Showing posts with label Dr. Carolyn Dean. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dr. Carolyn Dean. Show all posts

Friday, July 5, 2024

DR. CAROLYN DEAN, M.D., ND: Our high-calcium [cheesy] diet and tendency to take calcium supplements make getting enough magnesium almost impossible.

A 2015 study confirms that magnesium has a major role in dissolving calcium crystals in calcified arteries. All muscle cells including those of the heart & of the smooth muscles lining the blood vessels, contain more magnesium than calcium. If magnesium is deficient calcium floods into the smooth muscle cells of blood vessels and causes spasms, leading to constricted blood vessels and therefore higher blood pressure, arterial spasm, angina, and heart attack. A proper balance of magnesium to calcium can prevent these symptoms. Calcium excess stimulating the cells in the muscular layer of the temporal arteries (located over the temples) can cause migraine headaches. Excess calcium can constrict the smooth muscle surrounding the small airways of the lungs, causing restricted breathing and asthma. Finally… too much calcium, without the protective effect of magnesium can irritate delicate nerve cells of the brain. Cells that are irritated by calcium fire electrical impulses repeatedly, depleting their energy stores and causing cell death (DR. CAROLYN DEAN, MD, ND)

"Understanding Magnesium," Dr. Carolyn Dean, 2023.

"Magnesium and Longevity," Dr. Carolyn Dean, 2023.

"Magnesium and Heart Health: What You Need to Know," Dr. Carolyn Dean, 2023.

In "Are You Taking Too Much Calcium," Dr. Dean writes,

During one of my radio shows where the topic was magnesium and osteoporosis, I shared the following:

Did you know that there are approximately seventeen nutrients essential for healthy bones, including magnesium, the most important mineral, along with calcium? Susan Brown, Ph.D., Director of the Osteoporosis Education Project in Syracuse, New York, [be sure to check out her videos] warns that “the use of calcium supplementation in the face of magnesium deficiency can lead to a deposition of calcium in the soft tissue such as the joints, promoting arthritis, or in the kidney, contributing to kidney stones.” Dr. Brown recommends a daily dose of 450 mg of magnesium for the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis.

To meet Dr. Brown’s “requirement” for 17 nutrients, I recommend, picometer liquid magnesium [ why this type?  For greatest absorption], calcium in the diet, a picometer liquid multiple mineral, food-based vitamins, ¼ tsp of a good colorful sea salt in each liter of your drinking water. 

Further, Dr. Dean's point on the calcium/magnesium conflict provides excellent insight, 

Calcium and magnesium are antagonists, and this antagonism drives many functions of the body. For example, calcium contracts muscles; whereas, magnesium relaxes muscles. Magnesium helps reduce blood clots; whereas, calcium helps with blood clotting. Calcium may contribute to inflammation according to several studies; magnesium is a natural anti-inflammatory. This opposition helps the heart to beat, contributes to blood circulation, and allows us to move our bodies. 

Do you want to be precise on your calcium intake?  Try the app, Cronometer.

To discover how much calcium is in the food you eat, begin with the Cronometer, an app that helps you add up the nutrients in your diet to see if you are getting the 600mg of calcium you require.

Got questions about magnesium?  Go ahead and ask: questions@drcarolyndean.com.  You can also call: 888-577-3703. 

Wednesday, April 20, 2022

Fluoride literally turns the pineal gland to stone

Sometimes I really don't know which way to turn.  Some say fluoride is bad for you but they fail to identify what to use in its place to keep your teeth hard and keep more of them in your mouth. 

At least MD and ND, Dr. Carolyn Dean spells out the problems with fluoride as opposed to way too many pseudo-health writers who come up short on a true understanding of the best nutrients for dental health.  Too many narcissists on Twitter rely on poetic memes and clever phrases but leave you absolutely empty-handed and empty headed with zero recommendations.  It's like they've become gurus by way of memes.  Healthbot, however, is not one of these.  He's quite good.  His tweets are sharp and to he point and incontrovertible. 

I like Healthbot @healthbot.  He tweets out some basic facts that we all need to heed and get back to.  

Like this.

That's good intel.  It's Twitter intel and we all understand that it has limited value.  But it is better than nothing.  It's a start for deeper understanding.  

But when it comes to tweets on fluoride, all that we get is that same old demonizing narrative, perhaps well deserved, about fluoride hazards and how the chemical is a neurotoxin, how it leads to dementia, and a host of other ailments, but he leaves us wanting for alternatives to fluoride that would harden our teeth, fortify and preserve tooth pulp, gums, and other anatomical structures of our smile and bite.  

Yeah, this ain't good.

So good info. on fluoride.  In fact,  of all the folks or any of the folks who delineate the hazards of fluoride, Healthbot may be the best.  Hard to ignore the value of that service.

But no word on how to keep more healthy teeth in your mouth.  No word on how to prevent teeth from cracking, and so forth.  I get it.  He's not a dentist. But nor can dentists provide insights for you either, except to have you schedule another appointment two weeks from now.  

Nutritional researcher, Bill Sardi, has written in how vitamin D hardens tooth enamel and how far-soluble vitamin A restores tooth pulp.  So there.  You've got two items that you didn't have before that can be effective.  To what degree of preservation and restoration these compounds deliver results depends in a host if factors: age, diet, disease, injuries, and others, including genetics.  But at least he gives you a place to start.  Further, when I wrote to him directly asking about how to strengthen teeth topically, he said, without hesitation, fluoride.  So fluoride plays a role, but there are trade-offs, and maybe that is all we can hope for.  And that folks with beautiful teeth are simply winners on the genetic lottery. 

But a lot can go wrong with the mouth, the anatomical orifice occupying the lower half of our face.  

MD and ND, Dr. Carolyn Dean to the rescue. 

FLUORIDE IS A POISON

Fluoride is not added to drinking water to clean it or make it healthier but to prevent cavities by making the enamel of your teeth stronger. In the past decade, all the pro-fluoride research has scientifically validated this fact. But they totally ignore the other effects of fluoride – up to and including cancer. Some websites even call fluoride a superhero!

Let me take a few minutes to outline the problems with fluoride. The enamel of the tooth binds to fluorine creating a whole new compound called fluoroapatite. Instead of being beneficial to teeth, accumulated evidence shows that fluoride during infancy and early childhood may damage the developing tooth-forming cells and lead to defective enamel referred to as “dental fluorosis.”

This condition is characterized by white, yellow, and brown spots and/or pitted permanent teeth. But you don’t even know that in infants until their teeth have erupted through the gumline. By then it’s too late to do anything about it.

Fluorosis has been acknowledged by the ADA, which recommends that parents not use fluoridated water for children under 6 months (including water used to make up baby formula bottles) and to avoid fluoridated toothpaste for children two years and younger. For older children, the ADA advises that only a pea-sized amount of fluoride toothpaste should be used. And that kids should be taught to spit out rather than swallow toothpaste! But they added sweeteners and flavors that make toothpaste very tasty. And, of course, chemicals are absorbed through the mucus membranes of the mouth.

She recommends that you don't use Listerine.  Oh, boy, here we go again . . . a list of don'ts without compensating list of musts.  

AVOID ALCOHOL-LACED MOUTHWASH

Take the most popular antiseptic throat gargle on the market – actually, don’t take it – avoid it like the plague. I don’t even have to name it, you all know from the relentless advertising that tells us we all have bad breath and aren’t fit to face our friends and family without this product.

The total amount of active ingredients in Listerine is: 0.258%. Those ingredients are Oils of Thyme, Eucalyptus, Wintergreen and Menthol. The inactive ingredients are Water, Alcohol (21.6%), Sorbitol Solution, Flavoring, Poloxamer 407, Benzoic Acid, Sodium Saccharin, Sodium Benzoate, FD&C Green 3 making Listerine a 50-proof alcohol product!

Okay, this was interesting.  So if you're using and consuming fluoride, you're depleting your body and bones of magnesium.  Wow.  

FLUORIDE KILLS MAGNESIUM

While most of Europe and half of the United States have completely abandoned the use of fluoride in the water supply, it still remains in the other half of the United States, in toothpaste, and as a molecule in SSRI antidepressants such as Prozac. Fluoride seeks out minerals such as magnesium and binds with it, making magnesium unavailable to the body and unable to do its work. The magnesium fluoride mineral produced is called sellaite; it is almost insoluble and ends up taking the place of magnesium in hard tissues like bone and cartilage, but its brittleness makes the bone susceptible to fracture. The reduction in available magnesium causes a decrease in enzymatic action in the body.”

This is devastating.  Just think how many people have either been on Prozac or some other antidepressant and each day that they take it magnesium is either blocked or depleted. The horrible irony is that supplementing with magnesium is the first line if defense one would take to overcome any varying firms if depression.  

FLUORIDATED DRUGS, I.E., ANTIDEPRESSANTS, DEPLETE MAGNESIUM

A little-known fact is that there are 15 classes of drugs and thus hundreds of prescription drugs using fluoride as an active ingredient. In the above section, I mention that Prozac contains fluoride, which means that Prozac depletes magnesium every day that you take it. And if you’ve read my Magnesium Miracle book you know that magnesium deficiency causes anxiety and depression.

Whether natural or synthetic fluoride from industrial waste, fluoride does not simply wash out from the surface of your teeth or from the recesses of your gums.  Dr. Dean says that fluoride gets immediately absorbed through the mucus membrane of your mouth.

She notes that titanium dioxide is in all-white toothpaste, adding that she's still out on its toxicity against its effectiveness.  A quick search raises a red flag.  

Nutritionally speaking, she cites collagen-producing vitamin C as the key nutrient for protecting your teeth.  I take vitamin C every day but my gums still need work. Sections are not too healthy.  Maybe adding Hyaluronic Acid would help the cause. 

Sunday, June 2, 2019

WITHOUT MAGNESIUM, YOUR TEETH WILL PRODUCE ONLY SOFT ENAMEL


I thought I'd send along the latest findings from Bill Sardi with his "34 Ways to Stay Healthy that Costs Next to Nothing."  I figure that with 34 different ways to stay healthy, there ought to be something in here for everybody.  In section #5 on Teeth, I found an article that Sardi links to on the connection between magnesium and dental health.  On the link to the NCBI summary, it states that
increased serum Mg/Ca was significantly associated with reduced probing depth . . . , less attachment loss . . . , and a higher number of remaining teeth . . . .  Subjects taking Mg drugs showed less attachment loss . . . and more remaining teeth than did their matched counterparts.  These results suggest that nutritional magnesium supplements may improve periodontal health.

That means that the greater the amount of magnesium in your blood, the longer your teeth will last in your mouth AND the harder your teeth will be.  Without magnesium, your teeth will produce only soft enamel.  Further, increased magnesium means fewer craters or fewer "probing depth[s]" in your teeth, fewer lost teeth or "less attachment loss," meaning that a greater number of teeth remain in your head.  All this thanks to magnesium.  Will your dentist ever tell you this?  He can't.  Or she can't.  Or it can't.  Magnesium supplements are a much better option than having to deal with that idiot in a white coat who asks you to lie prostrate in a chair and, after shooting you up with novocaine, commands you to say "Aaah." 

So more magnesium in your blood keeps your teeth.  

Big deal, right?  Big whoop!  You already knew that, right?  Well, you might also want to know that applying magnesium onto your toothbrush is also an effective way to remineralize your teeth.  

REMINERALIZATION THRU MAGNESIUM
Yep.  First time I ever heard of remineralizing your teeth was in 2013 and I thought it was a hoax.  But it sounded like something was possible.  But the dentist was promoting Xylitol, a sugar-free, sweetener found in gum, mouthwash, toothpaste, and other products for its anti-bacterial capabilities.  But it was still sugar.  So the recommendation to use Xylitol gum from a dentist meant most likely that this was another dentist trying to sell me something to pay down his beach-front condo and boat docked in Mazatlan instead of directing me to the nutritional compounds that would nourish my teeth.  [Mike, you're so cynical.]  

NUTRITION
With nutrition, we're never going to achieve corrective or therapeutic levels of nutrients by eating the right foods unless you're eating all day.  Who has the time or the energy for that?  To get daily amounts of vitamin C, you need to eat like 3 oranges.  Good luck with that.

What really remineralizes teeth and corrects periodontal disease is magnesium--magnesium that you ingest in the form of a supplement and magnesium that you apply topically to your teeth.  

But what about calcium, you ask?  (You were thinking that, weren't you?)  You don't need to supplement with calcium since the dairy industry fills up one to two aisles in your supermarket where folks get plenty of cheese, milk, yogurt, ice cream, butter, and the list goes on . . . or does it?  So you're getting plenty of calcium already.  

If you want hardened teeth, you'll want to use fluoride toothpaste.  The fluoride-free toothpastes were a craze that I bought into because of reports of toxicity with fluoride.  There is fluoride in municipal water supplies (in your tap water) and that fluoride is probably there to lower IQ more than it is to protect your teeth as the authorities, ahem, claim.  The amount of dental protection from fluoridated water is next to nothing.  So if it doesn't really protect people's teeth, then what the heck is it doing in your tap water?  Even worse perhaps than fluoride in the city water supply, if that weren't bad enough, is the chlorine in the water.  Over a lifetime, chlorinated water does raise the risk of colon cancer.  Thank God for the free market that bottles water.  If you use only fluoride-free toothpaste, it might make you feel like you're doing the right thing, but it render weak enamel and weak roots later on.  So fluoride toothpaste, my brothers and sisters, fluoride toothpaste.  

One Dr. Carolyn Dean [whom I've not followed] writes
I think the following report is even more amazing. “I want to tell you a wonderful thing about Magnesium. I had pyorrhea and gingivitis for years. When I started taking magnesium the pyorrhea and gingivitis cleared up. Then I noticed my right front cuspid was thinner than the left but there was also a diagonal chip in the left cuspid. I began a regimen of brushing my teeth with magnesium and within 3 months the tooth had remineralized. Both teeth are fine and the right cuspid that was thinner is now normal. It truly is a miracle mineral. I told my dentist about it but really, he didn’t pay attention. Professionals think it’s some kind of idiocy. When will they wake up?”
The type of magnesium to use on your toothbrush is magnesium oil. This is a supersaturated magnesium chloride (from seawater) in distilled water.

Not all magnesium is created equal, despite what Nancy Pelosi says.  Magnesium Oxide is ubiquitous.  It's in all of the Magnesium Complexes, and it is poorly absorbed, only about 4% of it is absorbed because it is mainly a powerful laxative.  Hello!  The preferred forms of magnesium are malate, magnesium chloride, and taurate.  I've used Citrate but learned just recently that it's not the best.  My favorite magnesium is Magtein, the brand name for Magnesium L-Threonate, which is great for the central nervous system.  Wow.  I've tried the magnesium malate but didn't like the effect for some reason.  o I will try the taurate.

Final word, vitamin D hardens enamel.  
Vitamin A supports tooth pulp.  
Vitamin C feeds blood vessels that protects your gums.  
Add magnesium as a topical and keep your pearly whites shinin' like the brightest stars in the universe.  

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