The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka - 85. Dr. Dominik Nischwitz: The Hidden Dangers in Your Oral Hygiene Routine

Starting point is 00:00:00 Go in every aisle in the supermarket when it comes to conventional oral care. You have the usual suspects of fluoride-containing toothpaste, and then you have Listerine. Look at the history of it. It is designed to clean a floor or maybe your toilet. What are some of the signs and symptoms that your oral cavity needs attention? Ask yourself these three questions. Metals in my mouth, root canals, wisdom teeth pulled.

Starting point is 00:00:21 If any answer is a yes, you might have something called oral interference, stuff that is imbalancing your microbiome, your immune system and your nervous system on a daily basis. You do everything to optimize your health, but you still don't feel superhuman. Then it's at least time to find a good biological dentist to sort out that oral interference. Aside from getting their root canals and capitation fixed. Talk about daily oral hygiene. The conventional dental hygiene is actually outdated. Therefore, the toothpaste that I would recommend is always...

Starting point is 00:00:53 Hey guys, welcome back to the Ultimate Human Podcast. I'm your host, human biologist, Gary Brekka, where we go down the road of everything anti-aging, biohacking, longevity, and everything in between. And today's guest is a very, very, very special guest. You're going to really enjoy this podcast. He is the world's leading biological dentist, and he trains other dentists, including the dentist that did the work on my mouth, in the practice of biological dentistry. And if you're not familiar with biological dentistry, this is a must-watch episode because you are about to learn the importance of what goes on in your mouth and how it is connected to all of the organs in the rest of our body,

Starting point is 00:01:40 our mental health, our gut health, and our overall wellbeing performance and our longevity. So welcome to the podcast, Dr. Nischwitz, or we call you Dr. Dom, right? Dr. Dom Nischwitz. Can I go with Dr. Dom? Perfect. Thank you for having me, Gary. I'm really excited to have you on because my audience knows that I've really been on a mission to give biological dentistry a voice ever since I had a very personal journey and my wife and my daughter, both of my daughters actually had a very personal journey with a biologic dentist, Dr. Jagar Gandhi that you trained as a matter of fact, and he speaks very, very highly of you. So to have the sensei on, you know, I actually had him inspect my dental work before the podcast. I was opening my mouth and showing him the implant.

Starting point is 00:02:36 You know, and just for those of you that are not familiar with my story, just very quickly, I had two root canals and one of my teeth on the side, one of the sides, I had a root canal on cracked. And so Dr. Gandhi is, you know, a dentist, he's a friend of mine. He obviously did not do the root canals. And I called him and I said, hey, I cracked this tooth. I really got to come up and see you. And at the time I wasn't coming to see him to have the tooth extracted

Starting point is 00:03:04 and to have all of these procedures done. But he said, take a picture of it and send it to me. And I did. So I took a picture of the tooth in my mouth and I sent it up to him. And it was the 19th tooth meridian. Yes. And so he asked me a series of questions

Starting point is 00:03:22 that really freaked me out. He said, let me ask you something. Do you ever get left anterior shoulder pain? And I go, that's really funny that you asked me that. I go, yeah, I thought it was a bicep tendon catch, right? In the front of my shoulder. And it wasn't enough to stop me from training, but I was very conscious of it. And then he said, do you ever get left lower lobe

Starting point is 00:03:46 lung pain? And I go, dude, you are freaking me out right now. I go, whenever I do hits cardio on my treadmill, I get a catch right here. I get this left lower lobe lung pain and I have this numbness right here. And I thought it was like a runner's cramp. And then he says, does your left toe ever go numb or does your left toe ever bother you? And I go, now I'm completely freaked out because my wife was always kind of making fun of me because sometimes I would take my shoe off and I would actually itch my left toe

Starting point is 00:04:16 or I would tap it on the ground because it felt like it was going numb. I never put these together. So he goes, that's your 19th tooth meridian. When we take that out and clean it up all that's going to go away yeah so the biohacker in me kicks in and i go first of all why wouldn't i know about this second of all there's no way that all of that is going to go away from cleaning this tooth out and long story short um i went up to see him he did the prf uh red light green light uh ran ozone into my jaw, cleaned it all out, and then put the ceramic implant in, which you taught him how to do.

Starting point is 00:04:51 And what was the most astounding was 48 hours after this happened, none of those symptoms have returned. They permanently went away and they haven't returned. Straight away? Straight away. Perfect. My wife, five days after having her root canals done by Dr. Gandhi, her back pain went from a constant six to eight to a constant zero to two, like, and very quickly. My daughter had headaches that she no longer has. So, and I could just go on and on and on. But what really astounded me was when we pulled the tooth out and I saw this little sack, the cavitation,

Starting point is 00:05:31 and I asked Dr. Gandhi what it was, and he told me that it was full of bacteria and pus and parasites. And I said, there's no way. I would have had pain. I would have had swelling. I would have had inflammation. I would have had symptoms. And when we burst it and we put it on a dark field microscope, I could see the macrophages going after the bacteria. And I was sold. And I said, I am on a mission to tell people about this and to bring the practice of what you do to light. So I am really, really excited to have you on the podcast.

Starting point is 00:06:07 So for those people that don't know what biologic dentistry is, right? I mean, everybody knows what a dentist is. What is the difference? What is the mission of a biologic dentist? How are they different from the regular practice of dentistry? Yeah, I always say it's just the next level.

Starting point is 00:06:21 It's the dental evolution because obviously dentistry is a high-tech craftsmanship and the way i define the bio dentistry 3.0 concept is it's the overlap of that high-tech dentistry with functional medicine and health optimization or biohacking and the goal is obviously not to not to just fix bites and smiles but to repair the overall body and help patients to really heal like you just said and this is like every dentist loves that tiny work which is they need to do this right but the fulfilling part is if you tell me oh all the symptoms are gone because this gives me goosebumps up until this day even though i do this already for 15 years it's like wow yeah and this is how

Starting point is 00:07:01 impactful it is if you understand that the mouth is the gateway to overall health, it's actually the entrance to your gut system, entrance to the body. And the teeth are not just teeny tiny heart biting things. They're literally tiny organs directly connected to the brain nerve number five, trigeminus. And therefore everything you do on those teeth or you repair teeth will affect the whole body. Yes. You know, it's funny because

Starting point is 00:07:25 when i not well not funny sad i guess when when dr gandhi and i did our podcast and i aired our podcast um it actually got censored still is on instagram if you go to my instagram it says false information i don't know who the fact checker was but um they fact checked it and and literally says that teeth are not connected to other areas of the body. So in other words, what happens in your teeth, where your gums or your jaw is not going to affect the rest of the body. And how do you address that position?

Starting point is 00:07:55 This is the main issue in conventional dentistry is that we're basically not connecting the mouth to the body. It's kind of like it's an outside realm where you can just repair. But if you just look at an anatomy chart and you see the trigeminal nerve, you can see that this goes up until the tooth. Every single tooth has a connection to that nerve.

Starting point is 00:08:15 So telling that it's not connected makes no sense. This is like telling, like we said before, that your brain is- Yeah, trigeminal is the fifth cranial nerve, right? Exactly. And you have 12 cranial nerves. And the trigeminal one basically has three branches one here one here and like upper jaw and the other one is the complete lower jaw so as you know when you go to a dentist and they give you a nerve block

Starting point is 00:08:34 everything is numb that's because it starts here right and but it's it's completely not logical not logical that they say it's not connected but obviously they're referring to that meridian system that we're always showing because meridians are still in the woo-woo realm versus if you go to traditional chinese medicine it's just how they treat it's basically just an autonomic nervous system and if you understand how the nervous system works the sympathetic and the stress axis then you understand whatever chronic inflammation or toxicity you put into your body will affect the whole system it's kind of like if you take a hormone you know that it will affect all your cells in the body so why do you think it doesn't do it in the mouth it is because

Starting point is 00:09:13 in dental school you not i wouldn't say brainwashed but it's really about repairing teeth with whatever material so in the last century and still up to this date, we use a lot of different materials, especially metals. Yes. Because they work for biting. But they're never connected that they might interact with the whole nervous system, the whole immune system, the detoxification system. For example, in university, you have to study sciences

Starting point is 00:09:38 in dental school. It's the same as medical school. So you study biochemistry, you study chemistry, physics, microbiology, everything. but you basically learn in university that you should not put different metals right next to each other in physics in the morning because you know that there's a battery effect and that these iron will travel but then in the afternoon you go in dental school and repair patient and put a gold crown right next to an amalgam filling so it's kind of schizophrenic you learn all these sciences but it's like you're just the dentist yeah and this is the problem and this is why dentists always have this connotation of i hate to see the dentist no one wants to go there right it's a

Starting point is 00:10:13 repair business drill fill and bill and this is what i'm going to change that's what i want to change because patients that come see us they're in for the complete treatment and they tell you i lost my problems with my gut i have no more frozen shoulder my mental health issues are gone i have no more eczema and by the way you also put in beautiful teeth so yes that is the focus like it's a complete holistic approach to optimizing one's health i mean i think it's absolutely got to be a part of somebody's optimal health journey i mean if you if you're listening to this and you've had root canals or you have dental work that you haven't been addressing, now is absolutely the time. And I'd be happy to provide you with a list of dentists that he's trained because

Starting point is 00:10:55 my personal experience is one that really has driven me to be passionate about this subject. And then when my wife and my oldest daughter and youngest daughter all had the very similar experiences, I said, this can't not be the case. And this is still the fulfilling thing. And if you do it like myself, I do that for half my life. I have that moral obligation to tell because it is so insane that you realize, oh, wow. Even myself, I had the wisdom teeth pulled like almost all of the people out there right and i didn't connect it to my various health issues but then we found cavitations at one point and in surgery for myself i realized oh wow my chronic back pain goes away

Starting point is 00:11:36 and had to laugh and told my surgeon back then is this even possible then i had skin issues a lot and then my diet was already on on lock like perfectly. Right. And all the things you do, but it wasn't good. And two weeks after surgery, I had beautiful skin again after five years. And I had like a little bit of a nervousness in the morning. Really? Early thirties. I thought I'm going to get Parkinson's or whatever. Right.

Starting point is 00:11:59 Also gone straight after surgery, never came back. I understand why it is, because if you have chronic inflammation and there's toxins in there, there's parasites, virus, et cetera, they affect the immune system, make you more autoimmune prone and shift your Th1 to Th2 system. But also just chronic inflammation produces stress.

Starting point is 00:12:19 It's a stress. And when you're talking about chronic inflammation related to the jaw, you're talking about these, you refer to them as cavitations. These are pools of inflammation, bacteria, parasites. That's one chronic inflammation in the jawbone. The other one is the root canals. They're usually chronically infected.

Starting point is 00:12:33 If you're really being precise when it comes to diagnostics and use a three-dimensional cone beam, you literally, in at least 80% of all cases, you see some sort of chronic ongoing inflammation on the tip of the root. Yes. But the problem is a usual dentist will only ask you, do you have pain? Yes. No. Okay. Then we just monitor it.

Starting point is 00:12:53 But which chronic health issue is pain? Is it painful to have depression? No. Is it painful to have eczema? Not really. So it's the wrong tool because a chronic inflammation is basically the body got used to it and reduces the the the volume and the receptors basically so you don't

Starting point is 00:13:14 feel it anymore right so therefore you have to well in the case of root canal you've actually killed the nerve right so so you killed it so now you could have pain you just don't feel it right you killed it and also because it's an ongoing chronic inflammation, your body just reduces the pain because it's kind of like, let's say, a laziness of the body because it has no solution for it. So it just reduces it, makes it a little bit numb. If the stuff is numb, it's really bad

Starting point is 00:13:37 because then you don't connect it anymore. So maybe like you have that root canal and you have a frozen shoulder, but you would never connect it because first of all, normal medical school doesn't teach this. And most dentists don't understand. So this is where I come in and teach, hey, it might be your chronic knee pain comes from that root canal over there. If you understand fascial trains and all these things. Want to transform your overall health and connect with my team directly?

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Starting point is 00:14:49 Well, I mean, I guess these could be my symptoms, but by symptoms, I mean, I didn't have something that would have driven me to an urgent care center, right? I wasn't sniffly, I wasn't achy. I didn't have any kind of fever or rashes or any of the typical symptoms. But the symptoms that I didn't know were connected any kind of fever, rashes, or any of the typical symptoms. But the symptoms that I didn't know were connected absolutely went away after the treatment.

Starting point is 00:15:10 But talk to me a little bit about what these cavitations, how are they related to the other parts of the body? What's the mechanism by which they're connected? So basically cavitation is the layman's term for something called FDOJ in medical terms, fatty degenerative osteonecrotic jawbone. That's basically what it is, mushy fatty bone. This is usually from extraction of teeth,

Starting point is 00:15:35 which teeth are mostly extracted in the Western world, at least because of spacing issues. It's your wisdom teeth. Therefore, I always ask three questions on every keynote. It's like any metals in your mouth, any root canals, any wisdom teeth, i always ask three questions on every keynote is like any metals in your mouth any root canals any wisdom teeth please stand up and at the end 95 of the audience will stand up wow especially on the health optimization summit and biohackers they should know it but it's not connected as a foundational principle huberman just lately put it into his at least right the problem is it's oral health for now like the who talks about it

Starting point is 00:16:05 it's mainly like the who says 70 of all chronic disease start in the mouth but they only look for the gum disease the tooth decay and the periodontitis but dental repair is not in the thing and these cavitations resulting from previous dental extractions could be every every single tooth to be honest it's just the the problem is that the dentist basically just informs you about the local procedures you will maybe have a swelling you need to apply cold take the antibiotics take the painkillers but there's no systemic preparation of patients leading up to surgery especially when you're like in your childhood or teenager years and growing up with these wisdom teeth so what happens is your body is in i always say it's in hibernation mode

Starting point is 00:16:47 not in an anabolic state more like catabolic or uses a lot of nutrients to just grow but not heal therefore people oftentimes develop dry sockets which means it just doesn't heal then they have to go back to the dentist and they will put in like a local antibiotic and leave it open for healing. So therefore it basically is a secondary healing and doesn't really heal. And over time, it's kind of like a construction site that never stops. And because it gets ischemic, so there's no more oxygen in there,

Starting point is 00:17:22 it's the perfect cave for bacteria, anaerobic bacteria that are anyways living in your mouth it's a huge microbiome they like to live in there and in the u.s especially mold is a big thing mold spores tend to live in these cavitations they also found mercury heavy metals glyphosates parasites parasites fungi everything in there and it's a chronic thing that means again body dials down the volume you don't hear it anymore there's no local pain usually right but systemically like you had it but you would never connect it there's a problem and if you see just the wisdom tooth area on that tooth meridian chart is directly connected to your central nervous system to your heart meridian and small intestine small intestine again SIBO um skin eczema thyroid issues like recurrent SIBO

Starting point is 00:18:06 like and for example yeah if you don't if you seem to like this is what I always say if you seem to do everything perfectly like you said lifestyle is on on point you do your training you track your sleep you do everything to optimize your health but you still don't feel superhuman right then it's at least time to find a good biological dentist to sort out that oral interference, stuff that holds you back. And start with this cone beam, which is the machine that I put my head in and it took like a 360 degree cone beam view. And when he showed it to me, the cavitation,

Starting point is 00:18:36 and told me that it was full of bacteria and pus and parasites and what have you, I was actually a little skeptical. Yeah, of course. Until we actually burst it and put it on a slide and i looked at it under a dark field dark in in the back of dr ghani's office and i could literally see my macrophages going after bacteria and other things in that cavitation so i was like there's absolutely no uh you know

Starting point is 00:19:05 chance that that's not not true yes but the problem is this is something you don't learn in dental school therefore if you have a cone beam done by usual conventional dentists they won't diagnose this area because they they don't even know about it so if you have a cone beam you have to have a dentist that is skilled to find these cavitations or at least know about it right it's a bit of a thing because they're not connected and you know these cavitations besides being let's say a dumping area for toxins and all these things they also contain a specific chemokine it's called ranties r-a-n-t-e-s or ccl5 in medical world and if you type in or google scholar ranties plus let's say multiple scler, we'll probably find 3,000 papers straight away.

Starting point is 00:19:47 So medical world is looking for the Ranties, but they don't know about cavitations. And dentists don't know about cavitations and maybe have tested Ranties, but don't know how it's connected. Because Ranties is basically not a bad thing, but if it's chronically activated, it's like an ongoing construction site. It's never, never stopping. And then at one point, it flips point it flips and what is ranties that's a chemokine oh it's a chemokine it's it's actually chemokine lignin 5 ccl5 so both of them are correct if you search for them and they are highly represented in these cavitations but cavitations again they're not

Starting point is 00:20:20 accepted in university yet or not trained yet 99% of all dentists will tell you that's quackery or that's woo-woo, that's not existing. Even though they see it maybe, it's like, it's normal that there's fatty tissue in your jawbone. No, it's not normal that there's fatty tissue. It's a spongy bone. Why should there be a chronic inflammation? It makes no sense.

Starting point is 00:20:39 Yellow bone is not good. Yeah, and I think dentistry has got to be the only practice of medicine in my understanding that thinks that it's okay to leave dead tissue in the body you know i mean it's it's dead tissue i always say it's never been a good idea to leave a dead body part in the body no medical profession would do that yeah i mean if you have an appendicitis you got to take it out i mean if you have necrosis in your bowel they they resect it right yeah or if you have like a diabetic foot they take it off if you have a diabetic finger like gangrenous stuff that's

Starting point is 00:21:08 gangrenous stuff in your mouth it's kind of like the splinter in your hand that never goes away or an ingrown hair but it's not like an ingrown hair let's say a splinter on your arm you will know oh there's an inflammation it needs to come out right because you see it but here you don't see it but actually it's even the worst because this is central system. This is your brain. It's an extension of your brain. So for your body, this is way more complex than just having to lose the arm.

Starting point is 00:21:32 It's like really inside of the nervous system, chronic inflammation. Chronic inflammation is killer number one. Yeah, it's the root of all evil. And I was reading recently about the similarity, the identical similarity between bacteria in the in the jaw and bacteria and cardiovascular disease and the specific strain of bacteria that they are finding in high amounts in cardiovascular disease advanced stage

Starting point is 00:21:56 cardiovascular disease yeah there is actually a theory going on and i had it with steven gundry yesterday he is a heart surgeon he in his opinion is that the plaque in your coronary arteries and stuff, it's kind of like, it's just a biofilm. And the main station for all the oral pathogens is usually the heart is next. We know that in dentistry. So say that again. So to,

Starting point is 00:22:19 it's like biofilm is basically how bacteria colonize, like biofilm in the mouth for example is if you drink a coke within a minute you have like a fur on your teeth right right you know whereas this this is just bacteria going in there and this happens everywhere in the body like biofilms are on your fascia in your gut but also in the heart so if you get that plaque in your heart this is connected to pathogens and these pathogens usually stem from the oral cavity. Because the second station when it is swallowing of the bacteria, which you do about 140 billion a day. And they go straight into your heart.

Starting point is 00:22:54 And we know this in dentistry because if someone had an endocarditis before, we have to give them antibiotics before even doing an oral hygiene appointment. Because we know that we stir up bacteria that go in there but now we have a root canal which leaves you with a dysbiotic area meaning more bad bugs and they're usually activating your innate immune system producing cytokines like tnf alpha il4 etc and these pathogens then also obviously can travel and the infection goes from the tooth through the lymph, through the blood. It is in your body within a minute. Wow.

Starting point is 00:23:33 And there is studies showing like one of the bad bugs in the mouse is always streptococcus mutans as well as porphyronus gingivalis. And there's a newer study showing that even neural neuroinflammation caused by activation of glial cells comes from oral pathogens just as porphyrinus gingivalis which is it was able to jump into the system why because you don't have leaky gut but you have leaky gum already which is bleeding gum wow so bacteria just jump in and this is how they find it in the brain they find it in the joints they find it in the hip joints and knee joints and they're coming in through the oral cavity extremely connected to rheumatoid arthritis could they possibly originate from one of these cavitations and then leak from the cavitation into the blood

Starting point is 00:24:13 stream yeah exactly they could leak from the root canal it could leak from the cavitation because it's directly connected so the nerve even the triderminous transports oral bacteria toxins chemokines into the brainstem it's called retrograde axonal transport and this is proven since the 1920s when they put in toxic croton oil into teeth of dead of of dogs and they could find all the toxins within 24 hours in the hypothalamus the pituitary all the brain ganglia wow understand this if you understand how complex the system is and how simple it actually is if you understand the complete human body then you then it's just like ah makes sense right right something here can leach out and there's also studies showing for example that renties is connected to even

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Starting point is 00:26:09 a good a good thing right because they're conductive and they're interrupting not only meridians but neuronal pathways but talk a little bit about um how that occurs and because there are a lot of people listening right now that have mercury fillings or have silver fillings or have fillings that are other types of metals golds yes um and then i also um want to talk about braces because you know two of my family members had braces growing up and you know when i think back like well that's a lot of metal in the mouth for a long period of time. Yes. So what are your thoughts on that?

Starting point is 00:26:48 And talk a little bit about dangers of metals in the mouth. So basically metals come with three challenges. So let's say they're just, so in dentistry you use all sorts of metals to repair teeth. The one filling you're just referring to was the silver black filling, which is called an amalgam filling. Amalgam, yes.

Starting point is 00:27:06 And this contains 50% of mercury. And we know that mercury is the most toxic non-radioactive element known to men. And as soon as we take it out from the mouth of a patient, we have to remove it as highly toxic waste. But in the mouth, for some reason, it's super healthy and completely bound. Wow. So it makes no sense. Hold on. So as soon as you take it out, you have to treat it as highly toxic yes we have to it's really there's someone coming in like a special

Starting point is 00:27:29 delivery system or picking up system to take it away yeah we also we know all this but obviously this material is super for filling and super simple and it lasts forever and insurance is subsidized it so finally i think finally in 2025 they banned it in europe finally versus like in russia it's banned for 30 years in scandinavian countries it's banned for almost 20 years because they have a general mercury free environment strategy so you cannot put it in the mouth and for me back then it was just an ugly material i could never place a black filling if i can do a white one how long ago um in america could you still put mercury in the mouth or can you still do it

Starting point is 00:28:10 in america you can still do it today ever since 2018 there was a convention the miyamata convention you're not allowed to call it silver fillings anymore so marketing was silver fillings there's a little bit of silver in it but it's 50 it's mercury filling so they now have to tell you it's mercury amalgam filling yeah at least and i think it's only a bit of silver in it, but it's 50%. It's mercury filling. So they now have to tell you it's mercury amalgam filling. Yeah. At least. And I think it's only a matter of time. Usually, Germany hangs on to the US.

Starting point is 00:28:31 So US comes first. But in this case, Europe comes first or Germany. And I think then at one point, the US should also stop using these really toxic fillings. So in metals, the challenges are always toxicity, which would be the mercury is very toxic. Right. And its toxicity is a little bit dose dependent. But the second challenge is always the immunology, meaning your body can become allergic to all this.

Starting point is 00:28:55 They can become allergic to gold, can become allergic to nickel, as you know, or mercury. I think there's a very good study where they did lymphocyte transformation test. It's a blood test to see if there's a there's a very good um study that where they did lymphocyte transformation test it's a blood test to see if there is a type 4 allergy towards metals and number one is always nickel as we know but you still find it in dental material yes even in titanium implants there could be nickel contaminated in the in the braces but then second is usually mercury which is the main source of mercury toxicity is not the fish you're eating it's still that mercury amalgam filling just you need to know why is it is it the

Starting point is 00:29:29 is the mercury leaking over time which means that the filling is dissolving um or or is it is it the conductivity of it or both this is a this is the argument that the dentist will tell you if it would be leaking then it would be gone at one point right no the problem is through let's say chewing grinding oral hygiene brushing eating drinking acidic food you dissolve a tiny little bit of mercury vapor every single day it's around about two to three microns per day it's like nothing it's a millions of an of a particles and this is this is you don't smell it it's odorless right and you don't see it and the problem is with this mercury vapor it's hc0 it goes directly into the cell so even the rubber dam and stuff it doesn't it just go through seven layers of of um gloves etc just goes into your cell and then the only way to get rid of it is basically the cell dying the problem is

Starting point is 00:30:23 in the brain for example in, in the nervous tissue, you have a lot of catalases that basically oxidize that HD0 to HD2+. And then the half-life becomes 16 to 32 years in your system. So you're chronically intoxicating your whole cells. And number one station is always your pituitary and your jawbone, obviously. Like there are studies showing... So the mercury will literally migrate to a location like pituitary and your jawbone obviously like there's studies showing so so so the mercury will literally migrate to a location like pituitary for example yeah so there is a there's a study showing like

Starting point is 00:30:52 they did in the 90s there was kind of like the amalgam wars but they did a lot of research about how these mercury how the mercury leaches out from these fillings and they did one um one um research with a i think it was a sheep study and i'm not sure about the other one if it was a monkey but basically they put the fillings and then within 24 hours they look where the mercury went to and within a minute like the complete jawbone is is basically mercury toxic right but they also find it in all the detoxification organs kidneys and liver intestines and also the brain tissue within a couple of hours which makes perfect sense right but this is not connected and as you know

Starting point is 00:31:32 like we as dentists we usually we have to drill it out so we don't have this procedure once in our lifetime sometimes we do 10 amalgam fillings a day not protecting us their study is showing that the pituitary gland especially of dentists is full of this mercury which leads to stuff like mad hatters disease as you know maybe mad hatters you know right yeah the mad hatters were these the actually in i think it was in england in the 98 early 1900s how fitting that we're in london right now exactly They were just using mercury to make the heads, like nice head rims or whatever you call that. And they all got Mad Hatter's disease, which is they got crazy and couldn't think straight anymore.

Starting point is 00:32:14 Same obviously happens always if you work with mercury. So the toxicity is a problem, then the immunology. And the third bit that is still a little bit woo-woo, not for you, not for us in this realm, is EMF. If you have any sort of metal in your body, it's going to be an antenna. And the antenna, you have 3G, 4G, 5G, Wi-Fi everywhere. This will lead to more vapor coming out.

Starting point is 00:32:36 There's even studies showing if you have a phone call, just with a regular cell phone, you usually have the electromagnetic waves go to the cell phone and the tower and back. But if you have any sort of metal, it activates and it connects and amplifies it. So any sort of metal. And for mercury fillings, actually, it shows that the vapor is more. It's more production vapor.

Starting point is 00:33:01 Yeah. And obviously, the conductivity is a thing. Then you have your electrolyte in your mouth. Right. You know that you have different metals and an electrolyte solution that they will travel and ionize. And same, like for example, put a picture, the propeller of a boat below the sea. How does it look after a couple of years?

Starting point is 00:33:20 It's rusty, right? Right. The same happens in the mouth. It's just normal. So it's not a good idea, at least in these days, to put metals in your body. And luckily,

Starting point is 00:33:29 we can replace all of them with biomaterials. Yeah. Is that with an amalgamate or with one of these ceramics? For example, if you have lost a tooth, 99.7% of all dentists worldwide

Starting point is 00:33:41 use a titanium implant. Titanium implant is a metal. It's a foreign particle. It will always cause ongoing inflammation. What we do for more than a decade is a ceramic implant. That's what you have. Yeah. Why?

Starting point is 00:33:53 Because a ceramic implant is just, it's zirconia. It's just a healing stone. It's completely neutral to the body. And finally, luckily, ever since 2023, it is a medical guideline in Germany. So what they were attacking me for five years ago when I came out with my book is now guidelines. So they cannot say anything. And it's on top, the zirconia is medically proven a biomaterial.

Starting point is 00:34:16 It's completely neutral to the body. It is just more difficult to osteointegrate it because you have to think about systemic bone healing. This is a big part of my teachings. Make that body anabolic so that it really heals after surgery and then it will just grow with you and be a part of your body okay obviously the best material is your healthy tooth but if that chip has sailed we need to have a solution yeah and and i noticed that um one of the things that dr gandhi told me about about this new implant was that the gum would fuse to it rather than sort of have a metal edge and then the gum roll up and not really form a bond. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:34:56 And I can see that in my mind. Yeah, it looks perfect. This is one of the biggest things because an implant is a prosthesis. It's actually an endo-exoprosthesis. So it goes through the opening of your oral cavity, like because bone is inside body. Then gum is like your skin, is a protective barrier. And if you have some sort of metals, metals and the gum,

Starting point is 00:35:17 they don't like each other. There's just usually a chronic inflammation. They don't like each other. Yeah. And if you have like a tissue level metal implant, which is not the standard these days, but then obviously the gum is always open because it will never grow together. Versus, and this is from the titanium implantology actually, if you use a ceramic abutment and you have a bone level titanium implant, it will grow onto the ceramic.

Starting point is 00:35:37 But what if the complete implant is ceramic? Way better, right? And then you have a tight junction, no leaky gum. Therefore, it's closed. I think it's probably the most important thing about these ceramic implants, that they have this tight junction. Right, yeah, I remember him. It's not an open anymore. For you, it looks perfect.

Starting point is 00:35:56 He loves it. Gums love zirconia. Yeah. No, and really, I have to say that it was not a very painful procedure at all. Maybe because I'd already had the root canal, and so there wasn't a root in there. But one of the things I noticed was he videoed my surgery. And I put the videos up online. I wanted people to have as much information as they possibly could on it.

Starting point is 00:36:21 And when he took the tooth out, it didn't bleed. And I thought that was a good thing. And he's like no this is a terrible thing yeah um and there was just you know and the gum was very pink and was very pale yeah and um and so he began to work it back to where it was really you know i got that bright red blood again and after the ozone and red light and and you know uh getting that spongy bone i guess as you call it out um the the dissolved bone he actually showed it to me it was like tapioca you know it's like really just uh bad bone um then the gum just had this healthy you know blood red you know um uh to it and that's that's when he did the plateelet-rich fibrin and completed the implant.

Starting point is 00:37:05 And I have to say that, I won't say it was a pleasant procedure, but I mean, it was a painless procedure. And I think a lot of people are putting these off because they think it's just going to be painful. It is. The problem, yeah, people still think you're the barber surgeon

Starting point is 00:37:20 that just pulls out a tooth. And problematic is that a lot of dentists do that because they just don't know other way around so in bio dentistry is really important to do as minimal invasive surgeries as possible so taking out a dead tooth the main goal is not to hurt your gum and your bone around it right to conserve the anatomy and you so therefore you will never rip out a tooth you just take it out gently, use piazzo surgery, and it's completely pain-free because you don't do any flaps, no cuts. It's not necessary.

Starting point is 00:37:50 You just take it out. Obviously, it is a little bit, this procedure is, it takes a bit longer because you have to be more precise, be more gentle, wiggle the tooth out a little bit. It just takes longer than ripping it out, but you save bone and tissue. And then what he did like if you take it out and then it doesn't bleed this is what i call a dry socket and this is in in a

Starting point is 00:38:10 root canal case it's because of chronic inflammation the wrong enzymes activated so what he did is using piezo surgery he used ozone and a lot of things to really get that blood in because blood is good it's liquid healing it's liquid bone yeah if the blood is loaded even better and then if you can put an immediate ceramic implant which he did for you yes what you do is basically put a tent pole in there and something we call bone container principle this ceramic implant is kind of like your tooth that means your brain thinks oh there's still something we don't collapse the uh the socket where it says usually if you take out a tooth the dentist will wait for three months. Sometimes it's not possible otherwise,

Starting point is 00:38:47 but they wait for three months. And what only happens is that your bone collapses. It's called alveolar atrophy. It's just like, you don't use it, you lose it. It's just like your muscle. It's just gone. But if you can put it straight away, then it keeps the anatomy.

Starting point is 00:39:00 And this is the main part about it. It's not too important with your molars that you had. I know your one side didn't work, this this one right imagine you have your front tooth you need to remove it how cool is it if i can remove it replace it and put a temporary on top and no one ever sees it and we keep the whole anatomy instead of oh we have to remove it then you run around with like a flipper like the thing that falls out all the time for the next three months or four months then we do another cone beam see oh all the bone is gone we have to rebuild it with a bone graft takes another six months oh and then we put a titanium implant which takes another three months so you can come from one appointment

Starting point is 00:39:33 with me or jigger taking out that root canal put it in the ceramic implant and then the second one will be just the uh the crown work right versus six other appointments and one and a half years. So it's really less invasive and you save so many appointments. And this is what dentists oftentimes forget about that some people work. So they have to take off six, seven times. So this is really expensive.

Starting point is 00:40:00 So it makes sense to compress this. Therefore, our concept is to do it in one week like all the metals safely removed all the root canals come out ceramic implants cavitation surgery we use obviously everything from biohacking in the clinic hyperbaric ivs etc you do hyperbaric you do ivs we have everything i have a complete optimal health lounge in the backyard where if everything for the almost a decade now you would call it a biohacking center maybe it is all there just to make sure that the patient heals perfectly versus they're obviously also prepared so they come in fully boosted already with the right nutrition the right supplements and that's the

Starting point is 00:40:36 charming part about it that's why most patients actually fly in from all over the world to see us because you can have it in one week and then maybe you come back four to six months later just for your crown work and then it's kind of like medical travel you at the same time do something for your overall health can use all the facilities and pain-free treatments mainly what are some of the things that you do to prepare a patient like i remember dr gandhi did a high dose vitamin c iv on me so yes so there's two phases the first one is like every single patient has to send in the current vitamin D3 blood work and LDL. So I see, okay, are they depleted?

Starting point is 00:41:11 Because for example, vitamin D3 is super important for bone healing and for bone health. And I wanted to see it on the day of surgery, I want to see the vitamin D3 above 60 nanogram, which is above the norm, straight above the norm. And therefore, obviously, I've designed a food design concept that's how i call my nutritional principles it's just a booklet

Starting point is 00:41:29 that they read and they usually just follow my lead in this case and they take the bone healing protocol which is based around 20 000 i use of vitamin d3 per day including all cofactors amino acids supplementation so i had i had founded this my company for um substitution already before i had my clinic even just to have this kind of procedure it just naturally came so they come in and then systemically on site is what we do is basically not the preparation this is more like a boosting around it so just to help but the the preparation really starts two to four weeks sometimes even six weeks prior to make you anabolic yeah it's also very important that you have enough protein in

Starting point is 00:42:09 your diet and is this peptides so what do you say you're doing to make them more anabolic to make them more anabolic is mainly diet diet and the micronutrients like we focus always also on methylation like you do vitamin d3 is Vitamin D3 is high. Yeah, it's important. It's in the complete bone eating protocol. It's designed for people that have SNPs. It's already included. It's designed for people that have cryptopyrrolyuria. So it is all activated vitamins, but it's always nutrition is the motor for me.

Starting point is 00:42:36 It's the foundation. I don't want to out supplement a bad diet. Yes, that's so true. Basically, step one is they have a red chart, which is the core four stuff that you should just avoid. Step one is ditch the crab food, gluten, dairy, let's say conventional dairy, refined vegetables, and sugar. And then step two is learn how to think.

Starting point is 00:42:55 Conventional dairy, refined sugars, and ditch the gluten. And seed oils. And seed oils. Oh, gosh, yeah. Yeah, and by conventional dairy i just mean that the normal one like if you have raw a2 dairy is totally different and but to explain this to most patients is literally impossible and then step two is just learn how to think in nutrients so there's a green chart with proteins healthy fats carbs and how to design this and they get

Starting point is 00:43:22 one goal is about one gram per pound of body weight protein just to be on the healing side of things right or two grams per kilogram and then when they like when they come in then obviously we do IVs a lot we also have a we scan the complete body we do in body scans it's kind of like a dexa but without the bone density the medical one seen that one and we have a global diagnostics machine which is scanning your whole body against various frequencies just to see where you're at it will find everything like every little microbe and thing in your body and tells you what the things are and then is ivs like jigger does it high vitamin c various other nutrients before day before surgery on day of surgery after surgery a

Starting point is 00:44:01 couple of days and hyperbaric we use a lot too just basically everything peptides are not allowed to the healing process so if you look at to hyperbaric in literature when it comes to like surgeries like it would be rude not to use it if you can because it's so good obviously if you're claustrophobic it won't work but right if you can like you get all that oxygen into your in your bone and into your tissue and just promote better healing, less pain, less swelling, better angiogenesis, antibacterial, antiviral. It's the best thing to do. And what is that, like 90 minutes a day?

Starting point is 00:44:38 Around the surgery, we do 60 minutes. 60 minutes. 60 minutes is usually fine with 1.5 ATA. You can go to two, but for usually the most, let's say the balance is 1.5 ATA. And yeah, then various other things. I'm not allowed to talk about peptides in my clinic,

Starting point is 00:44:57 but obviously I would include this. So I work with a lot of integrative medical practitioners worldwide. BPC-157, TB-4FRAG. Of course, like the basics. There's even more you could do. include this so i work with a lot of integrative medical practitioners worldwide pc 157 pc 154 fried of course like the basics there's even more you could do like probably even what i would probably do if you have that luxury of using peptides i would maybe also look into the growth hormone peptides like the yes let's say the gr hrps and stuff like tessamorilin or ipamoralin cgc stuff like this because it helps being anabolic and obviously you know that growth hormone is very yeah healing so i personally broke my elbow twice

Starting point is 00:45:34 in the last couple of years just by skateboarding oh you broke it both times skateboarding yeah just but it was like a radius fracture so it split something split something off. And I went to the clinic, and then they wanted to do surgery. And I was like, no, my specialty is bone healing. So I will show you how to do it. My specialty is bone healing. Yeah, I know how to do this, even though it's not my mouth. I know how to do systemic bone healing. I'll show you.

Starting point is 00:45:58 He told me, basically, for three months, you have to wear a cast, and you cannot do any workouts, nothing. Right. And then you start with two kilograms. I was like, no way. I'll show show you i'll do it in six weeks and i was able to after 10 days i got rid of that cast um i used everything locally i use peptides too right whatever bbc 157 yeah a lot like locally like even high really high and obviously the nutrition the bone healing protocol and within four weeks i was back to training within six weeks normal weights wow yeah it's that because it's stupid to not do something

Starting point is 00:46:30 i even like even with the cast i was working legs and one side because i know from studies if you still train you still keep your body anabolic it will it will go to that arm that you don't use yeah i i read an interesting study on that too they were calling it mirroring or um you know it's just systemic as you know if you get a good arm growth from just doing squats for example yes uh because it's it's working hormones and everything is working systemically and this is where the connection for bioidentity comes in it's just showing you it's a part of the body it's actually the entrance and you know it's interesting i i actually had a uh um dislocated shoulder years ago and i remember the um uh the orthopedic would have me mirror my arms like i would do the same exercise with um the healthy side of my body that

Starting point is 00:47:20 i was doing with the unhealthy side of my body and And what he said is it will relearn from the healthy side. And that's what I did. And he actually had me putting weights in one arm. And the arm that was injured, I had no weights, but I would curl at the same time. And what was amazing was it definitely did atrophy some, but not nearly as much as I would have thought for being, you know, totally, totally immobile.

Starting point is 00:47:52 Yeah, of course. That's the problem. Immobility doesn't make any sense. Therefore also with an immediate implant, you basically use it straight away, not for biting, but there is a little bit of a tiny movement. Tension. A little bit is there because this is what activates the bone.

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Starting point is 00:48:35 Plunge. Change your life. Visit Plunge.com and shop now. Now let's get back to the Ultimate Human Podcast. I've heard you speak about the importance when early in life, when mothers are actually still breastfeeding. Yes. And you talk about the importance of breastfeeding in infants and how this completes the growth of the jaw, the teeth. And, you know, one of your suggestions if i remember correctly was that you know women should try to breastfeed for a minimum of 18 months yes um and so talk a little bit about that and the natural inoculation of bacteria and what is what does this mean how does it relate to this biological all the moms out there if you can breastfeed is amazing it's the best for your body

Starting point is 00:49:22 for your baby because you transfer the complete microbiome through breast milk but also like you already mentioned is sucking on the breast is needs a lot of strength and it will pull the jaw the lower jaw forward it's actually the first orthodontic treatment and at the same time if you pull on a suck on a breast you have to nose breathe which opens up the palate so it's a complete growth yeah you cannot see a baby with like a clocked nose it's dramatic if they want to drink the the breast they're almost dying so it's really training the whole mid-phase to grow and this is the initial orthodontic treatment so at least 18 months would be perfect but ideally you prepare for pregnancy let's say at least six to six months to 12 months in advance to get your body clean and healthy

Starting point is 00:50:10 because there's also studies showing that if you're not healthy that breast milk becomes something very toxic wow and also maybe you just imagine that crosses the blood brain barrier would then cross into breast milk and therefore exactly exactly and most of the the toxins are fat soluble and then they go into the breast milk and then transfer like for example mercury from you you could have never had a mercury filling but your mom had during pregnancy and you're still mercury toxic because of it wow yeah it's that it's super simple it goes through the placenta and then it goes through the breast milk and you have to you can offset a little bit but it's just important

Starting point is 00:50:45 to know so ideally so my idea of the future of dentistry is actually that we don't need dental repair because in nature our teeth are hard as stone hard as granite we wouldn't have braces like you saw the you probably read the book from western prize nutrition and physical degeneration he was a biological dentist interested in nutrition and realized all that processed crab foods led to smaller faces, crowded teeth, gingivitis, gum disease, tooth decay, and mouth breathing. Kind of like our teenagers still look like. And he already knew it 100 years ago.

Starting point is 00:51:19 Because 10,000 years ago, we even had space for two sets of wisdom teeth. We just had wider wider job wow we ate more hard food now we're we're getting soft teeth we're getting soft you know yeah like tooth decay is number one chronic disease 90 incidence and this is completely unnecessary number one chronic disease usually is 90 worldwide yeah wow and it's just man-made and um what about things that people can do to, aside from getting their root canals and capitations fixed,

Starting point is 00:51:49 like talk about daily oral hygiene and like, what is your stance on fluoride? You know, I'm not a big fan of fluoride, but especially in our drinking water. Yes. But hydroxyapatite toothpaste. Yes. What is your...

Starting point is 00:52:06 The bulletproof oral hygiene is usually... So the conventional dental hygiene theory is actually outdated. We know that lifestyle is way more important. Unfortunately, the average person is Homer Simpson, doesn't know about it and eat the crap food. So therefore we still need that band-aid of maybe flossing and chemical mouthwash and chemical toothpaste. That's why we're really trained to do so in dentistry.

Starting point is 00:52:29 Fluoride is like the number one thing you have to think about. But calcium fluoride, yes, is occurring in your body, but this is sodium fluoride. It's a complete neurotoxin. It's soluble 100%, it's completely chemical. And a tooth decay is not a chemical deficiency. It's maybe a nutrient

Starting point is 00:52:45 deficiency right and nutritional imbalances and and stuff like this but like initially you maybe need these things sometimes maybe you need an antibiotic because you have like such an extreme sure but i didn't mean fluoride treatments i meant no i mean fluoride no no but i i like the goal obviously should be to have a oral care strategy that is as natural as possible. So I'm team no fluoride, obviously. I would never use it. I don't even use it for any patient because there are better alternatives that you just mentioned.

Starting point is 00:53:14 Hydroxyapatite is the normal stuff that you find in a tooth. And it does the same things as fluoride, just in a more safe, healthy way. So why would I use something that is remotely unsafe even though obviously you you should spit out the toothpaste you will still swallow a little bit it will still be transferred through the gum into your system and there's a compounding effect it's obviously only tiny bits per day but twice a day 20 years 30 years 40 years 50 years and you don't know about your kids if they even eat the toothpaste. Right. And same with the fluoridated water. That's just a stupid strategy.

Starting point is 00:53:49 It doesn't make sense because we know that there's dental fluorosis, meaning you have these mod-like T's, which are like yellow spots, which come from too much fluoride. Right. So we know that, but we still give it and it makes no sense. Why not just focus on minerals vitamin d3 omega-3 fatty acids vitamin k2 magnesium zinc stuff that really builds bones and teeth right strong and therefore obviously the toothpaste that i would recommend is always something that you would eat should be a supplement should be so clean that you can swallow it and it maybe

Starting point is 00:54:22 should promote a good oral microbiome instead of nuking it and supports the body with hydroxyapatite use stuff like lactoferrin really good particles to yeah do something good and the second thing is usually you use chemical mouthwashes because of bad breath go in every aisle in the supermarket when it comes to conventional oral care you have the the usual suspects of fluoride containing toothpaste, maybe teeth whitening toothpaste, and then you have Listerine, that blue stuff. We have shelves and shelves and shelves of it.

Starting point is 00:54:53 Look at the research, not the research, look at the history of it. It is designed to clean a floor or maybe your toilet. This is how you should use it. But they somewhat marketed to put into your mouth and everyone still believes it. And it will give this amazing good breath. The problem is it nukes your microbiome

Starting point is 00:55:11 and a dysbiotic microbiome will give you bad breath in the long course. Therefore, it will actually promote better, like worse breath than what it says. It's just completely nonsense to use this. But you will see that most of my colleagues will prescribe it it's still it takes a while for them to understand but there are better solutions what we would do is just use an ayurvedic strategy called

Starting point is 00:55:35 coconut oil pulling or oil pulling oh i love oil pulling because you know coconut oil is antibacterial antiviral has this lauric acid in it and it just soothes the oral microbiome it helps the gums helps the teeth why not use it even though maybe there is not as much research about it then the the industry sponsored one is just a it's just a food but why not right would be rude not to use it yeah i i totally agree with that and what how where do you stand on a good oral hygiene strategy um what should walking through a day of a really really good healthy oral strategy do you just mean the the brushing flossing um not using mouthwash using mouthwash yes um fluoride toothpaste non-fluoride toothpaste using hydroxyapatite

Starting point is 00:56:20 so what would um i mean for example i i floss in the morning, I floss at night. Not aggressively, but I floss. I only swish with water and then I use a hydroxyapatite toothpaste that's fluoride free twice a day. Sometimes in the middle of the day if I have bad taste in my mouth or something. But, and that's my oral care routine. And I do oil pulling two or three days a week just and you have a good diet and have a good diet that's the main that's the main factor actually for to promote oral hygiene as you know like eating real food will actually clean your teeth versus eating processed food making that that fur on your teeth right so but if you have nailed this brushing is still important

Starting point is 00:57:01 right just to keep it clean so yes what i would do i start in the morning usually by waking up and using a tongue scraper tongue scraping is again ayurvedic you just use a copper tongue scraper and just simply scrape the the ground of your tongue right comes out of your throat right because overnight you will have food debris you will have bacteria and stuff if you do that a couple of days you will see that you that your tongue is not coated anymore it's more like a pinkish one and it helps with bad against bad breath so that's just a good strategy then what i usually do in the mornings obviously then i i hydrate and drink aminos and then go work out same here i always work out in the morning in the am and then as soon as i prepare

Starting point is 00:57:42 my breakfast i will do coconut oil pulling at the same time because it takes a little bit of time right i just put a teaspoon of coconut oil while i cook my eggs or whatever in the mouth and swish it around for at least five minutes yeah better even 15 so if you have that extra time you're anyways doing something why not right so i the main thing is consistency so good when you're when you're done and especially in winter time when all these viruses coming in and the bacteria it's just so good for your immune systems and it feels good it tastes good i like the coconut taste if you don't like or tolerate it out after right yeah not in the not in the um you should spit in the bin not in the sink because you can't lock up

Starting point is 00:58:19 the sink because it gets hard um again so just put it in the bin spit it out and then i usually eat and drink and drink a coffee and usually after food you should wait about 30 minutes 30 minutes for your oral um for your saliva basically to remineralize everything because you might have had some orange juice a little bit acidic or coffee is acidic so to rebalance this is just your body by itself yeah by the saliva wait wait 30 minutes and then i would use the toothbrush before i leave the house and brush my teeth for a couple of minutes with a non-toxic toothpaste containing hydroxyapatite maybe xylitol right but definitely no chemicals like sls triclosan and carrageenan all the stuff that you find sorbitol yeah it's insane what you find.

Starting point is 00:59:06 Yeah, but it's like no one challenges it. Like, I think these big companies, I could advise them to do the perfect toothpaste and they could probably change the game. But you know how it is. It's a running system. Why change it? For them, it's like the Colgates and the Oral-Bs

Starting point is 00:59:21 and all these things. They're just in every single supermarket. I go to every single supermarket when I travel and look at the oral healthcare section from Africa to America to everywhere. It's always the same. It's just a mirror copy. And it's not challenged for the last 50 years,

Starting point is 00:59:36 but we have to finally, because we're growing up and we're changing the message and it's about optimal health and not just about absence of disease. Yeah. And we know now, I mean, especially based on your work, that the mouth is connected to the rest of our body. Yes, obviously. And the microbiome, like you know that we have different microbiomes.

Starting point is 00:59:57 The biggest one is usually in the gut. But we have a skin biome. We have even like a vaginal one. But the oral one is the second largest and the most diversified so they found up to 700 different species in the mouth wow and if that gets out of germane only to the oral cavity only to the oral cavity obviously you swallow about 140 billion per day so that translates 50 of your gut microbiome comes from the mouth wow so if you had dental repair obviously you have dysbiosis.

Starting point is 01:00:26 So for example, mercury fillings will lead to candida overgrowth. Right. And mold issues and stuff. So you have to sort that ecosystem again to become normal and natural. It's like a baby, the breastfed baby has a complete different oral microbiome and gut microbiome than a formula fed baby. Yeah, that is so true. Or a cesarean section baby. So it's completely, it's actually all about

Starting point is 01:00:47 the microbiome and the only thing i say like if you focus on your gut health don't forget the entrance to the gut because it transfers all the time and this is why it's so intrinsically connected but for every single normal person not medically trained it just makes perfect sense oh why true it's the mouth it's the start of the tube and it ends at the back door yeah so why should this be not connected it's kind of like the entrance hall to a hotel like is this if you have if you look into a hotel you walk into a hotel and the lobby is shit you know the rest of the hotel is shit the rest of the hotel is too yeah so you can see if the two if your mouth is already um wrong and you have dysbiosis you have bad

Starting point is 01:01:25 breath and you have a lot of dental repair and you have gingivitis gum disease leaking up you know that the rest of the body is not healthy yeah you can just see it in one glance so if i if i um don't know whether or not i've had a root canal um and i don't know whether or not um i have anything going on that needs needs attention What are some of the signs and symptoms that your oral cavity needs attention that people might not be thinking about? I mean, the obvious pain bleeding, obviously, is gonna drive you to a dentist, but-

Starting point is 01:01:56 Yes. In my case, I had things that I did not link back to my oral cavity that I can definitely say were now because they're gone. So if I'm listening to this podcast and I've had a root canal, I've had my wisdom teeth pulled, or I've got metal fillings, how would I know that this is having some kind of systemic effect on me? Yeah, just like you just said, ask yourself these three questions. Metals in my mouth, root canals, wisdom teeth cheese pulled if any answer is

Starting point is 01:02:25 a yes you might have something called oral interference basically stuff that is distracting or imbalancing your microbiome your immune system and your nervous system on a daily basis that doesn't mean you have any pain locally but you maybe have a myriad of health issues that you can't seem to solve right and therefore you have to find the right practitioner to then know about these things and help you with a solution because i'm not here to scare you just i'm just there to inform i would never advise you to have oh i have a metal filling now i go take it out by a regular dentist right and they don't do it safely so it's all about the strategy don't freak out it's just more information for you to know oh

Starting point is 01:03:05 root canal could be the thing holding me back especially for for example for women i have a lot of women um that couldn't get pregnant i'm always joking yeah and that they got pregnant after seeing me right they do it like i can show you a lot i can show you a lot of like um like female patients that sent me this. I blame this all on you because I had cavitations, a root canal removed, and finally I got pregnant. Why is that? It's super simple.

Starting point is 01:03:33 If you have chronic inflammation, root canal cavitation, this is triggering your nervous system, your sympathetic nervous system, putting you into stress mode. Your body doesn't want to get pregnant in stress mode. In a chronic war zone, it's not good to get pregnant. You want to have yin. You want to have parasympathetic. So this root canal or cavitation could just be the one single splinter

Starting point is 01:03:54 you need to remove the source to just get your body into parasympathetic. And this is what happens on the chair often that patients, you take out the cavitation and they just start crying because they initially kick that trauma off and the parasympathetic system comes in and we're about to bring in a new device it's a lifetime age or a lifetime yeah and like that it measures the hrv in the moment and it will show you if you're resilient and how you flip from sympathetic to parasympathetic because i want to show that on data. Wow.

Starting point is 01:04:27 Because patients feel it, obviously, all the time. Then they cry. And then you have to tell them, hey, it's a good thing to cry. It's your parasympathetic nervous system. But showing this on paper is even better. Showing their HRV improving. Yeah, making it scientific. Yeah, or just changing.

Starting point is 01:04:40 It doesn't mean that the HRV is a little bit complex, but it's all about resilience. It's about how fast is your body in adapting sympathetic to parasympathetic. Can it flip in a second? Because you need your sympathetic system. Of course, instantly I want to do a surgery. I have to be in sympathetic focus. But after surgery, I shouldn't stay there and have like a parasympathetic digestive stuff to eat my food or chill in the evening. So this is about balance.

Starting point is 01:05:06 And the HRV is also something I'm very heavily focusing on with different devices, like the aura ring or the ultra human ring or the hoop. I did it all. I tested it all because patients have different devices. This is not the HRV I'm talking about. This is just maybe your nighttime average. And these devices are often correlating higher HRV to more health.

Starting point is 01:05:30 That is not correct. Wow. It's not correct at all because you have to find your individual HRV. There are different people. So some people have an average HRV nighttime. If you look on your aura, let's say the trend for the year is 25. Right. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:05:47 And aura would say it's not good. Yeah. My son's, mine's in the 40s, my son's is over 100. Exactly. This is because, that's what I just wanted to mention. So like you could be a sympathetic person being in the low range. 20 to 40 is more sympathetic dominant. Then 50 to 80 is more like a balanced mesomorphic type.

Starting point is 01:06:06 The other one's more ectomorph. And then above could be a true parasympathetic dominant person. But it doesn't mean that he's healthier or she is healthier. Just it's your normal. Because you see, if you get a virus, you will tank probably to five or 10. And he will probably only tank to 90 versus I maybe tank to 20. But then also for me and also for you if you go on some let's say a diet for an extreme period do you want to lean out to five

Starting point is 01:06:31 percent body fat you have to push it a little bit so what happens is my heart rate will go to down to 30 and my heart rate variability will go up to 95 and aura will give you a hundred score right i know my adrenal glands are just off and my parasympathetic has to do over yes to compensate for it so it's not about getting higher or lower it's just finding your spot and seeing why are you in a sympathetic or even in a parasympathetic state so a lot of patients are in toxic parasympathetic state because of leaky gut for example right parasympathetic has to do overtime, more work instead of being in balance. The parasympathetic is overworking.

Starting point is 01:07:07 Yeah, it's not always sympathetic. Some people turn into parasympathetic problems. Yeah, they're getting too lazy. Too much rest and digest. Yeah, because that system is trying to help and repair and repair and repair, but it can't. And that's why you need that balance. And this is why when you have like lifetime measurements or or real time that's the word yeah real time measurements

Starting point is 01:07:29 you can see is that body resilient is it good to is it really good to do surgery right now compared to your baseline not compared to somebody else's exactly and this is obviously these machines cost more like five to ten thousand euros and are more medically proven but i still like to track devices but i it's this can also really distract you yeah so you have to be you have to just see it simply as data don't get emotional about it this is why a lot of patients i just take it away it's like don't watch it you will feel bad just by doing it yeah look at them oh no they wake up good pretty good but then they look at their data and it's like, oh, I had a bad night's sleep. Yeah, my daughter is famous for that. Yeah, I love it.

Starting point is 01:08:09 She wakes up and feels great, and then she's like, I had the worst night's sleep. My HRV was here, my heart rate was here, my respiratory rate was here, and then it just gets inside of their head. And then it gets stressful. And they get hyper-focused, and it becomes a source of stress. Then it's more stressful than having it. For me, it's just the data. And usually, because I'm very fine-tuned with my body, I know before the ring that I'm sick, for example.

Starting point is 01:08:30 It usually comes a day after. It's an aftercast. So if I'm already on the upward trend, it shows lowest point. So it's always about the patient. It's about the clinic. It's about what you see, what you feel. It's not data first. Obviously, we use blood work and data to improve,

Starting point is 01:08:45 but I don't want to treat the data. Right. I want to treat the person. Yeah, exactly. I mean, I'm so glad you're saying that. So for somebody who is interested in seeking out a biologic dentist, is there any repository for them, any place that they can go to find someone maybe that's trained under you or,

Starting point is 01:09:05 or, or somebody that's trained in biologic dentistry, because I don't think that anybody that can just remove it metal filling is necessarily different levels. So the, you can, everyone can call himself a biologic dentist and a lot of biologic dentists will do a biological root canal treatment. No. So the way I define bio dentistry 3.0 is really being consequent doing the high-tech dentistry with all the biomaterials using functional medicine and health optimization so it's a different breed of dentists and i finally opened up the the online certification for it's

Starting point is 01:09:35 called bio dentistry 3.0 certification and the tribe i'm building is called the real bio dentists the real bees the real and those are on the directory because you get in the, in the online version is basically my, my teachings of the last 10 years consolidated in a four week program where you just have the software updates so that we can talk perfectly. You have a couple of knowledge gaps. And then level two is when you come in and shadow with me, look into surgeries and then start your own business. Or you're already a surgeon and you just upgrade a little bit using the IVs now and the food design. So you get certified in the bio dentistry level one, food design concept and bone healing protocol. And therefore I have a directory because I had to build it.

Starting point is 01:10:18 There's so many because of my work probably and doing it for such a long time. It becomes a little, little bit of a trend. And as you know, marketing is more important than what you really can do, unfortunately, and it's bad for patients. So I want to recommend. I don't see it necessary that every single one comes flying into Germany when there could be someone in LA or someone in New York or doing the same thing.

Starting point is 01:10:40 But I have to make sure that I can recommend them because they, they are solid. They know what they're doing. So that's why I finally made it. And I'm very happy because I, there was times when I thought, I can just forget about it, but there was so many questions, so many dentists asking for it.

Starting point is 01:10:55 So I thought, okay, it's international, it's in English and a global training. And the first one that actually flew in was from Australia. There's one Australian by real B now. Really? Yeah. And it's crazy. And the first one that actually flew in was from Australia. There's one Australian real bee now. Really? Australian real bee?

Starting point is 01:11:07 Yeah. And it's crazy. And the whole Australia has only five dentists that, for example, do a ceramic implant. And only one being in complete Australia. It's insane. Wow. And Jigar flies in next week. I think I meet him on Monday in a week.

Starting point is 01:11:20 He does? Okay, great. He comes in to see me and see the clinic. I love that. But he's already an amazing surgeon. So for him, it's super simple because the difficult part is not the dental work because this is something, if you're good with your hands,

Starting point is 01:11:31 you can basically learn that by just looking at it and just using different materials. The difficult part is understanding the body, understanding the physiology, understanding the nutrition, the supplements, the intricacies of functional medicine. This is the next level. This is why I call it the dental evolution.

Starting point is 01:11:45 It's not contrary to conventional dentistry. It's just next level. Right. It's just next level. So where can they go? How can they find you? How can they find out more about your school? So about me, you can basically,

Starting point is 01:11:55 the easiest is Instagram is drdom1. And that's drdom1. D-O-M-E-1. D-O-M-E-1. In Germany, my name is Dome. Dome? Dome is the abbreviation of dominic in germany that was my nickname as a kid so dr dome in german but in english it's dr dom yeah because

Starting point is 01:12:11 i don't definitely you don't want to be dummy in english you want to be dumb and also not dome it's like doom right it's funny like we had dr dome and we wrote it D-R-D-O-M-E. And then someone was saying, I don't know what you're saying. Dr. Doomey? Please do me, Dr. Doomey. I just saw that. Yeah, I knew that you would. Yeah, Dome, Doomey, Dome.

Starting point is 01:12:37 Yeah, none of them works. Okay, I shouldn't do that. It doesn't work. Yeah, so they're very creative. So find me there. And then there is a directory, obviously, for that bio dentistry. It's the Institute of Biological Dentistry is where you find the code. The Institute of Biological Dentistry,

Starting point is 01:12:51 because we're going to put that in the show notes. Yeah, that's where you have the course for the dentists and then the directory to Dr. Domi Official. There's a Dr. Domi Official webpage. And then for the intro level, like some people just have metals to remove. There is the IAOMT in the US and ABDM. So they train dentists to become SMART certified. S-M-A-R-T certified means safe mercury amalgam removal technique.

Starting point is 01:13:16 So they know at least how to remove. SMART certified. Yeah, you could look them up. They will know at least how to remove mercury and metal safely because that's super important. They might not know about the root canals they might not know about ceramic implants right that's for the real bees but vapor all those but at least they know how to do this because you don't want to go to your dentist and just drill out these fillings because then obviously the mercury vapor and the stuff that you swallow is way worse than just having it right you have to

Starting point is 01:13:41 find a solid strategy first to find the real one amen um and then finally i i i wind down every podcast by asking all my guests the same question um and it is uh what does it mean to you to be an ultimate human for me it means that i feel like a kid i just i just wake up in the morning i have no problems i have tons have tons of energy. Switch on, switch off at night. I can sleep well. My mental health is perfect. I have time to train. I have time with my family.

Starting point is 01:14:11 I have time on the mission. I have time with surgeries. Like just be in flow state. That's being ultra human for me. And this is actually how we're designed to be, right? Just being. That's the ultra human. Just be yourself.

Starting point is 01:14:23 And this is difficult because obviously I'm trained to do the opposite right just to do it do do do all the time right and i i had my own fair share of health issues very early that's why i'm on that path wow i know how it feels as you're really really in bad shape yes and i had lots of mental health issues in my early 20s because of my lifestyle as a as a teenager becoming a skateboard i wanted to become a skateboard professional so i was drinking probably five days a week from 14 to 21 years old wow and i just had fun but then flipped and then i had to dig myself out of it so i know how it feels if you're on that level of suicide and all these things but i also know how you feel if you if you get it if you're in a flow state and then obviously if you took me a

Starting point is 01:15:05 while to figure out how to get my new transmitters back into place but if i when i learned it i was like oh wow this is what i need to do i want to help patients i want to really help them heal and now this is just my journey just empower as many as possible to have to be ultra human to be like superhuman yeah or a health avenger that's what I always call us. Like, you know, Marvel? Yes. And I always refer to as the health Avengers because I want us to be inspiring people just like an athlete or a professional or a star or whatever. We can also inspire a lot of people just by being it.

Starting point is 01:15:37 And therefore the health Avengers, they live by example. I'm Thor, by the way, if they would be the health Avengers. You're number four? No, I'm the Thor. Oh, Thor. The Viking. That's awesome. Yeah. And then Tim maybe is the if they would be the health managers. You're number four? No, I'm the Thor. Oh, Thor. The Viking. That's awesome. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:15:47 And then Tim maybe is the, he could be the Iron Man, definitely. The gadget guy. That's great. And yeah, you know what I mean. So this is, and I think this is how we can, if we practice what we preach and live by example, I think this is how we can help many and inspire. And I always say patients that make it to my chair, they're part of the mission.

Starting point is 01:16:07 Because they will heal themselves like yourself. And then you have that intrinsic motivation, that moral obligation to share, right? How can you hold it back? Yeah, like I do now. I mean, I feel like I'm more, and I don't have any deal with Dr. Gandhi or with you or with anyone else.

Starting point is 01:16:21 I just feel like this needs to be platformed and the word needs to be getting out there because, and so many people are on these health journeys and there's that one thing that they just can't figure out. Exactly. You know, I've always said, you know, the body does not behave irrationally. It behaves very rationally. And sometimes we just need to figure out why it's behaving that way. And this is another key to that puzzle of potentially chronic disease and other things that people are suffering from that they just don't know how to solve. Especially for really sick chronic people. This is how I started like 10 years ago. My main patients were super sick patients like Alzheimer's, Parkinson'sinson cancer end stage als and all these things not too

Starting point is 01:17:06 not too nice they just basically needed this to start their health right but now it upgraded to more people that are just already quite healthy but they just want to have the next level yes and for example like yourself you didn't connect your body symptoms to your mouth but then you had that surgery done and it's gone for example my brother he is very healthy too and he does everything and he said okay i have cavitations on the cone beam let's just do it and then he told me like a week later okay i can now tell you what happened um i just need one hour less sleep like one hour and it's like oh that's a lot yeah because the body needed this hour more deep sleep or whatever to compensate for it yeah and this is how impactful it is and therefore it's my sole mission to spread the word so incredible

Starting point is 01:17:49 well it really comes through and i think my audience felt it today and they know where to find you now so um i really appreciate you coming on today giving us some of your time your inspiration and for teaching people like dr gandhi that are going out and helping to change the world um my audience knows where to where to find you and knows about your website, so you're probably going to see some activity there now. Thanks. Thank you. And as always, guys, this just sounds.

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