Top Tips For Strong Healthy Teeth: Tongue Scraping, Jaw Strengthening, Reversing Cavities, And More With Dr. Dominik Nischwitz

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What dental care practices are helpful and which are overly hyped?

Is it a good idea to use oral exercise devices? What about tongue scraping and flossing? What should we look out for when it comes to toothpaste and mouthwash?

Dr. Dominik Nischwitz, author of It’s All in Your Mouth, highlights what is best for strong healthy teeth and a beautiful smile. He separates fact from fiction. He goes over how to cultivate a healthy oral microbiome and he also addresses the issue of “leaky gums”. And he leaves us with three key questions to ask ourselves to help determine if our health concerns could be related to oral health.

 

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Episode Transcript

Within the below transcript the bolded text is Hilda Labrada Gore and the regular text is Dr. Dominik Nischwitz.

Is it possible to reverse cavities? What toothbrush is the best to use? Is flossing honestly a good practice to adopt? What about tongue scraping? We’ve got lots of questions about the best ways to strengthen our teeth and have a beautiful, healthy smile. This is episode 519, and our guest is Dr. Dominik Nischwitz, also known as Dr. Dome.

Dr. Dome is an international speaker and the author of It’s All In Your Mouth. In this episode, he offers us insights and distinguishes between myths and reality when it comes to building healthy teeth. He explains the role of nutrition and exactly what minerals we need to build our teeth and strengthen them. He reviews the problem with most toothpaste and conventional mouthwash and weighs in on a popular oral care recommendation like tongue scraping, chewing gum, or oral exercises.

He also explains the connection between the entire body and the health of the mouth. He points out that conditions such as Parkinson’s disease, arthritis, Alzheimer’s, and even neurological issues are related to the microbiome in the mouth. You thought I was going to say the gut, right? He also goes over the issue of leaky gums and the three key questions we should ask to determine if health concerns could be related to our oral health.

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Welcome to the show, Dom.

Thank you for having me. It’s my pleasure.

I know you know about the work of Dr. Price. Did you know, though, that when he traveled the world, he found people with amazing teeth, great dental health, hardly any cavities, crowding, no infections, and all this, but they also didn’t brush their teeth? I want to talk to you about oral care strategy. Is brushing important, for example?

Yeah. In this world, brushing is still important because we don’t have the lifestyle that Weston Price encountered with all these Indigenous people. There’s not one keynote I missed mentioning him because his book Nutrition and Physical Degeneration also changed my life. Hopefully, in the future, people will learn about all that again and go back to nature because, in nature, there is no tooth decay. There’s space for all the teeth. There is no mouth breathing. It’s all perfectly healthy like he found out. Unfortunately, now, it’s not the case.

Dom, how did you come across the work of Dr. Price? Remind me.

I’m very much interested in nutrition anyway and designed my own protocols. He is one of the legends, I would say. I would maybe call him the first biological dentist. How I came across him was when I did all the research about the root canals and also went holistically and looked in every corner or every rabbit hole. I found Hal Huggins and great books.

Weston Price was mentioned because he did these rabbit studies with root canals because he was one of the first to hypothesize that maybe root canals make his patients chronically sick. Therefore, he removed all the root canals and placed them on the rabbits, and then the rabbits had the same symptoms as the patient. In heart disease, it was 100% the same. Otherwise, it was 80%. He did that for 20 to 30 years. Since I’m very much into nutrition myself, this was the next thing.

I remember that study with the rabbits. Basically, he gave them the root canals.

He extracted and implanted.

 

They started suffering, as you’re suggesting.

Root canals are one of the most controversial topics. Conventional dentistry is standard care. It’s a pain treatment and also a fine art. Weston Price already saw it many years ago. These root canals are usually chronically infected. They’re usually some sort of a trigger to harbor bacteria. He couldn’t see it because he didn’t have electro microscopes, but nowadays, we have all the studies to back up what he was witnessing. He did that with thousands of rabbits in the 30 years that he did it. He had a lot of data. Unfortunately, it didn’t make it to mainstream dentistry.

I wonder why.

Endodontists are the ones that are specializing in root canals. A root canal is one of the number one treatments in dentistry. Already, back then, when he did all his studies, there were so many performances. There are 60 million root canals a year in the US. Back then, it was already 6 to 10. It was a big business.

Role Of Nutrition In Oral Health

I want to do a deeper dive into that, cavitations, and other oral health killers in part two of the episode. In part one, I want to do a simple overview having to do with our current oral care practices and strategies and what we’re overlooking. For example, talk to us about the role of nutrition.

In my opinion, brushing comes second. Nutrition comes first. If you are perfectly healthy and your diet is ideal, then you don’t even need to brush because if you eat real food, the real food will clean your teeth. Imagine you drink Coke or you have white bread or any sort of processed food. Within a minute, you have that fur on your teeth, which is a biofilm. If you eat an apple, a raw carrot, or even meat, you don’t have a biofilm afterward. It’s clean. Your teeth are clean. If you eat the right foods, those will clean your teeth as well as help your oral microbiome, which is huge to strive and help your gums.

Tooth Decay As The Most Prevalent Chronic Disease

In nature, there is no gum bleeding or tooth decay. Teeth are naturally hard as stone. In this world we’re living in, at least in the Weston world, the most prevalent chronic disease worldwide is tooth decay. We’re getting soft teeth. This is mainly due to the processed foods we’re eating and the nutritional deficiencies. If you solved that bit, you probably won’t even need to brush, but we are not there yet.

Can you repeat that statistic? Did you say that tooth disease is the most prevalent disease in the world?

It is the number one chronic disease with 90% incidence seen worldwide.

Tooth decay?

Yeah, tooth decay, like soft teeth, cavities, and also gum disease. This is insane, I find. The WHO or the World Health Organization even states that 70% of all chronic diseases somewhat start in the mouth, but they only look into their normal dental diseases, which are tooth decay, gingivitis, gum bleeding, and periodontitis. They don’t look into dental repair, which is part two later.

What you’re saying is they look and see infections, decay, and other issues and believe perhaps that it’s isolated to the mouth when in actuality, what’s happening in the mouth is a mirror of what’s happening in the body.

Mouth-Body Connection

The mouth is the entrance to your body. Within the complete five years of dental school, you learn nothing about a mouth-body connection. It’s all about repairing teeth for biting and maybe for aesthetics. This was many years ago when I studied it. That curriculum hasn’t changed ever since. When I realized that there is a mouth-body connection, that the mouth is part of the body as the entrance, like the entrance hall to the hotel, then I started to change the game and challenge it. I find that it’s so important that people understand. Dentists, medical doctors, and everyone out there should understand that this one is part of your body. If you have tooth decay or any oral disease, it will also show that the rest of the body is not in the perfect state. Cleanse the mouth and you’ll see it.

That’s so fascinating. Dr. Price said the teeth tell the tail. Even back in his day, many years ago, he understood this connection.

If you support your body with the right nutrients, your teeth become as hard as stone — as hard as granite.

Traditional Diets Vs. Modern Nutrition And Oral Health

He was one of the firsts. He understood the perfect connection because he visited the Aborigines, the Swiss Alps, and the Africans to see how Indigenous people eat and live and how their bodies were represented in their world. They had perfect 32 teeth, space, nose breathing, no gum disease, nothing, but their children, which already had contact with the new processed foods like flour, sugar, or refined oils, looked like little monsters having crowded teeth, mouth breathing, gingivitis, tooth decay, and k  periodontitis. This is what our teenagers look like. This is the teeth evolution that we’re living in.

When we go to the dentist, they tell us, “Make sure to brush and floss. Make sure your kids brush and floss,” but there’s no mention of nutrition. Can we prevent cavities with a nutrient-dense diet?

Yes, 100%. I have no tooth decay. I brush my teeth once a day. Your teeth are in the saliva. Your saliva is an electrolyte. The teeth, because of eating and drinking acidic stuff, are constantly in a state of re and demineralization. If you support your body with the right nutrients, the teeth are hard as stone. They’re hard as granite. Those are the minerals that you’re eating. This is depending on your Vitamin D3 and Vitamin K2, lots of macro and micronutrients. If they are supported, then your body knows how to make hard teeth. On the contrary, if you have soft teeth, you’re lacking nutrients and therefore, you’re getting soft teeth. You’re not remineralizing your teeth properly.

How can we remineralize our teeth properly?

Oral Microbiome And Diet’s Impact On Dental Health

First of all, pay attention to all the acidic foods. We have an oral microbiome. It’s the second largest microbiome in the whole body right next to the gut microbiome as well as skin microbiome. All our body openings have a microbiome. There are up to 700 different species that they found in the oral microbiome, and you swallow about 140 billion of them a day. 50% of your gut microbiome comes from the mouth. This microbiome is super diversified and dependent on the substrate you eat.

There are a few pathogenic bacteria, at least in the dental world like Streptococcus mutans and Porphyromonas gingivalis, that love the standard Western diet. They strive in it. If you eat a lot of sugar or processed foods, they use it, eat it, metabolize it, and produce acidity. With that acidity and the biofilm or fur on your teeth, they’re able to knock your teeth down.

If you support the oral microbiome with more paleo-ish nutrition, the stuff that Weston Price was talking about, or the way we ate years before we became agricultural, it supports the good bacteria and is not as acidic. It also supports you with more micronutrients. Real food is full of nutrients from macro to micro. Those are the building blocks for your whole body. You are more in a state of anabolism instead of catabolism.

It also has a lot of connection to the pH in your mouth, like how high it is. Usually, it should be around 7 or 7.5, but it goes down to 4 or 5, depending on what you eat. If you drink a lot of juices, for example, or soda, they’re quite acidic, roundabout 3.5. It goes lower. The more you do this, the more you demineralize your teeth. I’m saying that if you eat real foods and drink water the way we’re supposed to, your teeth will never have tooth decay. You’ll never need to see a dentist.

This is so fascinating, but I have to stop you right there. Even those of us with good oral hygiene and the right diet we’re told to go see the dentist to get all the plaque removed. I’ve always wondered. Should we be doing that? What do you think?

We’re probably never going to be perfect. All of us want to maybe eat a pizza from here and there. Maybe some do 80/20. I am more like a 95% real food guy and maybe 5%, I would also eat something else. Oral hygiene is quite important. I’m saying that it is not the number one. There are newer studies showing where they had a controlled group eating the standard Western diet and the other group eating a paleo diet. Within one month, there was a 100% reduction in inflammation, etc., by changing the food. They even hypothesized that food comes first. Food is your medicine and brushing is second. I would still say to brush your teeth at least once or twice a day and also use clean toothpaste. Don’t put any chemicals in your mouth because they also disrupt the microbiome.

Dangers Of Conventional Toothpaste And Fluoride

Let’s go there since you brought that up. I noticed on your Instagram account that you were saying to avoid the toothpastes that are supposed to be whitening and brightening the smile, the conventional ones anyway. Why should we avoid those?

The conventional oral healthcare strategy is always about fluoride. It’s all about disinfecting the microbiome. The germ theory is still there. By putting something disinfectant in your mouth, you kill those bad bugs, but the bad bugs are not bad. They’re overrepresented because you feed them the good stuff they love, all the crap. The other ones that would balance it out are underfed.

Therefore, the Band-Aid we designed in dentistry is to give you chemicals in order to balance it out. In this case, it’s not balancing. It’s more like nuking it every single day. This is what we’re all taught in dentistry. We’re getting brainwashed that fluoride is number one for giving you hard teeth. We also know in dentistry that too much fluoride will make your teeth yellow and have a moth-like structure called dental fluorosis.

What fluoride does is when it demineralizes, they then pack this fluoride into your teeth and make it a little bit harder and more brittle. It’s a protection strategy against the wrong lifestyle. However, the fluoride we’re using is sodium fluoride. Sodium fluoride is a complete chemical that’s soluble. There are lots of studies showing that it’s connected to lower IQ in kids and even connected to thyroid issues, hormonal imbalances, and gut issues. To be on the safe side, I wouldn’t use it. A biodentist is usually team no fluoride. There are also healthy alternatives like hydroxyapatite.

 

There are other chemicals in toothpaste. If you go to any supermarket worldwide and check the oral care section, it’s all the same. It’s copy-paste. You won’t find anything clean. It is all the Colgates and all the Oral-Bs, the normal brands that didn’t change over the years. They contain not just fluoride but also contain sodium lauryl sulfate, which is a detergent.

They contain triclosan, which is an antimicrobial. They contain titanium dioxide to make them white. They contain a lot of sorbitol, sweeteners, and stuff to mask the chemical taste. Tooth decay or gum bleeding is not a chemical deficiency. It is a lifestyle issue. It is a nutritional deficiency. Therefore, in biodentistry, you will use toothpaste that you can eat that is completely clean and natural. That’s possible.

What’s interesting is the conventional toothpaste you were mentioning often has the warning, Do Not Swallow. Somehow, they suspect these chemicals are good for the teeth but not good for the body. That doesn’t sound too wise.

Also, for kids, for example, sometimes, they even need toothpaste because it tastes quite sweet. You never know how much there is. Even though you’re supposed to spit it out, your gum will absorb a lot of it because it’s like every skin. This is a cell and there’s a cell wall. In the cell wall, usually, the soluble chemicals go in there. It’s not that you have it in your mouth, which is outside body. The entrance to the gut system is where your digestion starts. It’s the entrance to that tube that goes from the mouth to the back door. In between is your whole gut system.

The Truth About Teeth Whitening

Going back to the white teeth, which a lot of us want, what do you think of charcoal? I know some of the cleaner toothpaste options I’ve seen out there have charcoal for whitening.

It depends. You have to see how abrasive those are. You can usually find the abrasive score. How much does this toothpaste file down the hard part of your tooth, which is the enamel? How much is it? Sometimes, even the charcoal ones are a little bit too abrasive. Avoid all the tooth whitening toothpaste. Usually, to whiten the teeth, there’s a micro grip tape that files down the tooth, which makes the tooth weaker and, in the long run, more yellow because below that white pearly stuff is a yellow dentin. You don’t want to file down your teeth. You want to have your teeth clean. It’s fine. I get the vanity, but if you want to have your teeth bleached, go to see a dentist in this case. They can do this without hurting the enamel.

I have seen commercials for conventional toothpaste saying, “Have you done the napkin test?” At least this is an ad they run in the US. They have someone holding up a piece of tissue or a napkin, comparing that bright white napkin with teeth. That’s a false paradigm to promote to people that your teeth should be as white as a bright napkin.

They shouldn’t. This is all dependent. You have the pearly Hollywood whites, but they’re too white. If you see them in real life, it’s unnatural. In Europe, this is not the right aesthetic. We go for natural aesthetics. It’s good to have white teeth, don’t get me wrong, but your teeth are naturally whiter. Your teeth are like a crystal. A crystal is different minerals in a structure. The more minerals you have, the more brighter the tooth will appear because light plays with it.

If you drink a lot of red wine, coffee, tea, or even green tea, or eat your cumin or turmeric, they will naturally have this color a little bit. This is when you go see a dentist once or twice a year for professional cleaning and hygiene. That’s still recommended because we are not living ideally. That’s a good investment. If you have perfect teeth and had no dental repair done, maybe once a year is enough. If you had any previous dental work done, I would say at least twice a year, maybe even three times, because dental repair often leaves you with air spaces for bacteria and it’s harder to clean on your own.

Reversing Cavities With Nutrition

I want to go back to one of the most challenging ideas I’ve heard of even in biological dentistry. It’s the idea that we can reverse cavities. What do you think? Is that possible?

It is possible, depending on the size of the cavity. Tooth decay always starts with initial decay, which is a little tiny demineralization in the hard part of the tooth, the enamel. This is outside tooth. As long as the decay stays in the enamel, you can easily reverse it by getting enough nutrients in your body, especially minerals and one crucial vitamin, which is a hormone called Vitamin D3, the sunlight. The sunlight hormone helps you bring calcium from the bloodstream directly into your bones and teeth.

Initial tooth decay is like osteoporosis of your teeth, a lack of nutrients. Unfortunately, we’re not trained to think this way in dentistry. Therefore, we usually use the drill or maybe monitor it. If you find it and you tell the patient the right strategy on how to remineralize and how to use nutrients to build teeth, you can completely make it hard again and stop decay.

That is so hopeful. I’m thinking about what you said. Tooth decay is like osteoporosis in the teeth.

Everyone has osteoporosis. It’s the same thing as osteoporosis in the medical world. You cannot treat it. You give them some stuff. Maybe they even get it through intravenous or oral. The only thing that stuff does is show an X-ray that looks denser. It’s not building bone versus there’s perfect biochemical bone healing science.

It’s good to have white teeth, but your teeth are not naturally pure white — they are like crystals. A crystal is made up of different minerals in a structure. The more minerals your teeth have, the brighter they will appear because light reflects off them.

That’s one of my specialties because I’ve created a bone healing protocol. It depends on the sunlight and minerals. Vitamin D3, Vitamin K2, magnesium, zinc, boron, activated B vitamins, and lots of protein will build teeth as it builds other tissues in your body. You have to be anabolic in a state of healing instead of always catabolic in a state of deficiency. It is super simple. Your body knows we are not the healers here.

Jaw Development And The Importance Of Breastfeeding

I agree with that. It was James Nestor, who wrote Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, who says that our jawline and our teeth are not as strong because we’re chewing soft foods. Sally Fallon Morrell, the President of the Weston A. Price Foundation, believes it doesn’t have to do with how hard or soft the food is. It has to do with almost how much nutrition the parents get when the baby is in utero. What do you think?

I think it’s a combination. The most critical thing you mentioned is that the babies get enough nutrients from the moms. That’s why we always prepare our future parents and moms for pregnancy. Also, it depends on breastfeeding and all the substrate you give your baby or your kid growing up. If you start with breastfeeding, it’s the ideal scenario, especially if you produce amazing cream because you eat great foods.

There are studies showing that the breast milk of average women, if they don’t prepare or anything, is oftentimes quite toxic because of the environment being super toxic. Therefore, it is not the best strategy to feed a baby. In nature, if everything’s healthy and you prepare well, breastfeeding gives you the right nutrients and helps the oral microbiome of the baby to grow.

Breastfeeding also is the perfect initial orthodontic treatment because, sucking on a breast, your baby needs a lot of strength. This will pull the jawline forward, making you stronger and have more space for later. At the same time, the baby always breathes through the nose. Otherwise, it’s not possible because the mouth is full with the nipple. Breathing through the nose will help to develop the meek phase and the palate. If you do this for eighteen months or even more, it’s an amazing start for your baby.

I hadn’t thought of it like that before. Do you recommend those chewing exercises that people do? They can buy this little cube I’ve heard or certain gum that they can chew all day long to strengthen their jaw muscles. Is that a helpful technique or not?

Chewing harder food is important for the jawline and the muscles around it. I wouldn’t say that you have to do this all day long. If you eat 3 to 4 times a day and have harder foods, not just smoothies, then you’re probably good to go. If you know that you only drink smoothies or eat rice and soft food, then maybe chew a little bit more on chewing gum or even on these devices.

What about flossing? Is that as important as we’ve been told?

I’m personally not a big fan of flossing. This is coming from a super healthy idea of having perfect teeth. If you have naturally healthy teeth, no tooth decay, and never had any dental repair done and don’t have any bleeding gums because that’s how it’s supposed to be, then you don’t need to floss because your teeth are very tight together. The gum goes in between and it doesn’t bleed. This is what I always see for me personally. If I would use floss, it’s quite hard to get it through because these teeth are so tight. It snaps through and then oftentimes creates micro ruptures because you can cut yourself with that floss if you’re not gentle enough. You open it up and then get leaky gum from flossing.

However, 80% of all people have dental repairs done or even more and have bleeding gums. Flossing in these cases is a solid strategy because they have a lot of food in between the teeth. They eat the wrong foods. Biofilm in between the teeth is the start for all the tooth decay. If they had a dental repair done, there is too much space, and the wrong nutrition, then flossing may still be a good Band-Aid.

I personally don’t use floss, and I don’t need to. I do not have anything stuck in between them. Unless sometimes there’s a piece of meat stuck in my teeth, then I will use a floss. In my opinion, the better strategy for everyone is probably using a water pick because it is gentler. You cannot hurt your gums with it.

You have to understand that your gums are outside body, like your skin. It’s a protective barrier. This should be super tight on your teeth. Bleeding gums are to be avoided. I call it leaky gum. You know leaky gut. It’s the same thing. It creates openings for all those bacteria to jump into your system because below the gum is your bone and the bone inside the body. From there, the oral microbiome can transfer everywhere.

If you have bleeding gums or periodontitis, the opening of the gums in your mouth, what we find is oral pathogens even in the brain, causing activation of the microglial cells, neuroinflammation, and oral pathogens in your joints. Porphyromonas, for example, is very much connected to rheumatoid arthritis. It’s an oral pathogen, but it’s found in the joints. Why? It’s because you have leaky gum. Your gums are a protective barrier. The oral microbiome is super important and should never bleed.

If you do bleed, that’s probably a sign that you’re having some kind of nutrient deficiency.

The oral microbiome is super important and should never bleed. If you do bleed, it’s probably a sign of a nutrient deficiency.

First of all, it’s a sign of inflammation. It’s usually oxidative stress or nutritional deficiency. The number one for gums is always antioxidants like vitamin C and Omega-3 fish oils because those are both highly anti-inflammatory. Collagen is also good because 50% of your body is collagen. The gum contains a lot of collagen.

Tongue Scraping And Oral Microbiome

I love that we’re Rapid-fire, hitting all of these strategies and debunking some myths. What about tongue scraping? I know that it has a strong Ayurvedic tradition. Do you recommend tongue scraping? If so, why? You said earlier not all bacteria are bad.

I’m a big fan of tongue scraping because it’s super fast. You need 5 to 10 seconds in the morning. Overnight, you store a little bit more bacteria in the ground of the tongue where it comes out of your throat and also food debris. By scraping it, you remove this biofilm. Another niche in your oral microbiome would be the tongue.

If there’s a lot of food stuck, it’s also connected to bad breath. Tongue brushing helps against bad breath. If you do that for a couple of days, you will see there’s no more fur on your tongue. It’s always pinkish, light, and not white or coated anymore. It’s a solid strategy. The only thing is consistency is key. You need to do it. If you implement it as a strategy or as a habit, it doesn’t take longer than ten seconds.

What about the toothbrush we use? I have debated over the years. I like natural things, so I’m like, “Maybe bamboo is good.” I want to get all the plaque and all the issues, so then I think an electric toothbrush is better. I’m not sure. What’s your recommendation there?

It doesn’t matter if you manually clean your teeth or if you use an electric one. I have both. Electric ones are a bit more foolproof because you hold them on your tooth and they will be clean. If you do it manually, try to find a very soft brush. What people often do is they brush hard. You should gently do this. Doing scraping movements will also file down the enamel over time if you use a hard brush. Therefore, a soft brush is usually better. You can also use a towel to clean your teeth because it’s all about getting rid of that biofilm. If it’s bamboo, more natural is always better. Keep in mind, a soft brush.

Can you tell me a story of a client or patient you saw who made a shift in how it benefited maybe their oral health but also their physical health?

Patient Success Story — Brad’s Health Transformation

Yeah. All my patients fly in from all over the world to optimize their overall health by starting in the mouth. Every single one of them has some sort of chronic health issue. It is always connected to what’s in your mouth. The one that pops up is Brad. He’s from the US. He went to see a lot of good integrative medical doctors. He always had high rheumatoid arthritic factors in his blood and no one ever could find a strategy to solve that problem. Nutritional changes didn’t work. Microbiota didn’t work.

He tried everything until someone pointed out oral interference or problems in the mouth. He then contacted us. He had a couple of root canals, a couple of cavitations, and a couple of metals. He flew in like they always do for one week of health optimization and we took care of all of it. On the next day, he gave me a testimony and said, “No one will ever believe this, but my joint problems are gone.”

He did a lot of oral microbiome testing even before he saw me, and then he did it again three weeks after our surgery after removing the root canals. He usually had very high readings of porphyromonas gingivalis germ or pathogen. That is connected to rheumatoid arthritis. After our treatment, only three weeks later, he had no more porphyromonas. It was completely eradicated and his rheumatoid factors went down by 30%. His feelings are more important than the data. His feeling on day one after surgery was that his joint problems were gone.

I could tell you thousands of patient cases, from mental health issues to chronic health issues and neurological problems like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. They all at least have a connection to the mouth. I always say, especially in a world of biohacking or health optimization, that if you are already doing everything, having an ideal nutrition lifestyle and perfect oral hygiene, tracking your sleep, going to the hyperbaric, doing IVs, or whatever comes to mind but you’re still not feeling superhuman, then it is time to look into your mouth. Maybe you’ll find 1 of the 3 health killers that are lurking there that you don’t even know about.

I can’t wait to get into that in the next episode with you, which is what those killers might be. Have you ever come across anyone who was too far gone, maybe who had a mouth full of amalgam or silver fillings full of mercury or who had had too many root canals? Is it ever too late for someone to address oral health issues that might be connected to their physical health?

No, it’s never too late. Several years ago, most of my patients were super sick patients. They were very chronically ill, from cancer to neurological problems. They had ALS, MS, and all these issues. They needed to get their mouth fixed and zero inflammation in order to start their health journey. They were transferred by a lot of integrative medical doctors worldwide. Nowadays, I have more patients like myself who want to optimize, and I know there is more.

Three Key Questions to Assess Oral Health

It is never too late. It’s one of the best investments to make that mouth natural again. The only thing you cannot biohack your way around is dental repair. This is why I always ask three questions on every show, every keynote, or everywhere that you could straightaway ask yourself. Are there any metals in your mouth? Have you ever had a root canal treatment? Number three, did they pull your wisdom teeth? Usually, 90% of the audience is standing and is baffled that there might be something they have overlooked. For me, it’s key to empower the many out there to understand that optimal health starts in the mouth and it’s never too late.

 

That’s such good news. I, like you, like to bring the good news. I want to ask you this question of encouragement to the reader. If they could do one thing to improve their health, what would you recommend that they do?

I would focus on my nutrition and fix that. Food is medicine. If you get this bit sorted, you have 80% covered with your lifestyle.

Those are beautiful words to end on. Thank you so much for your time. I look forward to talking to you again.

Thanks for having me.

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Our guest was Dr. Dominik Nischwitz. You can visit his website, Dr. Dominik Nischwitz, to learn more. You can find me at Holistic Hilda. Here is a review from Apple Podcasts. Yoddleupyoyo says this, “I started listening a little over a year ago and made it my goal to listen to every single podcast after the first one. 488 podcasts and lots of hours later, I hit that goal easily. I’m happy that my view of the world and my goals have changed drastically. I love your variety of guests and topics. I will always be a listener and sharer of the show.”

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About Dominik Nischwitz

Dr. Dominik Nischwitz is the Vice President of the International Society for Metal Free Implantology, whose mission is to help as many people as possible to experience optimum oral health without the use of yester-year metal-based treatments. Dr Dome is an international speaker and Author of “its all in your mouth”, with the goal of establishing biological dentistry as the new standard for health optimisation protocols for all health practitioners and dentists alike using the term “health starts in your mouth”

Dr. Nischwitz has exclusively used ceramic implants since 2013, placing more than 5000 to date, and is considered a pioneer in the field of biological and holistic dentistry. His other passions include functional medicine, holistic nutrition, and competitive sports. Dr. Dome trains traditional dentists in proper biological dentistry practices, and believes that optimal health starts in the mouth.

 

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