Do you ever wonder what compels a person to take and refute decades of “established” research all in the name of helping humanity?
We recently came across a new piece of information about one of our heroes, Dr. Weston A Price.
Many readers of this blog will already be familiar with who Dr. Price was and the gift to humanity his research continues to provide. Â After all, we couldn’t perform this research now as we don’t have the isolated cultures still intact!
While most of us are now familiar with the research Dr. Price performed with isolated cultures that he highlighted in his landmark book, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, some of you may not be aware of the research Dr. Price did with embedding root canal teeth under the skin of rabbits. What could have provoked Dr. Price to conduct this study? What could have compelled a practicing dentist to shift his focus to research? Read on…
As a practicing dentist, Dr. Price once performed a root canal on a 16 year old young man. This young man died of a heart attack shortly thereafter. Dr. Price then removed the root canal tooth from the young man who had the fatal heart attack (after he died) and embedded just the tip of one of the roots of the tooth under the skin on the belly of a rabbit.
Two weeks later, that rabbit died of a heart attack. Dr. Price then removed the root tip from the dead rabbit and again embedded the root tip under the skin of a second rabbit. Two weeks later, the second rabbit died from a heart attack. Over the course of many months, Dr. Price took that same single root tip and embedded it under the skin of 100 rabbits. All 100 rabbits died within approximately 2 weeks, all from heart attack.
100 out of 100? All of the same cause of death???
Clearly, realizing that his dental work had caused the death of this young man provoked Dr. Price to shift the direction of his whole life’s work.
Over the course of next 35 years, Dr. Price relentlessly studied the impact that the mouth has on the health of the whole body. He experimented on over 60,000 rabbits (I know, I’m not a fan of animal testing either, but since it’s already been done, let us all learn from the work).
Dr. Price found a correlation between the dental work and whole body diseases. He found that heart attacks are one of the diseases that transferred 100% of the time. But he also found that many other diseases transferred from an embedded root canal tooth to a rabbit. Some of these diseases only transferred 88% of the time. Diseases like arthritis, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, the list is long…
How do we know that the death of this young man deeply impacted Dr. Price? Well, he dedicated one of his textbooks to this young man Donald. Donald Price.
Yes, Weston Price did a root canal on his own son who then died of a heart attack. It’s clear to me as a father that feeling the responsibility for the death of one’s own child would drive a person like Weston Price to make researching the impact the mouth has on the health of the whole body one’s life mission.
We encourage us all to learn from this so the death of a child and the relentless pursuit of the truth over the course of 35 years of research doesn’t go wasted. May we be inspired by this person who was able to take tragedy and redirect that energy into a work so that we could live healthier lives.
Knowledge is power.
Source: Â Patient Empowerment by Dr. Hal A Huggins
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How about a blog post on all of the bpa containing fillings. My 3.5 yr old had a strange pit develop on his front too right tooth. The other teeth are fine. I suspect his homeopathic vaccine clear was too aggressive and/or brought up this tooth enamel weakness. Or the vaccine clear created an acidic state. It developed from a pin size to wide pit in a month or two. Anyhow im having a heck of a time finding safer brands. He was filled with a 3m filtek brand which from my research has bpa. The filling has fell out two times im assuming from saliva contamination from his screaming and being held down by five people. Anyhow i was told by the hal huggins office Grandio and Admira. Then on a mercury chelation group i read Diamond Lite is the safest so far. Any ideas?
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/02/18/dangers-of-root-canaled-teeth.aspx
Wow! Interesting! I guess I will continue to oil pull.
Wow! Amazing!
I can’t see Type 1 showing up a month after a root canal but who knows. Some people with root canals live to be 100, like my grandma and die of old age. 🙂
really? hardly a controlled study; perhaps his son had underlying heart disease prior to anesthesia (standards of care for whenever this occurred???); inducing sepsis in rabbits is not difficult
Use this oil daily!! LOVE IT!! (and the toothbrush!)
And to think I was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes not even a month after I had a root canal done..
Sarah,
Please address the issue of the flouride and aluminum in the tea that Ora Wellness claims
we get when we make Kombucha.
I make Kombucha all the time and am worried about it.
Apparently Sara isn’t going to address the issue of Oral Wellness and their claim about too much flouride in Kombucha. She has been asked NUMEROUS times. Too bad– considering this is supposed to be her blog.
Pat and Jamie,
Sarah did respond to our original article with a very well written article. Here’s the link: https://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/fluoride-in-kombucha-should-you-be-concerned/
Jamie, in Sarah’s defense, she is very busy and can’t moderate every comment here attaching the same link that we just shared above. I’m sure you understand.
Thank you and Aloha!
My husband has had 2 heart surgeries before the age of 30 due to a congenital defect. The second one was due to an endocarditis that ate through the first repair. So he’s had his valve and aorta replaced and had to have a month of antibiototics pumped directly to the infection site. The weirdest thing I found when we first married is that ALL of his cardiologists make a BIG deal about, oral hygiene & cavities for him.
He doesn’t share toothbrushes or eat behind people… They say that having any sort of cavity at all could mean death for him and would be a waste of all of his surgeries if he didn’t take care of his teeth…(Even though his infection was from a bird – helping a friend clean a bird cage and got a cut on his hand).
It seems that world class heart specialists know this and make it very clear for all heart surgery patients how connected your teeth health is to your heart health. This is only unknown and sounds strange to laypeople and people who are fortunate enough to have no heart problems.