HOW BIOLOGICAL DENTISTRY SAVED MY LIFE (PART ONE)
Dr. Hal Huggins, ALS/MS/CFS and the root canal connection, and The Importance of Intuition
It was 2015, and I had been bedridden for nearly two years with mercury poisoning/mercury-induced dementia experiencing no fewer than 50 chronic symptoms most days as a result of a tetanus shot. Here is my full story.
I was considered a hopeless case. When I asked one gastroenterologist at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles what happened to people like me, she looked up for the first time since I arrived and warned that I wouldn’t like her answer: she explained that generally, cases like mine drift internally from doctor to doctor and never get solved. Her tone implied that everyone moves on with their lives except the “hopeless” patient. Well, she was right. For nearly three years, I did not move on. I drifted deeper and deeper into a state of near incapacitation and fantasized daily about the relief death might bring.
Fast forward to May 2016, after meeting with a functional doctor in Austin, Texas and doing a battery of tests, she explained that I had severe mercury poisoning. How did that happen I wondered? She suggested my 35 year old fillings were the culprit. She was partially right as it turns out.
My body’s ability to detoxify metals it once handled with ease had been destroyed by a tetanus shot.
Attempting to keep family in the loop, I let them know that I had a doctor who suggested I remove all my mercury fillings. A barrage of conventional and dramatic viewpoints emerged, all with the underlying message - this must be all in your head. Despite the negative backlash I began preparing for the procedure.
Up until this point, I allowed everyone around me to dictate who I should be and what to believe during this crisis, and not once, did I ever contemplate following my intuition. Until that moment.
I spent the next several months searching for what is known as a “biological dentist.” Ignorant of the term, I sank deep into a new and fascinating universe of information. Something extraordinary and disturbing took hold of me. I consumed hundreds of hours of podcasts and documentaries delving into the root cause of many neurological and seemingly “incurable” diseases resulting not only from mercury fillings but also root canals. There were miraculous stories of people experiencing immediate remission from MS, ALS, and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome by simply removing their amalgam fillings (these stories are almost completely censored on the internet these days). I was able to dig up this nifty vintage 60 minutes clip:
Makes you miss the old world where truth wasn’t public enemy number one. Why has You Tube allowed this clip to stay up I wondered? This segment did get torn down as soon as it aired. I can almost see the shaded outline of a pudgy Boss Hogg type character (head of the American Dental Association) FURIOUS that the cat was let out of the bag about mercury fillings. With grease from the fried chicken all over his pudgy fingers and the veins in his head bulging he squeals into the phone: how much money do I pay in advertising for these media types to keep their mouths shut??
I could feel my consciousness expand to include the reality that people and children everywhere are being lured into chronic illness without their consent. Worse than that, the people that should be advocating for them have been lulled into being complicit. Yet, I was thrilled to have an answer to my debilitation for the first time since the tidal wave of horror blanketed my old life. My outlook changed. Hope returned.
Dr. Hal Huggins is considered the godfather of biological dentistry and became well-known for his “controversial” ideas about the dangers of conventional dentistry with his first book “It’s All In Your Head.” Highlighting the irony of conventional medicine’s knee-jerk attitude towards illnesses that they don’t understand, Huggins went on to pioneer healing modalities through biological dentistry that changed the course of medical mysteries. It is a known fact that if you come to a physician with more than half a dozen symptoms that have persisted for more than six months, you will be referred to a psychiatrist. I am living proof of how right Dr. Huggins and my family was. It WAS all in my head — ALL my poisonous fillings, those necrotic root canals ROTTING under the gum line, and disease-causing cavitations in my jaw spreading bacterial infections into my brain.
“In a paper published in Alternative Medicine Review in 1998, Huggins claimed that changes in cerebrospinal fluid that are typical for multiple sclerosis remitted after the removal of amalgam fillings and root canals.[20] Huggins claimed that dental care according to his understanding of dentistry has allowed wheelchair-using patients diagnosed with multiple sclerosis to walk unassisted within weeks”
—Wikipedia (yes, I am quoting Wikipedia even though they are notorious misinformation spreaders). Occasionally, they CAN just post the facts; however, they did try to distort these findings as being misaligned with allopathic medicine’s understanding of MS. I should HOPE his views contradict conventional medicine! Otherwise, he wouldn’t have made the groundbreaking discoveries he did. I’m unaware of any breakthrough cures that Western Medicine has for neurological diseases. There is also a palpable lack of interest in curing most diseases among the Western Medicine crowd. Big Pharma, the ADA, and the AMA have relentless and powerful lobbyists in Washington, with just about every Congress person from all 50 state on their payroll. Why would anyone want change? Among the 70 drugs available for MS, Avonex is one of the more common intramuscular drugs used. Apparently it won’t help with symptoms, but works “behind the scenes” to slow down the “auto-immune attack”. This is the standard pricing for just (4) doses of the drug:
Avonex (interferon beta-1a) is a member of the interferons drug class and is commonly used for Multiple Sclerosis.
The cost for Avonex intramuscular powder for injection 30 mcg is around $7,240 for a supply of 4 powder for injection, depending on the pharmacy you visit.
The required dosage is weekly. So, the makers of Avonex clean up to the tune of approximately 30K per month on just one customer for only one of the many drugs they take. That’s a pretty epic Ponzi scheme. They make Bernie Madoff look like a true stooge, primarily because he went to jail and the makers of this drug and their cohorts bask in the Caribbean while the payloads roll in.
This where greed tends to override humanity.
It warrants saying - I don’t think all medication is bad (and sometimes it does exactly what it needs to), but the system of censorship, corruption, and money laundering that has become synonymous with Big Pharma and the US government has broken us. According to singlecare.com 66% of the United States is on prescription medication.
One documentary, in particular, that stands out is “The Root Cause,” an in-depth story of one man’s journey to find healing from his decade-long chronic illness only to discover that the cause of his “mysterious” and “incurable” disease was his root canals. After this movie was released, the American Dental Association sent a cease and desist letter to Netflix and any platform that was was distributing it, citing violations of “public health” and other bullying tactics all too familiar in the current medical fascism model we are now deeply entrenched in. This film, by the way, should be required viewing by every dental and medical student alive. Unfortunately, it is still banned on most streaming platforms.
Looking back, my heavily programmed mind had real trouble believing that the 1970s dentist I saw as a child in Staten Island would do something so devastating to a young child’s health. It hit me like balls of hail - I flashed back to that first subtle wave of melancholy that settled into my life just days after my first cavity was filled in the 3rd grade. I remember coming home from school and throwing myself on the carpeted landing at the bottom of our stairs leading up to the bedrooms and cried for no reason while staring at the faded wallpaper collage of the Mona Lisa, Van Gogh, and Monet paintings (utterly confused as to why we had pictures of these strangers on our wall). This feeling of abstract melancholy would lead me down a path of searching for substances to alleviate the sadness, including tons of sugar, which would only give me more cavities to be filled with mercury in the form of amalgam fillings in my mouth.
Corruption lives in the details between beliefs based on what is real and those rooted in what is convenient.
After some digging, I found a biological dentist in Santa Barbara who had a profound understanding of the field. This time, I decided to just let all my expectations go and pray I didn’t get worse from the procedure.
I hesitantly entered the small California cottage off the main drag in Santa Barbara and was greeted with a warmth that felt like the hug I needed to coax me into that chair. Inside the room where the procedure would happen there was an intern from Switzerland who was training alongside my new dentist. Although my brain was not able to converse with her in French as I once would have been able to with my old brain, I tried to make small talk to take my mind off what was about to happen. She spoke some English, and it was just enough to distract me. I asked her if they used amalgam fillings in Switzerland. You know, small talk. Her reply is something I will never forget. She said, in English, “yes but only on the elderly and the”… she struggled to explain… she tried in English but I couldn’t understand, and then she switched to French. I recognized her speaking a number.
Vingt et un.
Twenty One.
The fluent French files buried in the back of my battered mind were still there because suddenly I KNEW what she was talking about. She was referring to the chromosome number that is responsible for Down Syndrome! Wait, is she saying what I think she’s saying? That they only used amalgam fillings on the elderly and the retarded (intellectually disabled) population? As that information sunk in, the doctor walked in wearing what looked like a moon landing uniform and put goggles on me. We were about to begin. I let myself pray. I released any expectations. Maybe I was just here to learn?
The next part of this essay will reveal the transformation I experienced during the 48 hours after the procedure.
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Sending BIG gratitude and love to you all this Thanksgiving.