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There's no branch of medicine that exists

where a dead organ is left in,

except in dentistry where a root canal is left in.

If a guy's got a gangrenous toe,

you gotta cut the toe off

because it's bacterial infested

and it's toxic and it's gonna kill the patient.

If you think that you can get away with an infected toxic tooth

and not have a systemic consequence,

I think you're deluding yourself.

This is the day my whole life went to shit,

and I didn't even know it.

This is called schoolies week.

Every year, thousands of high school graduates

spend a week getting royally wasted,

in a celebration to the exquisite end

of their high school education.

That's me, on the left,

on my way to another party.

Shut up, shut up, I told you to shut up!

-I'm sorry, I'm sorry! -Every single time you do this!

And this is the guy I was unlucky enough

to get in a fight with.

Hey! Whoa, whoa, whoa! Are you all right?

-Piss off! -Oh, man, back up!

Settle down--

I had no idea that the punch that shattered my teeth

was the punch that would shatter my world.

Here come those seven little words.

You're going to need a root canal.

Now, if you've never seen one done before,

brace yourself...

because this is a root canal.

They drill into your tooth...

extract the root...

fill it with gutta-percha...

and you're on your merry way.

Things have a funny way of catching up with you.

One moment you're enjoying your holiday in Thailand,

then your heart starts pounding...

your breath gets shorter...

your vision narrows...

and you really think you're going to die.

Then you find out it was just a panic attack.

Okay, well, we might start you off on a course of Lexam,

ten milligrams, it's an SSRI,

it could be a few side effects, but they're nothing

to concern yourself with, okay?

I quickly realized that the doctors

treating my chronic illness were clutching at straws.

I read the side effects of everything

they kept prescribing me,

fatigue, nausea, dizziness,

agitation, weight gain,

and impotence.

When I said that my life went to shit,

I'm really not exaggerating.

Panic attacks gave way to chronic fatigue.

I was a wreck,

a total lost cause.

12 hours of sleep felt like 1.

I'd get out of bed every morning thinking,

"Will this ever end?"

Why did I feel so tired,

so run down,

so anxious, and so confused?

But I kept following that old saying,

grin and bear it.

I'd walk like a zombie to the bathroom,

staring into the mirror,

just like this,

and ask myself the same old question,

What is wrong with me?

But I'd still smile,

'cause that's what we do, right?

We smile.

We ignore the truth that's right in front of us.

We move on, we smile.

Smile though your heart is aching,

smile when your heart is breaking.

We grit our teeth and we smile.

I did the only thing that I thought I could do:

I went searching for answers.

First come blood tests, then more blood tests,

perhaps you're hypoglycemic blood test.

Then comes the naturopath and you find yourself

taking supplement after supplement, after supplement.

Get fed up with it, burn your 100 dollar bills,

all for some expensive urine.

Then you tap yourself silly with some EFT or TFT.

Actually, I think sleep apnea is the key.

Then you start seeing spiritual healers

and doing spiritual courses.

Get your chakras balanced from your toe to your head,

and why not get your aura read?

Tried some reflexology, iridology, kinesiology,

psychology, and you better learn about endocrinology.

Have Chinese herbs, get cupping. Crazy suction.

Why not have a go at moxibustion?

Hit me with shiatsu whilst I find a new guru.

Yeah, I tried NLP, walked the fire walk...

...did my daily affirmations,

and don't forget your visualizations.

Wear lot of crystals, hang upside down.

Tried all forms of bioresonance going around.

From biocom to zeito and anything using sound.

Saw a psychic... or ten.

In their den, helped with my Zen.

That represents ill health.

Get a chiropractor, find a homeopath,

get your meridians balanced,

have kahuna.

I even juiced for ten days straight.

From wake-up till late,

yup, nothing but juice for ten days straight.

Eat only organic, increase your macrobiotics,

did a parasite cleanse, intestine cleanse,

so many liver cleanses.

Over a dozen coffee enemas.

I tried cold showers then graduated to ice baths.

I relived past lives with hypnotic regression.

Hell of a session.

Made inroads with the healing codes,

then the kneeling codes.

I screamed and punched pillows.

Read a truckload of books

and I even tried a wee bit of medical marijuana.

Did shamanic de-armoring.

This was actually amazing.

Did retreat after retreat after retreat.

-That was a treat. -Yes!

Did color therapy, aroma therapy, hypnotherapy.

Ugh, have you tried urine therapy?

Ah, you need shilajit.

Man, I tried all sorts of shit.

Tried anything new age, self-improvement.

Got blessed by gurus and joined the oneness movement.

Got my feet grounded.

And don't get me started on pyramid marketing products

that I bought that were meant to cure me.

I even tried kambo.

Kambo? What's that you ask?

Well, kambo's a rare Amazonian frog that shamans use

to poison your skin, to purge your toxins.

They burn it into skin, you pass out and vomit

for 20 minutes.

You may think that I'm joking,

but I've got the scars to prove it.

And funnily enough, these were all the things

that I've tried that actually helped.

But every day I'd still get up tired,

anxious, and confused.

I started to think that maybe I was beyond help.

What if I could tell you that 98% of women

that have breast cancer have a root canal tooth

on the same side as their offending breast cancer?

What if I told you that the biggest toxic influence

in the body in a chronically ill person

is a root canal tooth?

What if I could tell you that the leading authority

in cardiovascular prevention,

which is Bale and Doneen, does not condone root canals

in your mouth because of the bacteria?

All of the people that come to see me with chronic illness,

the question is how many of them have a dental ideology

to the cause of their illness?

I would say almost all of them.

The vast majority of chronic degenerative diseases

begin with problems in the mouth,

infections and toxins,

and it's only until those are addressed

that you're going to get any clear positive response

with your disease.

I had a gal come in here who was early 40's,

very fit, very nutrition conscious,

and she came in here because she had

severe, horrible back pain.

In fact, the first day that she walked in,

she had a four pronged cane, bent over,

and she was on full narcotics 'round the clock

for her chronic pain.

And she sat down

and she wanted me to do some injections on her back

to help her alleviate the pain.

And I said, "I'm happy to do that,

but let me just dig a little bit

about what could have happened to you."

And she said, "Well, I got back pain,

I went to an orthopedist,

the orthopedist, said I had-- did an MRI of my back,

said I had a herniated disc,

did surgery on me to remove the disc.

About six weeks later, I was worse.

The orthopedic surgeon did another MRI on me.

He said the disc had moved more,

that I needed to have a laminectomy at two levels,

and he took me in and he did a laminectomy at L4 and L5."

Laminectomy means, the back half of the bones on the spine

are pulled off so that there's more room for the discs

and more room for the nerves,

at which point I saw her and she was worse.

And what came up on the examination that I did,

that she had some inflammation in her jaw bone.

I said, "Did you have any dental work done

prior to this back pain?"

And she said, "Well, come to think of it, I did.

I had an infected tooth, I had a root canal done.

The root canal failed.

I had another redo of the root canal,

it also failed.

I had the root canal tooth pulled

and I had a graft put in there,

and I had an implant put in there."

So I said, "Let's do an experiment in the office.

I can inject a local anesthetic on that tooth.

If your back pain is related to that tooth,

and I block the nerve coming from that tooth,

it may make your back pain feel better

and that may be the reason for your pain

'cause after two failed surgeries,

and another one, the chances of it working

aren't very good."

So she said, "I'm in."

So I took some local anesthetic and I injected her tooth,

and I waited about 15 minutes,

and when I came back into the room,

she was standing up going like this.

I said, "How does it feel?" She says, "It feels 90% gone."

I said, "Then probably this is linked to that tooth."

I just wanna make sure. You come back in three days.

We're gonna do this again."

I wanna make sure this just isn't a relief reaction,

sort of a mental, psych--

you know, "This was all psychosomatic and it's gone."

We did it again, and she said, "It's gone.

I'm going back to the oral surgeon

and I'm gonna have him take the darn implant out.

Within a couple of weeks, her back pain,

except for what was leftover surgical trauma, was gone.

A root canal procedure is still a very, very popular thing

in dentistry because no one wants to lose a tooth.

But more and more people are beginning to realize,

even from the current day, modern, and very, uh,

traditional literature, that it's impossible

to sterilize a root canal system.

Most conventional dentists believe

there's no problem with them

but I personally couldn't disagree more.

I think that they are a hidden source of toxicity

for almost anyone.

The reason that root canals have an inherent problem

is that because we know that nowhere else in the body

can we leave dead tissue.

Anywhere else in the body,

your appendix dies, you have dead tissue

that doesn't heal in any other area of the body,

we know we have to remove that

because it's a haven for bacteria

and it's not compatible with health.

And the same is true in a tooth.

A tooth is a living structure.

It has a blood supply, it has a nerve supply.

And so, when a tooth dies or becomes infected,

and we decide to go in and do a root canal,

even the best endodonist, a root canal specialist

can do a great job at cleaning out the main canal

of any of the teeth.

But what they can't get to

are all of these thousands of tubules.

You can see if you cut a tooth in half

or under a microscope,

you can see these thousand of tubules

that run out in every different direction,

and all sort of angles,

off from the main canal.

Those microtubules are big enough for a bacteria

to fit in, but not much else.

And the problem is, if you've got six to eight miles

of microtubules in a single tooth, it's impossible.

You can see why it's impossible

to sterilize that tooth.

So, after the root canal's been performed,

unfortunately, bacteria still reside within the tooth.

And now, you have this nice, warm incubated tooth,

where the bacteria are able to flourish,

and now there is no access from the patient's

own immune system to the tooth,

because in the process of doing the root canal treatment,

the blood supply and the nerve had been severed

from that tooth, so now the body can't deliver

its own immune defenses

to help keep the infection in check.

70 to 90% of all medical problems

actually originate in the mouth.

Conventional dentistry still has a focus

on the mechanistic Newtonian mentality,

that the teeth are not connected to the rest of the body.

I mean, embryologically, the teeth develop from

the same tissues that gives rise to your sympathetic

and parasympathetic nervous system.

The blood supply in the mouth,

literally, will take any toxins

via the lymphatic system

and take it down to the thyroid, the thymus,

the heart, and the rest of the body.

So there is a direct connection.

The teeth is not just like a stone in the mouth.

It is extremely densely connected.

The pulp is extremely densely connected

to the lymph system, to the autonomic nerve system,

more than any other organs.

It's connected to the afarensis,

the sensitive nerves to the brain directly,

and to all meridian systems.

Every tooth connects up energetically through

the meridian system to certain organs and glands.

So, for example, on the upper side of the jaw,

the last two molars and this bicuspid

actually connect up energetically to the left breast

and on this side, it's to the right breast.

And 95% of the time, women who have breast cancer,

who undergo a thermographic study will be found to have

hot spots in the jaw on the same side

as that malignant breast.

97% of our breast cancer patients,

in an age between 30 and 70,

we tested all these patients,

they had a root canal or a toxic situation

in the teeth.

The discussion of the energetic relationship

of the teeth to the rest of the body

is very interesting.

Every tooth lies on a specific acupuncture meridian

relates to certain organs, and tissues,

and vertebrae, and muscle groups.

And so very often you can see a direct relationship.

For instance, there was a 19-year-old girl,

her first year in college,

she had a root canal on a front tooth.

That front tooth relates to the kidney and the bladder.

She started to have bladder infections

and kidney infections.

She tried every treatment known,

and she was constantly going on antibiotics,

and nothing helped.

When she came to me, when I tested that root canal,

I saw the direct relationship and told the mother,

and it was very hard because here we had

a 19-year-old-girl, it was a front-tooth,

but I said, I think in this case,

really the thing that needs to be done

is to remove that tooth.

Well, they didn't want to hear that,

so they went and tried other treatments.

And then about three months later,

still suffering from chronic kidney problems

and urinary bladder problems, she took the tooth out,

and that was the end of the problem.

I remember years ago having a physician say,

"I just, I can't buy into this concept

of this electricity going through these meridians.

I've never seen a meridian

in all the cadaver labs I've ever been in."

And I said, "Okay, when you can do an EKG on your cadaver,

I'll be able to show you a meridian,

because you can't find it when the person's dead."

When you're looking at doing an EEG or an EMG

or an EKG, we're looking at the electricity

going through the body, and that is completely mainstream.

Each tooth actually lies on a different meridian,

so those energy pathways that we discussed,

they go through particular areas.

So if we're looking at the wisdom teeth,

we're talking about a small intestine and a heart.

As we move forward on the top,

and we have these molars, then we're looking at breast,

we're looking at thyroid on this side,

we're looking at pancreas on this side.

We're looking at spleen.

Then we move forward the they bicuspids

and they're lung and large intestine.

We go to the eye teeth, and it's called an eye tooth for a reason,

because it's connected to your eye.

It's also connected to the liver,

and to the gall bladder.

And then these four front teeth, top and bottom,

are connected to the urinary tract,

to the anal canal, to the adrenals,

to the pituitary, to your kidney,

everything that's related to that urinary tract.

I use a piece of equipment that was originally called

EAV, Electroacupuncture According to Vole.

I put electricity into the body,

and then you gather data from that.

So when I'm testing teeth,

I actually have the person holding a bar in their hand,

and that bar is the collection point.

And they touch a tooth and put it in the circuitry,

and then I introduce, by touching on a particular

acupuncture point, I introduce the electricity into the body

to see if it can go all the way through that meridian.

And you start seeing where electricity

is being blocked, and now you start asking questions

about the person's health and they go,

"Wow, how did you know that?

I didn't even tell you that I was having problems there."

Because when the electricity can't get through,

it compromises that meridian.

Many people have trouble getting their mind around

the fact that their teeth are making them sick.

But let me just tell you that a year or so ago,

we looked at the last 60 cancer patients

that we had seen, and 96% of them

had an infected tooth in the same power supply circuit

as their primary cancer, 96%.

You know, this might sound really funny to you,

but I've always wanted to learn how to surf.

The sun, the spray,

and that feeling of conquering a force

beyond your control.

Maybe that's symbolic,

because after all my trials and tribulations,

I still felt like I'd just drawn a bad lottery number.

You know you're sick when you can miraculously

attract a gorgeous girl.

You're punching way above your weight,

and you can't get it up.

And I know every guy will say this,

but it hasn't happened before.

Suffice to say,

she left pretty soon after.

How was this journey going to end?

Would I reach the top of the mountain,

conquering everything that came before me?

Would it be the death of me?

I obsessed over these questions and everything else.

Even friends and family, they became less important.

"What is wrong with you?"

"You're such a hypochondriac."

"Why is he such a hermit?"

"Toughen up and get on with it."

"I think he has depression."

"Why is he so anxious?"

"It's all in his head."

I felt truly empty inside.

Nobody who has an abscess in the body

would suggest ignoring it,

and the same with dental abscesses.

The problem is that they're frequently asymptomatic.

Most people who come to see me who have root canals,

they turn out to be infected,

but they're not coming with a sore tooth.

Nobody comes to see me with a sore tooth.

They come with their arthritis, their fatigue, their cancer,

their heart disease, and it turns out,

when I get a scan done of the root canal

that there's bone being absorbed

because of chronic infection of the tooth.

Conventional dentistry believes that

you should save a tooth at all costs,

and if the patient dies, well,

that was the price of saving the tooth.

They don't really come with the concept

that you should take things that are dead out of the body.

It was shocking to me because I had family members

who had root canal-treated teeth

and I had done root canals because

I was never taught to question

if residual infection

was having any kind of negative implication

on the overall health of the patient.

Probably the earliest research on root canal-treated teeth

that clearly demonstrated

how toxic they were all of the time

was the work of Dr. Weston Price.

Dr. Weston Price, who did about 25 years of research on root canals

found that they could cause almost anything,

from mental disease, to heart disease, to arthritis.

So when Weston Price started doing root canals on his patients,

he found that a lot of them were getting sick.

And so he started doing some research.

He'd take out the tooth, he would sterilize the tooth

on the outside, making sure that there was nothing

as far as bacteria, slip it under the skin of a rabbit

and found out that the rabbit had

whatever disease the patient had.

Who, let's say, had heart disease,

kidney disease, arthritis,

neurological disease, you name it.

And even more amazingly is he would take that same tooth

and successively put it underneath the skin

of 20, 30, 50 consecutive rabbits

and they all developed the same medical syndrome

as the original person who supplied that tooth.

So there is a direct connection between the pathogens

of these dead teeth, the galvanic currents

between the different metals in the mouth.

You know, perfect example, we had a patient with emphysema

on steroids for over a year.

I tracked it down to a strep infection in the jawbone

where he had a tooth removed 15 years prior.

Once I got rid of the strep infection in his jawbone,

his emphysema totally disappeared.

So the mouth is the toxic waste dump

that's impacting on the rest of the body.

Now, Dr. Price was a dentist,

and root canals had become "posh."

You know, originally, if you were a poor person

and you couldn't afford dentistry,

then your teeth would be taken out.

So, when someone had money and they went to the dentist and said,

"Gosh, you know, I've just kind of been neglectful, I haven't gotten in,

I want to know if there's a way you can save my tooth

because if I open and laugh, people are gonna think

I'm poor 'cause I don't have my teeth."

So it was actually more patient-driven

that dentistry start taxiderming teeth

to keep them in someone's mouth,

and then put a nice, shiny gold crown on there

so that when they laughed, everybody thought they had money

because you saw these gold teeth then.

Unfortunately, the dental schools, you know,

look at the mouth as being a mannequin,

and that you can do any type of procedure

without any direct impact on the rest of the body,

but this is the farthest thing from the truth.

Data we've just recently gotten

shows now that the number one cause of heart attack

is a root canal-treated tooth.

Plain and simple, not correlation,

not link, cause and effect.

If you take a course through Bale and Doneen,

and they're the leaders in cardiovascular event prevention,

they will tell you they will not condone having a root canal

in your mouth because that bacteria

courses through your body, and that bacteria is known

to affect cardiovascular disease.

My pet peeve as a cardiologist right now

is that so many family practitioners,

internal medicine practitioners, cardiologists,

my fellow cardiologists,

see a patient that has a heart attack

and they find the cholesterol's okay,

the lipids are okay, there's no high blood pressure,

there's no risk factors,

and they might not use these words with the patients,

but they're gonna tell you, and they think,

that patient just had bad luck.

Most of these things aren't genetic problems, you know?

This person for the first 25 or 50 years of their life

was okay, now they're not.

This isn't your genes, this is, your body's toxic,

and if we can restore those things,

you can get your health back and your energy back

and you can have a fun life.

I like word pictures, so we're gonna use the scenario

of I'm driving my car down the road

and I see my oil light has come on.

Well, I could get a hammer and smash the oil light

and that would take care of the problem, wouldn't it?

No, it wouldn't, because it's a sign

or a symptom that something is going on.

What I like to do is look deeper down

and find the particular burden

or the root cause,

and no pun intended because, most of the time,

it's a tooth problem.

And so, the sun rose on another day.

I walked to the bathroom as usual.

I asked myself that same question:

What is wrong with me?

And, as usual,

I was on my way to yet another test,

another healing modality.

Using a device called a lecher antenna,

the information from your blood is tested

against the variety of things that can make people sick,

and the antenna swings if the answer is yes.

Is it emotional?

No.

Is it a parasite?

No.

Is it heavy metals?

No.

Is it dental?

Yes.

Is it a mercury filling?

No.

Is it an infected root canal?

You have an infected root canal.

Strange science aside,

this was the first time anyone had told me

my chronic fatigue was because of a tooth.

It seemed bizarre until I really did some research.

My quest started with books.

The basic problem with a root canal

is what I call a fatally flawed procedure.

Fatally flawed in terms of the fact

that the reason a root canal is done

is you come to the dentist with pain.

A tooth hurts.

You want to get rid of the pain, naturally.

The problem is,

in taking out the pain,

the dentist takes out the nerve,

the pulp and the blood supply and the connective tissue.

Basically, if you will,

the tooth undergoes a process of taxidermy

while it's still in your mouth.

That tooth is dead, there's no feeling in it,

so there's no pain, but there's an abscess,

there's an infection there that's active.

And if you put probes in there and measure,

you will get biotoxins that are among the severest

that exist in nature.

The wisdom poured in from podcasts,

YouTube, Skype sessions, articles.

I digested everything I heard.

Root canal-treated teeth can be

a silent type of infection.

I've taken out numerous root canal-treated teeth

that looked completely fine on the X-ray

and yet, after we took that tooth out

and cleaned out that socket,

we would find a large area of dead bone,

or an actual cyst,

or even actual pus and infection in there.

And then I discovered the father of biological dentistry,

Hal Huggins.

I mean, if you've got a ruptured appendix,

you gonna fill it with wax and put a gold crown on it?

You got the same bacteria there,

only the ones in the mouth may be worse.

The question is, do all root canal teeth have to be removed?

The answer is no,

only in those people who are interested in their health.

But something didn't quite add up.

If root canal-treated teeth were this much of problem,

why didn't more people know about it?

About 95% of dentists have X-ray equipment in their office,

which is only two-dimensional,

which means, when they take the X-ray from here,

they can only see width and height on the tooth,

they can't see depth.

And you might take a picture of a root canal tooth

and it looks fine,

but if you do another kind of X-ray,

it's called cone beam, it's almost like a CAT scan,

where you can get a three-dimensional view of that tooth,

we very commonly find that these root canal teeth

are abscessed, and there's an abscess sitting

around the tooth that isn't visible on the 2-D X-ray.

We were doing our training, and I had a patient

I had taken a cone beam on

and she was struggling with some emotional problems

and chronic fatigue, and just a lot of things,

and we were reviewing her cone beam with the technician,

not a biological dentist, like this is a technician from the company.

And I said, "Well, okay, let's just go to each one of the root canal-treated teeth

and kinda, you know, flip this image

and see if we see any pathology."

And so as we're flipping through, he's like,

"Oh, man, like, these look terrible.

There's a cyst here and there's a cyst here."

I see root canals all the time look great on an X-ray,

but they do not test well.

They're a real problem for the individual.

Every root canal tooth contains dead tissue,

and dead tissue is a haven for bacteria.

We analyzed 87 very well done

root canal-treated teeth,

many of 'em by endodontists

and many more by general dentists,

and what we found was that,

regardless of how well the root canal was performed,

by far, the vast majority had a high degree of toxicity.

There were not one, there was not one of those 87

that was non-toxic.

The toxins are oftentimes

the waste material from the bacteria.

They can be also be just portions, for example,

of the cell wall of a bacteria,

but oftentimes they're the waste material of the bacteria.

Perhaps one of the world's leading authorities

on biological toxins

was Boyd Haley at the University of Kentucky.

What Dr. Haley found and published is that

the toxins from a root canal tooth

are equal in toxicity to the standard

by which all biological toxins are measured,

namely hydrogen sulphite.

He also found that the toxins from a root canal tooth

are equal in toxicity to botulism poisoning.

As you know, that's one of the worst we know about either.

All root canals are infected without any exception.

There was a big study done

by an American holistic dentist society very officially.

They tested 30,000, three-zero thousand root canals

extracted over the years,

and they were all infected, without any exception.

There used to be a laboratory at the University of Kentucky.

It was called Infinity Labeling Technologies.

It was a laboratory from Dr. Boyd Haley,

who was chairman of the Department of Chemistry there.

And he set up a lab test

where you could stick a cotton pledget,

it was sort of a hard cotton thing,

underneath the tooth that you suspected as being bad.

And you shoved it underneath the gum, pulled it out,

and then you'd have a sample of fluid.

And the samples would go to their laboratory,

and what they would do is a bioassay

to find, was there was toxic material

coming from the root of the tooth?

And this laboratory doesn't exist anymore,

but I have an old report from a patient,

this was a patient with chronic fatigue, he came to me.

When I examined him, I thought,

"Gee, I think your problem is a toxic root canal tooth.

Go to the dentist, have this test done."

He went and had the test done,

and these are the results of the test.

Now, what the test looks at is, these are six enzymes,

which are part of what's called the Kreb cycle,

these are the energy-producing part of the cell.

And these enzymes are able to take up sugar molecule

and get the energy out of it.

If these enzymes are blocked,

then that cell can't make energy.

And what biotoxins do

is they block these enzymes from working.

So what they did is took the stuff from the tooth,

the bad tooth and the good tooth,

and they incubated it with these enzymes,

and they have a measurement system where they say,

how bad was that enzyme blocked?

And on this particular patient, the average was 93% inhibition,

which is blocking of that enzyme.

And, by coordinating with dentists around the country,

over 5,000 extracted root canal-treated teeth

were submitted to Dr. Haley for testing.

100% of them were toxic.

And just to make sure this wasn't something

that just had to do with the tooth or the mouth,

they also submitted some teeth that were extracted

for orthodontic purposes, in other words,

normal teeth, but they needed to let the other teeth grow in.

None of these teeth inhibited any of these enzymes.

This was finally the smoking gun,

this was cause and effect that the root canals

simply cannot be sterilized inside the mouth,

it cannot be put into a situation

where the infection inside the root canal can ever be resolved.

And it's not sensed locally

because the tooth, when you root canal it,

you disconnect from the nerve so there is no more sensitivity,

so the patient can't feel the toxic effect,

can't feel the death.

And one of the amazing things is,

when people come into the office and I say,

"I'm gonna tell you what's going on with you.

You have insomnia, you have trouble with your memory,

you can't deal with stress, you can't deal with stimulus,"

and I go down this list,

a lot of times they start crying because

usually I'm the first physician who has described to them,

without them telling me, what's going on in their life

because all the other physicians they've seen have just said,

"Oh, that's all in your mind, here take these antidepressants

and you'll be fine."

The root canal specialists

want to protect their procedure, okay?

So they're going to try to reassure people

as much as possible, and I don't know what their intent is,

I'm not trying to say they're not interested in the health

and welfare of their patients,

but they truly believe the root canal procedure is fine,

it does a good job,

and they don't believe that it's chronically infected,

but the scientific evidence

takes this out of belief range, okay?

Belief has nothing to do with it,

it's science shows

the root canal is always infected,

and the only differentiation is

some are a little bit more toxic

and more infected than the other ones.

When I was a boy, I used to run to his office.

The guys liked to kid me, "Running to a dentist?"

But he was some dentist.

His name was Dr. Bran,

and he always let me come five minutes early

just so I could see his lab.

He'd let me touch things and tell me about them.

I used to get so excited,

I'd tell Dr. Bran I was gonna be a dentist when I grew up,

and he'd pat my head and say, "Fine, fine."

Only he never told me how hard it was to become one.

When I was older, I learned.

He went to college for eight years

and had to study dozens of subjects, not just dental ones,

but physiology, and anatomy, and bacteriology.

I found out that, in America,

about 25 million new root canal procedures are done each year.

And while this did alarm me,

what it really made me wonder was, why me?

Why didn't all these people

have root canal problems like I did?

So, oftentimes I'm asked,

"Why would a root canal have a systemic health impact

on one person and maybe not on another?"

And the reason is, is because we're all susceptible

to toxicities in different ranges.

As you know, there are some people

who can tolerate cigarette smoking, for example,

for 60 or 70 years and have no apparent ill effects,

and yet there are people who can smoke for a year or two

and develop a carcinoma.

Everyone processes toxins differently,

so there are some patients who are able to handle

a root canal-treated tooth

and their immune system isn't overloaded by that.

Yet there are other patients, we find,

who just one root canal

has a dramatic affect on their immune system.

The practice that I have is a very selective practice.

Most of the people we see have chronic, serious illness.

Now probably in the general population

these aren't diagnosed because

the guy who's seeing the patient for high blood pressure,

for chronic back pain is not associating it,

and he's not testing,

could this be a dental issue that's referred?

So it's very important that dentistry

and medicine get together.

It's important that physicians are as aware

of the importance of the mouth

as it is for the dentist to realize

that some of the procedures that he or she does in the mouth

severely and strongly impacts the health of the body.

Perfect example, we had a patient referred to us

who had stage-four throat cancer.

The bottom line was he had two root canal teeth.

The radiographs looked pristine

and a thousand dentists that would view them would say

these are absolutely normal.

The pathogens that were in these two root canal teeth

were in his throat exactly where the cancer was.

I extracted the two teeth, we ozonated the jawbone,

homeopathics and ionic silver.

In three weeks, the stage-four throat cancer

was totally resolved, documented with PET scans,

blood tests and visual.

This is the impact of toxic root canal teeth.

There was one relation study between diseases

and root canals published in a very prestigious

oncology newspaper in the United States

which showed that 90% of all the prostate cancer,

they contain, in its tissue, the cancerogenic bacteria

which come from root canal.

I felt bad because I had done a lot of those

and I actually had thought at one point that

that's what I wanted to do the rest of my life.

I thought, "How can this be?"

You know, this is something that's been going on

for so long, there's a whole specialty around it.

But whenever colleagues started presenting me

with different pieces of research,

I obviously came to the conclusion that

I did not want to do root canal treatment anymore personally.

I could not confidently say

that I was not doing harm in some situations.

The bottom line is, when you do a root canal

it cuts the flow of energy

to these different organs and can affect them.

You can't get rid of an infection

unless you have a viable immune system

with complete access to all the parts that are infected,

and this is uniformly eliminated when a root canal is done.

The analogy that I like to use,

in my office, there is a sliding door.

You are one side of the door with the door closed

and you have Christmas lights in your hand,

you want to know if all the lights light up.

I am on the other side of the sliding door

and I have an extension cord plugged in, ready to go,

but you and I are hitting the door.

We can't connect, there's no way.

So if someone comes by and they start sanding on the door,

how much of the door has to be gone

before you and I can connect?

Not a thin piece of balsa wood, all of it.

Once all of the door is removed,

then you and I are able to make a connection

just like the body does.

It totally reconnects

and the electricity goes through.

After everything that I'd uncovered,

I knew my teeth had to come out.

I saw a biological dentist,

and the first thing he spotted was...

So it looks like you've had some trauma with your front tooth.

Yep, that punch in the mouth.

Why was I such a sucker for a damsel in distress?

So let's have a look at the X-ray here.

And all this discoloration is where the infection is.

So we've got a deep-pocket infection up top

and that's what's been causing your health issues.

So we're gonna extract the root canal tooth,

and with a dental bur, we're gonna remove

the periodontal ligament down to the bone.

And then we'll give you a new tooth,

a zirconia tooth and we'll bridge it to either side.

So in the next three or four months, this will heal up nicely

and you'll notice a dramatic increase in your energy levels.

Yeah.

-Any questions? -No.

All right, let's do this.

Now, I don't want you to think that

as soon as you get your tooth out,

you'll wake up with boundless energy.

The damage has been done,

so you have to heal yourself and go through those things

like the parasite cleanse, liver cleanse, kidney cleanse,

colon cleanse, TMB, saunas, fasting, juicing.

Whoa! Intense journey.

But gradually, you start to feel your health returning.

Now, it's important, obviously,

if you have a root canal and you're convinced

that the information I'm talking about,

and the science behind it,

you want to get it out of your body,

you want to have it stop negatively impacting your health.

Well, you need to find a dentist

who knows what he or she is doing,

because it involves more than a simple extraction.

Removing the root canal tooth

is only the first step in the solution.

Afterwards, we have to drain the area from the bacteria

because the jawbones, they are not like a stone,

they are sponges bones,

and the bacteria and the toxins go into these bones too.

This has to be drained and treated too.

And this is where I also find ozone gas so indispensable,

because you can just punch with a very tiny needle,

you go into the area, and then you inject ozone gas,

and that gas will go off into

all the areas off this main tunnel,

all the areas where you have infection.

It's really interesting because I've had people where

we've injected down here,

and they'll feel the gas travel

all the way over to the other side,

or they'll feel it travel all the way up under the eye.

There is no way you're going to do surgery

and clean out a whole person's jawbone.

And it's interesting how,

as treatment goes on with the gas,

they feel that area where it's going off into shrinking.

This jawbone area has a very dense nerve network.

These nerves don't relay, you know?

It's not like, here, it goes to the spinal cord,

goes to somewhere else.

These nerves go right into the middle of the brain

where the regulation of the nervous system occurs.

They're called cranial nerves.

This cranial nerve is the biggest one in the body

and it goes right into there,

and this is a very delicate and protected area.

So that if someone has a chronic, smoldering infection

with biotoxin in this area,

it can affect their brain, the regulation of their brain,

their energy and lots of other things.

For example, we had a woman with so-called Hashimoto's disease,

an autoimmune problem,

and it was coming from a cytomegalovirus

from a third molar extraction site in the jawbone,

plus nickel ions from an orthodontic retaining wire.

Once those two substances were removed

from the thyroid and the sources,

the Hashimoto's totally disappeared.

So autoimmune problems are there for a reason.

The body doesn't attack itself for no reason.

There's something there that's causing that reaction.

So the doctor has to be alert to this, 'cause if he wants cures,

especially with cancer, you've got to address these.

They're big stressors on the body,

and they take a lot of immune attention.

And if the immune system's like,

"Don't let the toxin get into the brain and kill me,"

it's letting the cancer cells go here

or men in the prostate or in the colon.

You know the big ones, or in the lung,

these are the four big cancers.

Your chance for cancer

is significantly increased

and it's just spreading out of the ignorance

of the so-called specialists

that they don't want to accept this fact,

even though it's absolutely clearly proven.

So, in doing the testing of the bacteria,

we found that there are, in root canals,

53 different bacteria.

28 of them are directly involved with the health of the heart,

that they are known from the scientific literature

to create certain heart conditions.

Some of them specialize in attacking the heart valve.

Many of them cause what's called endocarditis,

inflammation of the vessels inside the heart.

And we now have studies

from the Journal of the American Dental Association

that show that, when you have one or more root canals

in your mouth, statistically speaking,

you have a greater chance of heart attack, plain and simple.

We know with increasing evidence

that the cause of coronary artery disease

is inflammation of the endothelium,

the lining of the blood vessel wall.

What we need to do in medicine, then,

is work out what is inflaming the wall of the artery

because, ultimately, what the body does

is the body tries to seal off the inflammation.

The body uses cholesterol,

it uses calcium to seal off that inflammation.

You're getting what's called a plaque,

the same plaques that we get on our teeth,

which is basically bacteria covered by a bio film

then covered by a layer of calcium,

is exactly what we're seeing in coronary arteries.

So the trick is not to try and get rid of the cholesterol,

which is going there, has been put there by the body

to protect us against the inflammation,

the trick is to try and work out

what is causing the underlying inflammation.

Dental infections are a big part of that

because of the seeding of bacteria from the mouth

straight into the bloodstream, then to the coronary arteries.

This is a process that can occur in a person

and it can be undone if it's done properly

by a doctor who knows what they are doing.

We do a test for all these organic toxins,

where we can see if the body is, so to say, impregnated

by these dental toxins, which come from the root canals.

We can measure these, we call them xenohormones,

cancerogenic substances which are organic molecules.

Once we have the basic toxic source removed from the patient,

then things like infrared sauna is good,

you'll sweat, there's nutritional agents

that we can give you

and we can tease these things out of you

and get them out.

Then our basic program is

we find out what nutrients they're missing

and we give it back to them.

Some of it's oral supplements,

some of it's done intravenously,

we do I.V. vitamin C,

we use pulse magnetic fields because,

in cells that don't make energy,

those cells don't have energy and the membrane around the cell

can't control very well what goes in and out.

If we put them in an environment

where there's a gentle pulse magnetic field,

it recharges that cell membrane.

Now that cell can detoxify itself.

In over three to six months, sometimes a little bit longer,

we can get these things out.

You can get your levels down to where they're safer

and then it can help you restore your health.

I was starting to feel great

so I went to a EAV machine operator

to make sure my energy flow was on track,

but something was off.

I found I had another blockage,

this time in one of my wisdom teeth.

I dug deeper and got a cone beam scan.

I was told it was a cavitation,

something else you really don't want.

Just my luck.

I had to get that sorted out now, as well.

Step one was actually finding out what a cavitation is.

Cavitations are basically residual infections

in the jawbone, which result from the extraction of teeth.

If the extraction site is not meticulously curetted and cleansed,

the bacteria just infiltrate into that wound and live there

for the rest of the life of the patient.

Every bone in your body is connected

to another bone by way of a ligament.

Your tooth is connected to your jawbone

by way of what we call a periodontal ligament.

If a tooth is properly pulled, when the tooth is out,

the dentist will also take out that ligament.

And if that ligament is gone, that bone will heal in

so that there is full bone

and you have a restored jawbone.

But if the doctor pulls that tooth

and doesn't take out that ligament,

that space where that tooth was

may seal over on the top and be a cavity.

So that periodontal ligament staying in the socket,

it prevents communication from the body

being able to send the osteoblast and the osteoclast

to that extraction site and fill in with healthy bone,

it become a barrier.

And it will be a place where the body, then,

will use as a storage depot for junk,

toxic junk, bacteria, funguses,

and it won't hurt.

It may not be completely visible on a regular X-ray,

but it is sitting there.

So the periodontal ligament prevents healing.

One actual study on 5,000 cavitations

left after wisdom teeth were removed,

4,999 had not healed.

Only one in 5,000 had healed.

The majority of people in the United States

and in the developed countries around the world

that have had extracted teeth for any reason

also have cavitations.

And what's inside that hole is nothing different,

and this sounds disgusting,

and it sounds like an exaggeration, but it's not,

it's the same as wet, infectious gangrene.

These cavitations in the jawbone,

they can create significant diseases,

significant neurological diseases like, for example, MS.

But that cavitation can occur from different things.

For instance, the person could have a clotting disease

or they could've had a football injury,

something that made the bone not be healthy

in that particular area.

The most common reason is that the tooth was removed

and the periodontal ligament was not taken out,

and therefore that void of where the tooth was

never did fill in appropriately with healthy bone.

The second most common reason is that the bacteria

that's in a root canal tooth

will find a microfracture

through that particular root surface

and kind of wormhole through the bone and create a void.

And so it's not uncommon

for a cavitation to occur next to a root canal.

The most common spots are the wisdom teeth.

The wisdom teeth are unique in that

there are four circuits going through it instead of just two.

It's heart, small intestine,

and the sympathetic and parasympathetic systems.

And so you see people whose adrenal glands are not working,

and it's because they have infection

where the wisdom teeth were taken out.

Because you can have infections in the bone

where your wisdom teeth were taken off for 50 years

and essentially have no pain there,

but it completely destroys your life.

When you don't have enough adrenaline,

you have trouble going to sleep,

and then you have trouble dealing with stress,

and then it gets to where you can't stand any stimulus,

so you don't like loud music, you don't like loud noises,

you can't be around a rowdy crowd,

you can't be around people who are arguing.

Now, what I just described is a person

whose life's in the toilet.

For instance, I myself

had my wisdom teeth out when I was in dental school.

About 30 years later, I developed a heart arrhythmia,

and nothing seemed to help.

I would take intravenous vitamins, I tried homeopathics.

Nothing was doing it, and all of a sudden I said,

"Wait a minute, let me check, see if I have a cavitation."

That wisdom tooth, which is on the heart meridian,

you see, was causing the problem.

If you can get a good, normal,

3-D cone beam X-ray of your jawbone,

then you do have a much higher reassurance

that you don't have this cavitation process

going on inside the jawbone as well.

And if the dentist un-roofs that

and scoops that stuff out,

and then removes that ligament,

and then that heals, that patient can get well.

One of the questions that we get is,

"Are there things I can do prior to my procedure

to increase my ability to heal properly

from a surgical procedure like a cavitation

or from a root canal removal?"

One of the biggest things that you can do

is to have proper nutrition, be eating a clean diet,

be getting enough proteins and enough vitamins and minerals.

When that tooth comes out,

you want to make sure that the socket

is cleaned out really well,

you want to remove the periodontal ligament.

If there's infection, you want to get rid of the infection,

and then you let it heal.

I like to let the body fill it in with its own natural bone.

You have to wait at least three months for that.

You want to check it and make sure that it did heal,

that you don't have cavitation.

But let's say it's healed. How do you replace the tooth?

Well, you have different options.

'Course, an option is you don't replace it, you leave it alone.

Another option is you can use something removable,

which most people don't like,

it's not very comfortable.

The other option is you can put a bridge in,

where you're bridging that space.

And there are two types of bridges:

the traditional bridge, which I don't like,

is where you have to mutilate the teeth

on either side of that space to hold the missing tooth.

And the problem with that is,

when you mutilate those teeth, you increase the odds

that those teeth could need a root canal in the future.

So I prefer to use a bonded-type bridge

where the abutment teeth, as they're called,

or the supporting teeth, have minimal preparation,

and that holds the missing tooth.

Now, the only downside with that, really,

is that it periodically will come loose

and need to be re-cemented.

Now, of course, the best option

is to take really good care of our teeth and gums

with a comprehensive dental program

so we never need a root canal,

but let's say that hasn't happened, like me,

and a lot of other people I know.

Let's say there was trauma involved

and you didn't get an option.

Can't really walk around with no front teeth,

it's not very good for business.

Am I gonna have some sort of bridge?

Am I gonna have some sort of implant?

An implant is where you're going

and you're going into the bone

and you're placing what traditionally has been

a titanium implant.

Now, today,

we have also ceramic implants.

The advantages and disadvantages-- well, with titanium,

the problem is, you're putting a metal into the bone.

Titanium itself is known as a hapten.

It means the ions in the titanium itself

can trigger autoimmune,

so if you are genetically predisposed

to something like Hashimoto's, celiac,

scleroderma, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis,

it might get turned on, and even if that implant is removed,

the trigger's already been pulled,

so now you've got problems that you didn't have.

Plus, I've got metal that is

directly going into my meridian system,

so it's like sticking a spoon in an electric socket

and bending it around and sticking it in the bottom part,

and it shorts out the whole meridian.

What we're finding is that many physicians

that are referring their patients here,

and also patients that are doing their own research,

are desiring to have no metal in their mouth.

They want to eliminate anything that could create a current,

and that's why we now have zirconia implants,

which it's more like a ceramic,

it's a complete non-metal implant

that looks the same as a titanium implant

and functions the same,

but is considered much more biocompatible

for the tissue and for the patient.

And it interferes with the body much, much less

than titanium implants.

I do not say zirconia implants are 100% good,

but they are much better,

tolerable to the body than titanium implants are.

So, good medicine would include this

and that's what we want to do, we want just the best medicine,

we want to give people things that don't hurt them

more than they help them.

Root canals are probably one of the most pernicious,

toxic, hidden influences on your health.

And if you're struggling to understand why you're so sick

and you have multiple root canals,

please examine that issue.

Now, I don't want you to think

that I have my head in the clouds

by saying that the only reason I got chronic fatigue

was because I had a root canal.

My search has led me to believe that all chronic disease

is because of a toxic overload.

These toxins come in various forms,

from as simple as toxic junk food,

to environmental toxins,

to toxic emotions.

We're now all learning about the toxic effects

of electromagnetic frequencies as well,

and we also can't rule out pathogens.

What I can say is that, until I stop the source

of my toxic root canal by having it removed,

I could never get better, no matter what I tried.

It really was the biggest piece of the jigsaw puzzle,

the root cause, so to speak.

So your dentist says you need a root canal.

Apart from running for the door, what are your options?

Firstly, if the tooth needs to be removed,

make sure you see a holistic dentist,

one who can remove the infection

and periodontal ligament properly.

Then, once the tooth is removed

and the mouth is healed,

you have three good options.

Your first option is to get a bonded ceramic bridge.

Your second option is to get a zirconia implant.

Now, 99% of dentists will recommend a titanium implant,

but that is just as bad as a root canal.

So make sure your implant is zirconia.

Then your third option is

a good, old-fashioned denture.

Keep smiling.

I've been reading this book about Gandhi.

He didn't have a lot of tooth problems like me.

Rumor was, he had dentures he slipped in and out every night,

but his words were as beautiful as his smile.

He said that, even if you're a minority of one,

the truth is still the truth.

Probably somewhere in the neighborhood

of 80 or 90% of people are sick, at least in part,

if not totally, by an infected tooth.

This can be a miracle for a patient,

this can be life-saving on a patient.

And I've got tons of patients

where this was really their problem,

and when we addressed this,

then they were actually able to get better.

My mentor, Dr. Hal Huggins,

told me 20 years ago,

"You can't dry off while you're still in the shower."

And it's a simple, but profound statement.

You can't resolve a problem

if what causes the problem is continuing to shower in

while you're trying to resolve the situation.

In today's medicine and dentistry,

we have two important things being done to our body,

but neither field interacts with the other.

If doctors did more of this,

we could actually really help a lot more people,

get a lot more people better

and do what our profession is supposed to do,

which is help to heal people up.

One in two of us are dying of heart disease,

one in two of us are dying of cancer,

we better have a strategy for both.

Make sure you take really good care of your oral hygiene

and have a program in place to make sure you minimize

the amount of pathogenic organisms in our mouths

leaking into our bloodstream.

There's another great quote,

that new knowledge is never immediately adopted.

Rather, the old knowledge dies out and the new takes it place.

So to each of you who hear this,

know that the challenge of whether this truth

reaches the world... is up to you.

Currently we have

roughly 25 million new root canal procedures

being done a year in the United States.

One of the greatest public health interventions

we could possibly do around the world

is to make it very clear the important role

that dental infections and toxins have,

and hopefully someday,

to make the root canal procedure something of the past,

because it does nothing positive

for the general health of the body at all.

I'm just one guy,

and this is my truth.

That truth has set me free.

I feel that freedom every day when I wake up.

It's in my joy, my sorrow,

my friendships.

Oh, and in case you're wondering whether I can get it up,

there's no problem there.

Uh...

I got my life back,

so I didn't want my truth to just be a minority of one.

I'm a filmmaker, and the journey I'd been on was epic,

so maybe it was meant to happen to me after all.

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