Dental Health - mind-blowing information from another course from the Holistic Health Bundle.

And phytic acid and the need to presoak or sprout or ferment our nuts, seeds, grains and legumes. Oh my. Or we won't get enough calcium from the food we eat.

Bundle products are a way for individual online businesses to get more exposure. The offers included in the bundles usually have a pitch to buy more services or products from the business. Some of the offers are really excellent and the provider is really just wanting to help more people who may not know about the issues being discussed.

Whistleblower level of mind-blowing dental information

Healthy Mouth, Healthy You is a book ($19.97) made into a more complete course with video demonstrations and cooking recipes and recipes for holistic/homemade tooth care rinses. Mind-blowing news to me - DO NOT BRUSH YOUR TEETH RIGHT AFTER EATING! The mouth is still too acidic and brushing when the saliva is overly acidic increases demineralization of the teeth. Wait 15 minutes and or swish with a sea salt/water mix first which increases the alkalinity - according to Dr. Michelle Jorgensen.

More BIG news - 60 to 80 percent of chronic health issues involve tooth or gum infection. Dr. Michelle recommends seeing a holistic dentist FIRST, not as a last result. Disturbing BIG news - while root canals have a huge failure rate and filling cavities in standard ways also tends to lead to worse and bigger fillings, then a crown, and then a root canal - the dental industry is likely to NEVER, EVER admit that as that admission would lead to a huge Class Action lawsuit against every dentist who has ever performed one of the procedures. Some safer techniques have been developed but you need to ask/interview a dental office to find out if they are aware and using newer, safer procedures, or if they are still using older, more dangerous methods. That litigiousness is holding back progress in safety and efficacy is really sad and probably also why we are unlikely to ever hear that psychiatric drugs are linked to suicide and homicide or that the CoV jabs have hurt and killed massive numbers of people.

Mercury poisoning of dentists and patients is also an ongoing dental nightmare.

Other types of fillings exist now, but mercury fillings are not officially banned at the industry level in the US. They are banned in some European nations.

Dentists & patients are still at risk from mercury vapor poisoning.

Dr. Michelle was a dentist in cosmetic dentistry and she developed severe mercury poisoning as a result of removing mercury fillings from patient’s old cavities. At first she didn’t know why she was sick with digestive symptoms and then worsening numbness in her hands - she was losing the physical ability to even be a dentist. Another dentist suggested it might be mercury and a lab test showed very high levels.

At an industry level, Dr. Michelle says mercury poisoning of dentists isn’t talked about, and the link between tooth infection or old root canals with chronic illness IS NOT talked about within the industry. That sounds a lot like how the psychiatry industry is handling the murder/suicide problem associated with psychiatric medications → ostrich with its head in the sand → “We see no problems here!”

Ostrich: “I see no problems here!” Photo by Wolfgang Hasselmann on Unsplash

Nutrition and anti-nutrients in unsprouted grain and other food processing issues are also topics covered by Dr. Michelle Jorgensen which help explain why a vegan diet is so risky to tooth mineralization and why tooth decay is so common in our modern world Dairy processing makes calcium not available in dairy products and not sprouting or presoaking grains and legumes before grinding into flour or cooking also reduces calcium absorption from anything eaten along with the unsprouted, or unfermented or unpresoaked grain, seed, or bean product. Any seed has growth inhibitors coating the seed which prevents the seed from sprouting until it is in a moist/soaked dirt type environment - which signals it to grow by breaking down the inhibiting chemical (phytic acid).

“Sprouting – activates phytase which helps to release important vitamins, as well as makes grains, seeds and beans more digestible. However, according to a recent update by the WAPF “sprouting is a pre-fermentation step, not a complete process for neutralizing phytic acid. Consuming grains regularly that are only sprouted will lead to excess intake of phytic acid.”

Soaking — Soaking grains/flour in an acid medium at a warm temperature – also activates phytase thereby helping to release important vitamins, as well as making grains, seeds and beans more digestible. In addition, soaking helps to reduce, or even eliminate phytic acid.

Souring – another option to reduce/eliminate phytic acid – think sourdough bread,. Sourdough fermentation is by far the preferred method for reducing phytic acid in breads and bread-products.” (thenourishinghome.com)

• This article has charts with recommended soak times for beans & lentils, nuts, seeds and grains. Recipes on the site for cooking with presoaked ingredients are linked within the article. (culturedfoodlife.com)

I have had to switch to boiling almonds, cashews, and pistachios for better digestibility but I wasn’t presoaking them first. Dietitian training really missed a lot about food and health too - it is a Western problem apparently to dismiss traditional methods.

Dr. Michelle mentioned the historical fact that during the Civil War soldiers from the North were being fed hardtack that was presoaked wheat before baking while soldiers in the Southern army were being fed cornpone that was no longer being presoaked with ash, which is a Native American preparation method which increases bioavailability of the niacin content in corn. Lack of niacin can cause diarrhea, leg swelling, and if more severe, delusion occurs and can lead to death if the deficiency continues. Did phytic acid play a role in who won the US Civil War? Hard to know, but an interesting bit of nutrition trivia. Note that there is no niacin in corn syrup or corn starch. Eat whole grains but we need to relearn how to presoak them.

Dr. Michelle does not get into glyphosate at all, but Round-Up ready crops are another reason people eating modern foods have a lack of minerals.

The dairy issue is that heating for pasteurization breaks down an enzyme that is needed for the calcium in the milk to be bioavailable. Raw milk that is from healthy cows so it is an infection risk is the solution. Any dairy products made from pasteurized milk will have the same problem of unavailable calcium. This is a Weston price Foundation research and activism topic. The need for grass fed milk so that it contains vitamin K2 is also discussed by Dr. Michelle. We can not use calcium for mineralization of teeth or bone if we are deficient in vitamin K2. She recommends paying more for raw milk products or learning to appreciate goat or sheep milk products and probably using a lot less due to expense and availability. Dairy products like cheese, are treat foods for her family.

Holistic Health Bundle details

The Healthy Mouth, Healthy You course is $397 regular price, and free if you bought the Holistic Health Bundle. The book is only $19.97 (livingwellwithdrmichelle.com), ebook - $14. The course is based on the book with some additional food preparation videos and a how to brush your teeth video. She keeps the videos very short and simple and it is interesting as an educator to see how others handle complex topics.

The bundle, I just checked, is no longer available for sale. Bundle products tend to be limited time offers - businesses wouldn’t want to give away their courses all year long. I’m glad I got it though, some really nice courses and ebooks are included in case you see the offer made again. The average offers are mini-courses or short pdf style ‘ebooks’ but a few are full length ebooks or longer courses like this dental health course.

The Holistic Health Bundle is an ongoing product that will likely be for sale again some time later. The last item in the list is about joining the group with your own offer, so it is included the next time the bundle is being sold.

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