Two conceptions of dentistry and medicine offer themselves to us.
Conventional and allopathic
The conventional medicine turns around exactly one insufficient thing: diagnosing and treating disease (drugs and associated studies are sourced in statistics which are at the start of the standardized allopathic approach),
The conventional dentistry overlooks that the well-being of the person includes the oral health, undermines the health hazards of dental mercury,
Integrative and Biological
Integrative medicine and biological dentistry are about giving us more chances to control what is controllable.
Both are on the mission of preventing and warding off disease in a less toxic way.
Both have clearly established the urgency for prevention, education on environmental risks exposure to be better integrated into public health.
Biological dentistry and Integrative medicine include into their protocols the major factors altering our epigenetic.
Scientific research have revealed that 80% of the expression of our genes come from our diet, lifestyle and environment.
Our environment has changed over the past 60 years.
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We find environmental toxins from the air we breathe, from the water we drink, from the homes and offices we live in. Endocrine disruptors include a wide range of substances, both natural and human-made, that may interfere with the body’s endocrine system and produce adverse developmental, reproductive, neurological, and immune effects.
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We found in many everyday products we use Bisphenol-A, BHA & BHT, Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone, Sodium Aluminum Sulphate and Potassium Aluminum Sulphate, Sodium Nitrite/Nitrate, Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons, phthalates, dioxins, Genetically Modified Organisms, fertilizers, herbicides and insecticides, antibiotic-resistance.
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Electromagnetic radiation, caused by GPS, microwaves, Bluetooth, smart homes, cellular phones, DECT telephones and Wi-Fi, for example, have effects on the biological processes in our body that we can't ignore or undermine.
Our diet has changed and differs from the one from our parents.
Industrial agriculture is characterized by large-scale monoculture, heavy use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and meat production in confined animal feeding operations. Our modern diet can be artificially concentrated with trans-fats, plant oils, sugar and refined carbohydrates.
These dramatic changes affect our intestinal permeability, and are major causes of metabolic disorders.
They are root causes to low-grade inflammation which in turn cause oxidative stress, respiratory insufficiency in our mitochondria.
This inflammation attacks the single layer of cells (the endothelium) that line our 80,000 kms of blood vessels and is now understood to be at the center of a wide range of chronic conditions. Thanks to its positive effect on immunity and mitochondrial function in the body, maintaining a healthy gut is unanimously taken extremely seriously by the wider scientific community.
Addressing this silent inflammation would greatly help halting vascular disease and most other chronic diseases.
All diseases develop within organs at the cellular level
Integrative Medicine and Biological Dentistry value targeted nutraceuticals.
Oral and Gut Microbiomes, and the Immune System are highly responsive to them
The primary cause of cellular malfunction is a deficiency of vitamins, minerals, hormones and other nutrients required for cell fuel and wound healing.
Everyone should take ‘core’ essential nutrients, and targeted nutrients depending on their genetic, lifestyle and medical history.
That is neither how much of a nutrient that goes into the mouth that counts, nor is it what gets absorbed and transported in the blood. What counts is how much gets into the cells of the tissues that need the nutrients.
Intracellular supplementation (intracellular water in the cells plus the dissolved salts) is only half of the story, extra-cellular (tissue fluid plus plasma) supplementation supplies the other key factor for health. The extracellular fluid is the immediate environment surrounding every cell in our bodies. We, therefore, need great water and balanced micronutrients to optimize our extracellular fluid. Of all the items in our diet, the daily intake of quality water is the most important.
Nutraceuticals are components of foods or dietary supplements with a medicinal or therapeutic effect