"BY TAKING GOOD ANTIOXIDANTS, YOU CAN INACTIVATE THE NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF RIBOFLAVIN WHILE GETTING ITS BENEFITS"

from the DailyMail.co.uk

Doctors have restored sight to the blind by sending video images directly to the brain.

In a world-first that offers hope to millions of patients, five men and one woman have regained vision after years of ‘living in the dark’.

They had electrode chips planted in the visual cortex at the back of their skulls that picked up images from a tiny video camera mounted in a pair of glasses. Their eyes were bypassed completely.

One of the participants, Benjamin James Spencer, who went blind aged nine, described his joy at seeing his wife and three daughters for the first time. ‘It is awe inspiring to see so much beauty,’ the 35-year-old told the Daily Mail last night. ‘I could see the roundness of my wife’s face, the shape of her body.

‘I could see my kids running up to give me a hug. It is not perfect vision – it is like grainy 1980s surveillance video footage. It may not be full vision yet, but it’s something.’ 

Mr. Spencer described how, when he was nine years old, his world went black.

‘It was September 18, 1992, a week after my birthday,’ he said. ‘I was at school leaving a class and in the time it took me to walk 50ft everything disappeared.

‘At first it started to go foggy and then a few paces later it was just dark.

‘I panicked and started screaming and kind of went into shock. Everything after that is pretty vague.’

In the coming days, specialists at a hospital near his home in Texas broke the news that he would never see again.

‘I was told this was going to be my future. I was classed as lacking 100 percent light perception. I was blind,’ he said.

Mr. Spencer had pediatric glaucoma, a rare condition caused by a defect in the eye’s drainage system.

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Ben Spencer, 35, with his wife and daughters (left to right: Melissa, 13, Jeanette, 42, Jane, 10, and Abigail, 15)

It had been incurable but scientists have now managed to bypass the broken link by sending images directly to the visual cortex, the part of the brain responsible for sight.

Mr. Spencer lives in the city of Pearland, near Houston, with his wife Jeanette, 42, and daughters Abigail, 15, Melissa, 13, and Jane, ten. In April 2018, he became one of just six people to have a 60-electrode panel implanted in the back of his brain.

Surgeons at Baylor Medical College in Houston spent two hours cutting a window in his skull, placing the electrode array on the surface of the brain, and stitching it up again. They then spent six months ‘mapping’ his visual field.

This involved sending computer signals to the stimulation panel in his head to synchronize his brain to the real world – in effect teaching his visual cortex to process images again.

Eventually, in October, the device was wirelessly connected to a tiny video camera, mounted in a pair of glasses, and switched on. He saw his wife and three children for the very first time.

‘It was an incredible moment,’ he told the Daily Mail. ‘It was very humbling.’

Describing catching a glimpse of the sun through the window, he said: ‘Such a tiny thing is normal for people who have vision. But I had not seen the sun since I was nine years old. I had felt its heat, but actually seeing it was incredible. After 25 and a half years of living in the dark, it is awe-inspiring to see so much beauty.’

In January, after months of hospital testing, he was allowed to take the device home. The terms of the clinical trial mean he can only switch it on for three hours a day, but he makes the most of it. ‘I usually use it for 45 minutes at a time and space it out,’ he said. ‘If I want to go to the store or if one of my kids has a performance.

‘It is not perfect vision – it is like grainy 1980s surveillance video footage,’ he said.

‘I can see silhouettes, I can see light and shade, I can guess at colors. It may not be full vision yet, but it’s something.

‘I can go to the store, I can walk without my cane, I can sort my dark laundry from the whites, I can see a crack in the sidewalk coming up. I could see a sign sticking out – but I couldn’t read what it said.’

Even when completely blind, Mr. Spencer learned to thrive independently.

He finished school, went to college and earned a masters in business, focusing on international trade. He worked for a few years in import-export and then set up his own tax business.

‘I was determined to be an independent person,’ he said. ‘There is always a way around whatever the world throws at you.

‘Luckily I had people around me who said you can allow this to define you, or you can define life. But that being said, everything was a stepping stone. I learned that life was about adaptation.’

British experts described the breakthrough in the United States as a ‘paradigm shift’ in the treatment of the blind.

Patients who have benefited from the Orion wireless technology include those who have lost their sight due to glaucoma, trauma, infections, autoimmune diseases, and nerve problems.

But the surgeons – from Baylor Medical College in Texas and the University of California Los Angeles – believe they can eventually help anyone who has lost their sight. They are unsure, however, whether it could help people born blind – because the visual cortex would never have learned to process images.

They plan to implant 30 more devices over the next few months and if the results continue to be positive expect the technology to become widely available within three years.

Alex Shortt, a University College London lecturer and surgeon at Optegra Eye Hospital in the capital said: ‘This, to my mind, is a massive breakthrough, an amazing advance and it is very exciting.

‘Previously all attempts to create a “bionic eye” focused on implanting into the eye itself. It required you to have a working eye, a working optic nerve.

‘By bypassing the eye completely you open the potential up to many, many more people.

‘This is a complete paradigm shift for treating people with complete blindness. It is a real message of hope.’

Sibling pals: Mr. Spencer, as a young boy aged 7 with his sister Tiffany

He said the quality of the images would only improve.

Second Sight, the small American firm which makes the device, already has links in the UK thanks to another visual gadget trialed by the NHS. It plans to try to make Orion available here as soon as it is fully approved in the US.

Two million Britons have sight loss – 360,000 of whom are registered as blind. These figures are set to double by 2050.

Another patient in the trial was able to tell apart the different balls on a pool table, picking out the cue ball from the striped balls and even picking out the blue ball. Others can walk around a block unaided, avoiding cars and pedestrians, and tell the curb from the road.

Scientists hope to radically improve the quality of the device.

The current prototype has 60 electrodes. The version they hope to use in their next trial will have 150 – and in time this will go up.

Daniel Yoshor, the neurosurgeon at Baylor who implanted the device in Mr. Spencer’s brain, said: ‘When you think of vision, you think of the eyes, but most of the work is being done in the brain. The impulses of light that are projected onto the retina are converted into neural signals that are transmitted along the optic nerve to parts of the brain.’

The Orion device works by replicating that process with a video camera. The electrodes stimulate spots in the visual field – the ‘mind’s eye’ – which when working together create a black and white image that replicates the real world. Professor Yoshor said: ‘If you imagine every spot in the visual field, the visual world, there’s a corresponding part of the brain that represents that area, that spatial location.

‘If we stimulate someone’s brain in a specific spot we will produce a perception of a spot of light corresponding to that map in the visual world.

‘The idea is if we cleverly stimulate the individual spots in the brain with electrodes we can actually reproduce visual form, like pixels on an LCD screen.’

He added: ‘I tell these patients they’re like astronauts flying to the Moon, they’re taking bold steps to see not only if the device can help them as individuals, but if it can help the community of blind patients across the world.’

The results from the first six patients, presented at the World Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery conference in New York a fortnight ago, revealed each patient had regained at least some degree of vision.

Second Sight is in negotiations with the FDA, the US health regulator, to launch another study in the coming months involving 30 patients.

Will McGuire, head of the firm, said: ‘We expect at least two to three years until it is going to be available commercially. That will be down to negotiations with the FDA. Then we will start discussions with regulatory bodies outside the US.’

The Orion system is built on the success of an earlier device called the Argus II, which uses a similar camera to send images to an implant at the back of the eye, restoring sight to people who have started to lose their vision to common conditions such as age-related macular degeneration – or AMD.

It hit the headlines when it was unveiled at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital five years ago.

But it relied on a patient having at least some working retinal cells, stimulating them with the video images and sending the signal through the optic nerve to the brain.

The new system takes the concept a step further – bypassing the eye completely and sending the images directly to the brain.

This means anyone could benefit, even if their eyes are irreversibly damaged or missing altogether – such as those who have lost an eye in an accident or on the battlefield, or those who have become blinded by cancer, meningitis or sepsis.

Helen Lee, of the Royal National Institute of Blind People, said: ‘We welcome this innovative technology which appears to have the potential to improve visual experience for people who are blind.

‘It could be life-changing for many people, but it is very early days.

‘Robust trials are needed to assess both the benefits and the adverse effects.’ And Professor Glen Jeffery, a visual scientist at University College London, said he doubted the new device would ever be able to restore more than very crude vision.

‘You may be able to see large objects, or large letters, and move around the world. Technology has moved on massively in this area. But people are not going to be able to read a newspaper with this.’

He said the retina was an extremely sophisticated part of the body – and simply bypassing it would not produce the kind of vision people expect.

‘It is also going to be extremely expensive to do this on many people,’ Professor Jeffery added.

End of article.  Excellent article for reactivating eyesight in adult men.  But if you want to keep your vision for a very long time, then you'll want to see what Bill Sardi recommends to fight off macular degeneration.  

The currently recommended dietary supplement (AREDS formula) formulated by the National Eye Institute for macular degeneration doesn’t appear to have any influence in preventing or slowing this disease as measured by the dark adaptation test.  [Retina April 27, 2017]

The only hope for therapy or prevention comes from a pilot study that showed a nutraceutical (Longevinex) reversed the progression of retinal aging as measured by the dark adaptation test.  [British Journal Medicine &Medical Research June, 2017; 8 NEWSNOW KLAS-TV/CBS Affiliate, June 15, 2017J.

Dr. Nan Fuchs, Ph.D. recommends water, sunglasses [amber shade of lens that blocks the UV and the blue light], and Hyaluronic Acid.  

A Remedy to Consider Our eyes shrink as we age from a loss of HA — a nutrient that keeps water in the vitreous humor. Optometrists and ophthalmologists say there’s no treatment for floaters and flashes and suggest we just live with them. They may be right. But I know of some people who have found that taking 150-300 mg of oral hyaluronic acid and drinking plenty of water reduced or eliminated their floaters. I’m not one of them. My floater and flashes continue after taking HA for five months.

Still, taking HA makes sense for your eyes and a number of other conditions such as arthritis. You can buy HA from Purity Products, Inc (800-769-7873). The supplement, Ultimate H.A. Remedy, contains a month’s supply of hyaluronic acid (at 150 mg a day) for $39.95. How long should you take it? No one really knows, but I like to give any supplement a three-month trial. If, after this time, there’s no change in your floaters, you’ve at least given your body a few month’s worth of an important lubricant.

Along with the hyaluronic acid, get plenty of antioxidants like bilberry, quercetin, vitamin C, grape seed, and glutathione. Your eyes contain the B vitamin riboflavin that’s needed to help you see light. Along with making your eyes more sensitive to light, riboflavin produces free radicals. By taking good antioxidants, like the Sharper Vision formula (800-728-2288) I use, you can inactivate the negative effects of riboflavin while getting its benefits. There are some people who believe that high amounts of riboflavin without enough antioxidants could contribute to floaters, although I haven’t been able to locate any studies that indicate this is so. Still, I believe in erring on the side of caution — so always take extra antioxidants in your diet and supplementation program for healthy eyes.

PROTECT YOUR EYESDrink plenty of water. Since floaters and flashes occur with changes in the vitreous, and vitreous is 99 percent water, drink plenty of water. Dehydration could be a factor in the vitreous separating from the retina. My own floater and flashes occurred after six weeks of persistent diarrhea from parasites. Although I was aware of needing plenty of fluids, it was difficult to be completely hydrated with daily watery stools, and I may well have been dehydrated. To prevent dehydration, drink half a glass of water an hour whenever possible.

MANIPULATING RIPPLES TO ENHANCE MEMORY

Hippocampus Neuron, computer illustration Credit: Kateryna Kon Getty Images

from Scientific American.

Specific patterns of brain activity are thought to underlie specific processes or computations important for various mental faculties, such as memory. One such “brain signal” that has received a lot of attention recently is known as a “sharp wave ripple”—a short, wave-shaped burst of high-frequency oscillations.

Researchers originally identified ripples in the hippocampus, a region crucially involved in memory and navigation, as central to diverting recollections to long-term memory during sleep. Then a 2012 study by neuroscientists at the University of California, San Francisco, led by Loren Frank and Shantanu Jadhav, the latter now at Brandeis University, showed that the ripples also play a role in memory while awake. The researchers used electrical pulses to disrupt ripples in rodents’ brains and showed that, by doing so,  performance in a memory task was reduced. However, nobody had manipulated ripples to enhance memory—until now, that is.

Researchers at NYU School of Medicine led by neuroscientist György Buzsáki have now done exactly that. In a June 14 study in Science, the team showed that prolonging sharp wave ripples in the hippocampus of rats significantly improved their performance in a maze task that taxes working memory—the brain’s “scratch pad” for combining and manipulating information on the fly. “This is a very novel and impactful study,” says Jadhav, who was not involved in the research. “It’s very hard to do ‘gain-of-function’ studies with physiological processes in such a precise way.” As well as revealing new details about how ripples contribute to specific memory processes, the work could ultimately have implications for efforts to develop interventions for disorders of memory and learning.

The researchers first examined the properties of ripples recorded in rats performing tasks from a database acquired over years of experiments. They found more long-duration ripples occurred when rats had to make their way through mazes than when they were simply exploring or running along tracks. Negotiating mazes required rats to exercise their memories.

In one task, the M-maze, rats were trained to first navigate through the right-hand arm of a maze shaped as an “M” to receive a sugary reward, then through the left-hand arm on the next trial. The researchers saw significantly longer ripples in trials the rats performed correctly, compared to those they got wrong. “You can record a very simple electrical pattern in the brain and tell whether the animal's performance will be good or not, or whether the animal is learning or not,” Buzsáki says. These findings suggest that the hippocampus generates longer ripples during memory-intensive activities and that these longer-duration signals improve performance.

To verify that longer ripples contribute to better performance, the team artificially prolonged ripples in rats performing the M-maze task. The researchers used optogenetics, involving the use of light piped through a fiber-optic cable to activate genetically engineered light-sensitive neurons in the rats’ hippocampi. They recorded collective neural activity in the hippocampus during the task, to enable them to detect spontaneously occurring ripples. Upon detection of a ripple, light pulses were triggered to activate engineered neurons. This “closed-loop” stimulation roughly doubled the duration of ripples and significantly improved the rats’ performance, compared to control conditions with either no light stimulation or stimulation applied after short, random delays.

The rats also learned faster, reaching 80 percent correct performance in remembering which route would lead to a reward earlier than rats in the control conditions. The researchers also switched off any beneficial effects by aborting ripples using high-intensity light pulses, confirming that performance was impaired. “It's really nice to see another group do something slightly different and get the same result,” Frank says. “It makes you feel confident we're all on to something.”

To investigate how longer ripples might be enhancing performance, the team inspected the properties of the neurons involved. A ripple is not simply the repeated activity of the same neurons oscillating over time; instead, its activity spreads to more neurons as the signal continues.

The team observed that particular neurons tend to “fire” either in the early or in the later portion of the signal, and they found intriguing differences between these two groups. “Early” neurons were “chatterboxes” with high baseline activity, whereas “late” neurons were more sluggish, with lower average activity. “Neurons that fire fast are like talkative people, they are active in many situations,” Buzsáki explains.  “The majority typically don't fire, but once they do, they say something important.”

The hippocampus contains neurons specialized for navigation, called “place” cells, which fire when an animal is in a specific location. The researchers found that neurons firing in the late part of long ripples (either spontaneously occurring, or artificially prolonged), were more highly tuned to location, and the spots tended to be on the arms of the maze. Previous research suggests one function of ripples may be to “replay” memories. The new findings support that idea and suggest that prolonging ripples recruits extra neurons to generate the signal, whose activity is relevant to the task at hand. “When they extend the length of ripples, they’re recruiting cells that are reactivating paths the animals take,” Jadhav explains. “This might be a mechanism for doing a cognitive search of all the available paths, that other brain areas can read out and act on.”

The researchers hope this work eventually may help develop ways to treat the type of memory problems that occur in age-related cognitive decline or Alzheimer’s disease. Learning difficulties might also be addressed. The techniques in the experiments would be tricky to apply to humans because they are invasive and involve genetic manipulation, but Buzsáki says they are working on noninvasive methods. A recent study, published in April and led by neuroscientist Robert Reinhart of Boston University used weak electrical currents applied to the scalps of elderly participants to obtain an increase in working memory performance, accompanied by greater synchrony between oscillations of certain (theta) frequencies in different cortical regions. “There are intriguing points of connection between the elegant work by [Buzsáki’s team] and research conducted in my laboratory,” Reinhart says. “Research in systems and cognitive neuroscience is laying critical basic science groundwork, which may open up an entirely new avenue of circuit-based therapeutics for the prevention and treatment of brain disorders.”

The problem with existing non-invasive methods, such as transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), or the transcranial electrical stimulation (TES) technique, used in Reinhart’s study, is their inability to  penetrate into the brain, so manipulating signals in the deeply seated hippocampus is difficult. Recording from deep in the brain non-invasively is even more tricky. One possible solution would be to infer when ripples occur in the hippocampus from activity recorded from the brain’s surface. “There might be a very specific pattern of, say, prefrontal activity that precedes these events” and produces ripples in the hippocampus. Frank says. "But we don’t understand what that looks like yet.” 

Also, modifying cortical activity using these techniques may, as a consequence, affect activity in the hippocampus. “We know that these sharp wave ripples can be biased by [specific] neocortical patterns,” Buzsáki says. “In fact, many companies are trying to affect memory, by changing neocortical patterns.” Finally, invasive methods, similar to implants used to detect and interfere with seizures in epilepsy, could be employed, either for detecting, or manipulating ripples, or both. Invasive and non-invasive methods could even be combined. “As long as you can measure these events and come up with some way to manipulate them, you have the possibility of making the system work better,” Frank says. “There's a world of possibilities there.”

Note: György Buzsáki's affiliation was corrected from "New York University" to "NYU School of Medicine." 

Better yet, why not add Benfotiamine to the mix to achieve more enhanced outcomes?  

Looking for brain therapies that are already developed and proven?  Check out Brain Light Pro.  If you want to learn more about it, give a listen to Martie Whittekin, CCN [Certified Clinical Nutritionist] and find the link to Brain Light Pro at her site.   

How about red light therapy?  

If it's Alzheimer's Disease that you're trying to combat, nutritional researcher Bill Sardi tells us that researchers are on the cusp of announcing the fat soluble B1, Benfotiamine, as the Alzheimer's Disease cure.  

MERCURY COMES OFF FILLINGS EVERY TIME YOU STIMULATE THEM, EVEN FROM A CUP OF COFFEE

Let's start with a quotation from the following video: 

Using amalgam for the first filling requires removing a lot of tooth substance [one-third of the tooth], not only diseased tooth substance but healthy tooth substance as well.  So in making the undercuts, you sacrifice a lot and this results in a weakened tooth.  The next thing you know the tooth breaks off and you need a crown, then you need to repair the crown.  So it continues to the stage where there is no more to repair and you pull the tooth

Undoing all the damage that was done to us growing up can be a life-long endeavor. And even our uninformed attempts at restitution only make it worse, which is why most of us would rather just leave well-enough alone.

     

The sponsor of the video is the iaomt.org or the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology.  Linked here is the longer version of the presentation, Smoking Teeth = Poison Gas.  

But when you see this mercury vapor emitting from the slightest chafing or abrasion, say, of a pencil eraser, one can only imagine that amount of vapor emitted from chewing during a single meal or even a snack.  Even drinking a cup of coffee or grinding teeth at night or during the day or chewing gum?  Each of these activities releases mercury from the fillings.  It does tend to make one sick, not just the chemistry of it but the conspiracy of it.  Who can deny the conspiracies within dentistry?  The training of dentists has to be the most abominable study with cures exacted via extraction, drilling, filing down, capping, chemically dosing up patients, taking advantage of patients while prostrate.  What kinds of monsters would define this work as a service to your fellow man or to the community? 

So, what's the big deal about vapor?  What harm can it produce?  Because I answer that question, you should know that all dentists will treat the extraction and then replacement of fillings as though they are certified members of the Atomic Energy Commission.  

2:46-2:52
Mercury accumulated in the jaw, stomach, liver, and kidney of the sheep in just 30 days.  Then they learned that the sheep's kidneys dropped by 60% to clear inulin, an indication of kidney malfunction.  Whole body imaging of monkeys found exactly the same thing.  Proponents of amalgam fillings claim that sheep chew too much.  But what's the problem with monkeys?  They had mercury in their jaw, kidneys, liver, intestine, and heart.  

"Mercury released from dental silver fillings provokes an increase in mercury and antibiotic-resistant bacteria in primates oral and intestinal flora." Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, Volume 37, pp 825-834, 1993. 

That's more than 26 years ago that they've known this.  This certainly seems to me would take away some of the plasticity of brain function.  And what I noticed is that the comparison between the sheep and monkey that at least in the graphs presented that very little of the mercury saturated on the brain, yet the brain is the cite first and most-cited as being affected by mercury vapors.  Isn't it really the justification for the removal of the amalgam fillings and replacing them with polymers that are more eco-friendly to your mouth?  

In 1991, the World Health Organization, WHO, acknowledged that the predominant source of human exposure to mercury is from your fillings . . . 

Not seafood or other foods, not air or water but from the fillings inside your mouth.  Oh, what wonders!  And yet people are always and everywhere discount the existence of conspiracies.  Does your dentist inform you of this?  Does he even know?  Is he an idiot?  Probably.  If this hasn't scared you yet, then you're not paying life-saving attention.  Check this out: the mercury in the mother's amalgam fillings is passed onto the child, rendering that child, ah, compromising that child's inherent intelligence.  "Maternal-fetal distribution of mercury released from dental amalgam fillings."  Is anybody looking out for the health of loved ones?  Does it make any sense at all to look to the mouth and teeth, the orifice and enamel fixtures that are so close to the brain, teeth which are, in fact, lodged right between your heart and your brain?  I mean is anybody paying attention?  I know that dentists are not.  You want cleaning or something fixed?  Ha!  The best that you can hope for is a nutritional compound that removes mercury and minimizes the effects of the vapors.  

4:28
Experiments on sheep showed that mercury from sheep's fillings transferred immediately to the placenta, to the unborn fetus, and to every conceivable portion of the fetus' body.  It even increased in the lamb higher after birth from mercury in the mother's milk.  There's no such thing as a safe mercury filling.  All mercury fillings leak mercury.  

An article is pictured just as he finishes this point.  The title of that article is "Combined Effects in Toxicology--A Rapid Systematic Testing Procedure: Cadmium, Mercury, and Lead" by Jack Schubert found in the Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, Volume 4, 1978, Issue 5-6.  

5:16
Mercury and lead is more toxic than just mercury alone.  These black, corroded, pitted mercury fillings are used where you must drill away a third of a tooth in order to fill a pinhead-sized cavity.  Even if you love mercury, it's the wrong thing to do to the children.  It leads to broken, diseased, root canal, extracted throughout the rest of their life.  It's a blunder that costs the child all through [their] life.  Millions and millions of dollars are spent annually fixing teeth again and again.  And dentists don't follow the manufactured recommendations.  The use of [mercury] amalgam [fillings] is contraindicated in the following circumstances:

In expectant mothers.In children 6 and under. In proximal or occlusal contact to dissimilar metal restorations. In patients with severe renal deficiency. In patients with known allergies to amalgam.For the retrograde or endodontic filling. As a filling material for cast crown. 

They pack mercury in children, around gold crowns, underneath bridges, they stuff it around the gum line in contact with tissues.  There's mercury spreading from this gold crown to every tissue in that patient's body.  Even if you like mercury fillings, putting mercury in the tooth is simply the wrong thing to do.  

6:15
Dr. Harald Loe, Director of The National Institute of Dental Research, wrote back in 1993, the first filling is a critical step in the life of the tooth.  Using amalgam for the first filling requires removing a lot of tooth substance, not only diseased tooth substance but healthy tooth substance as well.  So in making the undercuts, you sacrifice a lot and this results in a weakened tooth.  The next thing you know the tooth breaks off and you need a crown, then you need to repair the crown.  So it continues to the stage where there is no more to repair and you pull the tooth [root and all].  With the first filling, you should do something that can either restore the tooth or retain more healthy tooth substance.  Use new materials, or composites, or materials that can bond to the surface without undercuts.  You can do this with little of the tooth substance so that the core of the tooth is still there.  I would add that the cost of all that dental repair over and over again, makes the cost of mercury fillings enormous even if you don't consider the neurological impairment and the brain damage that they surely cause in dental personnel and the infertility and the heartbreak that they cause to so many families.  

"Urinary Mercury After Administration 2,3 dimercapto propane 1 sulfonic acid: Correlation with Dental Amalgam Score," FASEB Journal, Volume 6(6): pps, 2472-2476, 1992 Aposhian, H.V.

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, V. 51, 28-34, 1994.
"The Effect of Occupational Exposure to Mercury Vapor on the Fertility of Female Dental Assistants," Rowland AS, et al.  

The conviction at the end of this video went horribly awry.  Here they were pointing out horror after horror of mercury amalgam fillings, and then at the end offer up an opinion, a hope really, that the government will fix the problem?  Talk about your disappointment. 

It is the opinion of this academy that responsible government agencies should prohibit the use of these fillings until such time as their manufacturers produce the alleged evidence of safety. 

GET MERCURY OUT OF YOUR BODY
Garlic might be your most reliable compound for leeching mercury and other toxic metals out of the tissue of your intestines, kidneys, brain, heart, etc.  Bill Sardi points out how garlic may be even more potent at removing toxic metals than metal chelators. 

Garlic controls heavy metals such as lead, copper, cadmium  and  iron.  Garlic is a remedy for fatty liver by virtue of its ability to remove iron. Garlic removes some heavy metals better than mineral-chelating drugs.  While some herbal dietary supplements may increase circulating lead levels, garlic does not.   

Sardi adds that

Garlic’s active ingredient is not generally yielded from garlic pills because stomach acid negates the necessary enzyme needed to produce allicin.  A buffered allicin pill that resists stomach acid has been shown to yield real allicin.  

REMEDIES & SOLUTIONS
Find mercury-free dentistry in a city near you here.  
Find the Holistic Dental Association here.  
Find the Dental Amalgam Mercury Solutions here. 
Martie Whittekin recommends a Dallas dentist, Dr. Phillip Kozlow.  He says that the alcohol in mouthwashes, like Listerine, dries out the gum tissue which makes it easy for bacteria and plaque to form.  Instead, use hot water and salt to clean your teeth in the morning or after every meal.  Remember how you did that after you lost a tooth as a kid?  Then . . . . Dr. Kozlow recommends the use of O3, ozone water.  

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.  

ReMag is a product formulated by Dr. Carolyn Dean.  Find her website here.  She's branded herself as "The Doctor of the Future."  Hello!

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