This is proof of an hypothesis that we have been pursuing in the dental office I manage and several other dental offices we are associated with. We started noticing that in very elderly patients who were alert, healthy, and did not have any chronic diseases of the heart, diabetes, or mental incapacity that their oral health was also exceedingly good. They also had something completely missing in their mouths. They had no oral spirochetes at all! There was a 100% correlation! Other dentists also were observing this fact. Oral spirochetes were observed in 85-90% of the population but about 10% of the population seems to naturally immune to them and in fact show none at all in their mouths.
One exception to this observation was the edentulous... those without teeth at all. Those who had had all teeth removed! They also were in excellent mental health at an old age, had far less chronic heart disease, and far less likelihood of adult onset diabetes... IF their teeth had been removed at an early age. Strange. Hmmmm.
Oral spirochetes are, we have been observing, associated very strongly with patients who have Alzheimer's Disease, age related dementia, chronic heart disease, and Type 2 Adult onset Diabetes, all diseases associated with plaques. This is the first peer reviewed paper that proves that oral spirochetes, the particular bacteria that we have been seeing under our phase contrast microscope, ARE indeed the cause of Alzheimer's disease.
The same researcher, Dr. Judith Miklossy, who is the president of the Alzheimer's Prevention Association of Europe, issued another peer reviewed paper in 2008, in which she reported that examination of the Islets of Langerhans in patients with Type 2 Diabetes were also rife with oral spirochetes—also further confirming our hypothesis—and mentioned in her 2008 paper that they should be investigated as a possible causal infection for diabetes along with other bacteria she noted.
Spirochetes are bad actors... they are the bacteria that cause syphisis, Yaws, Enug, Lyme disease, and a host of other very nasty diseases. The tertiary form of Syphilis the same dementia and is indistinguishable from Alzheimer's. Lyme disease can do the same dementia.
Oral Spirochete movie from Implant Dr DM at our office.
Another Spirochete movie from our office on youtube.
We have seen a spirochete invade a Leukocyte (white blood cell) and kill it, then leave the dead Leukocyte and go on its way, in one of these movies! We have put up movies on YouTube where the doctor has mentioned the futility using of toothpaste and Youtube, being a part of Google has PULLED them every time! So we don't mention it, anymore... Advertising is king.
In our office, as part of our investigation of the linkage of oral spirochetes to these chronic diseases, our investigation has found that there is an historical progression of the advance of the spread of these chronic diseases in the population associated with the usage of toothpaste. It's a trailing indicator of about 20 years or so, because these diseases take about 20 years to actually appear after the bugs develop in the mouth and migrate into the blood vessels through bleeding gums. However, in the 1910s and 1920s the United States pioneered the use of sweetened pumice in the form of toothpaste to clean teeth, replacing the tooth powder that had been almost universally used prior to then. Sweetened pumice toothpaste has essentially no antibacterial effect even today, no matter what is claimed! Pumice is even harder than the enamel of the tooth surface. It did clean the teeth... but it did not kill bacteria. As a result, 20-30 years down the road, we can see an upsurge in the chronic heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and Alzheimer's start to grow in the populations that adopt toothpaste teeth cleaning... and it's consistent as toothpaste oral hygiene spread from America to Europe to Asia, Latin America, and else where in the world, replacing the former usage of Toothpowder.
You may be asking yourselves what was the Tooth Powder our ancestors used that was supplanted by toothpaste. Some of you may already know. It was essentially ordinary Baking Soda with a little bit of common table salt. The table salt is unnecessary! Baking Soda has a FIVE SECOND kill time on bacteria! It's like dumping a load of poisonous rocks on the bug's heads! It is a mild abrasive that will also clean your teeth and leave your mouth smelling far fresher than toothpaste will! It's CHEAP! You probably have a box in your kitchen! Brush your teeth with Arm and Hammer Baking Soda and floss it down into the gums—the nasty bugs LOVE to stay down in the gingeva. If you have bleeding gums, you have a superhighway for them to enter your blood stream! We have started giving each of our patients an 8oz. box of Arm & Hammer Baking Soda (we buy them for 47¢ each at WalMart by the case. You can buy it by the bag for a lot less per pound) instead of the free toothpaste we used to give.
The protocol is to take a heaping teaspoon of Baking Soda—I do it when I am in the shower—and load your toothbrush with the Soda. Then holding the toothbrush at a 45º angle to the tooth, brush into the gums, working the baking soda into the gums. Use all of the Baking soda and hit all off the gums line. Brush your tongue and the back of your tongue with a tongue brush. Leave the residue. Do not rinse. You will get to like the taste.
The second part of the protocol (this is not so palatable... but you can do it) is once or twice a week take a cap full of Clorox™ brand BLUE CAP bleach—do not use an off brand as we do not know the purity of any other brand—and put it in a glass. Add TWENTY caps fulls of water to make a 20 to 1 dilute mixture of water to bleach... and swish that around in your mouth like mouthwash. It is merely very strong "swimming pool water", called Dakin's Solution, but it will KILL any remaining bacteria in your mouth. It is also the only known substance that will dissolve plaque! Don't worry if you swallow any of it. It will convert to ordinary table salt in your stomach!
If you follow this protocol, you will kill the bacteria that live in your mouth and hopefully prevent any future infection that may cause Alzheimer's, Heart Disease, and adult onset Type 2 Diabetes. We do NOT yet know the life cycle of the Spirochetes... we think they have to reproduce in the mouth... but we are not certain. Dr Miklossy, and other scientists looking at this, hypothesizes the plaques in the brain, Islets of Langerhans, and in the arteries and blood vessels are the left over bodies of dead, twisted entertwined spirochetes... mixed with who knows what... and no one knows if the body can clean up the mess of twenty to thirty years of that build up... but we gotta start somewhere. Cleaning up the source in the mouth seems like a good place!
You can STILL brush your teeth with toothpaste if you like... the Fluoride is still a good idea... but don't be fooled: Even the Arm & Hammer Baking Soda Tooth Paste doesn't have enough baking soda in it to make a difference... Alcohol based mouthwashes don't do it, either.
What about hydrogen peroxide instead of the Clorox?
Hill (it has always seemed to me) is somewhat more subjective and I won't address Hill's criteria. But there are two problems in the Koch postulates as applied in the abstract, to wit:
First Postulate:
"The microorganism will occur in every case of the disease and can explain the pathology and clinical changes associated with the disease (specificity)"
You don't make the claim that spirochetes are seen in all cases, just 90%. That is actually a violation of Koch, not a confirmation.
For example: long before AIDs mechanisms were known or even hypothesized, a number of other candidate viral causes (HTLV, Cytomegalo virus) were ruled out because these were not seen in all cases, whereas HIV was. [But HTLV particularly was seen in the early days in "nearly" all cases.]
Second Postulate:
The microorganism must be shown to be distinct from any others that might be found with the disease.
Again, there is no evidence that you have made this finding to the exclusion of all other possibilities, and indeed seem to muddy the waters by claiming that multiple spirochetes have to be present. OK, then, what else might also necessarily be present? And please note that although you satisfy the third Koch requirement: that the result can be produced in vitro, that mitigates against, but does NOT entirely answer the issue with the 2nd criterion, because it is always possible that effects produced in vitro still require additional precursors, catalysts, or factors in vivo.
Are these issues actually addressed in the full article?
This is an interesting hypothesis, BUT - not only has it been around for a long time, but it has been held questionable for a long time. Try this 1993 reference:
How about peroxide based mouthwashes?
What about the heredity factor?
Google spirochetes and kefir-
Get live kefir grains and make your own at home with milk, coconut milk etc.
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Fascinating information. Thank you.
I will tell my children about this. They’re young enough, that the baking soda regimine might prevent dementia. But what about all us old parents who’ve used toothpaste all our lives? I’m thinking the baking soda certainly can’t hurt ...and, at least, we won’t be adding to the spirochetes already in our systems. Assuming many spirochetes are already in the bodies of 40 - 60 year old toothpaste users...do you believe that switiching to baking soda might lessen the effects of dementia OR eliminate it for them? Also, would you advise an elderly person, say over 75, who suffers from type 2 diabetes, heart disease and early signs of dementia to switch to baking soda? IOW, do you think it would make much of a difference once the alzheimers/dementia has started?
Also, how do we typically kill spirochetes in the body?
Once again, thanks. This is truly fascinating.
Semi-related.
I had a heart valve replaced 11 yrs. ago.
I take a premed bolus of 2 g. amoxicillin prior to any dental work, including cleaning.
Thank you so much for this information! I have 3 questions. My husband and I have whole mouth restoration, Branemark implants, and I have teeth CM ceramics (Clinica Malo), (from Prosthodontics Intermedica with Dr. Balshi in Ft Washington, Pa.). There is a ring of teeth each for upper and lower that is screwed into the implants.
1 Would the bleach and baking soda be safe to use with the prosthesis?
2 Would using bleach change the color of the ceramic teeth and the plastic? material the teeth are set in?
3 I use a nightguard. It is made of hard plastic, but has plaque build up in places. What would your office recommend in so far as keeping it disinfected? Should I keep it in a bleach or baking soda solution?
Thank you so much for sharing this information with us, Swordfish!
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Special thanks for the download link!
Thank you for the information!!
Fantastic post, Swordmaker. Thanks.
I’d imagine the Clorox dilution would be even more fantastic if used in one’s Water-Pik. Gets into the gums that way!
Placemark for an abslute Must Read!
I am going to spread this around!
(BTW I have used tooth powder for more than 12 years, hated toothpaste due to its sicky sweet taste. Now I make my own powder with clay, baking soda, salt and some herb powders. I’ll just cut out the salt now and increase the b. soda.)
Thank you very much for this wonderful and useful info!