Gum disease is a race against time: bad breath, sticky, inflamed gums, teeth that loosen then start to fall out…
and, finally, bone that has worn away so badly that only surgery can save your remaining teeth.
I avoided this nightmare. Here’s how:
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I think I finally tackled my gum disease just before my teeth started to become loose.
I honestly think it got that close.
I’m not a youngster any more. But I am still too young to start losing teeth!
The three stand-out symptoms of gum disease are:
loose teeth then loss of teeth
My gums were already bleeding once or twice a week.
And my breath had started to turn. I wasn’t the only one who noticed it.
But I noticed when other people noticed it… which is embarrassing to say the least.
If your breath hasn’t gone bad yet don’t worry – it soon will.
But it was losing teeth that scared me most. Once a tooth is loose you can’t go back.
You might fix it with expensive – and somewhat painful – dentistry. Or it might fall out.
But what you’ve got to do is act to prevent the rest of them from falling out.
So it becomes a race against time.
The treatments my dentist gave me weren’t working especially well. She was concerned. So was I.
The trouble is that all the while we’re trying out solutions that don’t work… the disease progresses, causing more damage.
It’s not just losing teeth. Past a certain point gum disease erodes the ligaments and jaw bone that holds everything in place.
This simply has to be treated. And surgery is the only answer.
Surgery that sounds excruciatingly painful.
… stitching gums together again.
I wince even now when I think of it.
Surgery was the last thing I wanted. I did a ton of research over the next couple of days.
I found plenty of bad news. Lots of people find their gum disease either refuses to get better… or it gets better for a while before getting worse again.
But there was also some good news. Great news, in fact.
And this is how I tackled my gum disease and got my smile back again.
On an old health forum I found a discussion involving people who used to suffer really bad gum disease.
They were healthy now – their breath was fresh, their teeth were solidly attached… and they could smile happy, wide-open smiles without embarrassment.
Turns out there was no ‘secret’ to what they had done. They had followed a natural health program that tackled gum disease at its actual source. And they got the results they wanted.
The program had been running successfully for years. It was created by an alternative health practitioner called Julissa Clay.
Julissa had a long-standing reputation as a highly effective practitioner in the field of natural remedies.
And her approach to gum disease was outstandingly effective – because it did something that my dentist wasn’t doing: it tackled the problem at its root cause.
Instead of employing expensive chemical drugs to the symptoms of the problem she worked on the deepest cause of the problem… and that’s what made all the difference.
As you’ll see, this mystery is actually the key to fighting off gum disease.
Because everyone is subjected to the bad bacteria that causes gum disease. They’re unavoidable.
Germs are everywhere: in the air, in our food (even if we’ve cooked it), on the skin of that baby you kissed, the side of the cup you drink your coffee from…
Yet I got gum disease while nobody around me did.
It used to be that we simply didn’t know. We just accepted the mystery.
Julissa explains it like this:
A healthy mouth has good, useful bacteria in it that helps keep teeth and gums happy and healthy.
It’s bad mouth bacteria from food, cutlery, kissing, licking our fingers – even just breathing in – that becomes gum disease.
But that bad bacteria only becomes gum disease if your immune system was unable to kill off that bacteria when it first arrived in your mouth.
Kill it when it arrives and you’re not going to get gum disease. .
You’ve got gum disease now for the same reason I had gum disease then: your immune system isn’t quite strong enough to beat off that harmful mouth bacteria.
And let’s be clear: your immune system may still be working well against other ailments.
It’s not like it has collapsed and isn’t doing anything at all.
But the immune system is very specific. A weakened immune system will reliably defeat one type of ailment… but be quickly beaten by another.
Which is why you might fight off colds easily – yet stand no chance against gum disease.
Our problem is that once you’ve got gum disease… you’re in trouble.
Modern medicines might help weaken that bad mouth bacteria.
But as soon as we stop applying treatments to our mouth… the bacteria comes rushing back.
It gets the upper hand…. the immune system still can’t stop it… and we’re back where we started.
So you have gum disease because your immune system can’t overpower the bad mouth bacteria that causes it.
There’s a further problem.
Want to know why the disease is wearing away the gums, ligaments and bones that keep your teeth in place?
It’s because even though your immune system can’t beat the disease…
… it keeps on trying to beat the disease.
So it sends killer cells and blood and heat to your gums… inflammation, basically.
And it will send inflammation to fight the disease for as long as the disease is there.
But because it isn’t strong enough to actually beat the disease it is permanently fighting it.
So it’s permanently sending inflammation to the gums and mouth.
And that never-ending inflammation spills over to your gums and bones… and starts wearing them away.
This is the tragic irony of gum disease.
The immune system is still bravely trying to fight off the disease. Which it fails to do.
But in the attempt… it starts to destroy your mouth.
It’s literally wearing you away,
The basic explanation is very straightforward:
Immunity strength is created by another set of bacteria – this time, it’s the good bacteria that exist in our gut.
These little guys are astonishingly good for us. Every single one of the billions of good bacteria that live in our guts is doing a life-saving job for us.
It’s impossible to overstate how essential gut bacteria are for our heart and organ health, for our mental health, for our hormonal balance, for our joint health…
And for our immune system.
Medical science has long understood that gut bacteria is essential to the training and regulation of the immune system.
But what’s also well understood is that the immune system is very sensitive to changes in that gut bacteria.
It takes just a slight reduction in gut health to cause us noticeable immune system problems (‘dysregulation’ is the medical term).
And when that happens we find ourselves more likely to get – and then be unable to fight off – specific diseases.
So I had gum disease simply because my immune system couldn’t fight it off.
My immune system was weak because my gut bacteria weren’t in good shape.
Got healthy gut bacteria? Then you have a powerful immune system. No gum disease for you.
Got less than healthy bacteria? Then the immune system will lose the battle against gum disease.
And while it’s forever trying to beat the disease… inflammation is wearing away the bone that supports our teeth.
Which is exactly why our teeth start falling out.
We’ve got to restore that gut bacteria. And quickly. It’s a race against time.
So Julissa takes a double-edged approach to treating gum disease. This speeds the treatment up to such a degree that I think she may just have saved my teeth from falling out.
Step 1 is to utilize the powerful, natural agents found in certain plant oils to treat the disease from the outside. Kill the bacteria that causes gum disease.
Step 2 is to rejuvenate the immune system from within. So it’s able to fight off bad mouth bacteria as it arrives – meaning it never gets chance to become gum disease.
Hit the mouth bacteria from the outside using natural remedies.
Restore the immune system from the inside so that new mouth bacteria can’t turn into gum disease.
You’re going to struggle with gum disease now for the same reason that I used to: because the two-step solution that works is not the approach dentists take.
They only attack the problem from the outside. Which kills bad mouth bacteria…but, unlike Julissa’s treatments, their medications kill off good mouth bacteria too.
Unfortunately we need that good bacteria. A mouth full of good bacteria keeps bad bacteria at bay simply because there’s not enough nutrients – or space – for the bad to take root in the mouth.
Once your dentist kills off all your mouth bacteria – good and bad – then it’s a race to see which one gets back quickest.
The bad guys win this race every time.
And the problem with your weakened immune system? Dentists don’t even try to address this problem.
So now you don’t have good bacteria there to shove out the bad… because your dentist killed it all.
And you don’t have an immune system capable of fighting off that bacteria when, inevitably, it comes back.
Because nobody even told you that, in fact, this is the actual reason we have gum disease in the first place.
Which is why so many of us – including me and probably you too – got initial relief from our dentist treatment, we thought everything was fine… and then the whole problem started over.
Julissa’s 2-step solution is called ‘Gum Disease Gone’.
It has worked now for over four thousand people who feared they’d end up losing their teeth. Here’s what it does.
Step 1: treat that bad mouth bacteria head-on now
Julissa uses natural, gentle plant extracts to kill off bad, disease-causing mouth bacteria. The good bacteria aren’t harmed.
I was highly skeptical that plants could do what chemical drugs failed to do. I mean, scientific stuff beats plants, right?
Wrong. Turns out I was pretty naive.
First, plant-based remedies now are scientific stuff. It’s research labs and clinical trials of these elements that is proving they work so powerfully in the first place.
Plants have their own anti-bacterial defenses against the exact bacteria we humans need to fight.
Second, research trials show that plant extracts routinely out-perform certain common pharma products. And without the pharma side-effects.
Even some doctors use natural remedies now – because they know exactly how effective they are.
Step 2: fix the immune system so that gum disease can’t happen again
The connection between healthy gut bacteria and a strong, effective immune system is well-documented.
Strong gut bacteria equals a strong immune system. A strong immune system is the key defense against gum disease.
What makes that gut bacteria strong?
The right foods. Those good guys live 100% off what we feed them. Give them exactly what they need… and they’ll give us exactly what we need.
And that includes a super-strong immune system that can – basically – fight off anything. Including gum disease.
It was once I started to eat lots of exactly the right foods that I saw how quickly things could start going right for me.
Let me be blunt here: when I realized Julissa was going to give me food advice I let out a groan. I hate diets!
I don’t like people interfering with my life choices. That’s just the way I am.
But… I also wanted pink, healthy happy gums. I wanted fresh breath. And I didn’t want my teeth to fall out.
Turns out this isn’t a diet at all.
We’re not calorie-counting – thank goodness.
In fact, you generally have to eat more food rather than less. Lots of the right food is what works – not starving ourselves!
Julissa knows two things about you and me:
Her program delivers just that. Here’s how.
There are already dozens of proven plant and oil based remedies for a wide range of illnesses.
Scientific research confirms they are as good as their chemical alternatives – or better.
Julissa has selected and tested specific oils that directly kill off the worst mouth bacteria – the ones that directly cause gum disease.
And she has found they produce measurable results within just a few days.
These powerful oils are completely harmless to the good mouth bacteria that we don’t want to kill off.
I also noticed these gentle oils soothed gum pain and inflammation.
Honestly, on every score, natural mouth treatments outperform your dentist’s remedies hands down. Which explains why more and more modern health professionals are turning to these remedies themselves.
A strong, restored immune system is how we fight gum disease.
When we feed our gut bacteria properly they create an immune system that can fight anything.
Choosing the right foods to eat is super easy. Julissa summarises the entire thing into simple lists of
Remember, this isn’t a diet. I did lose about 10 pounds – but that’s only because really good food naturally reduces fat in the body.
What’s key here is that we eat plenty of different types of the exact food that makes our immune system super-strong.
Almost every one of the foods she recommends I’ve heard of. Most of them I’ve eaten.
Some of them I already eat regularly. Especially chocolate. (Yes, she recommends chocolate!)
Every one of them is available in my local supermarket.
I’m not much of a cook to be honest. But Julissa describes simple ways of preparing these foods so that they taste great. Your job? Just eat them!
I’m not sure I’ve loved food in the way that I love it now. And that’s saying something.
For the super-busy amongst us who just want to get on with it… Julissa has created a couple of cheat sheets.
So you can start the moment you receive the program.
Her cheat-sheets break her solution into single, easy-to-do steps.
Follow really simple instructions to
– fight off bad mouth bacteria that causes gum disease
– stop wearing down jaw bone – meaning your teeth won’t fall out
– restore your immune system to ensure that bacteria never gets a hold in your mouth again
It takes a couple of days to see things change. But it’s lovely when they do.
The stickiness in my mouth subsided quickly.
My breath – which over time had become a real embarrassment – became clean once more. My gums regained their healthy pinkness and my teeth swapped yellowness for whiteness.
And there was no way back for the bad mouth bacteria that caused all my problems. Because now they were getting their backsides kicked by a super-strong immune system.
I finally treated my gum disease in a way that made a difference I could see and feel. For that I am eternally grateful to Julissa!
You did nothing wrong to get gum disease. Yet here you are.
It might already be obvious to you that if you don’t do something different this problem is going to hang around for a long time.
By which time its effects will be irreversible.
Don’t do this to yourself. There’s 4 thousand – and counting – of us who decided enough was enough.
We’re glad we acted. You will be so glad too.
Get ‘Gum Disease Gone’ right now by clicking here. You’ll thank yourself within days!
We know that bad bacteria overwhelms good bacteria in the mouth.
Our immune system can’t defeat it. So we end up with gum disease.
If we restore our immune system we’ve switched back on the one thing that can defeat the disease for good.
Julissa has shown thousands of us how to do this. It takes a few days. And it’s easy.
My gums are healthy and my teeth are super-strong. You can have the same.
‘Gum Disease Gone’ is your way out of gum disease. Click here and get it now.
Your jaw bone is wearing away even as you read this.
What’s your plan to stop this?
It’s well-known that once the disease is underway our options become far fewer – and far more painful.
Gum disease has gone very bad for others. But it doesn’t have to go bad at all for you.
Order ‘Gum Disease Gone’ right now. Get to work on that disease – and get that smile back on your face!
Skinstitut Holiday Gift Kits take the stress out of gifting
Toronto, October 31, 2024 – Beauty gifts are at the top of holiday wish lists this year, and Laser Clinics Canada, a leader in advanced beauty treatments and skincare, is taking the pressure out of seasonal shopping. Today, Laser Clincs Canada announces the arrival of its 2024 Holiday Gift Kits, courtesy of Skinstitut, the exclusive skincare line of Laser Clinics Group.
In time for the busy shopping season, the limited-edition Holiday Gifts Kits are available in Laser Clinics locations in the GTA and Ottawa. Clinics are conveniently located in popular shopping centers, including Hillcrest Mall, Square One, CF Sherway Gardens, Scarborough Town Centre, Rideau Centre, Union Station and CF Markville. These limited-edition Kits are available on a first come, first served basis.
“These kits combine our best-selling products, bundled to address the most relevant skin concerns we’re seeing among our clients,” says Christina Ho, Senior Brand & LAM Manager at Laser Clinics Canada. “With several price points available, the kits offer excellent value and suit a variety of gift-giving needs, from those new to cosmeceuticals to those looking to level up their skincare routine. What’s more, these kits are priced with a savings of up to 33 per cent so gift givers can save during the holiday season.
There are two kits to select from, each designed to address key skin concerns and each with a unique theme — Brightening Basics and Hydration Heroes.
Brightening Basics is a mix of everyday essentials for glowing skin for all skin types. The bundle comes in a sleek pink, reusable case and includes three full-sized products: 200ml gentle cleanser, 50ml Moisture Defence (normal skin) and 30ml1% Hyaluronic Complex Serum. The Brightening Basics kit is available at $129, a saving of 33 per cent.
Hydration Heroes is a mix of hydration essentials and active heroes that cater to a wide variety of clients. A perfect stocking stuffer, this bundle includes four deluxe products: Moisture 15 15 ml Defence for normal skin, 10 ml 1% Hyaluronic Complex Serum, 10 ml Retinol Serum and 50 ml Expert Squalane Cleansing Oil. The kit retails at $59.
In addition to the 2024 Holiday Gifts Kits, gift givers can easily add a Laser Clinic Canada gift card to the mix. Offering flexibility, recipients can choose from a wide range of treatments offered by Laser Clinics Canada, or they can expand their collection of exclusive Skinstitut products.
Brightening Basics 2024 Holiday Gift Kit by Skinstitut, available exclusively at Laser Clincs Canada clinics and online at skinstitut.ca.
Hydration Heroes 2024 Holiday Gift Kit by Skinstitut – available exclusively at Laser Clincs Canada clinics and online at skinstitut.ca.
LONDON (AP) — Most people have accumulated a pile of data — selfies, emails, videos and more — on their social media and digital accounts over their lifetimes. What happens to it when we die?
It’s wise to draft a will spelling out who inherits your physical assets after you’re gone, but don’t forget to take care of your digital estate too. Friends and family might treasure files and posts you’ve left behind, but they could get lost in digital purgatory after you pass away unless you take some simple steps.
Here’s how you can prepare your digital life for your survivors:
Apple
The iPhone maker lets you nominate a “ legacy contact ” who can access your Apple account’s data after you die. The company says it’s a secure way to give trusted people access to photos, files and messages. To set it up you’ll need an Apple device with a fairly recent operating system — iPhones and iPads need iOS or iPadOS 15.2 and MacBooks needs macOS Monterey 12.1.
For iPhones, go to settings, tap Sign-in & Security and then Legacy Contact. You can name one or more people, and they don’t need an Apple ID or device.
You’ll have to share an access key with your contact. It can be a digital version sent electronically, or you can print a copy or save it as a screenshot or PDF.
Take note that there are some types of files you won’t be able to pass on — including digital rights-protected music, movies and passwords stored in Apple’s password manager. Legacy contacts can only access a deceased user’s account for three years before Apple deletes the account.
Google
Google takes a different approach with its Inactive Account Manager, which allows you to share your data with someone if it notices that you’ve stopped using your account.
When setting it up, you need to decide how long Google should wait — from three to 18 months — before considering your account inactive. Once that time is up, Google can notify up to 10 people.
You can write a message informing them you’ve stopped using the account, and, optionally, include a link to download your data. You can choose what types of data they can access — including emails, photos, calendar entries and YouTube videos.
There’s also an option to automatically delete your account after three months of inactivity, so your contacts will have to download any data before that deadline.
Facebook and Instagram
Some social media platforms can preserve accounts for people who have died so that friends and family can honor their memories.
When users of Facebook or Instagram die, parent company Meta says it can memorialize the account if it gets a “valid request” from a friend or family member. Requests can be submitted through an online form.
The social media company strongly recommends Facebook users add a legacy contact to look after their memorial accounts. Legacy contacts can do things like respond to new friend requests and update pinned posts, but they can’t read private messages or remove or alter previous posts. You can only choose one person, who also has to have a Facebook account.
You can also ask Facebook or Instagram to delete a deceased user’s account if you’re a close family member or an executor. You’ll need to send in documents like a death certificate.
TikTok
The video-sharing platform says that if a user has died, people can submit a request to memorialize the account through the settings menu. Go to the Report a Problem section, then Account and profile, then Manage account, where you can report a deceased user.
Once an account has been memorialized, it will be labeled “Remembering.” No one will be able to log into the account, which prevents anyone from editing the profile or using the account to post new content or send messages.
X
It’s not possible to nominate a legacy contact on Elon Musk’s social media site. But family members or an authorized person can submit a request to deactivate a deceased user’s account.
Passwords
Besides the major online services, you’ll probably have dozens if not hundreds of other digital accounts that your survivors might need to access. You could just write all your login credentials down in a notebook and put it somewhere safe. But making a physical copy presents its own vulnerabilities. What if you lose track of it? What if someone finds it?
Instead, consider a password manager that has an emergency access feature. Password managers are digital vaults that you can use to store all your credentials. Some, like Keeper,Bitwarden and NordPass, allow users to nominate one or more trusted contacts who can access their keys in case of an emergency such as a death.
But there are a few catches: Those contacts also need to use the same password manager and you might have to pay for the service.
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The Canadian Paediatric Society says doctors should regularly screen children for reading difficulties and dyslexia, calling low literacy a “serious public health concern” that can increase the risk of other problems including anxiety, low self-esteem and behavioural issues, with lifelong consequences.
New guidance issued Wednesday says family doctors, nurses, pediatricians and other medical professionals who care for school-aged kids are in a unique position to help struggling readers access educational and specialty supports, noting that identifying problems early couldhelp kids sooner — when it’s more effective — as well as reveal other possible learning or developmental issues.
The 10 recommendations include regular screening for kids aged four to seven, especially if they belong to groups at higher risk of low literacy, including newcomers to Canada, racialized Canadians and Indigenous Peoples. The society says this can be done in a two-to-three-minute office-based assessment.
Other tips encourage doctors to look for conditions often seen among poor readers such as attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder; to advocate for early literacy training for pediatric and family medicine residents; to liaise with schools on behalf of families seeking help; and to push provincial and territorial education ministries to integrate evidence-based phonics instruction into curriculums, starting in kindergarten.
Dr. Scott McLeod, one of the authors and chair of the society’s mental health and developmental disabilities committee, said a key goal is to catch kids who may be falling through the cracks and to better connect families to resources, including quicker targeted help from schools.
“Collaboration in this area is so key because we need to move away from the silos of: everything educational must exist within the educational portfolio,” McLeod said in an interview from Calgary, where he is a developmental pediatrician at Alberta Children’s Hospital.
“Reading, yes, it’s education, but it’s also health because we know that literacy impacts health. So I think that a statement like this opens the window to say: Yes, parents can come to their health-care provider to get advice, get recommendations, hopefully start a collaboration with school teachers.”
McLeod noted that pediatricians already look for signs of low literacy in young children by way of a commonly used tool known as the Rourke Baby Record, which offers a checklist of key topics, such as nutrition and developmental benchmarks, to cover in a well-child appointment.
But he said questions about reading could be “a standing item” in checkups and he hoped the society’s statement to medical professionals who care for children “enhances their confidence in being a strong advocate for the child” while spurring partnerships with others involved in a child’s life such as teachers and psychologists.
The guidance said pediatricians also play a key role in detecting and monitoring conditions that often coexist with difficulty reading such as attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, but McLeod noted that getting such specific diagnoses typically involves a referral to a specialist, during which time a child continues to struggle.
He also acknowledged that some schools can be slow to act without a specific diagnosis from a specialist, and even then a child may end up on a wait list for school interventions.
“Evidence-based reading instruction shouldn’t have to wait for some of that access to specialized assessments to occur,” he said.
“My hope is that (by) having an existing statement or document written by the Canadian Paediatric Society … we’re able to skip a few steps or have some of the early interventions present,” he said.
McLeod added that obtaining specific assessments from medical specialists is “definitely beneficial and advantageous” to know where a child is at, “but having that sort of clear, thorough assessment shouldn’t be a barrier to intervention starting.”
McLeod said the society was partly spurred to act by 2022’s “Right to Read Inquiry Report” from the Ontario Human Rights Commission, which made 157 recommendations to address inequities related to reading instruction in that province.
He called the new guidelines “a big reminder” to pediatric providers, family doctors, school teachers and psychologists of the importance of literacy.
“Early identification of reading difficulty can truly change the trajectory of a child’s life.”
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 23, 2024.
