detoxifier About 36 by

for mercury.

count.

36 sulphur binding

sites that

should be able to attach to mercury and be eliminated. Actually, only about 6 of the 36 can really attach to mercury, but they are

more

attracted to

The bad news

is

methyl mercury (MeHg.)

that

wanders down the Then,

when

it

methyl mercury cysteine

intestinal tract considering

gets to the

is it

caecum portion of the

pretty toxic as

it

as a killing field. large bowel,

it is

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reabsorbed, makes a trip through the

The bad news is

hepatic portal system and enters the top

that methyl

mercury cysteine pretty toxic as

is

of the tube and makes the only

it

way to

trip again.

stop this recurring event

wanders down the

do a Vitamin C-flush and wash

intestinal tract

mechanically.

considering

it

it

The is

to

out

as

NAC

a killing field.

(N-acetyl cysteine)

recommended cysteine molecule reason.

mercury over and over

until

It

is

often

for detoxification for the

does the same trick with methyl

something eliminates

it.

We

do not

good recovery if people are taking cysteine or NAC. Proteins are good reducers of mercury and other toxins, but we prefer to recommend them in their natural form. Meat. see very

Vitamin It is

E has many uses

great to take

it

as an antioxidant

and healing enhancer.

- up to 400 units. More than that and it interferes

with oxygen transport in the hemoglobin.

Probably something

Check that out, too. Remember, it is OK up but you had better have a severe heart disorder to

similar to selenium. to

400

require

units,

more than

that.

Selenium has been touted

Of

inorganic mercury.

to It

be a detoxifier of mercury, and does very

little,

though some, for

methylmercury, but there are side effects you need to Again, dosage

it is.

know about.

is critical.

At doses In the presence of excess selenium,

red blood

cells

develop what are called "blebs".

red cell

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membrane

of selenium above 50 micrograms (meg) (and most supplements have 200 meg), selenium interferes with oxygen transport. In the presence of excess selenium, red blood cells develop

what are called "blebs". These are long finger-like projections that grow out of the itself.

When those appear, the red cell counter

counts them as viable red blood standpoint,

when

cells, but,

from the practical

blebs appear, the red blood cell can no longer

Small doses are good support, but

transport oxygen.

try to

keep

them below 50 micrograms.

Glutathione

And

is

a

God-send

the great thing

can enter a

is

that

for detoxifying our bodies of mercury.

we can make

observe that mercury

cell,

it

is

ourselves. Vitamin

lurking in a corner and

switch that manufactures glutathione on the spot.

flip the

then attach to mercury, and escort

out of the body.

it

C

It

will

As

a

supplement, added to an IV solution, glutathione can do the same thing.

There are oral supplements of glutathione that are

But!

The molecule is too big to be absorbed through the intestinal membrane so it passes through the intestinal tract, giving you no benefit. Be careful how you take it. If you make it yourself, that's fine. IV, OK, but in pill form, you are sold for detoxification.

wasting your money.

EDTA,

or if

been used to

you

No harm, just wasteful.

prefer, ethylene

in detoxification for

diamine tetra-acetic acid, has

over 20 years.

remove excess calcium from

much, For

it

is

original use

Its

use in diabetics in place

phenomenal. Although not advertised

does have somewhat of an ability to remove mercury.

this reason,

to chelate out

I

used to use small amounts (half a gram)

mercury and other toxins

Then came Haley

again.

Dr.

of exposure

to his

Boyd Haley became

interested in

test the results

famous enzyme panel. He was shocked

what these two dental

entities

would do,

in IV's

that don't help the body.

mercury and root canals only after I badgered him to

is,

was

the arteries instead of having

bypass surgery or a heart transplant. of having a leg amputated

Its

so, like the

to find

bulldog that he

he began some really intense research. Without his tenacity and

ability to field criticism

and throw

battle against dental toxins

have

to

would

it

still

back with

solid science, our

be in the dark ages. But you

watch the guy. He might find something you don't

like.

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Haley studied the

effects

of low levels of

- 20

panel, along with a series of minerals

and uh-oh.

EDTA on in all as

enzyme

his I

remember,

When EDTA binds with mercury, it becomes an enzyme

inhibitor to the point

of being an enzyme murderer.

Bad

stuff,

him with the respect he deserved, but continued to use my half gram (relative to the normal dose of three and a half grams) in some of my I Vs. Then we had a patient who became paralyzed just after an IV with EDTA. She We had a patient who became had had some reaction to an earlier one or paralyzed just two IV's, but thought it was just part of after an IV with me g ame of detoxification. She informed bD*** me of what happened. We started calling combination.

this

I

listened to

patients

reactions to

IV EDTA, but none

and found that many had had mild as severe as this

sent letters to all of our patients informing

problems and told them

knows what he

is

into a whirlpool

to stop using

it

young

them of the

lady.

We

potential

What if Haley He just put me

altogether.

talking about? I'm sure he does.

now, knowing of both the benefits and problems

EDTA. Again - same old story. These reactions happen in people who have had their amalgams removed and are now experiencing a more powerful immune system. Now you have with

the

same problem I have. Do you use

it

or not? Personally,

a mild reaction last year and stopped the IV. paralysis, but

I

shall

never use

you may have reason

day,

DMSA,

alias

mercury.

once

it

It

to

it

use

Dimercaptosuccinic acid,

is

a

much

Why the difference?

is

going to separate

dosages of 250, 500 and

come 306

I

liken

out, so

call.

for

it

you

to shaking

is

it,

quite harmful.

I

know of several it

cases in

offers too

an apple tree to get an apple.

get a bull dozer

so the

Dosage. At the recommended

which 1 500 milligrams were used, fast.

some

good chelator

mercury cannot do further damage. Potentially it

too

but

has an ultra strong affinity binding constant so that

binds to mercury, not

Dosage

it,

your body. Your

It is

it.

had

Just a feeling, not

We do not use

again.

I

and run

into the tree at

much None

60 miles

A hundred

per hour.

Maybe one

can you catch?

around

all

apples

come tumbling in

each hand.

out,

and how many

The

rest?

Running

over the place getting into trouble.

As mentioned

in the

chapter "Supplements that Support

DMSA is one of my favorite chemical detoxifiers,

Chemistries",

but at small doses that the body can keep up with. 50 milligrams

Monday, Wednesday and Friday

is

Sometimes

plenty.

less.

DMPS, known chemically as dimercapto propanesulfonic acid, very popular today. Hardly a day goes by that

someone using

it.

Usually they

Some do

they had.

tell

I

me because

is

do not hear about of a bad reaction

not have bad reactions, but they do not call

me.

The object is to use a very heavy chelator to dislodge as much mercury as they can, so it will show up in the urine. It is the old

DMPS shakes a

apple in the tree story. lot

More

of mercury loose.

body can

detoxify,

and the

than the result

#>w want

is

.

t

If

him that you took an „ , „, «>« IVpush of DMPS.

^

.

.

.

shock

a oxlco °£ls > J us

you want to shock a . iin toxicologist, took a '**lust tell him that you J t1 an IV push of DMPS. You will more retoxification.

to

.

than likely see a severe shock reaction. I

have not found one toxicologist so

idea.

From

suggest

it

the patient reactions

to

anyone.

I

far that

thought

have seen,

Retoxification

is

I

to

a pretty uncomfortable this

drug every

determine if they are "mercury toxic".

Number one, will

was a good

am not inclined to

road to travel, yet hundreds of people are given

day

it

the

first

time you are given

DMPS,

zinc and copper

When their levels are dropped in the show up in the urine. This may be after

be excreted in the urine.

serum, then mercury will

two or three tries. If the doctor does the DMPS push only once, he may have missed the action. The second or third may have been very significant, but got missed. Besides, the amount in the 307

urine as a result of a

amount of mercury

total

blood vessels all.

DMPS challenge has very little to do with the

Many

level

in the body.

It

reflects

what

is

in the

moment DMPS was administered, and that is when the first DMPS is run, and the mercury

at the

times,

comes out

zero, the doctor

is

inclined to say,

mercury toxic

"you are not

Nothing could be farther from the truth. Number two,

„

excellent

way

to

chelating ° the mercury out of the blood ,

stream does very

"retoxify" the

tne

patient

the

Obviously,

I

am

at all".

•

,

little

i

i

•

•

toward bringing out

omer 99.9 percent or more that bone, brain, fat and other body

is left

in

tissues.

very opposed to the use of DMPS, because

it is

uncomfortable for the patient, does not give a positive diagnosis

much for reducing the "body It is, however, an excellent way to "retoxify"

of anything, and, overall, does not do

burden" of mercury. the patient.

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Chapter 21

Detoxification

— Retoxification

Many people are more interested in detoxification than any other part of the Protocol. Logically, if we get rid of the source of the problem, we can return to optimum Right? Remember,

health.

we are dealing residing

with

this is

a complex disease

and a complex chemical body

it is

The biggest problem with detoxification

in.

that detoxification is retoxification.

and

it is

is

usually

done too fast.

There are two basic types of detoxification. Chemical and nonchemical. is

Some

are borderline

and include

bits

of both, but

who

counting? There are advantages and disadvantages to both, so

pick whatever sounds the most appealing to

you

do have good and what is not

that is not harmful.

opinions in what

is

I

good, and, probably, those opinions will

show through.

My opinions are based on

over 30 years of experience, so

be easier to learn from

it

might

my mistakes

There are two basic types of detoxification

•

chemical and

non-chemical

than

reinvent the wheel of detoxification.

Our excretory system, including

the liver

and kidney, can only process so many molecules per day.

When we release more

mercury than we can adequately bind and

Detoxification retoxification, it is

eliminate,

where can

And when

it

all

does,

it

go? Anywhere.

we become

is

and

usually done

too fast.

retoxified

over again.

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I

frequently hear that a doctor has told a patient that his objective

is

to get all of the

mercury out

in a

few days; go through the agony

Sounds good, but it rarely happens that Because mercury gets released from one hiding place

to achieve the ecstacy.

way.

Why?

Know

and goes into a new tissue or organ to create damage again.

you can never get rid of all of your mercury. At the few billionths of a gram excreted per day, it would take a few billion this:

days to get rid of

all

of

it.

you do not have to get all of the mercury out of your body in order to achieve improved health. You just have to excrete a few micrograms per day more than you ingest. We are all exposed to mercury daily in the air, food and water. If you excrete 10 micrograms a day and take in 8, your blood chemistry and mood will be much better than if you are excreting 8 and Fortunately,

taking in 10.

Measuring urinary excretion gives an idea of how much you are excreting, because fecal excretion

is

generally about 10 times the urinary Fortunately,

you

do not have to get all of the mercury out ofyour body in order to achieve improved health.

excretion, and urinary excretion to collect

and

test for

easier

than fecal samples.

Test urine and multiply by 10. excretion of mercury

is

is

Urinary

also an easy

gauge

low we jj y 0U are watching your life styie Should you do something that is f

j

not appropriate, your urinary excretion will

go down.

Occasionally, something beyond your control alters urinary excretion of mercury. Barometric pressure

is

one of those

things.

When the barometer is moving up, so is your urinary excretion of mercury. When the barometer is dropping (as with an approaching storm), urinary excretion of mercury also drops.

"retention toxicity" to describe this.

There

I

coined the term

is

a reduction in

excretion of both organic and inorganic mercury

barometer drops.

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when

the

Increasing the excretion of

more

MeHg,

or organic form of mercury,

Hg ++

significant than increasing the inorganic

quoted to be

1

00 times more toxic

to the

.

MeHg

is is

nervous system than the

inorganic, so small increases in excretion of

MeHg

are highly

significant.

This explains

why

old aunt-grandma can

when

tell

coming. Decreased excretion enhances retention in higher

blood levels of mercury, and

this will

encourage the return of the

symptoms. ..

A

Al

.

.

is

especially

.

111 increases in blood mercury

or organic form of mercury, is more

.

sensitive to levels.

J

some

Arthritics are lucky in

toxicity, resulting

excretion of MeHg, * \.

.

Arthritis

significant than

respects, because the slightest deviation

increasing the

from the optimum

inorganic

diet will create

retention toxicity, and

symptoms

appear. Learning experience. If an patient also has arthritis, infraction has

it is

discipline in your lifestyle

MS

This makes

which

Hg+ +

will

real easy to determine

been committed.

is

Increasing the

mercury toxicity „

patient's original

a storm

it

when a dietary

easier to maintain

will provide

you with

better

health.

All methods of detoxification have advantages, but the primary

element

is availability.

house?

If so, this is a

detoxifiers.

Yes,

I

Do you happen wonderful

know,

MS

asset.

to

have a sauna

Heat

is

in

your

one of the best

patients cannot stand heat.

Start

with low heat? Sounds like an oxymoron. At our Colorado office,

we had a large sauna that we kept at 140 degrees Fahrenheit. That is really not much "heat" but enough to teach an MS patient how to sweat. That is one of the characteristics of MS, you remember, no sweat.

This was noted in the 1840's as a differentiating

characteristic of the

MS

patient.

One nice thing about sweating is that elimination of toxins bypasses Both of these organs are usually stressed to MS, so getting rid of mercury and other toxins,

the liver and kidney.

some

extent in

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The temperature can be increased by 5 degrees each month until you are able to without their participation,

reach

1

a definite plus.

80 comfortably.

One One

is

Mexico in June when the temperature was routinely over 100 for the whole month. That was the time when mv a ir conditioner decided to expire. Soon afterward, I thought I would follow suit. j was hot j sweatecj \fe e a trooper and

nice thing

about sweating

is

that elimination

of toxins bypasses

and

the liver ^'

year

was

I

complained

to

in

everyone about the heat,

whether they spoke English or

The next winter we had

strange thing.

not.

But -

a cold snap in Colorado,

my coat. The next summer, in 95 degree heat, I was not uncomfortable. Ever since my original and

I

did not even bother to button up

MS

bout with

in

1968,

I

had

really hated heat

can be hot or cold, but no big deal. So

sweat

it

out,

it is

worth

it.

sweating that was upsetting is easier,

I

much

and cold. Now,

you can

for heat. If

got rid of something during

all that

my temperature regulating system.

admittedly, to get rid of the toxins a

One thing to remember for sure!

!

!

little bit at

it

It

a time.

No matter what the temperature, When you feel the slightest bit

do not overdo. dizzy, woozy, anything that is uncomfortable - you are out of there. If it has only been 5 minutes -

DO NOT OVERDO

At 140, you can probably stay an hour, but at 160, five minutes may be your limit. Detox is not the time to prove your manhood. Women are worse offenders than men. out!

Honor your comfort zone. Do not

What

else can

violate

it.

we do?

Gaining

in popularity is the far infra-red sauna. I

one, but

I

am

highly impressed with

Infra red does the job,

so

it

and heat

results

secondary.

and comfort zone.

It

does not feel hot,

may be the answer for the really heat-sensitive MS patient.

good job of ridding accumulative and dangerous. also does a

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is

its

have never used

It

body of another metal that is Iron. With breads and cereals

the

with iron

fortified

form of iron

filings,

we

are accumulating a non-biological

Many

that is very difficult to get out.

people suffer

through the blood letting every 6 weeks to get rid of that form of iron. It is not

quite

You become

very effective, and there are side effects.

weakened by the blood loss, and,

usually, the iron

and ferratin

do not come down appreciably.

What about steam saunas? They

are fine after a

detoxifying, but they are too hot at the

start.

much

temperature. Early in detox, that will be too too

If

Avoid

fast.

you want

cocoon.

to

Fill a

it

until

how

your body knows

few months of Steam is one temperature,

to sweat.

break a sweat in 3 minutes, try what

the

I call

bath tub with water up to 104°F (40°C), but never

exceed that temperature.

It

your "core" temperature

will overheat

and can do irreversible internal damage.

Get what

is

called a "bath sheet". That

bath towel about 3 feet by 6

feet.

vary several inches either way.

It

No

is

an oversized, terrycloth

standard size, for they can

doesn't really matter, as long as

you from toe to chin. Get into the tub of hot water, put the bath sheet in and soak it well; then lie back and pull the sheet up over you like a bed sheet. You will have a cocoon of water under and around you and the hot bath sheet on top of you. Boy, will you You will have a sweat. Here, two minutes may be enough. cocoon of water ' That s OK. No, you have not wasted the . under ana it

will cover

hot water. detox.

You

This

is

excellent therapy for

will probably

have

to re-soak

the towel every three minutes to maintain

a

warm

temperature.

•

,

the hot bath sheet

on

t0p

fyou.

Boy, will you

sweat

Another detox method

in the bath tub,

with or without the bath sheet,

Usually

Epsom

salt.

is salt.

Magnesium

sulfate.

Don't

start

with

it,

by putting a cup of baking soda into the water (sodium bicarbonate). Do this twice, a few days apart. Then use

though.

Start

313

72

cup baking soda and h cup Epsom

to

one cup Epsom

l

cups

if

you

like.

salt.

Epsom

You can salt

salt for

two soaks. Next go

gradually increase

it

does pull out heavy metals.

Balancing between chemical and non-chemical detox C.

I

suppose

it is

to 2 or 3

in the chemical category, but

I

call

it

is

Vitamin

in

between

always helpful in the body. Most chemical detoxification has pros and cons. Vitamin C is not quite that bad. Everyone can use some amount. because

it

is

Vitamin

C on

Vitamin

C

named.

It

good idea. What dose depends upon the person, but we start with 3 grams daily as a minimum. Some people can take 6, some 10. The top dose would be whatever causes you to exceed "bowel tolerance". That is, the dose that creates diarrhea. We do use that once in a while, but not as a daily routine. Cut back on the dose by one or two grams less than bowel tolerance, and you will be giving your body all the Vitamin C it can handle. Usually 3 or 4 grams is adequate, but more is OK. Side effects? Intestinal gas can become an uncomfortable issue if you are taking sodium ascorbate powder. That can be modified greatly by opening 4 or 5 capsules of activated charcoal and putting it into a bottle of sodium ascorbate. Shake it up to distribute it, and that will cut down on gas formation. a daily basis

is

a

can be used for what

we

call the "C-flush".

flushes out the intestinal tract

It is

well

from the stomach down.

Colonics do a super job of cleaning the colon, but there are mutant bacteria small intestine that could

*

what we th

"C

„

fl

h"

through the

become "dragons

We

to be slain". use one level ,. ~ T ~r^ , r , teaspoon or sodium ascorbate powder (NOT

that

call

all

need

ascorbic acid powder) in 4 ounces of water or juice every 20 minutes until diarrhea

is

The flush mechanically removes lots of weird gut bugs. Then you have to repopulate the gut. There are lots of lactobacillus products on the market, some good, some not so good; but, if they have to be refrigerated, they initiated.

314

At

that time, stop taking

it.

Be sure to obtain some lactobacillus some good bugs, but the major part of

are generally the better ones.

Acidophilus gives

bifidus.

done by bifidus. It will be naturally converted (by pleomorphic change) into many other "friendly" bacteria. Take a the job

is

capsule or half teaspoon of the powder with each meal for a week,

and you are on the way a

good

to better bugs. Buttermilk will also furnish

"starter" for intestinal bacteria.

What about yogurt? Funny thing about yogurt. It takes some pretty good bacteria to make good yogurt; then, the companies radiate it or in some way "attenuate" it. That renders the bacteria That's what you bought

incapable of reproducing.

from the company's

aspect, they paid big

for.

it

bucks for the

But

"starter"

bugs and don't want you to be able to go in competition with

them with the same bugs, so they are protecting their investment. If you make your own from a health food store starter - voila!

Some

people say they "chelate" with Vitamin C.

Vitamin

To

C

is

not a real good chelator, but

it

Technically,

does one step

better.

chelate, literally, is to furnish a chemical that binds to an

unpleasant metal or chemical and escorts

it

out of the body.

Vitamin C actually enters a cell, looks around, and,

mercury or cadmium - the

really

if it

finds lead,

bad heavy metal actors -

it

flips

an internal switch within the cell that stimulates the local manufacture of glutathione. This magic substance can bind tightly with mercury and eliminate great use of Vitamin

Glutathione

mouth,

it is

is

C

it

out of the body. This

is

the really

in detoxification.

also an asset as an additive to an

of little or no value for ,

absorbed from the intestinal

it is

tract. It

IV Taken by

too large a molecule to be

goes through the tube

intact,

and you just "wasted" your money. Caution!

Many

doctors like to use Vitamin

C

By

intravenously, but

most often used additive is Vitamin B-12. You may remember that I have attacked B- 1 2 on several occasions. It is a methylator of mercury, go hog wild

in

adding other agents to

it.

far,

the

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producing the very deadly methyl mercury. All forms of B- 12 in injectables or pills will

do

this

methylation

on a patient who

trip

You are a different person, biochemically. You still have lots of has had dental revision.

Caution!

Many

doctors like to

use Vitamin

C

mercury hanging around

you

in

your

tissues, so

always be a source of mercury for

will

intravenously,

the methylating event.

Given B-12 by

but go hog wild

sometimes takes years

to get

in

adding other

agents to

to the system.

it

over the shock

We have had a limited amount

of success trying to

it

IV,

tip the teeter-totter the

other direction with high doses of folic acid, but,

even then, progress

is

slow

at best.

While on the subject of being a different person, EDTA also has a different effect on a post dental revision patient. As Dr. Boyd Haley pointed out from his research of the late '90's, the union of EDTA and mercury creates a powerful toxic agent. We have had one patient who The union of had 3 EDTA treatments under the EDTA and direction of a trained physician, then, on mercury creates th the 4 she became paralyzed. It has been a powerful toxic over a year, and she is still not functional. ,

agent

We

interviewed a battery of our patients

who had been

told to seek out

EDTA

- with very small doses of EDTA (one half gram), and found that many had had funny sensations afterward, but none as severe as the one patient. We have recommended against the use chelation

of EDTA in the post-dental revision patient ever since.

EDTA is a real double edged sword because of the wonderful things that

have been seen using

it

in cases of heart blockages, circulatory

problems and side effects of being diabetic. Haley is right though. Especially in the post dental revision patient.

I

Tough

call.

am totally against one of the most popular drugs used in mercury

toxicity. is

That

is

DMPS

(dimercapto propanesulfonic acid). This

a very powerful chelator for mercury, but

316

it

creates too

much

.

re-toxification for

my

comfort

Especially the over 1000 people

on what happened

had

Many

level.

who have

patients agree.

me

called

for advice

DMPS IV.

These are people 1 do not know and don't know how they got my name, but it seems that

when

after they

they dialed 91

1 it

much

of mercury. Not

rang into

my

office.

DMPS

releases

what is in the body, but far more than the body can handle though the kidney and liver in a lots

short period of time, so

it

relative to

spreads around creating havoc everyplace

touches.

it

Why use it? Some people use it as an indicator of "body burden" of mercury.

hundred percent, is

of mercury goes up several

If the urinary excretion

that

means you

are mercury toxic.

I

disagree.

It

the reaction to mercury that determines mercury toxicity, not

amount of mercury. Twenty cannons sitting around are not as dangerous as a B-B gun that hit you in the eye. There is room for a lot of argument, but I suggest do not use DMPS unless you are willing to put up with the consequences of retoxification. the

There

is

one four-lettered drug

the dosage is

is

I

much, even though

like very

generally a few hundred percent higher than

appropriate. That

cousin to

that

DMPS,

is

DMSA (dimercaptosuccinic acid).

but works quite well

LOW

- IN

think

I

It is

DOSES.

a It

seems to work best at 25 to 50 milligrams taken Monday, Wednesday and Friday. We have recommended this for over 6 years and like

its results. It is

customarily

given by mouth in dosages of 100 to 150

cm milligrams -ii-i 500 daily ° J stop and recover. j

*

to

r u-i *u for a while; then

Several dentists _ eng .

gave two 500

mg

capsules to their patients "as

I

know

who gave two

protection"

to their patients

the patients

of several dentists

500 milligram capsules

"as protection" just before dental

seizures.

appointments. The patients had seizures,

_,

so the dentists called

much

me to ask why. Too

detoxification too fast. This

protection,

it is

demolition

.

is

not

had

.

,

.

t

protection

f it is

DEMOLITION. 317

One cannot overlook detoxification, but that

is

the significance of nutrition during

up

to

your blood chemistry. Obviously,

and caffeine will interfere with the successful detoxification, but the amounts of carbohydrate, protein and fat sugar, alcohol

are equally as important as the detox methods. Supplementation that avoids

Vitamin B-12, chlorella, calcium and non-biological

minerals will be an additional asset.

To summarize: Detoxification is Retoxification, which means, be respectful of what you are doing - and detoxification should become a natural part of your lifetime. Forever? No, just for as long as you want to be in good health.

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Chapter 22

Treatment Plan for the Protocol Now

that all

is

said

what

-

be done? There

is to

is

a

Protocol for treatment plans for MS that has proven to help

many

other autoimmune diseases as well.

can do

No one

of the Protocol, but what are the pieces? You can select the ones that are available to in the U.S.

you,

all

and be your own case director Here they

pieces.

First of all,

check

it

Many

my

office

if you

know

the

are.

out.

There are many offices

advertise the "Huggins Protocol".

me. Call

—

and check

it

out

Some have if

that suddenly

never even met

you have any questions.

dentists advertise that they follow the

Huggins Protocol,

which, to them, means take out amalgams and put in white

Success in neurological and autoimmune diseases from of plan

is

minimal. You have read a

amount of

detail

it

on the importance of

replacing

low

assembled for easy review.

some cases, just amalgam may be adequate for

Well, here

it

intensity

is.

this type

fair

implementing the entire Protocol, but have not seen

fillings.

In

problems and minimally

required outcomes.

may want The "whole

Others

everything available. enchilada" is my bag, and here

Many dentists advertise that they

follow the Huggins Protocol, which,

them means "take out amalgams and put in white to

fillings". it is.

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Step by step, here

is

where

the Protocol practiced in the Centers

I

Decades of trial and error have eliminated many procedures

consult.

and emphasized the importance of others.

Which

important segment? The one that

That

patients that

see, but they

I

may be

is left out.

in far

is

is

the

most

true for the

worse shape than you.

About 10% of the patients who come to see us

About 10% of

now are see ki n g preventative treatment.

the patients

who

Isn 't that interesting? Talk about preventive

come

us

medicine. These forward thinking people

to see

want to get well before they get sick. That is up from 1% just 10 years ago.

now are seeking preventative

treatment

You do not have to be on death's doorstep go through the Protocol, but you may not require all of it. It is presented here so you will be able to evaluate the steps vs. your condition and expectations; then you can make your selection from what is available in your own area based on being an informed patient. to

1

-

First,

Mystery

is

become educated a

good way.

It's

.

Solving the

All in Your

MS

Head and

Uninformed Consent are also good guides into the unknowns of what dental materials can do to you. There is rumor that there are several other good books out there also. The important thing is to determine what direction you want to go before launching into uncharted waters. 2 - After

you are familiar with the Protocol, interview dentists, physicians and supportive you can assemble an adequate do the treatment that you have selected.

therapists to see if

team 3

to

- In the dental office, expect a dental examination

that includes hard (teeth)

and

soft

(gums and neck

areas) tissue evaluations. X-rays will be taken to

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locate decayed teeth, defective fillings, missing

dead

teeth, cavitations, root canal or

of your teeth

may be

taken

teeth.

at this

Models

time for an

evaluation of your "bite", and to be used by the laboratory to fabricate replacements for any missing teeth that

might be removed during these procedures.

4 - He/she will also take electrical readings on your

and crowns in order to determine the sequential order in which the restorations should be

fillings

replaced.

Your case physician can write prescriptions blood drawing for the following items: 5

-

•

for

blood serum for the chemistry analysis from

which your intake of carbohydrate,

fat

and

protein can be determined. In other words, a scientific basis for

•

the

your individual

diet.

CBC, or complete blood count. This shows

the red and white blood cells that are generally

by the presence of mercury and root canals. From these tests, information on how your immune system is functioning can be altered

gleaned and how removal of dental interference

can re-ignite proper •

serum

is

also

laboratory

drawn

for

"compatibility"

immune

test.

to

what

function.

be sent to a special is

called

This shows which dental

materials interfere with your specific

function and which ones can

used

in

the

more

immune

safely be

your mouth (are more immune

compatible with your

immune

system).

A

sample of your hair from the nape of the neck will be taken (probably best by your barber or 6

-

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beautician) to be sent to another special laboratory for analysis of minerals.

Some

minerals, like lead,

mercury and cadmium, are toxic. Others,

like

sodium,

potassium and calcium are compared to blood for the

same mineral

in order to

tests

be able to interpret

body in this area. There is a direct relationship between blood and hair analysis - which shows us that high levels are not necessarily the real condition of your

indicative of high tissue levels,

and the same for low

These results may be totally opposite conventional wisdom in people with cellular transport

levels.

problems caused by dental toxins. 7

-

Plan your treatment

physician,

IV personnel,

jointly with the dentist,

acupressurist, nutritionist,

detoxification doctor and other health professionals

so that the timing of events

and do not interfere with 8

-

complement each other

final results.

Set your a ppointment schedule in accordance

with the 7-14-21 day violated,

it is

immune

cycles. If this

is

too easy to create an autoimmune disease

you might otherwise have never had. Be sure to allow 48 hours between appointments as well. Be sure to get

all

of the "removal" appointments (amalgam,

nickel crowns and root canals) accomplished within

a 30 day period or less,

9

-

If

if at all possible.

you are using Intravenous Conscious

Sedation then there ,

appointment, and

it

is

generally only one removal

can be 6 or 8 hours long without

problem. Since IV sedation gives a time compression and amnesia, you won't really notice how long you have been there. Placement of new crowns and partials can be done at any time without a

regard to the

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immune

cycles.

1

10

-

Sequential removal of the

fillings requires that

the quadrant containing the highest negative current filling

be removed

first.

Then

next highest electrical charge

the quadrant with the next. All procedures

is

involving filling replacement, crown replacement, tooth extraction and cleaning cavitations without

conscious sedation can generally be accomplished within the 2 hour to 2 hour 15 minute

have for accomplishing

immune

the

quite short

Even

system.

-

like 15

this task

is

before damaging

the procedures are

minutes - never, never cross

the midline during the

midline

if

window you

same appointment. (The

an imaginary line dividing the head into

two halves at a point between the front teeth and between the eyes.) Unless, of course, you are utilizing IV conscious sedation. Then you can do things upside down and backwards with no effect on the immune system.

would be nice to be able to start all of the nutritional program based on your body 1

-

It

chemistries at one time, but

it is

Infusion as you go along

probably the most

The "why" Cooked Yet! )

practical. Isn't

behind

—

my

to

is

too extensive.

cook book ( Your Goose

details a lot of the reasons

food suggestions.

It

also furnishes

recipes that do not taste like the sawdust and sand

foods (my opinion, but shared by many) frequenting the shelves of health food stores.

The

entire discussion of blood chemistry, the

CBC

and hair analysis compared with your lifestyle, takes

me about

18 hours to present.

We start with a session

on determining needs, goals and expectations. Then

two hour sessions with video explanations of upcoming chemistries that will be discussed. This is followed by 3 hour presentations of segments of

there are

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chemistry for each of 4 days. After revision, dietary changes

second chemistry

is

all

the dental

and supplementation, a

drawn

to

show you

just

how

much you can do for yourself in 6 days. For yourself. You are in charge. You are responsible for yourself. I can make suggestions, but you are the only one who is in control. That is why I say, the Protocol works, but who will work the Protocol? 12

-

Su pplements may be started prior to the dental

procedures when possible. Surgical support supplements are generally given the day before, the day of, and the day after surgical procedures. Needs for calcium are specific, and most patients suffer from an overdose of the improper form of calcium. Care must be exercised when prescribing calcium. Most of the rest of the necessary supplementation is based on your chemistries (not blood type) and is individual. Modifications in dosage are based on follow-up chemistries.

13

-

Do

not take Vitamin

procedures. Vitamin

C

C

the day of dental

by mouth

will shorten the

effect of the dental anesthetic to literally

minutes - after

around 10

The IV form of Vitamin C does not do this for reasons unknown, but even 500 milligrams in the tablet form will detoxify the anesthetic adequately to let you feel that,

it is

pains ville.

the pain of drilling or surgery.

14

-

Observe the Patient Protection Protocol

closely as

is

as

possible during removal procedures.

many dentists do not have all the equipment described, so see how much you

Please realize that safety

can live with, or without. Complete protection includes the use of the rubber

dam during amalgam

removal; the use of copious amounts of water with

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high suction while amalgams and nickel crowns are

being cut with the high speed

drill;

placement of

dental materials that have been proved by testing to

be biocompatible with you; presence of negative ion

remove the massive amount of mercury vapor within the dental office; IV Vitamin C during the removal procedures - especially if surgery for generators to

root canals or cavitations

is

performed; adminis-

one capsule of an anaerobic fighting one hour before surgery (that is all that is

tration of antibiotic

required), and the use of Protamine Zinc Insulin (PZI), if possible, after the procedures.

15

If surgery is

-

done during this procedure, be sure

packs immediately after the procedures are finished, use ma gnets on the face where surgery

to use ice

was done,

if desired,

and dispense adequate pain

Please avoid codeine

pills.

,

when

possible, for

it

makes many people nauseated and is constipating for the majority of people. Minimal travel after surgery

is

advisable (like

1

to 3 miles) because the

vibration in a car can release the blood clot, resulting in the

famous painful "dry socket". Smoking

after

surgery will almost guarantee the formation of a painful dry socket.

Be

Be forewarned.

IV during the dental procedures contains NO Vitamin B-12 B-12 in any form is a methylator, and methyl mercury is extremely damaging to your nervous 16

-

absolutely certain that your

.

system.

17

-

Acupressure immediately

appointments

is

helpful to

after dental

all patients,

especially

those with neurological problems. With

all

the

beaming into the brain for many years (at a current 1000 times greater than the brain electrical currents

325

9

operates on), the brain tries to accommodate; then,

upon removal of this current, the brain tries to uncompensate and recoup. The result can be a pretty uncomfortable feeling for about a week. Acupressure can be accomplished while the IV is still

running.

18

Massage

-

drainage and

white blood

is

is

good way

a

to stimulate

lymphatic

particularly helpful in patients with

cell

or serum calcium problems.

It

can

be applied a few days before the dental removal sessions and a

1

few days afterwards.

After dental removal procedures are completed,

-

be sure that the patient maintains a high protein diet If surgery .

for a

few days

was done, to avoid

it is

best to use a blender

damage

to fresh surgical

sites.

20

-

Be

followed.

sure that the C-flush procedures are

Many

people achieve a

new

level of

health after basic dental revision procedures, but

do not feel that they have all the health and energy they would like. When they remember the C-flush and actually do it, they immediately feel much better.

Remember,

eating the right foods

part of the treatment.

You have

is

only

to digest, absorb

and assimilate the breakdown products of foods before your body can really build a

new

you.

It

takes renewed gut bacteria to do that.

21

-

Select the detoxification procedures that are

available and acceptable to you.

Be

careful to find

the balance between adequate and overdoing. to three procedures per

week

people, and six to seven per for almost anyone.

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is

Two

adequate for most

week

is

overdoing

it

Be kind to yourself. The biggest

single

problem

after post dental revision

detoxification too fast

Be very

.

is

too

much

careful here. This

goes for detoxification medications as well as saunas, etc. Get educated. Read the book on detoxification and take heed.

22

-

See to

it

that

your follow-up blood tests and

interpretations are scheduled. into the habits that created

It is

easy to

slip

back

your original problem,

so all of us need "handholding" to maintain

improved 23

-

health.

A really

program

is

important part of going through this

that

you have a competent caregiver

Especially during dental procedures, the brain

.

is

undergoing a new form of electrical and chemical stimulation,

and it can easily become confused. Even

menial tasks like selecting which clothes to wear,

which foods

to eat, preparing the foods, cleaning

up the kitchen afterward or the time of the appointments are stresses to a patient undergoing dental revision that are not ordinarily stressors. Having someone appointed as designated decision maker will enhance healing and reduce stress on your

immune

system. Pull off your ego hat, and

someone

else help

For those

you

at this time.

who cannot go to one

don't need

to,

of the Centers where

but want assistance, there

takes your blood,

CBC, hair

let

results

is

the

I

consult, or

Huggins Guide

.

It

and an extensive questionnaire,

then crunches them through a computer and comes out with an interpretation

and a plan.

the part about

what

if this

It is

to ask for in the dental office. Call our office

would be of use

to you.

of one-on-one action, so

it is

but for moderate conditions, will

about 70 to 80 pages long, including

does not offer the sophistication

It

not it

recommended

for severe cases,

provides detailed guidance that

be invaluable as you "take charge of your

own

health".

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NOTES

328

.

Chapter 23

How to Overdo and

Crash

or

Destroying Your Investment Its easy.

People do not get sick or "catch " something beyond their control.

Sometimes

physical, like injury, that

it is

predisposes them; sometimes dental toxicity; sometimes within their control, like alcohol or drugs; sometimes

psychological; and sometimes

lifestyle.

For

the

most

a combination of all of the above. Sometimes friends and relatives can lead you into a situation that part,

is

it is

not in the best interest of your health. That brings up

the tough part: if you really are serious about getting well,

sometimes you have

sometimes you have

One day I happened

to

to

change playmates -

change playgrounds

to look out of the front

.

.

window of my

office

and saw a young lady emerge onto the sidewalk from the dental

Her boyfriend stepped out of a car, came up to her, put arm around her - sweet, then took a pack of cigarettes out of pocket and offered her one. She took it and lit up. I walked

section. his his

over to the dental section and sought out the dentist.

"What did she have done today?" "Three amalgams out and removed a root canal tooth, why?" "I told her

about smoking."

329

"So did "I just

I.

In fact, that

was

the last thing

I

told her

when

she

left."

saw her out of the window."

"No?" "Dry socket on the way."

"We

all

have our

own way

of learning."

Sure enough, the next day she was back in the dental chair with pain that the medication would not handle. The dentist discussed

smoking and how that frequently caused a dry socket. She openly admitted that she knew that and had smoked anyway. She had successfully gotten off drugs and cleaned up her diet remarkably well, but couldn't

knock the

cigarette habit.

A few days later I was looking out the front window when a young lady

came out of the

dental area onto the sidewalk. She reached

into her purse, pulled out a

same

gal.

pack of cigarettes and

lit

up. Yes, the

Next day - another painful dry socket.

Your worst enemy can be your best I

am

Or it can be

yourself.

hoping that you can learn from others'

A crash is

experiences.

a severe

from seeing

backslide.

friend.

The data given here was derived

my own patients

sev ere backslide.

crash.

A crash is a

As with MS itself - these things happen. They are under your

do not have to control. Your choice.

Maybe you do not have control over all events that happen to you. Yes, but you have control over many of them that you may not realize.

When

in

awe of the

dentist with all of his

framed papers

you may not think you have the power to say, "Can you please use the rubber dam?" That would be insulting. Of on the

330

wall,

course you have the right to determine You have the

whether you want amalgam fragments running

right to

down your throat into your intestinal

determine tract or not.

This should be discussed long

whether you

before you ever get into the dental chair.

want amalgam fragments running down your throat.

Swallowing mercury can be hazardous to your health. Even with a rubber dam, some of the slurry will slip around the teeth and arrive under your tongue, but if

avoid

98%

of the exposure,

is it

you can

worth

it

to

ask?

There are some places

The

cannot be used.

mouth

that a rubber last

dam

molar

in the

-

at the

(especially upper molars)

gum-line of molars - the back of the

last

molars - and, during surgery, the rubber

dam is It is

not used at

places that a

rubber

its

cannot be used.

when metals

are being cut out.

mercury vapor and amalgam mist, of course,

can be absorbed readily through your cheeks.

aluminum crowns

you from

materials cut out.

You

Nickel crowns,

(called porcelain or ceramic), can provide a

slurry or mist of these metals. Assist

to protect

dam

all.

of greatest importance

Amalgam, with

There are some

your dentist

in the decision

direct exposure while having old dental

You can

crash before take

off.

certainly have control over your appointment schedule.

Review

the 7-14-21 day cycles, for violation of these during the

removal procedures

will,

not can, will create a problem with your

immune protection. Day 7 can make you feel like you are coming down with the flu, 14 can create a break in resistance and day 21 will do some form of damage. It may be subliminal or may create an autoimmune process you have to deal with the rest of your life.

331

After oral surgery, be sure to utilize the ice packs and

And

items suggested for proper healing.

all

the other

most importantly

don't be in a car tor over 3 miles alter going

through surgery. Clot formation

Clot formation is

the most

most

all

alter the periodontal

out and

all

the other attentive

ligament

element of all.

details

is

have been done.

by riding

what happens

the

important element ol

important

is

is

in a

It

can

all

be undone

car for 10 miles. Convenience

lor the next tew decades, [f

it

is

too inconvenient

today to stay close to the doctor's office, then put off the surgery until this portion

can be assured.

lake baby steps.

Have one

per

tilling

month

replaced.

Have

some

reason,

everything replaced except the root canals. Crash. For crash has to do with

immune

are spread out over a cycle o(

cycles.

I

removal procedures

the

more than 30 days,

will not be as good. Thirty -one days,

BIG

It

no big

the final results

deal, but 3 to 6

months

deal.

have treated main people

and have

If the

who were going

to

"do

me

a favor"

removed before going through the Protocol. Both the patient and the team will have to work harder to achieve

part o( their fillings

removal

procedures are spread out over a

satisfactory results, but they are never

good as if the whole Protocol were done in a timclv fashion. as

cycle of more

than JO days, the

know that some dentists are too busy to sec you more than once a month, and, perhaps, it is best to get the amalgam out 1

final results will

not be as good.

rather than leave

you desire people

to

for a final result.

That part

-out

>

>

but consider what

your control.

I

encourage

remove a little bit here and there. Usually these spreadfolks end up far worse than when they started. Another

opportunity to crash before take »'">

in

in,

save up for a year and do the procedures within 30 days,

rather than it

is

it

oi\.

Cavitations are best cleaned out at the

removal procedures -

ALS

success with

in fact, they

and other

same time

have to be,

critical

as the rest of the in order to gain

autoimmune

diseases.

But

most people, their dentist has probably never heard of a cavitation and certainly did not clean them out. Following the porphyrin tests, I have noted that doing the cavitations later is not a real big problem. The immune system will not show as much improvement as when they are cleaned out in the initial procedure, for

because there

is still

an anchor present to drag

But - cleaning them later does notably reduce the in the urine,

down

recovery.

loss of porphyrin

and more improvement can be anticipated

procedure - even

if it is

done a year

after the

later.

Sequential removal according to the electrical current is

one of the biggest

single factors in recovery. stated before,

I

As

have not the

why, but the results

Under conscious

tell

I

first

have clue

the story clearly.

sedation, all electrical

requirements are turned

off.

Evidently

mechanism that controls this area is turned off when a person is

the

semiconscious.

Sequential removal

according to the electrical current

one of the bl88est s nSle is

^

factors in recovery*

We still do the procedures according to sequential

some reason we do it upside and backwards, doesn't matter with IV conscious sedation. order, but, if for

it

by conscious sedation is the problem with crossing the midline. With just local anesthetic, if one crosses from right side to left, or left to right, you have crossed Another thing

that is neutralized

the "midline" and your

immune system

will react negatively in

some way or another. Never the same, but original symptoms with great vengeance.

usually a return of

Without conscious sedation, follow the sequential removal 333

procedures for the best results, and do not cross the midline -

even for a 10 minute procedure. You can get away with than half of the time, but the other half

is

it

more

going to pay the price.

Replacing amalgam with a composite that contains aluminum may

be some improvement, but

it

usually exchanges one

response for another.

autoimmune

Is there

gain?

Sort of like the "frying pan into the

There are generally

Replacing amalgam

fire" episode.

with a composite that

around 8 different chemicals in a

contains

aluminum

composite. There

is

a chance that

you

exchanges one

will react to

autoimmune

we use serum compatibility testing to get as close as we can to your serum immune system. When there are

response for another.

one or more of those, so

minimal immune reactive responses to a filling material, that

is

the material that should be used.

Even "gold" can be a problem. Gold itself,

so

it is

is

too soft to be used by

alloyed with other materials. Twenty metals can be

alloyed with gold, and

some of them are toxic. Copper is the most

usual offender, but, again, the serum compatibility test will

tell

you which metals your immune system will tolerate, and which it will not. Copper is nearly as toxic as mercury, so watch what is going to become a permanent part of your body.

If you

have no counseling on nutrition, you are guaranteed a crash,

but

if

you have counseling

in

accordance with your blood chemistries Eating fish once a

month will prevent your immune system from healing completely.

forgiven by your

334

immune

and

still

violate the basic principles,

you have some kind of not-get-well wish. Eating fish once a month will prevent your immune system from healing completely. Moderation on many things, even alcohol, will be system, but fish will not be.

Caffeine

the biggest offender for repeat performances. Just one

is

cup won't

Then

hurt.

it's

one a day, then back

to several a day.

The only thing that is harder to avoid than caffeine is chocolate. It can take years to completely overcome the chocolate addiction.

Another thing people will warn you against and

salt.

is

the use of butter

Social pressure. Especially from family. Butter

is

the

primary vehicle of absorption of nutrients through the intestinal tract.

Salt

is

the primary mineral necessary in nerve impulse

Reduce

transmission.

either of these and, written guarantee

-

Crash! Big time.

Along with nutritional violations is supplementation. Try taking a shot of B-12 and plan to count the months until you come back to the condition you were the day you got the shot. You must watch the IV's for this, because nurses and medical

assistants don't

always get the word from the doctor, and often resort to habit.

For your It

own protection,

if

your IV solution

is

pink, don't take

it.

probably contains Vitamin B-12. Chlorella, blue-green algae

and calcium supplements are the next notch below B-12.

I

hear

from countless people who have been talked into trying these things because they are in a "pristine" form, or different chemical base,

and the story

is

always the same. Crash!

Watch your IV's for excessive minerals and chemicals that may not be what you need. Vitamin B-12 and EDTA are the primaries to avoid.

Try stopping the

critical

have an opportunity

you were when you

to

supplements that you need, and you

watch yourself

started.

slip

may

slowly back to where

This requires discipline, re-educating

yourself by rereading your notes, and having a blood test every 6

months

for a

few years

to

enhance your awareness of direction.

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Are you headed to

for health or non-health?

You have been

look for these things, and have counselors available

taught

at the other

end of a telephone. Use them.

We cannot balance the

Many

chemistry of

people in health food stores will try to

convince you that you should be a vegetarian.

a vegetarian.

From our

we

experience,

chemistry of a vegetarian, after a session

cannot balance the initially,

of treatment with the Protocol,

if

and cannot

a person takes up

vegetarianism later on. If you were once mercury toxic, Crash will be in

your future.

Exercise

is

good

for

energy for healing.

you?

Not

for the first year or so.

encourage your circulatory system, but not healing. Stay

that is

You do need

at the

good health and have a desire not what you need at this time.

not three times a day?

overly

detrimental to people

recovering from

What

are

and soda, shelves?

bedtime.

Why

Especially at

Food putrefying

in

your

MS.

mouth while you sleep is not in the best interest of keeping bad bugs from growing under your gums. BUT! you going to brush with? You have been told about salt and that is fine. But what is available on the grocery store Fluoride toothpaste.

people recovering from difficult to find

results, fluoride

Fluoride

MS. So

home water

tough chemical to remove.

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if

to build big muscles, but

Brush your teeth twice a day? is

to

expense of slow

you to push your limit. Fine,

in

Fluoride

is

away from jogging, running, and exercise in a gym.

Trainers always want to encourage

you are

that

Walking, swimming or wading in water

exercise and can enhance healing.

excellent

Use

is

is

overly detrimental to

the fluoride

purifiers that

Find a

mouthwash.

remove

filter that

fluoride.

guarantees,

removal for home drinking purposes.

It is

It is It is

by

a

test

worth it.

Many

salespeople will say, I'm sure

and a degree

ability

in

it

does. Request proof. Sales

Be

chemistry are not the same thing.

absolutely sure before investing.

you order picks up low

Fluoridated water is hard to avoid in restaurants, even

what

I

call "plastic water".

Water

in a plastic bottle

if

molecular weight hydrocarbons which can lead to plastic sensitivities later on. There is bottled water in glass. Costs a few dimes more,

you have

but, at times,

to put a

monetary value on

your health. Again - choice.

Family can make or break your case.

two supportive and highly condemning. Which one I

see

produces the highest proportion of successful

You know. The Protocol does not end when you go home. Detoxification and J cases?

application of the principles based

It still

is

surprises

Fa™lly can ,

,

break your

on your blood

chemistry are for you to use for a lifetime. long as health

Highly

types.

As

an advantage.

me when

I

discover patients

who have

far

more

advantages to being ill than being well. Being ill gives some people the first opportunity in their lives to be "in control" of family and

Some people value this more than having to take responsibility for their own life, and they enjoy friends.

To

get adequate attention.

crashing into their true comfort zone.

Bottom

line:

Take responsibility for your own

Bottom

life.

line:

Take responsibility for your own

life.

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NOTES

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Chapter 24

Follow Did you sit

Up

think that you were going to have dental revision,

through hours of immune stimulating education, and

go home cured? No way. This program gives you a direction when you come out of the starting gate, then, it is up to you to navigate the rest ofyour life. Detoxification is a way of life, not a one time visit to the sauna. Nutrition is something you respect 3 times a day. Sure, there will be

meals of

had

''living

it

better keep in

of your nutrition

up, " but the majority

mind

that

your chemistry

is

helping to

provide the guidance for your choices. Your choices.

my hope

Yes,

your choices will combine a comfortable lifestyle with your chemistry needs in a manner that allows your health to bloom better from they are yours, but

is

that

here on.

How do you really know that you are doing the right thing? One easy way. Follow up chemistries. The at 3 or

first

few chemistries taken

6 months after you go through the Protocol are apt to be

really weird,

and you will have

to

have the help of a counselor

them and chart a correction course. Your body J knows how to go about healing, but you may not understand its moves and motives at first. There is really no way I could write a book on interpretation of the first few

to

interpret

,

*

i

__

,

How do you knQw thatyQU are ^ in „ fo e rfgnt thing?

chemistries in less than a thousand pages,

one easy way.

because there are literally hundreds of different

Follow up

combinations that can happen. They are easy

chemistries.

enough to understand after you have seen a few dozen, but the first one can throw you a curve.

How? 339

Take phosphorus as our first example.

It is

indicative of two things.

The balance of your endocrine glands - and also - it registers the amount of inflammation in your body. Say you have a 3.8 mg% reading at first. Super. Your endocrine glands are in great balance. You go through the Protocol, being quite conscientious about everything, and Bingo, your next test, 6 days later, shows a

Down in the potential for dental decay

phosphorus of 3.0. Oh, my.

range, as well as being out of the regeneration range. Interpretation:

Remember those

from wisdom teeth

that

3 root canals

Horrors.

and four cavitations

you had? They were highly inflamed.

Removing them got rid of the inflammation, and now we true

phosphorus

level.

see your

Now we know that your endocrine glands

were affected by dental materials and require some

attention that

we could not determine in the midst of all the chemistry chaos created by the combination ofyour lifestyle plus dental toxins. Anew course correction has been exposed on your trip to better health.

them around. Let's say that your first phosphorus chemistry was 3.0 mg% and second was 3.8. This shows that the inflammation was quickly resolved by the IV Vitamin C and other things; your endocrine glands shifted into high gear and are now working normally. It was like having your brake on the brake and accelerator simultaneously. Remove the brake (equivalent to removing the root canals) and the accelerator allows you to zoom forward. Let's take the

same chemistries and

turn

more than any other chemistry. Let's say you were on a low fat diet, had a cholesterol of 200 mg% and b Cholesterol can throw curves

.,

can throw

'

converted to eggs and butter

daily.

It is

not

more than any

unusual for the cholesterol levels to drop 20 to

other

40 points

chemistry.

that butter

curves

in 6 days.

body require

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eating

all

cholesterol.

In

cells so rapidly to replace those

contaminated with mercury, you will use constructing their new cell

When

and eggs? Yes, because so many

areas of the

manufacturing red blood

Drop?

lots

of cholesterol in

membranes Hormones .

are

made from

cholesterol.

If

your endocrine system

hormones, your cholesterol sense

drop even

new does make

building lots of further.

It

when you understand what your body goes through during

the healing

- during

the regeneration

during that 6 days, yet

may be

if

- process.

may drop two to three thousand points

Elevated white blood cells

there

will

is

you look

at the

"populations" of

cells,

PMN's. How going down? You no

a 500 point simultaneous increase in

can one population go up, while the

total is

who were fighting the root canal now you need the "clean up crew"

longer need certain populations toxins, so they dropped, but (the

PMN's)

to

come

other populations the necrotic

in

and clean up the debris

who were

bone and

left

behind by the

destroying the root canal bugs and

wake.

soft tissues left in their

Your chemistries have an option to do three things after dental revision and immune stimulation. They may go up, down, or stay the same. Experience can suggest what is "apt" to happen, but only the second blood for sure

test lets

us

know

what happened. j

were made

Suggestions u based on the first test, but u

a

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