Dr. Steven Hotze introduces our latest supplier on the Hotze Well being & Wellness Heart, Jason Gourlas, MPAS, PA-C. Study Jason’s journey to practising holistic, purposeful medication and the data he brings to our observe to assist serve our friends and get to the basis reason for their signs. Jason brings his experience on pure well being care and in addition shares his data of the risks of mercury fillings and root canals, and the way these dental procedures can hurt your well being and trigger illness.
Podcast Highlights:
3:27: I began researching various therapies to most cancers and I spotted that there have been so many various issues that I had not been taught in my typical medical coaching about vitamin and herbs and way of life modification.
5:42: …many physicians that find yourself in pure approaches to well being…most of these people that find yourself on this subject had well being issues themselves or had relations who had well being issues. They usually tried typical means, it by no means solved the issue, and they also started to go looking they usually discovered different various strategies that they by no means discovered about in medical college or in coaching.
9:00: Our focus right here on the Hotze Well being & Wellness Heart, we have now an eight-point remedy routine: remedy of airborne and meals allergy symptoms, yeast, pure thyroid hormone substitute, pure intercourse hormone substitute (ladies and men), remedy of adrenal fatigue, vitamin and mineral supplementation, and a nutritionally-balanced consuming and train program to assist individuals get to a really perfect physique weight.
11:58: They’d place it (the lifeless root canal tooth) underneath the pores and skin of the rabbit, of those rabbits that they had been researching, and invariably, these rabbits would develop the ailments that these individuals manifested, and they might die. The poisonous load was an excessive amount of for the rabbits.
12:22: “The way in which to good systemic well being is thru good oral well being. And the foundational piece of that’s good vitamin.”
14:23: Effectively, so dentistry is the one facet of medication that truly leaves lifeless issues within the physique. So whenever you do a root canal, you’re drilling out the basis, you’re drilling out the vascular provide, which is, lots of people don’t consider tooth as residing tissue, however they’re residing tissue. And there’s miles and miles of what are referred to as dentin tubules in every tooth, and in these dentin tubules, micro organism reside.
14:51: And so, the micro organism adore it as a result of they’re what are referred to as anaerobic micro organism or facultative anaerobes that dwell in an oxygen-poor, they thrive in an oxygen-poor setting, however their metabolic byproducts are issues which might be actually harmful to the human physique.
15:08: They incite a complete new degree of irritation that has been related to most cancers, autoimmunity, heart problems, you title it.
15:54: So if you concentrate on the far-reaching implications of harm to the mitochondria from these micro organism which might be residing in these lifeless tooth, then it’s no surprise that we’re as sick as we’re right now.
16:11: The micro organism are unfold into the circulation, as are the toxins. And oftentimes that is what results in the underlying coronary artery illness, which is attributable to irritation within the arteries. It’s not attributable to ldl cholesterol, it’s attributable to irritation.
20:38: …there are healthcare suppliers that take a view of your well being via a purposeful integrative complementary lens, a organic dentist is a dentist that does that within the dental realm.
22:04: Mercury is extremely poisonous and it’s unimaginable that the FDA and the American Dental Affiliation enable mercury to be put in somebody’s mouth. There are every kind of warnings about mercury in fish, which comprise a modicum quantity of mercury in comparison with mercury fillings in your mouth.
22:26: And these mercury fillings, in fact, may cause a bunch of well being issues: neurological issues, cognitive issues, irritation.
22:45: I’ve been informed that in case you have one filling and also you threw it in a pond, a lake, a pond, that it’s an acre, you have got fish in it, you couldn’t eat the fish due to the mercury.
22:56: However you possibly can put it in your mouth and each time you chew, you have got a mercury filling, it out-gases and also you breathe in, that mercury will get in your physique and that may trigger a bunch of well being issues.
26:28: I believe the opposite factor I might encourage individuals is that fluoride isn’t your buddy. And so, I’ve not used fluoridated toothpaste for in all probability 20 years and I’ve not a cavity.
27:03: And fluoride has been additionally recognized to be a neurotoxin that causes calcification to the pineal gland. And pineal gland is the gland in your physique that makes melatonin, your sleep hormone, which we additionally know is profoundly helpful for issues aside from sleep.
33:17: Effectively, I’ve to say that that is the best group that I’ve ever seen, truly. It really works like a well-oiled machine, and even in comparison with the army. The individuals are skilled, there’s a degree of professionalism, a degree of service that’s uncommon to seek out in any trade, and the friends are the beneficiaries of that.
28:22: And fluoride competes with iodine on the thyroid gland degree, however contained in the cells it additionally adversely impacts the power of the deiodinase enzyme. You have got an enzyme inside your cell that converts the inactive T4 to T3, that’s the energetic thyroid hormone, and it poisons the deiodinase. Deiodinase means elimination of iodine, and it poisons that enzyme, so individuals aren’t in a position to make sufficient energetic thyroid hormone, T3, to have an excellent metabolic price.
30:10: In the event you go to the fabric security knowledge sheet of the US authorities and also you lookup fluoride, you’ll see it’s a neurotoxin, it’s a carcinogen, it’s a harmful chemical.
34:22: I consider that sickness actually comes from two issues, and everyone has some extent of these two issues, and that’s toxicity and deficiency.
35:44: Effectively, we’re happy to have Dr. Gourlas right here, Jason Gourlas, who’s our doctor’s assistant…he’s succesful and I put him up in opposition to any physician, any typical physician within the nation. He’d be miles forward of them as a result of he studied this and discovered pure approaches to well being.
Podcast Transcription:
Dr. Steven Hotze: Welcome to this system right now. I’m Dr. Steve Hotze. You already know, I consider that you simply and everybody must have a supplier and a workers of pros who can coach you on a path of well being and wellness, naturally, in order you mature, you have got power, you have got vitality, you have got enthusiasm for all times. It’s a pleasure right now to introduce to you our new supplier right here on the Hotze Well being & Wellness Heart, Jason Gourlas, MPAS, PA-C. He’s received a really fascinating background as a medic within the Military, and dealing in Korea with the military after which at Walter Reed Hospital, after which he labored for the Texas Nationwide Guard. He’s been in observe for what number of years now?
Jason Gourlas: Over 26 years now.
Dr. Steven Hotze: …as a doctor’s assistant. And he joined us a number of months in the past and I’m simply happy to have him right here as a result of he has a really fascinating background that resonates with me, and we’re going to speak about that in only a minute. Jason, inform us about your self, the place you’re from, the place you grew up, how you bought inquisitive about medication, after which take us via your historical past and the way you ended up right here on the middle.
Jason Gourlas: Okay. I grew up in Ohio. I joined the army once I was 19 to get cash for faculty and to serve my nation, ended up going into the military as a medic, went to Korea, as Dr. Hotze mentioned. I ended up at Walter Reed, after which via quite a lot of completely different circumstances, I made a decision that medication was actually how I needed to spend my life. As a baby, I used to be very a lot a science nerd. I additionally watched a variety of detective reveals like Magnum P.I., and Simon & Simon and issues like that, and browse Alfred Hitchcock and The Three Investigators.
So I used to be very inquisitive about investigating issues and I assumed I might go into the FBI or the CIA, thank God I didn’t do this. However science and medication truly scratched that itch that I had. And so, being a medical supplier is actually very similar to being a detective, to making an attempt to determine what’s occurring along with your affected person. And in order that was the route that I took, the army helped me to get to that place. After I received out of the army, I ended up in quite a lot of completely different circumstances.
I did household medication, emergency medication, I did neurotology, which is a stability and listening to specialty. After which, the overwhelming majority of my profession, I used to be truly in surgical crucial care at a Degree I trauma middle in San Antonio. So I took care of the sickest of the sick in that 22 county space. The issue with that’s, one, it’s very excessive stress and there have been different household points that I used to be going via on the time that heightened my very own medical issues, which appears to be a manner that a variety of people find yourself on this…
Dr. Steven Hotze: Pure approaches to well being, holistic or integrative-type medication.
Jason Gourlas: Proper. So being skilled in emergency medication and demanding care, I used to be skilled to assume that I had the worst factor, which was going to be most cancers. And so, I knew that the traditional medical paradigm didn’t have the solutions that I wanted – that most cancers was primarily a dying sentence. So crazily sufficient, I began researching various therapies to most cancers and I spotted that there have been so many various issues that I had not been taught in my typical medical coaching about vitamin and herbs and way of life modification.
And so, with only a few adjustments of eating regimen and my way of life, the belly ache that I had went away, the intractable reflux that I used to be taking two and three completely different medicines for went away, and I used to be hooked at that time. I spotted that I beloved the physiology that I noticed within the ICU punctuated by adrenaline-filled codes and issues like that. However the different factor that I observed was that I used to be caring for individuals on the finish levels of illness, these had been the sickest of the sick.
And I spotted that I needed to be concerned of their care previous to them attending to that time. And so, that wasn’t going to occur there and thru that, I began researching several types of medication, like purposeful medication and integrative medication. I mentioned “That’s what I need to do,” and…
Dr. Steven Hotze: And so, you’ve gone on and finished extra research and been licensed in purposeful medication and American Academy of Anti-Getting old Drugs.
Jason Gourlas: That’s appropriate.
Dr. Steven Hotze: Which is 180 levels completely different than what you’d discovered in typical medication. Now, it’s fascinating, we have now very related paths. After I received out of medical college, I did a 12 months internship and surgical procedure after which went into emergency medication for 5 years earlier than I in the end arrange my very own basic medical observe. And that goes again, graduated in ’76, in order that took me into ’81 once I arrange my very own basic observe after being in emergency medication for 5 years. After which by ’89, that’s when my father had his sickness and that’s what, it was my father’s sickness that actually opened up the door for me to enter into pure approaches to well being, and that’s how I ended up.
So we discover that many, many physicians that find yourself in pure approaches to well being, whether or not you name it holistic medication. built-in or purposeful medication, I name it pure approaches to well being or pure medication, most of these people that find yourself on this subject had well being issues themselves or had relations who had well being issues. They usually tried typical means, it by no means solved the issue, and they also started to go looking they usually discovered different various strategies that they by no means discovered about in medical college or in coaching. They usually adopted these they usually labored, they usually mentioned, “My gosh, I can consider tons of of sufferers which have the identical drawback and I’m going to begin treating them,” and also you do, treating them naturally they usually get nicely.
And also you go like, “Why would I ever return to pharmaceutical medication?” It took me, Jason, about 10 years to flush my mind out, from ’89 until ’99, to utterly flush out the pharmaceutical trade out of my mind as a result of it’s so embedded, though I didn’t do prescribed drugs in…in all probability took me 10 years till I simply had an entire rejection of typical medication and the therapies that they use. That’s to not say there’s by no means an occasion the place you may not use a pharmaceutical drug, however in our observe right here on the Hotze Well being & Wellness Heart, it’s as uncommon as hen’s tooth that we do this. So we use pure approaches to well being.
Risks of Mercury Fillings to Your Well being
One factor about Jason Gourlas that actually me was his background in finding out about oral healthcare. This was actually, very fascinating to me as a result of through the years, I’ve heard lectures on the risks of root canals. And naturally, I knew concerning the risks of placing mercury or amalgam fillings within the mouth in oral hygiene. I knew that was…however from the a number of lectures at in medical conferences that I had attended, not typical medical conferences, however different medical conferences, I discovered about Hal Huggins and Blanche Grube, Dr. Grube, and these very progressive dentists that had challenged the traditional pondering of dentistry, saying that a very powerful factor to have good well being was to have wholesome tooth, wholesome gums, not have root canals, not have mercury amalgams.
So why don’t you inform us a bit of about your background? As a result of whenever you got here, and I came upon about this, I had simply interviewed Dr. Blanche Grube on a podcast right here, this needs to be a few months in the past, and it was fascinating. And she or he’s written a guide, Chew on This, However Don’t Swallow. And she or he talked on the radio program primarily concerning the risks of root canals after which about mercury amalgams in direction of the tip of this system. So these are two issues that I’m involved that lots of our friends, and we name our sufferers friends right here, have issues that go unrecognized by typical docs.
And even us right here, as a result of that’s not our focus. Our focus right here on the Hotze Well being & Wellness Heart, we have now an eight-point remedy routine, remedy of airborne and meals allergy symptoms, yeast, pure thyroid hormone substitute, pure intercourse hormone substitute, remedy of adrenal fatigue, vitamin and mineral supplementation, and a nutritionally-balanced consuming and train program to assist individuals get to a really perfect physique weight.
However on high of that, through the years, we’d go to those conferences and I’d hear a lecture and I’d say, “Effectively, we have now to inform individuals about these root canals.” And right here on the observe, myself, my spouse, a number of of our key members of our management workforce have visited organic dentists and had all our amalgams eliminated, since 20 years in the past, removed the basis canals and all that. So why don’t you give us a bit of background on that as a result of I believe that has been a lacking component in a few of our friends who don’t appear to get nicely on our program. And when others do, might simply be that the underlying reason for their drawback has to do with poor oral hygiene.
Jason Gourlas: Proper. So early on, in finding out pure well being, I used to be taking a look at a guide, it’s referred to as The Maker’s Weight-reduction plan. And within the Maker’s Weight-reduction plan, he talked about a cookbook that’s manner way more than a cookbook, it’s referred to as Nourishing Traditions. And that’s put out by a society referred to as the Weston A. Worth Basis. The Weston A. Worth Basis advances the tenets of Weston A. Worth who was a dentist that studied within the ’20s and ’30s, went around the globe, truly, took about 10 years finding out conventional cultures, ancestral cultures, and the way what they ate affected their dentition.
And so, what he discovered was that the oldsters that caught with their conventional diets, that they had large, broad faces with excellent tooth, they usually weren’t struck with any of the ailments of modernity that we’re experiencing right now. However when their kids strayed from that eating regimen and from even only a half a technology to a technology, their faces had been small and narrowed. Their tooth had been crowded, that they had every kind of dental illness, like caries and gingivitis and issues like that, and their basic well being deteriorated.
Dr. Steven Hotze: Deteriorated as nicely.
Jason Gourlas: Sure, certainly. And so, because of that, they’d expertise the necessity for cavities to be stuffed. They’d have root canals being finished, and within the society that he got here from, that was a commonplace prevalence. And what they discovered is that because the dentition worsened and these interventions turned prevalent, then the final systemic well being of the individuals worsened as nicely. And so, he did some research the place he took root canal tooth and caught them underneath the pores and skin of rabbits.
Dr. Steven Hotze: He would take out the…
Jason Gourlas: On the root canal tooth.
Dr. Steven Hotze: …tooth. He’d take the basis canal tooth, they usually’d take it out after which do what?
Jason Gourlas: They’d place it underneath the pores and skin of the rabbit, of those rabbits that they had been researching, and invariably, these rabbits would develop the ailments that these individuals manifested, and they might die. The poisonous load was an excessive amount of for the rabbits. And that was repeated time and again. And so, he finally mentioned, “The way in which to good systemic well being is thru good oral well being. And the foundational piece of that’s good vitamin.” So that actually turned considered one of my passions, and so my spouse and I turned chapter leaders of the Weston A. Worth Basis in San Antonio. We gave month-to-month lectures on good vitamin, ancestral well being, good oral hygiene, and the consequences on systemic well being.
Dr. Steven Hotze: So let’s simply speak about this for a minute, speak about root canals and the risks of root canals. Not too long ago, in our publication that got here out for Thanksgiving, I wrote an article concerning the risks of root canals and within the upcoming subject, we’re going to debate the risks of mercury amalgams. So let’s speak about these one by one. Clarify to everyone why a dentist, and normally it’s an endodontist, they specialize on this, I don’t know if each…does each dentist do root canals, or…
Jason Gourlas: They know the way to do them, however they sometimes punt to an endodontist.
Dr. Steven Hotze: Proper. So there are in all probability thousands and thousands of root canals finished yearly in america, and it’s a moneymaker for the endodontists. So when Weston Worth got here out together with his data, which was in the end adopted by Dr. Hal Huggins, who was a dentist out of Colorado Springs, Colorado, as soon as they started to reveal the risks of root canals, there was an amazing backlash from the endodontists. Now, why would there be a backlash?
Jason Gourlas: Effectively, as a result of they had been taking away their bread and butter.
Dr. Steven Hotze: That’s proper. And so, inform us what Dr. Worth and Dr. Huggins mentioned was flawed with doing root canals. What wouldn’t it trigger?
Jason Gourlas: Effectively, so dentistry is the one facet of medication that truly leaves lifeless issues within the physique. So whenever you do a root canal, you’re drilling out the basis, you’re drilling out the vascular provide, which is, lots of people don’t consider tooth as residing tissue, however they’re residing tissue. And there’s miles and miles of what are referred to as dentin tubules in every tooth, and in these dentin tubules, micro organism reside.
And so, the micro organism adore it as a result of they’re what are referred to as anaerobic micro organism or facultative anaerobes that dwell in an oxygen-poor, they thrive in an oxygen-poor setting, however their metabolic byproducts are issues which might be actually harmful to the human physique. They incite a complete new degree of irritation that has been related to most cancers, autoimmunity, heart problems, you title it. If there’s irritation concerned in it, then they’re going to have an element in it.
The opposite factor to think about is a few of their metabolic byproducts are direct mitochondrial toxicants, or I assume I ought to say toxins as a result of they’re coming from a residing organism, they’re direct mitochondrial toxins and mitochondria are the powerhouses of the cells. And never solely that, however they regulate our immune system, they’re the place our physique has these cytochrome enzymes that break down toxins in our our bodies and hormones are made in your mitochondria. So if you concentrate on the far-reaching implications of harm to the mitochondria from these micro organism which might be residing in these lifeless tooth, then it’s no surprise that we’re as sick as we’re right now.
Dr. Steven Hotze: Proper. And the toxins, in fact, each time you chew down, these toxins are unfold.
Jason Gourlas: Proper.
Dr. Steven Hotze: The micro organism are unfold into the circulation, as are the toxins. And oftentimes that is what results in the underlying coronary artery illness, which is attributable to irritation within the arteries. It’s not attributable to ldl cholesterol, it’s attributable to irritation. Ldl cholesterol is solely the patch, the band-aid that the physique makes use of making an attempt to patch up the irritation attributable to the micro organism or the bacterial toxins. And it’s fascinating, as I’ve considered heart problems related to periodontal illness or with root canals or with mercury amalgams, the underlying reason for coronary artery illness is irritation.
So if we have now this irritation, you’re going to finish up making an attempt to heal it up and you find yourself placing ldl cholesterol plaques to heal up the artery wall, after which these plaques find yourself absorbing calcium to supply some rigidity to the partitions. And that is the physique’s manner of conserving the arteries from tearing aside and breaking down, is to stabilize them with what we name atherosclerosis or hardening of the arteries. That’s a protecting mechanism by the physique.
Now, it may be harmful whenever you get narrowing of your arteries, you possibly can throw a plaque in there and get a coronary heart assault. So we do right here, on the Hotze Well being & Wellness Heart, we do CT scans of the center to find out how a lot calcification the arteries have. And we give anyone 40 and above, we get a CT scan of the center to take a look at the extent of atherosclerosis or hardening within the arteries.
And I’ve thought this, and we see some individuals of their 50s and 60s simply no, they don’t have any…it’s zero. I’m 72, I’ve received no calcification in my arteries, which is uncommon for someone my age, it’s in all probability lower than 10% of the individuals in my age group would have clear arteries. However we have now different individuals which might be youthful, they’ve it within the 500s to thousand vary, or 1100 or 1200. And I’ve considered, only in the near past that, and we’ve began to do that, is ask these people which have optimistic coronary heart scans exhibiting that they’ve atherosclerosis, “Have you ever had a root canal finished? Do you have got mercury amalgams?”
After which we’re going to do a research between the those who don’t have any atherosclerosis and people those who have atherosclerosis, and what’s the distinction of their dental hygiene, variety of root canals. Do the individuals with none coronary artery illness, have they got root canals or not? I don’t have a root canal. I had one for about eight months, 20 years in the past I let some dentist speak me into it, after which I heard a lecture and I mentioned, “I simply must eliminate this,” and I’d already gotten rid of my mercury amalgams.
So we need to discover out the those who have the atherosclerosis, have they got issues with root canals and mercury amalgams? If that’s the case, then we’re going to do a research right here in our middle and attempt to analyze between individuals with and with out atherosclerosis, and see how a lot is said to the oral hygiene, which we consider is extremely correlated. And this has been proven in different research that Hal Huggins and different dentists and organic dentists do.
So if that’s the case, and I’m recommending now, and we’re recommending that in case you have had a root canal and you’ve got some form of systemic issues, whether or not it’s coronary heart illness, whether or not it’s dementia, whether or not it’s kidney dysfunction, whether or not you’ve received issues with the liver, you’ve received bowel issues, you’ve received joint and muscle aches and pains, you have got arthritis, or any form of illness, might it’s that the basis canal is the underlying reason for your drawback? So we’re recommending that our friends see a organic dentist. Clarify a organic dentist for us, doc.
Jason Gourlas: So, like there are healthcare suppliers that take a view of your well being via a purposeful integrative complementary lens, a organic dentist is a dentist that does that within the dental realm. They’ve finished further coaching, there’s quite a lot of completely different organizations, corresponding to IABDM, which might be organizations that practice and certify docs in what are referred to as, it’s referred to as organic dentistry or protected or good amalgam elimination.
So that they have checked out the whole lot from heavy steel cleansing to alternative ways to deal with these points in a manner that’s going to be most advantageous on your well being. And it’s form of unhappy that these typical dentists are taking out mercury amalgams, drilling out the mercury, giving a load of mercury to their sufferers and a load of mercury to themselves.
Dr. Steven Hotze: To themselves.
Jason Gourlas: And it’s actually a travesty. And it’s laborious for me to consider that a complete group can assume that you simply take a mercury amalgam earlier than you place it in someone’s mouth, otherwise you take it out of someone’s mouth, and it’s a must to deal with it with the utmost care as a biohazard, however then whenever you put it in someone’s mouth.
Dr. Steven Hotze: Mouth, that you simply don’t have to fret about it.
Jason Gourlas: …that it magically turns into okay? It’s type of ludicrous.
Dr. Steven Hotze: Effectively, it’s. Mercury is extremely poisonous and it’s unimaginable that the FDA and the American Dental Affiliation enable mercury to be put in somebody’s mouth. There are every kind of warnings about mercury in fish, which comprise a modicum quantity of mercury in comparison with mercury fillings in your mouth. And these mercury fillings, in fact, may cause a bunch of well being issues: neurological issues, cognitive issues, irritation. It may well trigger a bunch of well being issues. And but, the ADA says, “Effectively, they’ve actually by no means been confirmed to trigger issues.” However when you had that very same quantity, I’ve been informed that in case you have one filling and also you threw it in a pond, a lake, a pond, that it’s an acre, you have got fish in it, you couldn’t eat the fish due to the mercury.
However you possibly can put it in your mouth and each time you chew, you have got a mercury filling, it out-gases and also you breathe in, that mercury will get in your physique and that may trigger a bunch of well being issues. So we suggest, as a matter of reality, I had a dentist that argued with me about this, and when he talked to me, his fingers quivered like this as a result of he had some form of senile tremor in his fingers. And what was that from? That was from all of the mercury he’d been placing in, I’m certain that’s what brought about this drawback. Goes like, “Mercury doesn’t trigger any…it’s not an issue.” I mentioned, “Why are your fingers…”
Jason Gourlas: No, they don’t know what causes this, proper?
Dr. Steven Hotze: So anyway, I needed every considered one of you to grasp that having Jason Gourlas right here on our workers actually brings this entire idea of oral well being into our medical middle, into our observe, which goes to assist us higher be capable of get you onto a path of well being and wellness, naturally. And when you contact us, we are able to provide the title of organic dentists that we have now used, that we have now vetted, that can enable you to get your oral and dental well being up.
By the best way, if you understand something about farming, when farmers go to purchase animals, notably cows or notably horses, the very first thing they have a look at or one of many key issues they have a look at is they give the impression of being of their mouth, they have a look at their oral hygiene. And if it’s unhealthy, they don’t purchase it as a result of they know the animal’s going to be unhealthy. That’s the place the previous expression, “Don’t look a present horse within the mouth.” Effectively that’s form of an insult. You’re saying, “I need to see in case your horse is wholesome earlier than…you’re going to present me your horse, however let me verify and see if it’s wholesome.” So that you don’t look a present horse within the mouth as a result of he might have dangerous tooth. And so that you don’t need to say “I don’t| need your horse, thanks, however no, thanks.”
Don’t have a look at reward horse within the mouth, settle for it, thank them for it. However whenever you go to purchase a horse, you’d you’ll want to verify their tooth, whenever you go to purchase a pleasant steer or cow, you be certain to verify their tooth, and that’s what the farmers do. And that’s the identical manner in people, that we have to have good oral hygiene and we need to encourage that. And Jason brings that experience into our observe to maintain us on monitor so we don’t go like, “Sure, let’s get all enthusiastic about conserving individuals’s oral hygiene up.” After which hastily, it drops off the radar display, which it’s finished through the years, but it surely’s not going to now.
So I would like you to be inspired about that and need to encourage you to be sure to get your oral hygiene squared away. Eliminate the mercury amalgams. You actually pull out your tooth that had root canals and your dentist will say, “Oh, they sterilize these.” Effectively, they don’t. They’ve been confirmed and you may ship off and do assessments on this, and you could find out that certainly all these root canal tooth which might be lifeless are stuffed with anaerobic micro organism that trigger a bunch of well being issues. In order that’s one thing I needed to deal with this primary interview with Jason. You need to add the rest on high of this? We’re going to come back again in one other interview and speak about another remedy modalities that you simply carry to the observe.
Fluoride is Detrimental to Your Well being
Jason Gourlas: I believe the opposite factor I might encourage individuals is that fluoride isn’t your buddy. And so, I’ve not used fluoridated toothpaste for in all probability 20 years and I’ve not a cavity. So I believe it’s a fallacy to assume that fluoride protects you from cavities. It’s actually your eating regimen that’s the most important driver of cavities and poor oral hygiene. And so, brushing your tooth twice every day utilizing pure dental floss and possibly even performing some oil pulling might be a greater method to go about it.
And fluoride has been additionally recognized to be a neurotoxin that causes calcification to the pineal gland. And pineal gland is the gland in your physique that makes melatonin, your sleep hormone, which we additionally know is profoundly helpful for issues aside from sleep. It’s an antioxidant that’s at the very least 5 occasions extra highly effective than vitamin C, and we use it in most cancers sufferers and issues like that. And so, we don’t need your pineal gland to turn into calcified, we don’t you to ingest these neurotoxins that haven’t actually been confirmed.
Dr. Steven Hotze: And on high of that, on fluoride, and I wrote about it in my guide, Hypothyroidism, Well being & Happiness, fluoride is a halogen, it competes with iodine. Your thyroid hormone comprises both 4 iodine atoms, and right here’s the hormone, right here’s the thyroid hormone, it has 4 iodine atoms, that’s referred to as T4, or it has three, that’s the energetic. T4 is the inactive, T3 is the energetic thyroid hormone. It has iodine atoms. Iodine is a halogen, so is fluoride, so is chlorine. In the event you keep in mind your periodic desk again in highschool, there was a column, and the column was the column of halogens and had chlorine, it had fluoride and it had iodine and a number of other others in that.
And fluoride competes with iodine on the thyroid gland degree, however contained in the cells, it additionally adversely impacts the power of the deiodinase enzyme. You have got an enzyme inside your cell that converts the inactive T4 to T3, that’s the energetic thyroid hormone, and it poisons the deiodinase. Deiodinase means elimination of iodine, and it poisons that enzyme, so individuals aren’t in a position to make sufficient energetic thyroid hormone, T3, to have an excellent metabolic price. Their blood ranges could also be nice, whenever you have a look at the blood, the T4 degree, which is inactive, could also be completely nice, however it’s a must to have T3 inside your cells and it’s a must to have deiodinase enzyme functioning correctly to have the ability to convert the T4 inactive to the T3 energetic thyroid hormone.
They usually put fluoride within the water. Now, what’s very fascinating about this, again within the Sixties, late ’50s and ’60s, there was nice controversy throughout america about including fluoride to the water. And I can keep in mind watching on TV metropolis council members, again once I was a bit of child, 9, 10, 11, on Saturday, watching the town council conferences the place individuals had been demanding that they don’t put fluoride into the water. And there was a giant controversy about it.
Effectively, about 70% of the municipalities in america add fluoride to the water. And it’s mentioned the rationale they had been going to do it’s as a result of the chemical firms mentioned, “Effectively, it is going to assist defend in opposition to dental cavities. There’s a spot within the nation the place it has excessive ranges of fluoride within the groundwater and the individuals have much less cavities, so we have to put fluoride within the water.”
With fluoride, it’s a toxin. In the event you go to the fabric security knowledge sheet of the US authorities and also you lookup fluoride, you’ll see it’s a neurotoxin, it’s a carcinogen, it’s a harmful chemical. And when you go and take your toothpaste out, have a look at your toothpaste on the label of your toothpaste on the field or on the toothpaste tube, there’s a field there that claims, “Warning: If extra ingested than you place in your toothbrush, name Poison Management or go to the emergency room instantly.”
Now, why would you sweep your tooth with one thing that, when you swallowed it, you’d must go to the emergency room and name Poison Management? As a result of it has fluoride in it, so that you must use a non-fluoridated toothpaste. And there’s a number of of them in the marketplace. We promote Spry Toothpaste right here, however I’m certain in any one of many shops you could find a non-fluoridated toothpaste, however that’s what we suggest doing.
And we additionally suggest that you simply filter your water, don’t drink the fluoride in Houston’s water right here, and in all the main municipalities within the nation, they’ve fluoride they usually brag about it. Effectively, I exploit reverse osmosis in my sink, and so we don’t have fluoride within the water, however that fluoride, and right here’s what occurs, it poisons the thyroid hormone, that’s the energetic thyroid hormone, it poisons the enzyme that converts T4 to T3, the energetic thyroid hormone, so your metabolism goes down.
Effectively, what does this result in? Effectively, since 1960, when 15% of the inhabitants in america was obese, half the individuals had been overweight, 7% of the inhabitants was overweight. Presently, in America, 70% of the inhabitants is obese, half these individuals, 35% of the entire variety of People, are overweight. Now, that’s an enormous quantity. Now, you examine that to Europe, Europe is 15% obese, 7% overweight. They don’t allow fluoride within the water in Europe. And also you go to Europe and also you go to France they usually offer you not only a basket of bread, they provide you carts of bread, drink wine… You go to Italy they usually have pasta and pizzas and all that. And also you have a look at the individuals they usually’re skinny and trim.
I keep in mind I went, we had been within the airport in Paris touring to Rome, and I keep in mind strolling round and going, “Man, these individuals are so skinny. They’re wholesome.” Effectively, that’s as a result of they don’t put fluoride within the water. So anyway, I’m glad you introduced that up. So that you need to just remember to don’t have fluoride since you don’t need to poison your thyroid gland.
Therapy on the Hotze Well being & Wellness Heart
So inform me, on our program, our eight-point remedy program we have now right here, inform us about your background. You’ve examine this, studied it. Inform us about your impressions now that you simply’re with us right here on the Hotze Well being & Wellness Heart. What variations do you see than you noticed in different practices? What have you ever observed it’s completely different, not simply with the remedy, however the best way we deal with our friends?
Jason Gourlas: Effectively, I’ve to say that that is the best group that I’ve ever seen, truly. It really works like a well-oiled machine, and even in comparison with the army. The individuals are skilled, there’s a degree of professionalism, a degree of service that’s uncommon to seek out in any trade, and the friends are the beneficiaries of that. And so, the eight-point remedy plan offers you type of a template on which to, a foundational method to deal with people. Now, that doesn’t imply that we don’t deal with you as a person as a result of everyone’s a bit of bit completely different, and to attempt to put a spherical peg right into a sq. gap doesn’t assist anyone.
Nevertheless it’s useful to take a look at remedy via that rubric so that you simply don’t miss issues. And it actually seems at intestine well being, and it seems on the irritation via the remedy of allergy symptoms. I consider that sickness actually comes from two issues. And everyone has some extent of these two issues, and that’s toxicity and deficiency. And so, generally toxicity is yeast overgrowth, and generally deficiency is an issue with minerals, or it may very well be an issue with insufficient thyroid manufacturing or intercourse hormone manufacturing. And so, we hearken to you, we take your historical past and that that’s actually, backing up, listening to people is actually the crux of fine medical care as a result of it’s whenever you hearken to individuals, they’ll inform you the story. Their story is stuffed with these clues that I used to be searching for once I was a detective…
Dr. Steven Hotze: Proper.
Jason Gourlas: …making an attempt to be a detective. And so discovering these clues, these clues in bodily examination, after which we use laboratory testing in a manner that’s a bit of bit extra refined than your typical physician. There’s every kind of clues which you could choose up in excessive ranges of enzymes or decrease ranges of enzymes so far as nutrient deficiencies. And so, giving the physique what it wants with a view to have an enough and acceptable metabolism and to have the ability to make the most of the enzymes that it was designed with to perform appropriately, these are all elements and tenants that you simply’ll expertise right here that you could be not expertise someplace else.
Dr. Steven Hotze: Effectively, we’re happy to have Dr. Gourlas right here, Jason Gourlas, who’s our doctor’s assistant, and he sees sufferers underneath the authority and course of myself and Dr. Ellsworth. However he’s succesful and I put him up in opposition to any physician, any typical physician within the nation. He’d be miles forward of them as a result of he studied this and discovered pure approaches to well being. And so, I’m happy and honored, actually, to have him on workers. He’s an important addition.
Not solely does he perceive our eight-point remedy routine, which is remedy of airborne and meals allergy symptoms, and remedy of yeast, and remedy of pure thyroid hormone supplementation, and balancing out your intercourse hormones and treating for adrenal fatigue, and vitamin and mineral supplementation and a nutritionally-balanced consuming and train program, however now, we’re including to it good dental hygiene, and I believe we must make it a nine-point remedy routine in order that we do not forget that, that that’s what we need to do. We would like you to be wholesome and nicely.
We even have anti-aging. We do anti-aging, and we additionally right here on the observe do aesthetics, so not solely do we wish you to really feel nicely, we wish you to look nicely and have an excellent facial look and be youthful and rejuvenated, and simply so that you’ll have a way more pleasing life.
Effectively, thanks a lot for becoming a member of us right now, and thank every considered one of you for becoming a member of us. In the event you’d wish to have a session with Jason Gourlas, MPAS, PA-C, then please contact us right here on the workplace on the quantity on the display, which is 281-698-8698. Thanks for becoming a member of us right now.
Jason Gourlas: Thanks.
