Table Of ContentProtecting the Brain: Why You Should Care About
Oral Health
Guest: Nadine Artemis
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Jonathan: Welcome to the Alzheimer’s and Dementia Summit! I’m your host
Jonathan Landsman, creator of NaturalHealth365.com. Did you know that
every three seconds someone gets diagnosed with Alzheimer’s or dementia? In
fact, Alzheimer’s is the sixth leading cause of death, kills more people than
breast and prostate cancer combined and Western medicine fails to offer a
solution.
As a health and fitness consultant for nearly 30 years, I believe Alzheimer’s
and dementia are the most misunderstood, cruelest, and costliest of all
diseases. That’s why I created this summit to help you prevent, slow down,
and reverse cognitive decline before it’s too late.
Our show today, Protecting the Brain: Why You Should Care About Oral
Health. Our guest Nadine Artemis is the creator of Living Libations, an
exquisite line of serums, elixirs, and essential oils for those seeking the purest
of the pure botanical health and beauty products on the planet. She is the
author of Holistic Dental Care: The Complete Guide to Healthy Teeth and Gums,
a frequent contributor on health and beauty for media outlets, and her
products have received rave reviews in the New York Times, National Post, and
Hollywood Reporter.
Nadine has formulated a stunning collection of rare and special botanical
compounds. An innovative aromacologist, Nadine develops immune-enhancing
formulas and medicinal blends for health and wellness. Her potent dental
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serums are used worldwide and provide the purest oral care available. Her
healing creations, along with her concept of “Renegade Beauty,” encourage
and inspire people to rethink conventional notions of beauty and wellness.
Nadine’s fresh paradigm for beauty and her natural approach to health
presents a revolutionary vision. It allows the life-force of flowers, dewdrops,
plants, the sun, and water to be the ingredients of healthy living and lets
everything unessential, contrived, and artificial fall away.
Today, we’ll focus our attention on how the health of our mouth is deeply
connected to the health of our brain. If you have mercury-based silver fillings,
oral infections, or just want to do everything you can to protect your brain,
this conversation will prove to be very valuable to you.
Please join me in welcoming Nadine Artemis to our program! Nadine, welcome!
Nadine: Hi, and thank you so much! I’m happy to be here!
Jonathan: Nadine, how exactly does oral care or oral disease, for that matter,
influence the brain or possibly contribute to Alzheimer’s disease?
Nadine: Well, current research is suggesting that oral disease does contribute
to Alzheimer’s. And the areas where there’s a link are really because of the
oral microbiome. So there was actually a really large review of more than 200
articles that examined the links between oral infections and Alzheimer’s
disease. And two researchers were in charge of the study.
One of them was the original mapper of the oral microbiome. So he mapped
out all the species in the mouth. And the other scientist has also worked
considerably on the connection between oral infections and AD. So what they
found, when they surveyed these 200 articles, is it pointed to really a potent
link between AD and microbial imbalance, microbial culprits.
And so what they found is that really having spent decades studying how oral
microorganisms could invade local tissue, so that’s the inside of our mouths,
they can break through the blood-brain barrier. And then that wreaks havoc
systemically in our bodies.
So we’ve got the links of oral microbiome with the biofilms and the pathogens.
And then we’ve also got things like root canals, which are these focal
infections that really harbor bacterial infection, and then things like mercury
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fillings. Those would be the three main areas that are showing connections
and links in science for AD.
Jonathan: There’s so many opportunities out there for dentists to be really on
the front lines and pioneers in all of this, in terms of changing the direction of
an entire nation, if they would just see their patients when they come in who
are struggling with all of these mental issues or other health problems, for
that matter—chronic fatigue, and of course, the memory issues—and would
just talk to their patients about cleaning up areas in their mouth with this
kind of importance in mind. It’s just so important.
You mentioned, Nadine, the mercury-based silver fillings. We’re talking about
millions and millions of fillings are in so many people’s mouths. Are you
concerned about them? And if so, talk to us about why.
Nadine: Yes, it is a concern. And I really feel like it’s a concern for anybody
that wants to have optimal health and optimal oral care. And with Alzheimer’s,
what was found in a study that was done by the University of Kentucky
Medical Center is that they did extensive research and they found that
mercury levels were four times higher and selenium was significantly lower in
people with AD.
And the number one cause of mercury levels in the body, high mercury levels
in the body, is silver fillings. So silver fillings have been used for over 150
years. And silver is a euphemistic word for a combination of an amalgam that
always combines silver, copper, tin, and mercury. So I have heard people say,
“Well, I don’t have mercury fillings. I have silver fillings.” And they are one in
the same.
They’ve generally been used because they were found to be economical and
durable for years. And then they also found them useful for children because
they squirm a lot when they’re getting their fillings in. But we need to know,
obviously AD is a disease of the brain. And the mouth is systemically
connected to the body.
But obviously, the mouth is very close to the brain. And what we know now
about mercury, from different studies and also from the Environmental
Protection Agency, is that it’s a cumulative toxin. It passes through the blood-
brain barrier and it tenaciously binds to tissue. It alters DNA, nerves, cell
membranes, and mitochondrial functions.
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Mercury also, on a local level in the mouth, it contributes to things like
receding gums, bleeding gums, periodontal disease. And so that also affects
the oral microbiome. So you’ve got the toxic mercury vapors that are altering
brain function and DNA. And then you’ve got the local effects of mercury that
disrupt the oral microbiome, cause receding, bleeding gums. And mercury’s a
really good food for pathogens. So it really helps the pathogens get a grip, so to
speak. So then the pathogens can grow because the mercury is providing a
food.
Dr. Hal Huggins, a dentist, who studied the effects of mercury and warned us
all about not having mercury fillings since 1963, he called them the
combination of metals, of mercury in the mouth, this marriage of metal and
microbes because he just found that microbes, the microbes that we don’t
want in our mouth, just flourish off of mercury.
Jonathan: For those who are wondering why something like this would be
going on, obviously it’s way beyond the scope of this program. But you really
do need to follow the money and the politics behind it. We’re talking about
people in the United States who run the food and drug administration.
When you hear from the top/down that something is perfectly safe, like
mercury fillings in the mouth, we know for a fact that mercury is leaking out,
the vapors going throughout the brain, throughout the rest of the body,
digestive issues that people have, nutritional deficiencies because heavy
metals in the body actually do cause a difficulty of us to absorb the nutrients
from even the highest quality food that we’re eating.
The reason why all of this goes on is because the leaders in these health
agencies come from industry, itself. And we’re talking about industry like the
people that actually produce the mercury fillings. So how would anyone in
their right mind think that these people would also say, “Hey, this stuff that
we produce really does cause a lot of harm. But why don’t we just continue in
producing it and putting it into people’s mouths.”
They’re never going to admit it. It’s a system that is completely broken, in
terms of having industry controlling the way government agencies decide what
is safe and what’s not. But again, that’s for another day.
Nadine, we should talk about the specific ingredients that people should be
concerned about in a lot of these oral care products. And the bottom line is, I
know you talk about this quite often, but I’d like to hear it from you today that
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we should be avoiding these. Can you talk about what they are?
Nadine: Yes. Absolutely. And just before we finished with mercury, I just
thought, “Oh, it’s so good to tell people then what to do with the mercury.” I
forgot. We just tell them it’s bad. And then people are stuck with them in their
mouths.
So I wanted to just say that if you go to a really good biological or holistic
dentist, they will be able to remove the mercury properly. And it’s very
important that it is done properly because it is toxic. It’s toxic in your mouth.
It’s toxic when it leaves the mouth. So you want to have the proper protocol.
And then you want to have the very good dentist replace those fillings with the
most biocompatible, gentle materials that works for you and your body.
Side note: The Journal of Dental Research, which is a dental journal, they talk
about that chewing gum increases your mercury vapor release by 1,500%.
Jonathan: Yeah. And I appreciate you warning people about taking care of
being careful about taking the mercury out of the mouth. It’s about getting a
good qualified biological dentist, no doubt about it.
So talk to us, Nadine, about some of these ingredients that we should be
absolutely avoiding in a lot of these oral-care products. What do they look
like?
Nadine: Well, it’s just that it pretty much looks like all the options when you
walk down the oral-care aisle at the drugstore, pretty much everything there
could go and are filled with really toxic chemicals. First off, just mouthwash in
the states, statistically causes 36,000 cases of oral cancer a year.
And they don’t know all the whys. But I know part of it would be because it is
basically removing the oral microbiome. So it’s stripping the mouth of
beneficial bacteria that keeps the not so good microbes in check. And there’s
also food coloring and really harsh alcohols in that. So there’s mouthwash.
There’s fluoride, which is obviously in a lot of oral care and tap water. But the
basic thing to know about fluoride is that it really appears to interfere with the
critical body chemistry and it damages gums. It disrupts collagen production.
It reduces enzyme activity. It accumulates in the body, especially in the pineal
gland. It lowers IQ and it forms deposits in the brain related to Alzheimer’s.
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And the list goes on and on. But really what’s good to know is that it stiffens
soft tissue and it makes brittle bones. So it’s doing the exact opposite of what
we want because we don’t want to interfere with the mineral absorption in our
bones. And we don’t want our soft tissues, like our skin, to go stiff.
Jonathan: For those people who want to be more active about removing
fluoride from their city water, it’s just about getting involved. Investigate this
issue yourself. But it is crazy that they put fluoride into a municipal water
supply, and basically medicate people without even diagnosing them. That’s a
crazy thing. But what other ingredients are there, Nadine?
Nadine: Then there’s things like propylene glycol, which is actually, it’s also
used in antifreeze to de-ice planes and cars. And it can irritate the skin and
the mucous membranes. There’s also the color pigments, the FD&Cs.
Triclosan, which is a bio-persistent chemical that is in an antibacterial agent.
It’s like in antibacterial soaps, as well.
And it’s basically like an antibiotic that will absolutely disturb the oral
microbiome. Then there’s things like ethanol, artificial sweeteners, detergents
and surfactants, sodium lauryl sulfate, trisodium phosphate, glycerin, and
different flavorings. And there’s hydrated silica and carrageenan.
And really the main thing to know—because again, we could talk about those
chemicals for another hour—is that all of these ingredients are really microbe
mutators. And there’s synthetic ingredients. There’s a lot of warnings on the
backs of the bottles. They call it, “The may be harmful, if swallowed category.”
These products offer the illusion of freshness. But they really are disturbing
the oral ecology and creating periodontal disease and bleeding and receding
gums.
And when we have bleeding and receding gums, we have a major chink in the
armor of our oral environment. So as soon as we have bleeding gums from
sodium lauryl sulfate or mercury, then that means the other toxins from the
oral care can get in. Or just pathogens from the mouth, those will go really
quick into the bloodstream.
And then the other thing is when we have receding gum lines, then also that
part of the tooth that’s being exposed through the gun line that’s been
receded, that part doesn’t have the same enamel. So that tooth is also going to
be weaker to decay.
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Jonathan: Nadine, a lot of people will shake their heads when they hear this.
They think, “You know, how on earth can stuff like this go on?” I usually take
a deep breath and just after all these years being in the industry, just realize
that there’s so many people, Nadine, who are trained at better living through
chemistry. They go to all the university training. They think all these
chemicals are great. They save money for the companies that are producing
them.
These people who run these companies, they’re using these products, as well.
They think everything’s great, as well. When somebody’s not feeling well, they
get sick, they run to the doctor for the pills because they feel that that’s the
reasonable thing to do. So it’s just this downward spiral always. Or I should
probably better characterize it as a completely disconnected individual from
nature.
And the reason why I’m saying all of this is because I’m so glad that someone
like you is out there working so hard every day to not only teach people about
getting connected again to nature in all the things that we do, but you’re also
busy offering these products. So instead of being frustrated with all of these
people out there and all of these companies, there’s a better way to go.
So I’d like to focus now our attention on the strategies that you like to teach
about optimizing our oral health, which is going to protect our brain for all the
days we’re alive.
Nadine: Yes. And that’s important. So the strategies that help to take care of
anyone’s teeth will really help also if somebody is feeling like they’ve got the
beginnings of AD or they’re on their way or if you’ve got a loved one with it,
how you can help take care of their teeth or maybe looking at some previous
dental history that you can clear up that really might help that person. So I
call it Stop, Seal, and Seed.
So the first step is to stop. And by that, I mean like stop things like processed
foods, sugar, and chemicals. Stop consuming those things because those are
actually inhibiting what we call the dentinal lymph system. And that’s a fluid
that comes from within the body, up into the tooth, to nourish the tooth. And
things like spiked blood sugar levels, processed foods, and chemicals can
actually stagnate and literally stop that system from working.
Another thing is to stop spikes in blood sugar levels that creates insulin
resistance. That’s good for oral care and it’s really a great thing to stop
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cascades of inflammation in the body. If you maintain blood sugar around 80,
then you are also maintaining a body that will not be going towards a path of
inflammation and disease. And it’s very good to have low blood sugar levels for
AD.
So we also want to stop mouth breathing. And mouth breathing could happen
from medications, sinuses, old cranial imbalances from other previous dental
work. And when we breathe through our mouth, for kids, that actually makes
them develop their whole jaw and mouth differently. And for adults, when we
don’t have our saliva, because if we’re mouth breathing, we dry up the saliva,
and then that can create oral imbalances in the microbiome, as well as
cavities.
We want to heal and seal leaky gut. And I’m sure you have other speakers
speaking about that. We want to eliminate gluten corn and glyphosates
because when we have leaky guts, then we’re going to have leaky gums and
leaky oral care. Guts and the intestines and the mouth are completely,
inextricably bound to each other’s optimal functioning.
We also want to stop phytic acid consumption. Phytic acid is an antinutrient
that actually plunders phosphorus from the body. Phosphorus is key for
maintaining teeth in the body. So you want to soak and ferment any gluten-
free grains and nuts to reduce this antinutrient.
And you want to remove mercury fillings. We spoke about that. And that’s
again, they’re irritating the gums. They’re leaking mercury vapors into the
body. They’re feeding pathogens. And again, a lot of the research, those 200
studies that people really looked at, and they’re like, “There’s a clear link
between oral microbiome imbalance and AD. And then stop using the
synthetic dental care products. So that’s the Stop.
Then there’s the Seal. So then you want to think of like sealing and healing
your oral environment. So that includes, not just teeth, it’s gums, it’s the
tissue inside the mouth. Because if there is bleeding, receding, and inflamed
gums, that is a definite sign of bacterial imbalance. And that’s a definite sign
that bacteria is most likely entering the bloodstream.
So you want to seal the gums with things like, that’s where we use some herbs
and botanicals. You can make serums with hobassi, buckthorn, rose otto,
frankincense, myrrh. You can use ozonated gels that you apply to the gums
and oral environment. Because now that you’ve ditched all the things from the
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drugstore to take care of your teeth, you’re going to want some quick things to
use at home.
And I’m sure everybody has sea salt and baking soda in their homes. And that
will take you so far, like so, so far. If you don’t use any commercial products,
and just use those two things, your mouth’s going to be in a way better
condition because sea salt and baking soda are like, they are alkalinizing. So
they will help to alkalinize the mouth. And then you can use those. You can
use a pinch of baking soda on your toothbrush and you can clean your gums
that way. You can just add baking soda to water and swish. And then you’re
doing a fast alkalinization of the oral environment.
Then you want to use essential oils because those are what I also call,
“botanical biotics.” And they will help to heal the gums. And what’s really neat
about botanical biotics, and this is really key for Alzheimer’s, is that they
contain something called quorum sensing inhibitors. And that is what
researchers are looking for all over the planet right now. They’re finding out
what are the best QSIs, the best quorum sensing inhibitors.
And as it turns out, essential oils, ones that have been traditionally used for
oral care for 1,000 of years, ones like rose, frankincense, thyme, peppermint,
tea tree, clove, cinnamon, neem, they all act like botanical biotics. I call them
that, instead of antibiotics because what they do is they clean up the
periodontal pathogens. They’re able to bust through biofilms. They’re able to
clean up streptococcus mutans, all while having a good relationship to the
beneficial bacteria. So they’re one of the number one things to do to heal the
gums and to stop bleeding and to rebalance the oral microbiome.
Then, the next step is Seed. So with so many things making our microbes
extinct, from cesarean birth to pesticides to antibiotics, we really need to build
what I like to think of as our bacterial bank account. And we want to fund it
with diverse investments of flora.
Many studies show that common probiotics that are easily available, if we
swish them in the mouth and if we take them daily, the ones like lactobacilli,
fermentum lactobacillus plantarum, casei, reuteri, rhamnosus, along with the
bifidobacterium family, they all showed in studies that they’re able to go into
the saliva and benefit the mouth. They’re able to inhibit the proliferation of
oral pathogens. And they’re able to reduce plaque and bacteria.
So what researchers are now doing, too, is they’re doing something called,
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“guided pocket recolonization.” And they’re just syringing probiotics into the
gum line. And the thing is that’s easy to do at home. In our dental kit, we have
this thing called, it’s a blunt-ended syringe, it’s a blunt-tip syringe, so it’s a
syringe with a blunt tip, not sharp.
You mix your botanical biotics, a capful of a probiotic in a little shot glass of
water. You pull that up into the syringe. And then you can guide that and
squirt that in between your teeth and along the gum line. And they’ve had a
lot of successful experiments with that. It helps to increase the probiotic
presence in your saliva, in your GI tract, and in the mouth’s microbiome. So
that’s reseeding. So you want to Stop, Seal, and Seed.
Jonathan: Nadine, that’s such a fantastic strategy. I find a lot of times when
people get overwhelmed with this information, just the first part alone—just to
get your comment for a moment—of stopping some of these things that cause
tremendous stress on the body and destruction in one way or another, just by
stopping, your first part of your strategy, it’s amazing how strong, the body
wants to be healthy and actually goes towards healing alone from just getting
away from the things that are hurting you all the time. Right?
Nadine: Yeah. We just have to get out of the way.
Jonathan: So you’ve mentioned several times botanical biotics. What exactly
do you mean by that term?
Nadine: So, to me, that’s like a life-giving because biotic means life. And so
there’s a botanical, as in plant extracts or plants that can give life. And then
you’ve got a probiotic, which is also meaning for life. And then the antithesis
being the antibiotic, the against life.
And the reason why there is so much incredible research right now, or one of
the reasons why, is there’s so much incredible research about the human
microbiome. And a huge part of the human microbiome is the oral
microbiome. And the whole world is really needing to find alternative surfaces
to antibiotics.
And so what’s really neat is that the research, because they’re trying to find
alternatives to antibiotics and they’re trying to find quorum sensing inhibitors,
that there’s just a ton of amazing research where these areas are intersecting,
which is essential oils and the human microbiome. So botanical biotics, to me,
are such a good solution because we’re able to clean up the pathogens, clean
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