204. Dr. Domink Nischwitz: Why Your Autoimmune Disease Might Actually Start in Your Mouth

Summary

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The Ultimate Human with Gary Brecka

Episode 204: Dr. Dominik Nischwitz – Why Your Autoimmune Disease Might Actually Start in Your Mouth
Date: September 25, 2025
Host: Gary Brecka
Guest: Dr. Dominik Nischwitz

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Overview

This episode explores the profound and often overlooked link between oral health and systemic autoimmune diseases. Renowned biological dentist Dr. Dominik Nischwitz joins human biologist and longevity expert Gary Brecka for a live, audience-driven discussion. The conversation delves into how common dental procedures and conditions—like root canals, wisdom teeth extraction, and oral microbiome imbalances—can contribute to chronic illness, autoimmunity, and inflammation throughout the body. Dr. Nischwitz advocates for a paradigm shift in dentistry, calling for a more holistic and integrative approach that places oral health at the heart of total well-being.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Oral Health’s Systemic Connection

• Dr. Nischwitz kicks off the episode by making the audience stand if they have metals, root canals, or pulled wisdom teeth, with about 90% standing—a visual demonstration of how widespread potentially problematic oral procedures are. (00:00-02:14)

• Quote: "There's room for help optimization right there in your mouth." - Dr. Nischwitz (02:14)

• The oral microbiome is compared to the gut: issues like "leaky gum" can mirror "leaky gut," allowing pathogens and toxins into systemic circulation. (00:26, 11:41)

2. Root Causes of Autoimmune Disease

• Gary highlights that 87-90% of autoimmune disease is "idiopathic" (of unknown origin) but proposes that the major reasons the immune system is triggered are mold, mycotoxins, parasites, viruses, and heavy metals—many of which have oral entry points. (00:46, 13:15)

• Quote: "The vast majority of entry is through the oral cavity. This is why I'm so excited about the movement of biological dentistry." - Gary Brecka (14:00)

• Dr. Nischwitz elaborates: chronic dental infections, heavy metals, and dead teeth create a “dirty hotel lobby” in the mouth, seeding systemic dysfunction. (16:21)

3. Current Dental System Critique and the Need for Change

• Both speakers are critical of mainstream dentistry's narrow focus on symptom management and technical repair rather than systemic health impacts.
• Dr. Nischwitz is training and certifying dentists globally, aiming to standardize holistic, biologic dental practices. (04:06, 07:36)
• Quote: "We have to put the doctor back into the game so they understand it's not just about biting. It might be an issue systemically for the patient." - Dr. Nischwitz (07:36)

4. Access, Equity, and Systemic Barriers

• Audience questions highlight the barriers to advanced oral diagnostics like 3D cone beam scans due to healthcare system limitations (e.g., NHS not providing these). Both guest and host emphasize prioritizing health, education, and system-wide reform. (03:54, 04:06)

5. Practical Audience Q&A Highlights

Hydroxyapatite vs. Fluoride (00:10, 19:29)

• Both Gary and Dr. Nischwitz are strong proponents of hydroxyapatite toothpaste over fluoride.
• Quote: "Fluoride is also a neurotoxin... If you look at the 2014 National Toxicology Program survey study on fluoride, it will tell you all you need to know about getting fluoride out of your toothpaste and replacing it with hydroxyapatite." - Gary Brecka (19:29)
• Saliva buffers acidity, so whole food acidity (fruit) isn’t a major concern as long as nutrition is sound.

Wisdom Teeth (Impacted/Partially Erupted) (11:41)

• Fully impacted (below gum line) wisdom teeth are generally not problematic.
• Partially erupted wisdom teeth create an “opening” (leaky gum), exposing the body to oral microbes linked to diseases like Alzheimer's and rheumatoid arthritis.
• Quote: "It's called leaky gum. It's the same as leaky gut, essentially... you don't want to have these bugs going into your system." - Dr. Nischwitz (11:41)

Tongue Tie, Posture, and Airway (17:07)

• Dr. Nischwitz stresses the overlooked impact of tongue ties on posture, jaw development, airway, and breathing. Early myofunctional therapy is advised.

Connection to Scoliosis & Orthodontics (23:13)

• Aggressive orthodontics can cause unintended postural consequences, such as scoliosis. A multidisciplinary approach (e.g., osteopath, myofunctional therapist) is recommended over brute-force alignment, and “metal brackets make a human antenna out of your kid.” (23:47)

Oral Health and Eye Issues (Glaucoma) (25:35)

• Dr. Nischwitz asserts any chronic inflammation, stress, or infection from oral origins can impact distant organs, including eyes. The mouth is the “extension of your brain” and should never be neglected in chronic disease. (25:54)

Can Cavities Heal? (31:48)

• Timing is critical: do not attempt detox or remineralization while the source (e.g., metals, chronic dental infection) remains. Remove problem materials first, then support the body to heal.
• Quote: "The biggest detox is getting rid of the sauce first." - Dr. Nischwitz (32:08)

Why Are Root Canals Bad? (34:51)

• Root canals remove a living organ from the mouth, leaving behind a structure filled with microscopic tubules that harbor bacteria, parasites, and mold. This becomes a chronic, hidden infection, untouchable by the immune system, perpetuating systemic disease.
• Quote: "The problem is your immune system, the macrophages, they're just too big. They can't get there... It becomes the perfect hiding spot for anaerobacteria, parasites, viruses, fungi, even mold to just live there compartmentalized." - Dr. Nischwitz (34:57)

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Memorable Quotes & Moments

• "Your mouth is part of the human body. It's not just the garage." – Dr. Nischwitz (00:37, 25:54)
• "The major reasons why the immune system is called to that site is mold, mycotoxin, parasite, virus, and heavy metal." – Gary Brecka (00:46, 13:15)
• "Fluoride is also a neurotoxin." – Gary Brecka (19:29)
• "You have to work with the body, not with force against it." – Dr. Nischwitz (23:24)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Audience oral health inventory exercise (Mouth as health root): 00:00–02:14
• Access & systemic barriers to advanced dental diagnostics: 03:54–05:31
• Root canals, autoimmunity, and heavy metals: 00:46, 13:15–16:12, 34:51–36:39
• Wisdom teeth and oral–systemic disease links: 11:41
• Explanation of root canal dangers: 34:51–36:39
• Hydroxyapatite, mineralization, and diet: 19:29–22:24
• Posture, tongue tie, and orthodontic consequences: 17:07, 23:13
• Healing and prevention strategies: 29:15–31:48
• Detox strategies and timing: 31:48–34:30

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Conclusion & Takeaways

This episode underscores the pivotal role of the oral cavity as both a mirror and determinant of whole-body health, particularly in the genesis of autoimmune and chronic diseases. Dr. Nischwitz and Gary Brecka urge listeners and practitioners to reframe dental care as an integral part of medicine, emphasizing prevention, biological approaches, and lifestyle modification over routine technical repair. Audience questions reveal strong interest in practical, actionable strategies, and the urgent need for better education, accessibility, and systemic change in both dentistry and medicine.

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Transcript

[Dr. Dominik Nischwitz]

Any one of you guys has metal in the mouth as a root canal, wisdom tea is pulled, remain standing. This is 90% of the audience standing now.

[Dr. Gary Null]

They're all panicking.

[Dr. Dominik Nischwitz]

Yeah, don't panic. We're giving you new information.

[Audience Member / Participant]

I just wanted to get your opinion on hydroxyapatite.

[Dr. Gary Null]

Most people think our bones are calcium. They're not. Our bones are. Phosphorus is why mineral deficiencies are the genesis of things like osteopenia, osteoporosis, not a lack of calcium.

[Audience Member / Participant]

Quick question. Impacty wisdom tooth in or out in.

[Dr. Dominik Nischwitz]

Your mouth, you have an oral microbiome, right. And you don't want to have these bugs into your system. It's called leaky gum, the same as leaky gut. I just wanted to know if there.

[Audience Member / Participant]

Was a connection between root canals or.

[Dr. Dominik Nischwitz]

Wisdom teeth that you pull out infections, chronic inflammation, triggering of your nervous system. It's all one thing. It's just the mouth is part of the human body. It's not just the garage.

[Dr. Gary Null]

About 87 to 90% of all autoimmune disease is idiopathic. The major reasons why immune system is called to that site is mold, mycotoxin, parasite, virus and heavy metal. So if you have heavy metals removed from your mouth, should you do a heavy metal detox?

[Dr. Dominik Nischwitz]

If you have done this and what we usually do after four months before the final prosthetics and aesthetics, that's the time when we.

[Dr. Gary Null]

Ultimate human. This is a live podcast, so if you do ask a question, only 11 million people are going to see your face. So if you're shy or you're running from the law.

[Dr. Dominik Nischwitz]

Amazing.

[Dr. Gary Null]

Don't ask a question.

[Dr. Dominik Nischwitz]

Amazing.

[Dr. Gary Null]

See, there's two people already ducking right there. Can we have security check these guys out? So why don't we just open the floor to questions too? I would really love to get a dialogue going in this room. What's on your mind? What are you suffering from? What do you have questions about what are your loved ones suffering from? Do we have a microphone that we can.

[Dr. Dominik Nischwitz]

Oh, I can. Before we do it, I ask one question in the audience. I usually do. Any one of you guys has metal in the mouth? If yes, stand up and remain standing. And remain standing. Right. Any one of you guys has a root canal. Stand up. Remain standing, all of you guys. And third question. Any one of you had a wisdom teeth pulled, Remain standing when you stand up.

[Dr. Gary Null]

Wow.

[Dr. Dominik Nischwitz]

So I imagine this is 90% of the audience standing, so there's room for help optimization right there in your mouth. You can sit down again, but yeah. Cheers, guys.

[Dr. Gary Null]

Now they're all panicking.

[Dr. Dominik Nischwitz]

Yeah, don't panic. We're giving you new information just for your journey to optimal health.

[Dr. Gary Null]

So if you just want to raise your hand and if we could get a microphone over to them. Tim, I know you had a microphone. You had, you were sending around. Or we'll give you yours and you can yell. Where is the microphone that they had over there? If not, just ask the question and do you have the microphone? There it is.

[Audience Member / Participant]

I've got one.

[Dr. Gary Null]

Okay. I'm going to run a lot of exercise.

[Audience Member / Participant]

Okay. Where am I going?

[Dr. Gary Null]

More steps here in the front on the right hand side. Far right. Yes.

[Audience Member / Participant]

Hi.

[Dr. Gary Null]

Hi.

[Audience Member / Participant]

I had cancer in 2017 and didn't know anything about oral health and the benefits of having a 3D cone beam scan. I guess I'm speaking to from a lot of experience now around it. I ended up having four root cavitations that needed to be extracted because my wisdom teeth were taken out like 15 years ago. I didn't realize the connection at the time between the parasites in my mouth and the connection with cancer. I feel like there's a lot of fear for people around it. Like when you did that exercise just then, nearly all of the room stood UP and the NHS, which is the free healthcare here, don't offer a 3D cone beam scan to people. So it makes it really hard for people that don't have the resources to be able to have that access and facilities. What do you think we can do about it?

[Dr. Dominik Nischwitz]

I mean, this is what I'm trying to. Quite serious question what I'm trying to do about.

[Audience Member / Participant]

But on a financial, you know, it's great if you've got the resources, but if you don't, where do people go and what do they do?

[Dr. Dominik Nischwitz]

I mean, this is obviously a systematic issue or a system problem of the system. We have the same in Germany, we have a general insurance. I mean, this is all depending on your priorities. And if optimal health is the priority, I think it's the best investment to take and usually there will be a path to. The main thing is, how can you find someone. I mean, you got lucky, someone diagnosed cavitations for you because only getting this information from 99.9% of dentists worldwide, it's going to be impossible. So getting to the information first, getting someone who knows how to diagnose a 3D x ray, that is the blessing in disguise, even though it costs some money. But I think the investment for your overall health was worth it. And for me, right now, it's about changing the system. I want to change dentistry from the technician to the overall health expert. And therefore I'm training, I'm certifying and then creating a true biological, dental, global standard for all the colleagues that we speak the same language. I think this is the first thing we need to do, changing the old system so that there is the information maybe has to tickle down from above until it floods like the mainstream in the masses. But I think see it as an investment. And I had, I had thousands of patients over the last 15 years and if you tell them this and they get their priorities right, they usually find a way to afford it because they just focus on different, they see it as an investment and then the dividend is more health. I think it's, you know, we sadly.

[Dr. Gary Null]

Have the same issue in the, in the US I decided about a year and a half ago that I would go all in on the Maha movement in America. And I create, I probably just cut the room right in half just by saying that. But not my God, Maha. But you know, in backing Bobby Kennedy's agenda to really upend modern medicine in a way that will be catastrophic initially, but it will result, result in better healthcare for humanity. It's fascinating to me in both of our healthcare systems you have the vast majority of your nutritional research funded by big food and Big Pharma in the US this is why we have a food pyramid that says that Lucky Charms is more nutritious than grass fed steak. You can't ask the question about vaccines, not to deny their efficacy, but you can't even ask a question about testing safety efficacy. You're not allowed to see raw data. And this has put at least the United States on the footing of spending $5 trillion a year on healthcare and leading the world in only six things. Morbid, obesity, type 2 diabetes, multiple chronic disease in a single biome, infant mortality and maternal mortality. We're now ranked 66th in the world in life expectancy and we spend $5 trillion a year, of which 85% is on preventable chronic disease. And the reason why I say that is because this was a preventable procedure, right? I mean, you had the root canal at the time that they did the root canal, they could have done a biologic cleanout of that, remove the tooth and instead of just doing a root canal and capping it and leaving space and oxygen and a place for microbes to have a massive orgy, you could have at that place fixed it. And I think that's where it needs to come from. It Needs to be a message from the masses. But if we were to be able to instill in the practitioner the demand that these procedures be covered, because all you need to do is extend a normal root canal procedure. You're talking about fixing root canals that were done wrong. You could do the right thing at the inception.

[Dr. Dominik Nischwitz]

Yeah, I mean, this is again, it's a system problem. Because a root canal obviously is a fine art in dentistry. And as long as dentists think of themselves as the mechanic of the mouth and in Germany a dentist is called a tooth doctor. They're still dentists, but that means Zahnaltz in Germany. So tooth doctor, Zahn als. But we have to put the doctor back into the game so that they understand, oh wow. It's not just about biting on the tooth, leaving something that might be an issue overall, systemically for the patient. They don't think that way. So it's not the dentist. It's literally the system that needs to change. It's completely outdated. It's million years. And I just saw one of my friends here, Goran, who has this booth down there, he showed me a case of a patient who had perfect healthy teeth, just a tiny filling. And he went to see someone, somewhere I don't know, and he ended up having all teeth being root canaled. Why? For prevention of pain in the future. So basically they crippled them. And this is so bad. And this is what I mean. We literally have to change the system first. And that it comes through the masses. That's why I wrote the book. I think you guys are driving it. Right. It's a global.

[Dr. Gary Null]

So let's see if we can. That was an amazing question.

[Dr. Dominik Nischwitz]

Thank you.

[Dr. Gary Null]

Somewhat answered it. Yes, ma'.

[Dr. Dominik Nischwitz]

Am.

[Dr. Gary Null]

Right here.

[Dr. Dominik Nischwitz]

I mean, basically that she said that it was connected. That is the main mission.

[Audience Member / Participant]

Okay, I have a question. I have an ache in a tooth down here. Sometimes it comes up, sometimes it comes down. I don't feel it, but years it's coming back and then it goes away. And I go to the dentist, they say nothing is wrong and they can't find anything. I guess you've seen this before.

[Dr. Dominik Nischwitz]

Yes, all the time. Because as a dentist we only focus on function, which is your bite. And they ask for pain and you just perfectly elaborate it. Sometimes there's pain, but usually when you go to the dentist there's no pain. So they will ask you again and then they say we just monitor it. Right. But if you now go and do a two dimensional X ray and then even a three dimensional X ray, I'm Just assuming it's probably going to be an infected root canal. And it always shows up when you're not as resilient enough. That's when your immune system kind of like can't catch it and you have a little bit of pain, but then you get in stress again and then it doesn't show. So you need first of all to find someone who knows how to diagnose systemically. This is the most difficult thing for me too. Spearheading the movement of biological dentists for over a decade. I now know if I tell you to see any biological dentist that is shooting the whole mission in the foot because there's no standard, it means maybe they do then a biological root canal for you or they play a singing bowl right next to it. So that's why I create a standard. That's why I have a certification program that. Why is that? This is the first step we need to do. Establish a minimum medical health care standard, but from a holistic overall health body point of view. So that's a mindset shift for your dentist. And this is hard to accept, but you will become a doctor and then easy for you. Then you find someone who knows, who has the software update. They know the education. They will tell you, of course there's a root canal. It's chronically infected. We have a solution for you. We can provide an immediate ceramic implant. There is biomaterial available that is completely neutral to the body. But 99.9% of all dentists out there will tell you that's quackery, that's bullshit. Doesn't work. It works. Doing this for more than a decade.

[Dr. Gary Null]

And some way in the back, I want to make the person with the microphone. Yeah, they are waving frantically up there.

[Dr. Dominik Nischwitz]

More steps. Steps, yeah.

[Dr. Gary Null]

Quickly, quickly. Hurry. Just trying to make her run.

[Dr. Dominik Nischwitz]

10 seconds.

[Audience Member / Participant]

That's so mean. Yes, I am waving frantically behind here. I can't even talk. First of all, thank you to you both. As a nutritionist practitioner, I really appreciate your work. So that when we have to say something to clients, they don't think, what are you talking about? Because you are out there in the front lines pushing these things forward. So thank you. And Gary, I'm part of your vip. If you guys are not, you know, I don't know why. My question is giving you 50% off at this event. My quick question, Impacted wisdom tooth teeth or half in, half out? That is the question.

[Dr. Dominik Nischwitz]

Amazing.

[Audience Member / Participant]

In or out?

[Dr. Dominik Nischwitz]

Amazing question. I get it a lot. So impacted wisdom teeth. Fully impacted, meaning below gum line. They're not generally an issue. However, if they're partially erupted, meaning they're poking out all the time, they become an issue. Why? Because they're creating an opening to your system. Your gum is outside body. It's like your skin. And in your mouth, you have an oral microbiome, right? And you don't want to have these bugs going into your system. They're basically living outside of you. But if that is poking out constantly, you're creating an opening because the gum is not tight. It's called leaky gum. It's the same as leaky gut, essentially. So viruses, respiratory viruses, but also the bad bugs from the mouth, like the. I mean, there's no really bad guys, but the stuff you learn in university, porphyronas, gingivals, for example, PG likes to jump in there. And then this is when you find them in the brain of people causing or contributing to Alzheimer's disease. Because they produce certain enzymes called gingpins in the brain, causing microglial cells to get activated. Or you find them in the joints and have rheumatoid arthritis, or you find them in. Wherever you find them, they're not supposed to be in your system, and that's the opening. Same for Covid. Like, we know that it lurks in the mouth, and for some people, the cytokine storm just happens sooner. Now we have the research saying if you had periodontitis or leaky gum or bleeding gums, that's how they jumped into the system, not after six days, but straight away and caused cytokine storms. So literally, it's an opening. Then you take those out. If they're impacted and you're older than 30, 40 years, I would just leave them because they're part of your body, even though they're not, like, fully alcohol.

[Dr. Gary Null]

It's interesting. I'm going to go deep down the rabbit hole during my talk today, but, you know, as a broad category of disease, for a moment, if we just talked about autoimmune, all autoimmune, right? Crohn's disease, Chagrin's, Hashimoto's, multiple sclerosis, any autoimmune disease. As it stands now, about 87 to 90% of all autoimmune disease is. Is idiopathic, right? It's of unknown origin. So you're led to believe that you just woke up one day and your immune system turned on the thyroid. So now you have Hashimoto's, turned on the colon. You have Crohn's disease. It began to attack the myelin sheath of the nerve. And now you have multiple sclerosis or any number of other conditions. We know now that the immune system just doesn't show up for no reason.

[Dr. Dominik Nischwitz]

It's not stupid.

[Dr. Gary Null]

It's called to that site and, and I call it the big four. The major reasons why immune system is called to that site. And again, I'll go into more detail during my talk today is mold, mycotoxin, parasite, virus, and heavy metal. And these are not talked about in the medical literature. They're not taught in medical school. Very few doctors even know how to test or even look for these, much less how to treat them. And the vast majority of entry is through the oral cavity. This is why I'm so excited about the movement of biologic dentistry. It's not just to clean up the oral cavity, but it's the implications down the road. Yesterday, I think I got asked the most interesting question I've ever been asked on a podcast. It actually brought me to a full stop and I had to really think. I was on a podcast here in the UK and he said, said if you were to put the top 50 leading experts that you know of, the MDs, the PhDs, the researchers, the biohackers in one room and ask them to agree on one theory of aging, what would that be? So longevity experts, you know, anti aging experts, wellness, whatever you want to call it. And I had to think for a second, and then I said, I think we would all agree on the theory of immunofatigue, which is a slow, progressive, overwhelming of the immune system. Because nearly every form of pathology and disease that we know of has a root or an exacerbation of or complication from the immune system. When you're an infant, your immune system is spending about 65% of its time actually policing itself. Circulating tumor cells, autophagy, cellular senescence. As we get older, the number of microtoxins that we put into our body distracts the immune system. And now it's chasing mold, mycotoxin, heavy metal, parasite, virus, bisphenols, glyphosate, polyfluoroalkyls, all of these things, these little mini cytokine storms all over the body. And that is the genesis of aging. I don't know why I said that, but I know why. That was not related to your question at all. But, but thank you.

[Dr. Dominik Nischwitz]

It's perfect. Thanks.

[Dr. Gary Null]

I gotta get it off my chest. Yeah.

[Dr. Dominik Nischwitz]

Very good. I mean, I know why you said it.

[Dr. Gary Null]

Yeah.

[Dr. Dominik Nischwitz]

Kind of like because it's all about the terrain.

[Dr. Gary Null]

Yeah.

[Dr. Dominik Nischwitz]

If Your body becomes not the same ecosystem like you came out of your mom, basically, and it changes completely. Then this happens. And oftentimes the missing link is your mouth, where dental repair is basically installing heavy metals, dead teeth containing all the parasites, viruses, fungi, cavitations, including mold. So this is the, this is the hotel lobby of your whole system. And if this is already dirty or shitty, the rest is the same. You see decay here of the rest of the body. So changing this little ecosystem will change the whole ecosystem. So that's perfectly aligned here.

[Dr. Gary Null]

I agree. Oh, right up front. I try to find people as far away from where you are as possible.

[Dr. Dominik Nischwitz]

Just.

[Audience Member / Participant]

Ties as far as children or adults. Would you suggest actually cutting them or doing more myofascial and helping that for mouth breathing and cavities?

[Dr. Dominik Nischwitz]

Love the question. You want to answer?

[Dr. Gary Null]

No, go ahead.

[Dr. Dominik Nischwitz]

Yeah, so she's asking about tongue tie, right? So that is actually a very good question because that's a. Yeah, it's a. It's a problem that most people overlook. So tongue tie basically means can you lift up your tongue? You can actually, all of you guys try exercise and someone has to look. Can you lift up your tongue to the roof of your mouth and suck the tongue up? And is your floor of the mouth coming up with it? If the floor comes up, you know you have a tongue tie. And the tongue tie is directly. So you look at the anatomical chart of the fascia. So it's called the frontal fascial train. And the tongue is connected. Look at it. The fascia goes down to your toe. So what happens? For me personally, I have the same story. Like it's connected to your posture, it's connected to your airway, it's connected to your breathing. And obviously, if you can remove this and find out if that's a baby already, maybe you can breastfeed better. Maybe the growth of the whole jaw, the upper, the palate is all going to be better because you breathe better. I only found out myself when I was like 42 years old that all my tension in the back was just the tongue tie was missing and made me all longer. So the sooner you can find it out. It's myofunctional therapy. Get a diagnosis, kids and adults. It's amazing. Like the whole posture, the breathing, the growth is going to be affected. Like the complete posturology is on your tongue. So it's amazing. So, yes, hopefully it helps against that wall.

[Audience Member / Participant]

Hi. So I'm Charlotte. My parents actually have dental practices. My father's a very good dentist. We don't use any sort of fluoride or anything like that. My problem is they're quite big on me because obviously I'm a nutritionist. I do love berries, all the lemon and obviously all the apples, which is obviously very, quite acidic on the teeth to an extent, some. So I just wanted to get your opinion on hydroxyapatite with the fact for the actual rebuilding and the mineralization, keeping the integrity of the tooth, obviously counteracting maybe a diet that obviously is one healthy, but does contain fairly acidic foods.

[Dr. Gary Null]

What's really interesting is amylase, the enzyme in our saliva, is very, very good at counteracting this acidity. And when we talk about hydroxyapatite versus fluoride, for example, I mean, our bones are teeth or hydroxyapatite. Most people think our bones are calcium. They're not. Our bones are phosphorus bound to calcium, which creates something called hydroxyapatite. So the bones are actually hydroxyapatite like our teeth. And actually you need 12 minerals in order to fuse those two. Which is why mineral deficiencies are the genesis of things like osteopenia, osteoporosis, not a lack of calcium. But when you talk about remineralizing the tooth, you know, you get dental carry and it starts to erode the enamel. You know, fluoride is effective, but fluoride is also a neurotoxin. It's actually classified as a neurotoxin. If you look at the 2014 National Toxicology Program survey study on fluoride, it will tell you all you need to know about getting fluoride out of your toothpaste and replacing it with hydroxyapatite. So I'm an enormous fan. I hope you are too, because I've dug a big hole for myself and not. But I'm an enormous fan of hydroxyapatite toothpaste and not fluoride. In fact, the impact of fluoride and the marginal contact that you have during brushing really has. I mean, fluoride treatment's different, but fluoride brushing has very, very little impact on tooth decay.

[Dr. Dominik Nischwitz]

I would agree 100%. I'm a big fan of hydroxyapatite, not a fan of fluoride. Biologic dentists are usually team. No fluoride, I mean, the tooth first and foremost will be built from within, like the blood. And if you have, like he says, the right minerals involved and the methylation and a good healthy whole food diet, they're usually harder as stone. That's how nature designed us. They're hard. So if they're getting Soft. That means we're eating the wrong stuff. It's processed foods. So I wouldn't worry at all about the acidity of real whole food because usually if you have a healthy body, you have a saliva that gets. That's buffering all of it within.

[Dr. Gary Null]

Buffers it.

[Dr. Dominik Nischwitz]

Yeah, Exactly. Within usually 30 minutes, the fruit juices are going to be acidic. The cokes, the sodas, of course, you have to be in a state of re mineralization all the time, so it's not a problem. Hydroxyapatite is the perfect alternative because I don't want to say, tell anyone, go fluoride free and then use just any toothpaste that usually is just essential oils and lacking a band aid or the safety measurement. Because if you have your nutrition quite dialed in and you eat ancestrally, like I said, your teeth are hard as stone. You don't get tooth decay. I cannot tell most of people this because they don't. So therefore the fluoride is the band aid. But like he said, you go with the one that is more natural. This is also in my toothpaste design. It's obviously hydroxyapatite and other active ingredient. So if you go fluoride free, fine. Hydroxyapatite active ingredient.

[Dr. Gary Null]

In the US if you flip over any toothpaste, the box the toothpaste comes in, Crest, Colgate, any of the big brands of toothpaste, there's an FDA warning on there that says if swallowed, contact Poison Control immediately.

[Dr. Dominik Nischwitz]

Exactly.

[Dr. Gary Null]

Look, if you have Crest or Colgate at home, it's required by law in the States to have that warning label on there. But yeah, we put a notice to contact Poison control immediately on our toothpaste. But then we infuse our water with fluoride, which is actually, to be technical, fluorosalicic acid, which is a byproduct of phosphate fertilizer production. So we make tens of millions of metric tons of phosphate fertilizer every year. And the process of making that, we have to take something called fluorosalicic acid out of the phosphate fertilizer or it will burn the root. So it's a waste product from this production of fertilizer. And then we dump that into the Minnesul water supply as fluoride.

[Dr. Dominik Nischwitz]

How did it answer?

[Dr. Gary Null]

Yeah, right here in the. In the black and white shirt.

[Dr. Dominik Nischwitz]

Yeah.

[Audience Member / Participant]

Thank you. Right. I recently dived into whole body dentistry because my daughter was diagnosed with scoliosis following a treatment for teeth aligning. So I have two questions for you. First, if you have a situation like that, which device would you choose for that treatment and whether it will be the Invisalign, the plastic, all covered teeth, or the metal brackets.

[Dr. Dominik Nischwitz]

Wait, I understand correctly. The scoliosis happened after.

[Audience Member / Participant]

Yes.

[Dr. Dominik Nischwitz]

So after the orthodontic treatment.

[Audience Member / Participant]

Yes. To get it back during the.

[Dr. Dominik Nischwitz]

Yeah, I know. Because it's too forceful. It's brutal. Because you. Yeah, exactly. What you need to do is basically I would go Invisalign. Obviously, no metals in the mouth. If you put, if you put a bracket, a metal bracket these days in the mouth, you're going to make a human antenna out of your kid. Okay, not a good idea.

[Audience Member / Participant]

We did that. We did Invisalign and still it happened.

[Dr. Gary Null]

So.

[Dr. Dominik Nischwitz]

Wait, wait.

[Audience Member / Participant]

Okay.

[Dr. Dominik Nischwitz]

Did it Invisalign? But you have to work now with an osteopath to just basically get the sutures right because it's all probably blocked.

[Audience Member / Participant]

Okay.

[Dr. Dominik Nischwitz]

And then align everything again and then just let it flow. And then at the same time work on the nutrition, putting back the minerals. Maybe use some frequencies, maybe some. There's so many different things you could use.

[Audience Member / Participant]

Okay.

[Dr. Dominik Nischwitz]

But work with the body mainly in balancing it again. So I would use. Usually call an osteopath or myofunctional therapist at the same time and then use the Invisalign. And it's easy. It's just you have to work with the body, not with fourth force against it. That's what happened before.

[Audience Member / Participant]

I agree with you. And I'm functional with nutritionist and the homeopath. And I thought I've covered everything, but I didn't expect the scoliosis. So this is something.

[Dr. Dominik Nischwitz]

I mean, it's quite rough.

[Audience Member / Participant]

Yeah, yeah, I understand.

[Dr. Dominik Nischwitz]

But you can reverse it. How old is she?

[Audience Member / Participant]

She's 12.

[Dr. Dominik Nischwitz]

Yeah, easy. You can reverse it because you know already. Just find someone who will work with aligning. So I work a lot with posturology and neuro drills. I would see someone who is specializing in posturology, but also maybe neuro athletics because it also the scoliosis happened because of the falls. So her fascia is in that state right now. So you have to unwind it. But also the eyesight is now connected to the fascia. So you have to go neurologically to and maybe from the feet to get it all solid. I have a specialist for this in my. That comes into my clinic every six weeks.

[Dr. Gary Null]

So.

[Audience Member / Participant]

Great to know.

[Dr. Dominik Nischwitz]

No problem, I can connect.

[Audience Member / Participant]

Thank you. Yeah, appreciate it.

[Dr. Gary Null]

Amazing. How about you? Right up front. And I'm sorry, I have a hard time seeing the back. So we'll get another question from the back.

[Dr. Dominik Nischwitz]

I just wanted to know if there.

[Audience Member / Participant]

Was a connection between, or a relation with root canals or the wisdom teeth that you pull out and glaucoma or any of the eye situations. Whatever problems, go ahead.

[Dr. Dominik Nischwitz]

Yeah. Yes. So whatever symptom you want to ask me about, I would always answer with yes, there could be a connection. That's a multitude of things. So first of all, it's a little trauma that you had from the cavitations. Usually over time, there's a chronic inflammation in there. There's parasites, there's viruses, there's cytokines, putting your body into stress mode and affecting your whole brain stem. So this can obviously affect your eyesight and everything. Also, at the same time, what Gary just said, there might be viruses and parasites involved, which is directly connected to almost always any chronic symptom. So what you need to do is just figure out a way on your health journey, on how to reverse your journey, basically. So obviously, whatever you learn on this stage or in this convention is nutrition, lifestyle, grounding, sleep, everything you should do. But then find someone who knows how to reverse this and help you get out of chronic stress mode or chronic war zone as the stake in your treatment. And then maybe you need some myofunctional therapy, or maybe you need some antiviral processes or maybe even a stronger parasite treatment or heavy metals to just reverse everything. And then, yes, it's connected. I hope that makes sense. Because of infections, chronic inflammation, triggering of your nervous system, autoimmunity, it's all one thing. It's just the mouth is part of the human body. It's not just a garage. And this is an extension of your brain. It's way more important as this arm as a limb. Literally everything you do in your mouth or you have in your mouth gets transferred through retrograde axonal transfer straight into your brainstem, into your pituitary hypothalamus axis and cause hormonal imbalances, thyroid, glaucomas, everything is just not the main cause, but is a big factor in your health journey that needs to be addressed quite soon. And not only after seeing 29 doctors and waiting for 30 years with chronic migraine. That is the way to proceed. Just know that it's there.

[Dr. Gary Null]

I'm out in the middle, all the.

[Dr. Dominik Nischwitz]

Way in the back.

[Dr. Gary Null]

She hates me.

[Dr. Dominik Nischwitz]

Love it.

[Dr. Gary Null]

I just couldn't see up there with the light. By the way, before this question, can we just put our hands on our lap for a second and just put our feet flat on the floor and we're just going to do three obnoxiously deep breaths in through our nose and just out through a straw, an imaginary straw. Okay, so here we go. Okay, great.

[Dr. Dominik Nischwitz]

Felt it.

[Audience Member / Participant]

That was good.

[Dr. Gary Null]

Feel better.

[Audience Member / Participant]

Dr. Sarah Young from Changing Minds with Pick Up a Penny. We specialize in working with children and young people. And it's beautiful to see a little baby in with us this, this afternoon. I believe in early intervention for children, so I believe that it would be lovely to see you out of business if we got it right with children. So this didn't happen. How do you plan to do that?

[Dr. Gary Null]

Is this related to the dentistry side.

[Audience Member / Participant]

Or looking at dentistry right from the start from, you know, starting from birth and educational and dentistry?

[Dr. Dominik Nischwitz]

Oh, okay. Yeah, I think so. My goal is in the future, obviously, right now we have to repair what has been repaired previously with new materials. That's the main thing in biological dentistry right now. But the future in my idea is we don't need a dentist to repair at all. If we start educating our parents and moms way before even conceiving how to get their body clean, how I get it healthy, how, how to supplement with the right nutrition and the right micronutrients so that you're not going to be depleted during pregnancy, which already helps the kid growing up. And then you can maybe breastfeed. Breastfeed is your first initial orthodontic treatment if you're able to do so. But we have to educate people about this because I think still many people are afraid of it or it doesn't work. So breastfeeding would be. Maybe breastfeeding will save your kid when it's 14, 15 years old from orthodontic treatment, but you have to do it for at least 18 months, ideally even longer. It also obviously helps with bonding. It also helps with oxytocin and your immune system. I know, I'm truly sorry for all the women that can. But if you can, that is the orthodontic treatment, because at the same time, while they are sucking on the breast, the jaw comes forward, but they have to breathe through the nose, which widens the mid phase in the palate. So that's literally gives space for all the jaws, for all the teeth to grow in. Because what we're seeing right now is an epidemic of spacing issues. People have no space for the wisdom teeth. They're all removed. We're growing to narrow. So that's the start, obviously having the right nutrients on board so that the, the milk is kind of like cream, full of nutrients to Build. But then afterwards, the. The growing phase is still needs to be supported with the right building blocks. Focus on eating real food, whole food, diet, nutrition, protein, methylation, minerals, all that. And maybe some myofunctional therapy. And like her, like she said, have someone look at the tongue tie and all these things. Rule out inflammatory things as dairy, conventional dairy usually causes inflammation of the gums or gluten and seed oils, all the bad stuff. But support that ongoing growth of the body. It's about 18 years, right? Or even 21 until we've grown up. So I believe it's possible to not need a dentist for anything. It is a lot of education down the road because also in university we learn the biggest enemy of the tooth is the dental drill. But we're still drilling. So it's all connected to lifestyle and nutrition. Because if you look at our ancestors, we had space for two sets of wisdom teeth and now we have space for no sets of wisdom teeth. That's the evolution right there. Starts with you, starts with education and then I think in the future we don't need dentists for repair anymore, but maybe for as health experts overall, by starting in the mouth. Right? That's the goal.

[Dr. Gary Null]

I agree. Yes, sir. Right up in the front. I gave you a little break that time. So if you have heavy metals removed from your mouth, should you do a heavy metal detox? And then the second question is, can cavities heal? And if they do, how often do you see that happen?

[Dr. Dominik Nischwitz]

I love the question. It's all about timing. And you, you said it right. If we have removed the heavy metals, so you never do any chelation or anything to get rid of metals or heavy metals in your body while you're still having the sauce in your mouth. That's step number one. If you have done this and what we usually do after four months, when you see our guests again for the final, let's say prosthetics and aesthetics, that's the time when we do, let's say a heavy metal chelation, which means we run a couple of IVs and collect urine for 24 hours and then know what is coming out next. Because then we go to the cell, we never open up cells or any pathways. As long as there's the stuff built in your system that can make problems. So timing wise, of course we do that. But wait until everything is clean. No root canals, no metals, no cavitations. Wait for four to six months, build your body from within, and then work on next level detoxification. The biggest detox is getting rid of the sauce first.

[Dr. Gary Null]

Yeah, I was just going to say the number one rule in detoxification, this happens with mold, mycotoxin poisoning all the time. I live in the mold capital of the world, which is Miami, Florida, believe it or not. Yeah, Miami capital is the mold capital of the world. That's, I mean, amongst other things, we got good things too, but we won that. We have, we have the worst drivers 10 years in a row. So we got a lot going for us. But is to, you know, never try the detoxification process while you still have the, you know, and you have to get people out of that environment. So once the metal is out and not too quick. But I think it's worth remaking this point if you, if you really want to do a true heavy metal test. Remember, heavy metals just don't hang out in the blood or hang out in the urine and wait to be picked up in a test. They move into the tissue. And so one of the best tests to really see what kind of metals you have in the body is a provoked urine test where you actually provoke the metals with a chelated IV and then you do an eight hour urine. So you collect first urine the next morning. I've seen people, people hundreds of times do a vibrant wellness test or heavy metal testing, you know, especially in the urine or in the blood and show no metals. And then do a provoked urine and be off the charts.

[Dr. Dominik Nischwitz]

100 agree with this. But don't do this, like you said, while you have it in the mouth, because you will redistribute. And then it's pretty bad to run an iv. Not a problem with the supplements. That's usually not an issue. But if you go intracellularly, you don't want to open up osmosis to get stuff more into the cell. So first, biggest detox, take out the stuff you might have in your mouth safely. So that's also very important.

[Dr. Gary Null]

Agreed. I think we've got time for one more question.

[Dr. Dominik Nischwitz]

Mold.

[Dr. Gary Null]

Yes, sir or yes, ma'?

[Dr. Dominik Nischwitz]

Am?

[Dr. Gary Null]

I can't tell. Not because you're not visibly a man or a woman, but because I can't see.

[Dr. Dominik Nischwitz]

What do you do against the mold.

[Dr. Gary Null]

In the third row right there? What? I'll tell you.

[Dr. Dominik Nischwitz]

I. Hi, I was just wondering, why.

[Audience Member / Participant]

Are root canals bad?

[Dr. Gary Null]

Why are what?

[Audience Member / Participant]

Root canals. Why are they bad?

[Dr. Gary Null]

Oh, why are they bad?

[Dr. Dominik Nischwitz]

I can elaborate.

[Dr. Gary Null]

Yes.

[Dr. Dominik Nischwitz]

So first of all, it's a fine art. They're good for biting. Yes, it's an acute pain treatment. To all my colleagues out there. Who are doing root canals. Fine art, yes. But usually teeth are vital organs. They have a blood supply, a limb supply, an autonomic nervous system, even an immune system. Right. And once you have an infected tooth, usually you drill down to the pulp, which is in the middle of the tooth. That's the live part. You take it out, drill out the pulp, the nervous system, the autoimmune, the limb survivor. And if you now and then you fill up with plastics basically and have a cap on top. But now if you see the tooth on a microscopic structure, you have about 30 to 75,000 dentin tubules per square millimeters, which becomes the perfect hiding spot for anaerobacteria, parasites, viruses, fungi, even mold to just live there compartmentalized. And the problem is your immune system, the macrophages, they're just too big. They can't get there. They might create like a cyst around it to protect you and a chronic inflammation. So it's going to be a chronic infection site over time, getting tons of metabolites that are toxic immune issues and a chronic inflammation. If you're still having an immune system, and you should. So does it make sense? So the alternative is first of all know about it and then don't freak out. I mean, it's. For now, you're probably not super sick, right? So work on a strategy on how to get to the next level. So one of my specialties is immediate ceramic implants. I'm one of the first ceramic implant specialists. So that means I can take out a root canal, wiggle it out, there's no yanking involved. Don't think about a dentist. Very gently remove it, scarless, no pain, no swelling, have the socket clean it, use ozone, prf, all, everything that's needed, and put an immediate post in there, kind of like a tent post to keep the anatomy alive. And you basically never have any surgery. And then obviously your body needs about three to four months to osteo integrated while you have your nutrition on point to be anabolic systemically for bone eating. And then you come back for cap. So that is the most charming thing. It's literally pain free. He had it himself, right? You know how it is. 2. But of course, if you go see 99.9% of all my colleagues right now, they tell you it's science fiction, it doesn't work. It does work, but it needs tons of experience. Like I said, placed over 5,000 ceramic implants myself. So I know I've had to become world champion in this so that dentistry would even listen to me like, that's why they listen. That's why I can bring in nutrition and all the health side of things, but, yeah, that's the solution. Long term root canal, short term, temporary long term. You don't want to yank out any teeth before having a solid strategy. Immediate ceramic and blend.

[Dr. Gary Null]

Okay. I think we're out of time, guys. Thank you so much for giving us your time today.

[Dr. Dominik Nischwitz]

Thank you, guys.

[Dr. Gary Null]

Thank you, thank you.