204. Dr. Domink Nischwitz & Gary Brecka LIVE Q&A at the Health Optimization Summit London 2025

0:00Any one of you guys has metal in the mouth, has a root canal, wisdom teeth pulled, remain standing. This is 90 % of the audience standing.

0:07Gary Brecka:Now they're all panicking. Yeah, don't panic. We're giving you new information. I just wanted to get your opinion on hydroxyapatite. Most people think our bones are calcium. They're not. Our bones are phosphorus. This is why mineral deficiencies are the genesis of things like osteopenia, osteoporosis, not a lack of calcium. Quick question, impacty, wisdom tooth, in or out? In 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. It's the same as leaky gum. I just wanted to know if there was a connection between root canals or wisdom teeth that you pull out.

0:39Infections, 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.

0:46Gary Brecka:About 87 to 90 % of all autoimmune disease is idiopathic. The major reasons why the 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? If you have done this, and what we usually do after four months for the final prosthetics and aesthetics, that's the time when we...

1:19Gary Brecka:This is a live podcast, so if you do ask a question, only 11 million people are going to see your face. shy or you're running from the law. Amazing. Don't ask a question. Amazing. 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 Before we do it, I ask one question in the audience that I usually do.

1:54Any one of you guys has metal in the mouth? If yes, stand up and remain standing. 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. Wow. So I imagine this is 90 % of the audience standing. So there's room for health optimization right there in your mouth. You can sit down again. Cheers, guys.

2:23Gary Brecka:Now they're all panicking. Yeah, don't panic. We're giving you new information just for your journey to optimal health. 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 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. Do you have the microphone? There it is. I've got one. I'm going to run. You're going to get a lot of exercise. Okay, where am I going? More steps. Right here in the front, on the right-hand side, far right. Yes.

2:55Hi.

2:56Gary Brecka:Hi. 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 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.

3:46Gary Brecka: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? I mean, this is what I'm trying to do. I know, it's quite a serious question. That's what I'm trying to do about it. I know, 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? I mean, this is obviously a systematic issue or a 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.

4:21And usually there will be a path to that. 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.

4:53And 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 it has to tickle down from above until it floods the mainstream and the masses. But I think to see it as an investment, and 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.

5:27And then the dividend is more held. I think it's...

5:30Gary Brecka:You know, we sadly have the same issue in the U.S. I decided about a year and a half ago that I would go all in on the Maha movement in America. And I probably just cut the room right in half just by saying that. But not Maha, 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 in better health care for humanity. You know, it's fascinating to me, you know, in both of our health care systems, you have the vast majority of your nutritional research funded by big food and big pharma. You know, in the U.S., this is why we have a food pyramid that says that Lucky Charms is more nutritious than grass-fed steak.

6:13Gary Brecka: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 health care 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?

6:54Gary Brecka:I mean, you had the root canal. At the time that they did the root canal, they could have done a biologic clean-out of that, removed 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 the normal root canal procedure, right? I mean, you're talking about fixing root canals that were done wrong.

7:33Gary Brecka:You could do the right thing at the inception. 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, in Germany a dentist is called a tooth doctor. They're still dentists, but that means Zahnarzt in Germany. It's a tooth doctor, Zahnarzt. 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.

8:04It's literally the system that needs to change. It's completely outdated. It's million years. 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 it comes through the masses. That's why I wrote the book. I think you guys are driving it, right?

8:35It's a global health.

8:36Gary Brecka:So let's see if we can, and that was an amazing question. Thank you. I'll somewhat answer it. Yes, ma 'am, right here. I mean, basically that she said that it was connected. That is the main mission. 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. 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.

9:16Sometimes there's pain, but usually when you go to a 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 affected 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 difficult 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 This is the first step we need to do.

10:05Establish 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.

10:37It works. Doing this for more than a decade.

10:39Gary Brecka:And some way in the back, I want to make the person with the microphone. Yeah, waving frantically up there. More steps, steps. Quickly, quickly, hurry. Just trying to make her run. Ten seconds. That's so mean. Yes, I am waving frantically up 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.

11:22Gary Brecka:My question is really quick. I'm 50 % off at this event. My quick question, impacted wisdom tooth teeth or half in, half out? That is the question. Amazing question. In or out? 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.

12:09They'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, porferonas, gingivalis, 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 gingy pains in the brain, causing microgill cells to get activated.

12:39Or 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

13:14Gary Brecka:like fully algorithmic. It's interesting. I'm going to go deep down the rabbit hole during my talk today. But as a broad category of disease for a moment, if we just talked about autoimmune, all autoimmune, right? Crohn's disease, chagrins, Hashimoto's, multiple sclerosis, any autoimmune disease. As it stands now, about 87 % to 90 % of all autoimmune disease 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.

13:54Gary Brecka:We know now that the immune system just doesn't show up for no reason. It's not stupid. It's called to that site, and I call it the big four. The major reasons why the 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, right? And so this is why I'm so excited about the movement of of biologic dentistry, it's not just to clean up the oral cavity, but it's the implications down the road.

14:40Gary Brecka:You know, 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. But I was on a podcast here in the UK, and he 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, 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.

15:25Gary Brecka: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, microtoxin, heavy metal, parasite, virus, bisphenols, glyphosate, polyfluoroalkyls, all of these things, these little mini cytokine all over the body. And that is the genesis of aging.

16:06Gary Brecka:I don't know why I said that. I know why. That was not related to your question at all. But thank you. It's perfect. Thanks. I just had to get it off my chest. Very good. I mean, I know why you said it. Yeah. Kind of like, because it's all about the terrain. Yeah. 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, that teeth containing all the parasites, viruses, fungi, cavitations, including mold. So this is the hotel lobby of the whole system.

16:46And 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.

16:57Gary Brecka:I agree. Oh, right up front. I try to find people as far away from where you are as possible.

17:09Gary Brecka:Thies, as far as children or adults, would you suggest actually cutting them or doing more myofascial and helping that for mouth breathing and cavities? Love the question. You want to answer? No, go ahead. Yeah, so she's asking about tongue tie, right? So that is actually a very good question because that'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 then suck the tongue up? And is your floor of the mouth coming up with it?

17:49If the floor comes up, you know you have a tongue tie. And the tongue tie is, 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. 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 it's a baby already, maybe you can breastfeed better. Maybe the growth of the whole jaw, the upper palate is all going to be better because you breathe better.

18:20I 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 it 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 the wall.

18:50Gary Brecka:Hi, so I'm Charlotte. um my parents actually have dental practices um my father's a very good dentist he we don't use any sort of fluoride or anything like that my problem is 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 so i just wanted to get your opinion on hydroxyapatite with the fact for the actual rebuilding the mineralization keeping the integrity of the tooth obviously counteracting maybe a diet that obviously is unhealthy but does contain fairly acidic foods.

19:29Gary Brecka:What's really interesting is amylase you know the enzyme in our saliva is very very good at counteracting this acidity and and when we talk about hydroxyapatite versus fluoride for example I mean our bones our teeth are 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, right? Which is why mineral deficiencies are the genesis of things like osteopenia, osteoporosis, not a lack of calcium.

20:01Gary Brecka: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, if not. But I'm an enormous fan of hydroxyapatite toothpaste and not fluoride. In fact, the impact of fluoride in 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.