ORN Dr. Al Danenberg show notes 11/8/22
Author of Eat As If Your Life Depends On It, plus other books. Dr. Danenberg.com
Gum disease (periodontal disease) is 2 infections. Gingivitis is infection is In the gum tissue. Is very reversible, no bone infection.
Can advance to periodontitis, which is more aggressive. Mix of different types of bacteria, which get under the gum, causing damage to the jawbone, loosening and then loss of teeth.
Infection in the mouth generally starts in the gut. Due to emotional distress, diet, damage to the garden of bacteria. Immune system becomes dysfunctional, infection spreads through circulatory system. Bacteria in the mouth become overgrown with pathogenic types which cause tooth decay. It’s like a splinter in your finger that can become a systemic infection.
Local irritants in mouth and gut issues lead to dental decay.
The mouth and body professions don’t talk on the same plane. Their interplay is not taught in medical or dental school. Root canals and mercury fillings still being taught.
Sugar is main factor in causing tooth decay. But damage from it requires a pathological situation in the garden of bacteria. Sugar feeds the bacteria, causes acid release, leads to tooth decay.
Immune system controls balance of bacteria. If overgrown, bacteria cause problems, but if not overgrown, they serve a purpose as a balance.
Don’t want to kill off the oral microbiome. Bacteria in dental plaque is thought of needing to be destroyed. Rather, it has a purpose. Are several hundred microbes that produce peroxide, which kill potentially pathogenic bacteria from getting under gum. Has buffers that control acidity to keep it more than pH of 5.5. Is a gatekeeper allowing minerals to penetrate the biofilm of dental plaque to get to tooth root and remineralize.
Worse thing you can do is use antimicrobial toothpaste and mouthwashes. They destroy a healthy biofilm.
Looking at skulls of archeological remains, find calcified dental plaque, but no dental decay. Calcified dental plaque is protective if its not overgrown with pathological bacteria.
Is teeth cleaning needed? It’s not medically necessary to remove excess tartar.
Doesn’t recommend hydrogen peroxide or silver for prophylactic use.
Dr. Danenberg was diagnosed in 2018 with multiple myeloma, a bone marrow cancer. Believe it started by exposure to mercury and low dose ionizing radiation in his dental practice.
Investigated lifestyle changes. Started with more strict animal based diet, mostly carnivore by Jan 2020. Treated at Intl Center for Medical Nutritional Intervention in Budapet, Hungary. No chemo.
Eats a Paleoketogenic diet and is in ketosis most of the time.
Liver produces ketones when there is not enough carb available. Ketosis is when level of ketones improves healing and antioxidant potential. What you’re not eating is more important than what you’re eating.
Retired dentist calls in. Says Dr. Huggins found that sugar reverses flow in the tooth tubules from an outward direction to inward from the mouth.
Listener asks: Can a tooth ever be healed or fixed if it’s cracked? No, the tooth will not self-heal. Usually a crown or extraction is required.
Zirconia in implants don’t have the immune response that titanium does.
Titanium implants like in the femur can create Inflammatory response around the screw that causes dissolving of the bone.
Can’t rebuild enamel but can remineralize it. Use baking soda paste made with salt water applied with a toothbrush.
Will carnivore diet heal leaky gut? Absolutely. But it must be one that eliminates plants and includes organs.
Is pate a good source of Vitamin A? Beef is good. Pork and chicken pate are fed products of soy or corn, which have high linoleic acid that oxidize when eaten in excess, which damages fat cells and mitochondria.
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