October 26, 2025 • 34 mins
In this special Breast Cancer Awareness Month episode, Dr. Rachaele Carver explores how your mouth may hold clues to breast health. From gum disease and oral bacteria to hormone balance and energy flow, she breaks down surprising connections between oral inflammation, estrogen levels, and breast cancer risk.
You’ll learn how bacteria like P. gingivalis can trigger inflammatory cytokines that affect tissues far beyond the mouth and why supporting your oral microbiome and hormone health may be one of the best preventive steps you can take.
Dr. Carver also discusses:
How oral bacteria travel through the blood and lymph systems
Why estrogen levels impact gum health, dry mouth, and tissue strength
The role of inflammation and cytokines in cancer risk
Tests you can try from saliva microbiome panels (Bristle) to tear-based breast screening (Auria)
How energy flow, lymph movement, and stress affect healing
Simple daily steps to keep your mouth, hormones, and immune system in sync
Whether you’re navigating perimenopause, focused on prevention, or supporting someone through breast cancer, this episode is packed with actionable insights for a truly holistic approach to wellness.
👉 Book your 1:1 oral–systemic consult or explore the 6-week “Reverse Gum Disease” course using the links below.
Key Takeaways
- Oral health is systemic health your mouth reflects your immune and hormonal balance.
- Estrogen helps maintain the mucosal barrier; low estrogen increases oral dryness and disease risk.
- P. gingivalis and other bacteria are linked to inflammation that may influence cancer progression.
- Overuse of antibiotics can disrupt your oral microbiome — balance is key.
- Dental screening and lymph support are essential before any major surgery.
- Energy flow and emotional health (think: Qigong, acupuncture, grounding) are part of true prevention.
Resources Mentioned
- Bristle Test – Oral microbiome saliva test
- Auria – At-home tear-based breast cancer screening
- DNA Connexions – Pathogen detection test
- Energy for Life – Biofeedback system
- PEMF / AMP Coil / Dr. Tennant’s Tools – Support cellular energy
- YoQi.com – Qigong videos for energy flow
Connect with Dr. Carver
Join the 6-Week Gum Disease Course: https://reversegumdiseaseinsixweeks.info/optinpage
Book Your Personalized Consultation: https://calendly.com/drcarver-1/health-coaching-consult?month=2025-10
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Dr. Carver (00:00):
Hello, everyone, and welcome to this special edition
of the Root of the MatterPodcast.
I am your host, Dr.
Rachel Carver.
Since it is October and breastcancer awareness month, I wanted
to create a little solo episodediscussing how possibly oral
health can impact our breasthealth.
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If you've been listening to thepodcast for some time, the
whole point of the podcast is toshow how every kind of chronic
disease can be linked to theoral cavity.
Bacteria is very common rightin the mouth.
And if you've listened againpreviously to the episode about
heart health, about dementia, weknow that bacteria are able to
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get anywhere in the body via theblood system, via the GI
system, by swallowing thatsaliva into the circulatory
system, can get into therespiratory system.
So there are many ways thatoral bacteria get through the
entire body.
So it shouldn't be surprisingthat there may be some links to
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breast cancer.
I am such a big advocate ofprevention.
So I wanted to do a smalllittle podcast and let us know
how this oral bacteria andinflammation in general, even
gum disease, have been shown tocorrelate with breast cancer.
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Interestingly, estrogenreceptors are throughout the
whole body.
And they so no surprise, theyare actually present in the oral
cavity.
When we have higher levels, orI should say optimal levels of
estrogen, that is what helpskeep the mucosal barrier strong,
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right?
It helps epithelial cells,which are those cells that line
all of our organs, how theyallow for that epithet cells to
proliferate, to grow again tomaintain that barrier, and it
regulates fibroblasts, which areresponsible for growing some of
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the collagen and all thatconnective tissue that is really
important for overall health.
Interestingly, in situationslike pregnancy, when we have
higher levels of estrogen, wecan actually see gum
sensitivity, some swellingthere.
There's that extraproliferation of the tissue.
And with low estrogen, so inperimenopause, menopause, when
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our estrogen levels really drop,we may have more symptoms of
dry mouths, of more susceptibleto ulcerations and more
susceptibility to gum disease,and a decrease in the
keratinization, which is thekind of that strengthening of
all those epithelial cells.
So that made me wonder.
Oftentimes you hear thatautoimmune conditions will get
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better during pregnancy.
And this could be, again, oneof those mechanisms that
estrogen creates a very strongbarrier throughout the entire
gut, right?
We know that the gut begins inthe mouth, but that can also
heal some of that leaky gut.
And if you've listened to me,my belief is that autoimmunity
really stems from leaky gut,basically.
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That breakdown of the barriersallows toxins and infections to
get through into thebloodstream, into the lymph
system to activate the immunesystem.
So having optimal estrogen isreally important for overall
health.
Estrogen also regulates theosteoblast and osteoclast
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activity.
That's really crucial formaintaining bone density, right?
It's another thing that wethink of when we're in
perimenopause and menopause, wetend to start breaking down bone
a little bit faster.
And when we're breaking downthat bone, we're releasing
decades of old toxicity rightinto the system, which can
further accelerate more boneloss, right?
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If there's toxin anywhere inthe body, the immune system is
going to be activated to try tohelp us get rid of those excess
toxins.
So again, why optimizing ourhormone levels every stage of
our life can be very important.
So again, if we're in thatperiod and menopause stage and
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we're getting dry mouth, we knowthat we're more susceptible to
decay.
We're more susceptible to theulceration, all these
uncomfortable things that therereally aren't great remedies
for.
We can try all lozenges and gumand saliva replacement, but
I've never heard of anyonefinding real release.
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Maybe sipping water all day.
But really, if we could looktowards hormone optimization,
that may really be the key.
So what about cancer?
Cancer, we know, is immunedysregulation, often linked to
inflammation.
And what causes inflammation,right?
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It's the toxins, it's theinfections.
If you listen to me many times,that's how I break every single
diagnosis down to toxins andinfections.
So in gum disease, which is amajor inflammatory and in my
opinion, an autoimmunecondition, this is caused by an
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imbalance in the oralmicrobiome.
Again, you've listened to myconversation, we talk a lot
about this terrain theory,right?
It's not that one day youswallow this bad bacteria and
suddenly you have gum disease.
No, there is a shift in theoral environment.
You'll become more acidic.
There are fewer nutrients,right?
We don't have the minerals andthe fat-soluble vitamins, the
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oxygen that's needed to allowthe good bacteria to thrive.
So when those nutrients arelacking, we are going to become
more acidic.
We're going to shift theenvironment and those
pathogenic, more destructiveorganisms are going to overgrow.
And then we're going to swallowthem.
We're going to push them intocirculatory subsurrections.
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They're going to come throughour lymph.
We could breathe them.
All these little thesepremises.
And then what happens when thebacteria gets lodged in the
endothelium, right?
In those blood vessels, in thetissues, right?
Their toxic byproducts aregoing to create inflammation,
right?
And what we can see sometimesis an increase in C-reactive
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protein.
That's a non-specific markerthat often is part of routine
blood work.
And that's saying, hey, we'vegot inflammation somewhere in
the body.
We'll get the increase incertain intralukins, right?
IL-1 beta and IL6 TNF alpha.
Those are the bad guys when wetalk about cytokines and they
start doing tissue damage.
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Interestingly, there was aSwedish study that was showing
it had a statisticallysignificant association of women
with breast cancer andperiodontal disease.
There were 3,000 women and theywere aged 30 to 40 years old.
Those with gum disease weremore than two times more likely
to have cancer.
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They also found that EpsteinBarr virus and cytomegalovirus
were associated with breastcancer and gum disease.
And again, this is a result ofincrease of all those cytokines,
increase of the reactive oxygenspecies, which start to age our
cells, damage the DNA, damageour mitochondria, which are
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responsible for producingenergy.
Another study of 200 women withperiodolinization, they were
two to three times more likelyto get cancer, also.
So again, this increasedactivation of these cytokines is
going to cause all theseproblems.
The major bacteria that thesestudies found was porphyonis
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gingivalis.
This is the batty.
Again, if you've heard any ofthe previous podcasts,
especially the one where wetalked about heart disease or
dementia, it was this P.
gingivalis that's insidious,and you can find it in so many
chronic diseases.
And again, linked to breastcancer, linked to tumor
progression, because of thedamage of lipopolysaccharides is
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one of the byproducts of thisorganism.
And that causes direct damageto our blood vessels.
And it promotes cancer stemcells, right?
So there are chemokinesreleased from these bacteria
that will recruit macrophages.
They recruit something called amyeloid-derived suppressor
cell.
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IL1 beta is part of thisprocess.
And that can cause metastasis,right?
That is something we allfeared.
Is that is that cancer going tospread?
It makes it more challenging totreat once it's what spreads
around.
P.
gender valves also activatesanti-apoptotic pathways.
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And apoptosis is the processwhere cells have programmed
deaths, right?
So the cells they become old,they become damaged, and the
body should.
They recognize we're no longergood.
We're gonna we're gonna tap outhere, we're gonna, we're gone.
But if we allow these damagedcells to remain, more tissue
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damage builds up, more DNAbecomes altered, more pathogenic
or cancer-causing genes andproteins can be uh produced,
which is not great.
The uh P.
Genivalis with its toxicity, itcan also increase levels of
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other bacteria.
So they have like this quorumsensing type of thing where the
more they proliferate, the morethat they they allow other bugs
to come in and grow as well.
So another thing as I wasresearching for this podcast
that I thought was veryinteresting was that uh the use
of antibiotics would actuallyincrease best breast cancer risk
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due to the impact on the oralmicrobiome.
Because as we know, we have tobe very prudent now with our
antibiotic use because we wipeout good and bad.
And the point of health is notabout killing all the bad, it's
really about balance.
These bad or pathogenicbacteria are present in health,
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but we need to have that properbalance.
So when we try to, a lot of ourtreatments in conventional
medicine dentistry are justabout trying to kill all
pathogens.
And again, we really need tofocus on creating that healthy
terrine so that the bad onesdon't overgrow, so we don't get
that stimulation of thosedamaging cytokines, keep
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inflammation at bay.
And it's so tricky because somuch of this is silent
inflammation, right?
Most of us don't have pain withgum disease.
We don't have pain typically,once a tooth is dead, there may
be an abscess.
And of course, sometimesgetting to that point, there can
be a lot of pain.
But but oftentimes we findabscesses, infected teeth on
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x-rays, and the patient feelsabsolutely nothing.
The tooth is dead, right?
But all of those toxicbyproducts are causing low-grade
inflammation.
So, again, prevention,screening, going to the dentist,
these kind of things are reallyimportant.
People so often say, I don'twant x-rays, nothing hurts,
nothing feels bad, I don't wantan x-ray, I don't want to pay
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for it.
And while I understand that,and we also don't want too much
radiation, the digital now is sominimal, but I understand that
concern as well.
We know that increasedradiation can also cause cancer.
So we need to be reallyprudent.
If you are somebody who hasn'thad a cavity in multiple years,
we may go three years withouttaking an x-ray.
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But again, every so often wereally need to check for these
things because it's these silentinfections, especially in an
upper tooth that's right intothe sinus, which is very close
to the brain.
We don't want to miss thesethings.
And oftentimes when you arediagnosed with cancer, the
oncologist isn't gonna thinkabout your mouth.
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They're not gonna tell you,make sure there are no
infections.
Fortunately, for jointreplacement, we do have most
orthopedics will require adental sign-off, right?
We have to check everything,make sure there's no infection
because they know that infectioncan go right to that wound and
create a problem and potentiallycause failure of the brand new
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joint.
I had a woman just the otherday had joint replacement.
The doctor never had hercyanose on it, and now she has
an infection.
She was put on bone preservingdrugs, which creates a real
problem for extraction.
So, again, anyone out there, ifyou are going to have any major
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surgery, whether it's a joint,heart surgery, maybe even
something like a I don't know, asimple gallbladder surgery that
is very common.
I don't love the idea of that.
There are ways to fix that.
But regardless, you want tomake sure that you're free of
infection and everybody forgetsabout the mouth.
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And the mouth is so accessible,it's relatively easy to treat,
and you can actually visibly seeany signs of inflammation.
So that is, I hope, a bigtakeaway today.
Anytime, even routine minorsurgeries, if you want to heal
well, you've got to make surethat your system, your immune
system is working at 100%.
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And if you've heard previouspodcasts, I talked about even
root canals.
They can, if you think of atooth as a circuit breaker, Dr.
Jerry Tennan has been known,he's published information
talking about how that one rootcanal can shut down the entire
energy circuit by 60%, right?
Again, if you have a root canalon a specific meridian that
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maybe you're having surgery on,right?
What can we do?
Can we give you some ozone,some procaine?
There are ways that we can doto try to increase energy, pulse
electromagnetic frequency, homehomeopathic remedies.
There are a lot of ways that wecan get energy into the body to
improve healing, improveoutcomes for any kind of
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procedure.
That's a side note there.
And what else?
So the other thing that the P.
gingivalis that got on atangent there, but that can also
activate MMPs, which areenzymes that break down tissue.
They upregulate genes that areinvolved in lipid metabolism or
fats, and they can increasetumor formation and even create
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resistance to treatment.
Some people do really well insurgery, some treatments just
don't work.
And why is that?
What why why in one personcould one treatment work and it
doesn't work in the otherperson?
Perhaps there are theselow-grade infections happening
throughout the body that need tobe addressed before that
treatment can be supereffective.
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And the other thing I wanted totalk a little bit about was
more about this energy pathways,right?
I often, anytime I have asymptom or the patient who has a
symptom and I'm trying tofigure out what's going on, I
will tighten that symptom andthen hit in Chinese medicine.
So Chinese medicine, Ayurvedicmedicine, these Eastern
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philosophies really understoodkind of whole body health, how
the body worked together.
They all based on the energyand the way all the systems are
connected.
So it obviously, when I learnedabout this 15 years ago, really
resonated with me, reallytrained to understand what is
the cause.
I don't want to just treat asymptom.
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I want to understand why did Iget that breast cancer?
What could I have done toprevent that?
And how can I do well intreatment and then never deal
with that ever again?
I think most of us would agreethat would be the optimal
outcome.
So if you look, if you readabout breast cancer and Chinese
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medicine, they talked about thatit is affected by the flow of
qi, right?
Or prana, life force, maybeeven lymph, if you want to think
about in the Western medicinevernacular there.
So energy is supposed to flowthrough our organs, through all
of our systems freely andeasily.
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I've heard I've said before onthis podcast, I really think
when you feel pain somewhere,that is a signal that the energy
isn't flowing properly.
So when I think about a painfultooth, I'm trying to think, how
do I get the energy to flow?
What is it?
Is it a scar?
Is it bacteria?
Is it the bite, right?
What something is causing thatenergy to be disrupted, and that
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pain is a signal to us to payattention.
So the one of the mainmeridians we talk about with
breast cancer, the livermeridian.
When there is stagnation due tounexpressed anger or emotional
turmoil, that can lead togrowths in the breast.
And I will say I can absolutelyattest to this being true.
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Had a little kind ofinteresting thing going on this
fall with my daughter and hercoach, and it has created a lot
of emotional turmoil, not justfor my daughter, but bring back
some PTSD memories for thesituation that I was going
through.
And and over I noticed a lumpdeveloping in my breast.
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I was working with my energyhealers to uproot that anger,
that old hurt, and that past.
Because I was like, Wow.
And my right side is the moremasculine side.
So it's like, wow, that energyis all related to male energy
and these traumas that I had 30years ago.
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So it's just a really importantpoint that we can do the
physical healing and we canremove some of the infections,
right?
We can get rid of that, but wealso have to look at that other
side, that the emotional term,the emotional infections, right,
that are in the body.
And if we're gonna holisticallytreat our body, we have to see
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both the physical, theemotional, the spiritual.
So it's been reallyinteresting.
When I was researching this,I'm like, oh my gosh, I have
firsthand witnessing of thishappening to myself.
So again, how what am I doing?
I'm obviously always trying toeat well, I'm trying to
exercise, but again, doing thatemotional work so I can release
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that, those kind of emotionaltoxins out of my body.
The other meridian that'simportant for breast health is
the stomach meridian that runsdirectly through the middle of
the breast, and it's responsiblefor processing thoughts and
emotions.
Anytime you're nervous orstressed, how does your stomach
feel?
You have butterflies in yourstomach.
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You certainly don't feel likeeating, right?
And so that's really important.
All of our emotions will affectour nervous system.
And the nervous system, right?
The vagus nerve innervatesevery single digestive organ.
So if you're very stressed outemotionally or physically, we're
going to affect the nervoussystem, which is going to shut
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down the stomach and all otherdigestive processes.
So again, we're going to stopthe proper flow of energy.
So again, important tounderstand what is it, what is
it that causes that anxiety?
What filter are we seeing thatthrough, right?
How can we change some of ourcore beliefs so we no longer
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feel that anxiety from certainsituations?
And that's a lot of work.
We we just had Katie on in ourdetox series talking about how
important that that detox of theemotions are.
So there's a lot ofpractitioners out there.
There are a lot of books, thereare a lot of things that you
can do on your own to try towork through some of that stuff.
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The other meridian is thekidney meridian.
So that can store that storesinherited energy, which is
really important to think aboutgenerations past.
So some of our anxieties, someof our preconceptions are not
even ours, right?
They are from our ancestors.
And the kidneys are are wherethe crux of our energy comes
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from.
So if there's been decades andancestors with lower energy,
you're gonna have lower energytoo.
So how do we boost that thatgreat energy?
One of the best ways we talkabout always is grounding,
right?
Is being on the earth, beingaround full energy, circadian
rhythms, right?
Sunlight first thing in themorning, having regular meal
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scheduled for regular meals, youknow, exercising, and uh just
trying to be more in touch withnature, get uh more synchronized
uh with the ebb and flow ofnature.
Qi and blood stagnation canalso be caused from chronic
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stress, and though, and thatcreates the perfect environment,
right?
We talked about that terrain toallow these pathogens to
overgrow, which can cause toxicheat, it can cause blockages, it
can cause phlegm um somewherein the body, it can be really
sticky.
Sometimes you could feel thisas achy joints, you can get up
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in the morning, we'll stiffmuscles a little bit, you know,
nothing just can flow reallywell.
And the lymph is reallyimportant to have good flow,
because that is how we get ridof the waste from all this
bacteria and toxins.
And the mouth, we've talkedabout many times before, right?
But the lymph, 20% of our lymphchannels is right in the head
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and the neck.
And think about when we'redraining from, let's say, an
infection in our mouth, it'sgoing down our neck.
And what is the first organthat it may hit superficially,
right?
The breasts are right there.
And toxins, a lot of toxinsreally love fat tissue.
So breasts are, especially inwomen, are mainly fat.
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And so that is a great placefor those tongue.
The body needs to hide thesetoxins and it packages them fat
to try to get them away from theuh important tasks that we need
to do every day.
So that's why it's so common.
And when I think about cancer,that's why I constantly once or
twice a year, I'm running toxinscreens on myself.
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I'm doing infection screens formyself because I want to be
aware of what it is because Idon't feel anything per se.
I may have an achy joint hereor there, or feel tired, but I'm
not sure what that's comingfrom.
I want to make sure that mylymph channels are open, but I'm
feeling that my digestion isreally robust, so that therefore
my immune system is reallyrobust.
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We talked about again with theenergy and the flowing, the
teeth, right?
Every tooth is on a specificmeridian.
So the teeth that are on thebreast meridians are our upper,
first, and second molars and theupper second premolar, which is
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the tooth that's right in frontof your first six-year molar,
and then the lower premolar, soboth sides, right?
So what does this mean?
If you have a root canal,right, again, if we're thinking
back to Jerry Tennant'steaching, and that shuts down
that circuit by 60%.
If you do have a toxin orinfection that's running through
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that breast, or it's in thebreast tissue, right?
And then the energy in thatmeridian has been tamped down by
60%, there is less energy forthe immune system to be able to
recognize that toxin, packageit, and push it out through the
lymph system and ultimately outof the body.
Does that mean that every rootcanal tooth on a first molar is
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going to cause cancer?
Absolutely not.
And I don't want anybody tothink that.
But again, if we're we if wereally want to cure disease, we
need to try to understand.
And there's never one thing,right?
It's usually that collection,that bucket overflowing.
So could could disease in themouth be a cause of inflammation
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that ultimately leads to thebody misdirecting itself and
causing cancer?
Yes, I think that is true.
But again, it's not to say thatone thing or one tooth or one
root canal is going to causethat.
But in the treatment planning,in thinking about how to deal
with these, if we have thesediagnoses, I want everybody to
consider how we can keep themouth as clean as possible?
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Can we remove as muchinflammation and infection out
of the mouth so that we havebetter results with our
treatment?
And hopefully we will be curedand never have to think about
that again.
So, how do we know if we havethis P.
gingivalis?
In your dental office, there'sso many great saliva tests
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today.
There is probably half a dozen.
The one that I use that I'vehad a podcast about is the
bristle saliva test that checksfor over 700 different species
in the mouth.
And certainly P.
gingivalis is one of those.
There are several otherbacteria that are known to be
prevalent in other chronicdiseases as well.
So we can really see, and whatI like about bristles, we can
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compare it to how much goodthere is, right?
Because remember, it's not justabout the quantity, but the
balance there.
So we can look.
And if we have high levels ofP.
gingival, then we know, okay,this is an action item.
What do I need to do?
And I have a fantastic, mylittle six-week course to
reversing gum disease.
One of those bugs we're goingafter is the P.
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gingival.
So there's a link to the thatthat great thing.
It again reverses gum disease,but not just gum disease,
because we know gum disease islinked to so many other
diseases.
So by cleaning up the mouth, weprevent most all chronic
inflammatory diseases.
We can optimize our hormones.
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We started this podcast talkingall about estrogen, how much of
an impact of optimal estrogenlevels create health in the oral
cavity and throughout the body.
That's really important.
Finding a doctor who cannavigate, test properly,
navigate.
And the new study show it's noteven too late.
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Even if you've been inmenopause two 10 years, it's not
too late to have thatevaluated.
There are so many differentways between, and we want it to
be a bioidentical.
Okay, that's really important.
This is not putting on birthcontrol, but a doctor who
understands about usingbioidentical hormones to
optimize your estrogen, yourprogesterone, your DHA, um,
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testosterone as well.
Really important to investigatethat.
It's pretty well establishedthat women who go into menopause
later, have babies later inlife, tend to live longer
because they have higher levelsof estrogen for longer, or I
should say, optimal levels ofestrogen a little bit longer.
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So, as far as dental, like Isaid, we may want to consider
looking at those roots.
Now, there are also tests thatwe can use to we stick like a
little paper point around thattooth before we remove it and
see, hey, are there theseserious bacteria?
Sometimes we find spirochies,right?
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Like lime in the teeth, right?
Lime is one of those thingsthat can be difficult to treat.
And if it's sitting in the inyour jawbone and you're not
doing anything about it, thenyou're gonna be chronically
trying to manage thatinflammation.
So again, we can first or onceyou take out a tube, it's
forever.
So it's a really big deal.
And we have to really thinkabout that.
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There is a newer test, it'scalled Orea A-U-R-I-A.
It's the first at-homebiological breast cancer
screening test powered by tears.
So you get a little box and youextract, you put a little paper
point right in the corner ofyour eye, send that into the
lab.
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And that will tell you if youwhat it's looking for is a
specific protein that's beenfound to be associated with
breast cancer.
So if that protein is found,you will get a clinically
significant result.
So again, that gives you alittle bit more information to
be shared with your doctors andto see, okay, that mammogram,
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did it look weird?
Should I get an ultrasound?
Should I do some more furthertesting because I do have this
protein?
Or for me, mine actually cameup clinically significant.
So it's oh boy, okay, we needto do some more lymph draining.
And I started really taking alot of proteolytic enzymes to
try to break down these proteinsthat maybe didn't need to be
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there, and now it has gone backto normal.
So that's really exciting.
But you can check out thattest.
It's trying to remember, maybeabout $200 or so, maybe less.
Not too bad if you look forgood peace of mind and to again
jumpstart your preventiontechniques.
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That is another, it's a littlebit of an expensive test, but
the company DNA Connections hasa couple of different different
methods that we can try to testthese things before we make the
ultimate decision to remove thetooth.
I also really love uh usingbiofeedback mechanisms.
This is another way to kind oftap into our energy systems.
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One of the systems I reallylove that I use now.
Called energy for life.
And it is a way of scanningyour entire body seal to see how
much energy do you have in theorgans?
How well is it flowing?
Right.
We talked about how importantthat was.
Is there, are there certainpathways and immune pathways?
What are your emotions?
That's again how much I valuethis type of energy work because
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we can see the balance.
We can see things that we needto work on.
And with that system comes whatthey call infaceuticals, which
are homeopathic remedies thathelp put the energy and the
information back to the body.
The body can get confusedsometimes when there's so much
toxicity or any other kind ofbugs going on.
The messages, right, as thebody's trying to message and
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talk to each other, they can getdisrupted.
So the infaceuticals are a wayto reconnect the proper energy
pathways.
So our body healed itself.
Because ultimately, that is howwe become healthy beings.
It's not about killingsomething or taking something
away, but it's aboutreestablishing our body's
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ultimate lifeline, how it knewthe body innately knows how to
heal itself.
If we can remove all of theburdens, it will heal itself.
We hear about these miraculousrecoveries from stage four of
cancer.
Is it a miracle?
Or did we just tap back intothe body's innate wisdom?
PMF, pulsed electromagneticfrequency.
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There are a lot of mats outthere.
There are some called an ampcoil with the energy for life.
There is a handheld team.
Dr.
Jerry Tennant has somewonderful tools called a
biomodulator that again directlyhe will tell you if you
maintain proper energy in yourstomach meridian, you will never
get breast cancer or prostatecancer.
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That's a pretty, pretty strongstatement, but he stands behind
that.
So again, how do we create keepgood energy flowing through our
body at all times?
One way we can also do that isacupuncture, right?
That's exactly how acupunctureworks.
The acupuncturist will put aneedle on a specific meridian
point that allows the flow ofthe energy through all of that.
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So that's a wonderful modalityto ensure that energy is flowing
everywhere.
My other favorite thing isqigong.
I don't feel as well every dayif I don't get in my 15 minutes
of qigong.
It is just gentle movement ofusing your breath, using very
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simple, slow movements to ensureall of the energy is connected
and that it's moving very well.
My favorite is called Yochi,Y-O-Chi-I.com.
And she's got some great for avery minimal amount of money
every month.
She's got a ton of greatvideos, and I love all the ones
that are 15 minutes, but you canfind free ones on YouTube as
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well.
And it's a really excellent wayto start your day.
It will keep you calm.
And again, it's it is not onlydoing the physical energy, but
with all the breathing and thecalming, and so some of it is
using sounds, right?
We're getting the emotionalbody as well.
So you get a really big bangfor a buck, 15 minutes in the
morning, you can really helpjumpstart that that proper
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energy flow.
I hope I've given you someinformation, some food for
thought.
Again, please check out mylittle six-week course because
that is a great way, a veryholistic way to try to uproot
the inflammation that is at theroot of many, many chronic
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Hello, everyone, and welcome to this special edition
of the Root of the MatterPodcast.
I am your host, Dr.
Rachel Carver.
Since it is October and breastcancer awareness month, I wanted
to create a little solo episodediscussing how possibly oral
health can impact our breasthealth.
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If you've been listening to thepodcast for some time, the
whole point of the podcast is toshow how every kind of chronic
disease can be linked to theoral cavity.
Bacteria is very common rightin the mouth.
And if you've listened againpreviously to the episode about
heart health, about dementia, weknow that bacteria are able to
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get anywhere in the body via theblood system, via the GI
system, by swallowing thatsaliva into the circulatory
system, can get into therespiratory system.
So there are many ways thatoral bacteria get through the
entire body.
So it shouldn't be surprisingthat there may be some links to
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breast cancer.
I am such a big advocate ofprevention.
So I wanted to do a smalllittle podcast and let us know
how this oral bacteria andinflammation in general, even
gum disease, have been shown tocorrelate with breast cancer.
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Interestingly, estrogenreceptors are throughout the
whole body.
And they so no surprise, theyare actually present in the oral
cavity.
When we have higher levels, orI should say optimal levels of
estrogen, that is what helpskeep the mucosal barrier strong,
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right?
It helps epithelial cells,which are those cells that line
all of our organs, how theyallow for that epithet cells to
proliferate, to grow again tomaintain that barrier, and it
regulates fibroblasts, which areresponsible for growing some of
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the collagen and all thatconnective tissue that is really
important for overall health.
Interestingly, in situationslike pregnancy, when we have
higher levels of estrogen, wecan actually see gum
sensitivity, some swellingthere.
There's that extraproliferation of the tissue.
And with low estrogen, so inperimenopause, menopause, when
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our estrogen levels really drop,we may have more symptoms of
dry mouths, of more susceptibleto ulcerations and more
susceptibility to gum disease,and a decrease in the
keratinization, which is thekind of that strengthening of
all those epithelial cells.
So that made me wonder.
Oftentimes you hear thatautoimmune conditions will get
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better during pregnancy.
And this could be, again, oneof those mechanisms that
estrogen creates a very strongbarrier throughout the entire
gut, right?
We know that the gut begins inthe mouth, but that can also
heal some of that leaky gut.
And if you've listened to me,my belief is that autoimmunity
really stems from leaky gut,basically.
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That breakdown of the barriersallows toxins and infections to
get through into thebloodstream, into the lymph
system to activate the immunesystem.
So having optimal estrogen isreally important for overall
health.
Estrogen also regulates theosteoblast and osteoclast
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activity.
That's really crucial formaintaining bone density, right?
It's another thing that wethink of when we're in
perimenopause and menopause, wetend to start breaking down bone
a little bit faster.
And when we're breaking downthat bone, we're releasing
decades of old toxicity rightinto the system, which can
further accelerate more boneloss, right?
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If there's toxin anywhere inthe body, the immune system is
going to be activated to try tohelp us get rid of those excess
toxins.
So again, why optimizing ourhormone levels every stage of
our life can be very important.
So again, if we're in thatperiod and menopause stage and
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we're getting dry mouth, we knowthat we're more susceptible to
decay.
We're more susceptible to theulceration, all these
uncomfortable things that therereally aren't great remedies
for.
We can try all lozenges and gumand saliva replacement, but
I've never heard of anyonefinding real release.
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Maybe sipping water all day.
But really, if we could looktowards hormone optimization,
that may really be the key.
So what about cancer?
Cancer, we know, is immunedysregulation, often linked to
inflammation.
And what causes inflammation,right?
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It's the toxins, it's theinfections.
If you listen to me many times,that's how I break every single
diagnosis down to toxins andinfections.
So in gum disease, which is amajor inflammatory and in my
opinion, an autoimmunecondition, this is caused by an
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imbalance in the oralmicrobiome.
Again, you've listened to myconversation, we talk a lot
about this terrain theory,right?
It's not that one day youswallow this bad bacteria and
suddenly you have gum disease.
No, there is a shift in theoral environment.
You'll become more acidic.
There are fewer nutrients,right?
We don't have the minerals andthe fat-soluble vitamins, the
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oxygen that's needed to allowthe good bacteria to thrive.
So when those nutrients arelacking, we are going to become
more acidic.
We're going to shift theenvironment and those
pathogenic, more destructiveorganisms are going to overgrow.
And then we're going to swallowthem.
We're going to push them intocirculatory subsurrections.
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They're going to come throughour lymph.
We could breathe them.
All these little thesepremises.
And then what happens when thebacteria gets lodged in the
endothelium, right?
In those blood vessels, in thetissues, right?
Their toxic byproducts aregoing to create inflammation,
right?
And what we can see sometimesis an increase in C-reactive
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protein.
That's a non-specific markerthat often is part of routine
blood work.
And that's saying, hey, we'vegot inflammation somewhere in
the body.
We'll get the increase incertain intralukins, right?
IL-1 beta and IL6 TNF alpha.
Those are the bad guys when wetalk about cytokines and they
start doing tissue damage.
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Interestingly, there was aSwedish study that was showing
it had a statisticallysignificant association of women
with breast cancer andperiodontal disease.
There were 3,000 women and theywere aged 30 to 40 years old.
Those with gum disease weremore than two times more likely
to have cancer.
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They also found that EpsteinBarr virus and cytomegalovirus
were associated with breastcancer and gum disease.
And again, this is a result ofincrease of all those cytokines,
increase of the reactive oxygenspecies, which start to age our
cells, damage the DNA, damageour mitochondria, which are
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responsible for producingenergy.
Another study of 200 women withperiodolinization, they were
two to three times more likelyto get cancer, also.
So again, this increasedactivation of these cytokines is
going to cause all theseproblems.
The major bacteria that thesestudies found was porphyonis
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gingivalis.
This is the batty.
Again, if you've heard any ofthe previous podcasts,
especially the one where wetalked about heart disease or
dementia, it was this P.
gingivalis that's insidious,and you can find it in so many
chronic diseases.
And again, linked to breastcancer, linked to tumor
progression, because of thedamage of lipopolysaccharides is
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one of the byproducts of thisorganism.
And that causes direct damageto our blood vessels.
And it promotes cancer stemcells, right?
So there are chemokinesreleased from these bacteria
that will recruit macrophages.
They recruit something called amyeloid-derived suppressor
cell.
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IL1 beta is part of thisprocess.
And that can cause metastasis,right?
That is something we allfeared.
Is that is that cancer going tospread?
It makes it more challenging totreat once it's what spreads
around.
P.
gender valves also activatesanti-apoptotic pathways.
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And apoptosis is the processwhere cells have programmed
deaths, right?
So the cells they become old,they become damaged, and the
body should.
They recognize we're no longergood.
We're gonna we're gonna tap outhere, we're gonna, we're gone.
But if we allow these damagedcells to remain, more tissue
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damage builds up, more DNAbecomes altered, more pathogenic
or cancer-causing genes andproteins can be uh produced,
which is not great.
The uh P.
Genivalis with its toxicity, itcan also increase levels of
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other bacteria.
So they have like this quorumsensing type of thing where the
more they proliferate, the morethat they they allow other bugs
to come in and grow as well.
So another thing as I wasresearching for this podcast
that I thought was veryinteresting was that uh the use
of antibiotics would actuallyincrease best breast cancer risk
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due to the impact on the oralmicrobiome.
Because as we know, we have tobe very prudent now with our
antibiotic use because we wipeout good and bad.
And the point of health is notabout killing all the bad, it's
really about balance.
These bad or pathogenicbacteria are present in health,
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but we need to have that properbalance.
So when we try to, a lot of ourtreatments in conventional
medicine dentistry are justabout trying to kill all
pathogens.
And again, we really need tofocus on creating that healthy
terrine so that the bad onesdon't overgrow, so we don't get
that stimulation of thosedamaging cytokines, keep
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inflammation at bay.
And it's so tricky because somuch of this is silent
inflammation, right?
Most of us don't have pain withgum disease.
We don't have pain typically,once a tooth is dead, there may
be an abscess.
And of course, sometimesgetting to that point, there can
be a lot of pain.
But but oftentimes we findabscesses, infected teeth on
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x-rays, and the patient feelsabsolutely nothing.
The tooth is dead, right?
But all of those toxicbyproducts are causing low-grade
inflammation.
So, again, prevention,screening, going to the dentist,
these kind of things are reallyimportant.
People so often say, I don'twant x-rays, nothing hurts,
nothing feels bad, I don't wantan x-ray, I don't want to pay
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for it.
And while I understand that,and we also don't want too much
radiation, the digital now is sominimal, but I understand that
concern as well.
We know that increasedradiation can also cause cancer.
So we need to be reallyprudent.
If you are somebody who hasn'thad a cavity in multiple years,
we may go three years withouttaking an x-ray.
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But again, every so often wereally need to check for these
things because it's these silentinfections, especially in an
upper tooth that's right intothe sinus, which is very close
to the brain.
We don't want to miss thesethings.
And oftentimes when you arediagnosed with cancer, the
oncologist isn't gonna thinkabout your mouth.
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They're not gonna tell you,make sure there are no
infections.
Fortunately, for jointreplacement, we do have most
orthopedics will require adental sign-off, right?
We have to check everything,make sure there's no infection
because they know that infectioncan go right to that wound and
create a problem and potentiallycause failure of the brand new
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joint.
I had a woman just the otherday had joint replacement.
The doctor never had hercyanose on it, and now she has
an infection.
She was put on bone preservingdrugs, which creates a real
problem for extraction.
So, again, anyone out there, ifyou are going to have any major
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surgery, whether it's a joint,heart surgery, maybe even
something like a I don't know, asimple gallbladder surgery that
is very common.
I don't love the idea of that.
There are ways to fix that.
But regardless, you want tomake sure that you're free of
infection and everybody forgetsabout the mouth.
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And the mouth is so accessible,it's relatively easy to treat,
and you can actually visibly seeany signs of inflammation.
So that is, I hope, a bigtakeaway today.
Anytime, even routine minorsurgeries, if you want to heal
well, you've got to make surethat your system, your immune
system is working at 100%.
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And if you've heard previouspodcasts, I talked about even
root canals.
They can, if you think of atooth as a circuit breaker, Dr.
Jerry Tennan has been known,he's published information
talking about how that one rootcanal can shut down the entire
energy circuit by 60%, right?
Again, if you have a root canalon a specific meridian that
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maybe you're having surgery on,right?
What can we do?
Can we give you some ozone,some procaine?
There are ways that we can doto try to increase energy, pulse
electromagnetic frequency, homehomeopathic remedies.
There are a lot of ways that wecan get energy into the body to
improve healing, improveoutcomes for any kind of
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procedure.
That's a side note there.
And what else?
So the other thing that the P.
gingivalis that got on atangent there, but that can also
activate MMPs, which areenzymes that break down tissue.
They upregulate genes that areinvolved in lipid metabolism or
fats, and they can increasetumor formation and even create
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resistance to treatment.
Some people do really well insurgery, some treatments just
don't work.
And why is that?
What why why in one personcould one treatment work and it
doesn't work in the otherperson?
Perhaps there are theselow-grade infections happening
throughout the body that need tobe addressed before that
treatment can be supereffective.
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And the other thing I wanted totalk a little bit about was
more about this energy pathways,right?
I often, anytime I have asymptom or the patient who has a
symptom and I'm trying tofigure out what's going on, I
will tighten that symptom andthen hit in Chinese medicine.
So Chinese medicine, Ayurvedicmedicine, these Eastern
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philosophies really understoodkind of whole body health, how
the body worked together.
They all based on the energyand the way all the systems are
connected.
So it obviously, when I learnedabout this 15 years ago, really
resonated with me, reallytrained to understand what is
the cause.
I don't want to just treat asymptom.
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I want to understand why did Iget that breast cancer?
What could I have done toprevent that?
And how can I do well intreatment and then never deal
with that ever again?
I think most of us would agreethat would be the optimal
outcome.
So if you look, if you readabout breast cancer and Chinese
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medicine, they talked about thatit is affected by the flow of
qi, right?
Or prana, life force, maybeeven lymph, if you want to think
about in the Western medicinevernacular there.
So energy is supposed to flowthrough our organs, through all
of our systems freely andeasily.
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I've heard I've said before onthis podcast, I really think
when you feel pain somewhere,that is a signal that the energy
isn't flowing properly.
So when I think about a painfultooth, I'm trying to think, how
do I get the energy to flow?
What is it?
Is it a scar?
Is it bacteria?
Is it the bite, right?
What something is causing thatenergy to be disrupted, and that
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pain is a signal to us to payattention.
So the one of the mainmeridians we talk about with
breast cancer, the livermeridian.
When there is stagnation due tounexpressed anger or emotional
turmoil, that can lead togrowths in the breast.
And I will say I can absolutelyattest to this being true.
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Had a little kind ofinteresting thing going on this
fall with my daughter and hercoach, and it has created a lot
of emotional turmoil, not justfor my daughter, but bring back
some PTSD memories for thesituation that I was going
through.
And and over I noticed a lumpdeveloping in my breast.
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I was working with my energyhealers to uproot that anger,
that old hurt, and that past.
Because I was like, Wow.
And my right side is the moremasculine side.
So it's like, wow, that energyis all related to male energy
and these traumas that I had 30years ago.
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So it's just a really importantpoint that we can do the
physical healing and we canremove some of the infections,
right?
We can get rid of that, but wealso have to look at that other
side, that the emotional term,the emotional infections, right,
that are in the body.
And if we're gonna holisticallytreat our body, we have to see
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both the physical, theemotional, the spiritual.
So it's been reallyinteresting.
When I was researching this,I'm like, oh my gosh, I have
firsthand witnessing of thishappening to myself.
So again, how what am I doing?
I'm obviously always trying toeat well, I'm trying to
exercise, but again, doing thatemotional work so I can release
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that, those kind of emotionaltoxins out of my body.
The other meridian that'simportant for breast health is
the stomach meridian that runsdirectly through the middle of
the breast, and it's responsiblefor processing thoughts and
emotions.
Anytime you're nervous orstressed, how does your stomach
feel?
You have butterflies in yourstomach.
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You certainly don't feel likeeating, right?
And so that's really important.
All of our emotions will affectour nervous system.
And the nervous system, right?
The vagus nerve innervatesevery single digestive organ.
So if you're very stressed outemotionally or physically, we're
going to affect the nervoussystem, which is going to shut
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down the stomach and all otherdigestive processes.
So again, we're going to stopthe proper flow of energy.
So again, important tounderstand what is it, what is
it that causes that anxiety?
What filter are we seeing thatthrough, right?
How can we change some of ourcore beliefs so we no longer
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feel that anxiety from certainsituations?
And that's a lot of work.
We we just had Katie on in ourdetox series talking about how
important that that detox of theemotions are.
So there's a lot ofpractitioners out there.
There are a lot of books, thereare a lot of things that you
can do on your own to try towork through some of that stuff.
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The other meridian is thekidney meridian.
So that can store that storesinherited energy, which is
really important to think aboutgenerations past.
So some of our anxieties, someof our preconceptions are not
even ours, right?
They are from our ancestors.
And the kidneys are are wherethe crux of our energy comes
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from.
So if there's been decades andancestors with lower energy,
you're gonna have lower energytoo.
So how do we boost that thatgreat energy?
One of the best ways we talkabout always is grounding,
right?
Is being on the earth, beingaround full energy, circadian
rhythms, right?
Sunlight first thing in themorning, having regular meal
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scheduled for regular meals, youknow, exercising, and uh just
trying to be more in touch withnature, get uh more synchronized
uh with the ebb and flow ofnature.
Qi and blood stagnation canalso be caused from chronic
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stress, and though, and thatcreates the perfect environment,
right?
We talked about that terrain toallow these pathogens to
overgrow, which can cause toxicheat, it can cause blockages, it
can cause phlegm um somewherein the body, it can be really
sticky.
Sometimes you could feel thisas achy joints, you can get up
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in the morning, we'll stiffmuscles a little bit, you know,
nothing just can flow reallywell.
And the lymph is reallyimportant to have good flow,
because that is how we get ridof the waste from all this
bacteria and toxins.
And the mouth, we've talkedabout many times before, right?
But the lymph, 20% of our lymphchannels is right in the head
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and the neck.
And think about when we'redraining from, let's say, an
infection in our mouth, it'sgoing down our neck.
And what is the first organthat it may hit superficially,
right?
The breasts are right there.
And toxins, a lot of toxinsreally love fat tissue.
So breasts are, especially inwomen, are mainly fat.
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And so that is a great placefor those tongue.
The body needs to hide thesetoxins and it packages them fat
to try to get them away from theuh important tasks that we need
to do every day.
So that's why it's so common.
And when I think about cancer,that's why I constantly once or
twice a year, I'm running toxinscreens on myself.
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I'm doing infection screens formyself because I want to be
aware of what it is because Idon't feel anything per se.
I may have an achy joint hereor there, or feel tired, but I'm
not sure what that's comingfrom.
I want to make sure that mylymph channels are open, but I'm
feeling that my digestion isreally robust, so that therefore
my immune system is reallyrobust.
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We talked about again with theenergy and the flowing, the
teeth, right?
Every tooth is on a specificmeridian.
So the teeth that are on thebreast meridians are our upper,
first, and second molars and theupper second premolar, which is
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the tooth that's right in frontof your first six-year molar,
and then the lower premolar, soboth sides, right?
So what does this mean?
If you have a root canal,right, again, if we're thinking
back to Jerry Tennant'steaching, and that shuts down
that circuit by 60%.
If you do have a toxin orinfection that's running through
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that breast, or it's in thebreast tissue, right?
And then the energy in thatmeridian has been tamped down by
60%, there is less energy forthe immune system to be able to
recognize that toxin, packageit, and push it out through the
lymph system and ultimately outof the body.
Does that mean that every rootcanal tooth on a first molar is
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going to cause cancer?
Absolutely not.
And I don't want anybody tothink that.
But again, if we're we if wereally want to cure disease, we
need to try to understand.
And there's never one thing,right?
It's usually that collection,that bucket overflowing.
So could could disease in themouth be a cause of inflammation
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that ultimately leads to thebody misdirecting itself and
causing cancer?
Yes, I think that is true.
But again, it's not to say thatone thing or one tooth or one
root canal is going to causethat.
But in the treatment planning,in thinking about how to deal
with these, if we have thesediagnoses, I want everybody to
consider how we can keep themouth as clean as possible?
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Can we remove as muchinflammation and infection out
of the mouth so that we havebetter results with our
treatment?
And hopefully we will be curedand never have to think about
that again.
So, how do we know if we havethis P.
gingivalis?
In your dental office, there'sso many great saliva tests
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today.
There is probably half a dozen.
The one that I use that I'vehad a podcast about is the
bristle saliva test that checksfor over 700 different species
in the mouth.
And certainly P.
gingivalis is one of those.
There are several otherbacteria that are known to be
prevalent in other chronicdiseases as well.
So we can really see, and whatI like about bristles, we can
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compare it to how much goodthere is, right?
Because remember, it's not justabout the quantity, but the
balance there.
So we can look.
And if we have high levels ofP.
gingival, then we know, okay,this is an action item.
What do I need to do?
And I have a fantastic, mylittle six-week course to
reversing gum disease.
One of those bugs we're goingafter is the P.
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gingival.
So there's a link to the thatthat great thing.
It again reverses gum disease,but not just gum disease,
because we know gum disease islinked to so many other
diseases.
So by cleaning up the mouth, weprevent most all chronic
inflammatory diseases.
We can optimize our hormones.
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We started this podcast talkingall about estrogen, how much of
an impact of optimal estrogenlevels create health in the oral
cavity and throughout the body.
That's really important.
Finding a doctor who cannavigate, test properly,
navigate.
And the new study show it's noteven too late.
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Even if you've been inmenopause two 10 years, it's not
too late to have thatevaluated.
There are so many differentways between, and we want it to
be a bioidentical.
Okay, that's really important.
This is not putting on birthcontrol, but a doctor who
understands about usingbioidentical hormones to
optimize your estrogen, yourprogesterone, your DHA, um,
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testosterone as well.
Really important to investigatethat.
It's pretty well establishedthat women who go into menopause
later, have babies later inlife, tend to live longer
because they have higher levelsof estrogen for longer, or I
should say, optimal levels ofestrogen a little bit longer.
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So, as far as dental, like Isaid, we may want to consider
looking at those roots.
Now, there are also tests thatwe can use to we stick like a
little paper point around thattooth before we remove it and
see, hey, are there theseserious bacteria?
Sometimes we find spirochies,right?
(27:48):
Like lime in the teeth, right?
Lime is one of those thingsthat can be difficult to treat.
And if it's sitting in the inyour jawbone and you're not
doing anything about it, thenyou're gonna be chronically
trying to manage thatinflammation.
So again, we can first or onceyou take out a tube, it's
forever.
So it's a really big deal.
And we have to really thinkabout that.
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There is a newer test, it'scalled Orea A-U-R-I-A.
It's the first at-homebiological breast cancer
screening test powered by tears.
So you get a little box and youextract, you put a little paper
point right in the corner ofyour eye, send that into the
lab.
(28:29):
And that will tell you if youwhat it's looking for is a
specific protein that's beenfound to be associated with
breast cancer.
So if that protein is found,you will get a clinically
significant result.
So again, that gives you alittle bit more information to
be shared with your doctors andto see, okay, that mammogram,
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did it look weird?
Should I get an ultrasound?
Should I do some more furthertesting because I do have this
protein?
Or for me, mine actually cameup clinically significant.
So it's oh boy, okay, we needto do some more lymph draining.
And I started really taking alot of proteolytic enzymes to
try to break down these proteinsthat maybe didn't need to be
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there, and now it has gone backto normal.
So that's really exciting.
But you can check out thattest.
It's trying to remember, maybeabout $200 or so, maybe less.
Not too bad if you look forgood peace of mind and to again
jumpstart your preventiontechniques.
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That is another, it's a littlebit of an expensive test, but
the company DNA Connections hasa couple of different different
methods that we can try to testthese things before we make the
ultimate decision to remove thetooth.
I also really love uh usingbiofeedback mechanisms.
This is another way to kind oftap into our energy systems.
(29:57):
One of the systems I reallylove that I use now.
Called energy for life.
And it is a way of scanningyour entire body seal to see how
much energy do you have in theorgans?
How well is it flowing?
Right.
We talked about how importantthat was.
Is there, are there certainpathways and immune pathways?
What are your emotions?
That's again how much I valuethis type of energy work because
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we can see the balance.
We can see things that we needto work on.
And with that system comes whatthey call infaceuticals, which
are homeopathic remedies thathelp put the energy and the
information back to the body.
The body can get confusedsometimes when there's so much
toxicity or any other kind ofbugs going on.
The messages, right, as thebody's trying to message and
(30:45):
talk to each other, they can getdisrupted.
So the infaceuticals are a wayto reconnect the proper energy
pathways.
So our body healed itself.
Because ultimately, that is howwe become healthy beings.
It's not about killingsomething or taking something
away, but it's aboutreestablishing our body's
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ultimate lifeline, how it knewthe body innately knows how to
heal itself.
If we can remove all of theburdens, it will heal itself.
We hear about these miraculousrecoveries from stage four of
cancer.
Is it a miracle?
Or did we just tap back intothe body's innate wisdom?
PMF, pulsed electromagneticfrequency.
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There are a lot of mats outthere.
There are some called an ampcoil with the energy for life.
There is a handheld team.
Dr.
Jerry Tennant has somewonderful tools called a
biomodulator that again directlyhe will tell you if you
maintain proper energy in yourstomach meridian, you will never
get breast cancer or prostatecancer.
(31:50):
That's a pretty, pretty strongstatement, but he stands behind
that.
So again, how do we create keepgood energy flowing through our
body at all times?
One way we can also do that isacupuncture, right?
That's exactly how acupunctureworks.
The acupuncturist will put aneedle on a specific meridian
point that allows the flow ofthe energy through all of that.
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So that's a wonderful modalityto ensure that energy is flowing
everywhere.
My other favorite thing isqigong.
I don't feel as well every dayif I don't get in my 15 minutes
of qigong.
It is just gentle movement ofusing your breath, using very
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simple, slow movements to ensureall of the energy is connected
and that it's moving very well.
My favorite is called Yochi,Y-O-Chi-I.com.
And she's got some great for avery minimal amount of money
every month.
She's got a ton of greatvideos, and I love all the ones
that are 15 minutes, but you canfind free ones on YouTube as
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well.
And it's a really excellent wayto start your day.
It will keep you calm.
And again, it's it is not onlydoing the physical energy, but
with all the breathing and thecalming, and so some of it is
using sounds, right?
We're getting the emotionalbody as well.
So you get a really big bangfor a buck, 15 minutes in the
morning, you can really helpjumpstart that that proper
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energy flow.
I hope I've given you someinformation, some food for
thought.
Again, please check out mylittle six-week course because
that is a great way, a veryholistic way to try to uproot
the inflammation that is at theroot of many, many chronic
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diseases.
And I hope that you enjoy this.
Please share it with others.
And I'll see you on the nextepisode, everyone.
Have a great day.
Huge thanks to you, our amazinglisteners, for helping us climb
into the top 5% of podcasts inthe oral health space.
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With all the love and support,we've been getting many requests
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