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089 // Is Your Toothpaste Sabotaging Your Thyroid? Make this simple swap. · Health with Hashimoto’s - Thyroid or Immune Education for Autoimmune Thyroid Disease

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  Hello and welcome back to another episode of Health with Hashimoto's.
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  This is the podcast where you get simple and sustainable things that you can
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  do so that you have better health.
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  And that includes if you have an autoimmune problem like Hashimoto's,
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  I want you to be able to have better health. You want to be able to have better health, right?
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  We don't want to be stuck feeling sick, feeling less than.
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  I think feeling less than is the biggest thing that I hear when I'm talking
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  to people about Hashimoto's.
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  They feel less than. They feel like when they look in the mirror,
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  they don't recognize themselves. They don't look like themselves.
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  They tell me, I just want to feel like myself. They tell me that when they're
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  acting with or when they're playing with their kids, they can't.
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  They just don't have as much energy as they used to.
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  They feel less than. They feel like they are not the mom that they want to be.
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  They feel like they're not the wife they want to be.
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  They feel like they are not the employee or employer that they want to be, they feel less than.
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  And I hate that Hashimoto's and any other illness steals that from us.
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  I want you to have a whole and vibrant life. I want you to feel like the person
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  that you're created to be.
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  You're valuable no matter what. You're valuable even if you have an illness.
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  Even if you are feeling tired and you're like in bed all day, you're still valuable.
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  Nothing takes away that value. You are valuable because God made you valuable.
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  Nothing can take that away. All of that being said, of course,
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  we want to feel better, right?
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  Even though we have value, we really want to give back, give back to our family,
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  our work, our church, our community.
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  We want to be a part of things and bless others.
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  So today, I'm going to give you a super, super, super simple thing that you
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  can do. You have to do it once, and then it's done.
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  And it'll take you, I don't know, less than a minute. And it is this,
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  swap out your toothpaste.
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  I'm going to tell you you why. And it comes down to the periodic table of elements
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  and Hashimoto's and how it works and root causes and all of that.
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  And so if you're a nerd like me, you want to know all of that.
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  You want to know the reason. You want to know if I'm actually telling the truth,
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  if I'm giving you something of substance or if I'm just trying to sell something.
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  And I'll give you a heads up. I'm never just trying to sell something.
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  I, well, I am. I'm trying to sell you on investing in your But really,
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  the cost of toothpaste, something that you're going to buy anyway,
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  it's not really a hard sell, right?
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  What I'm trying to do every single episode is help you find simple and sustainable
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  things that you can do that add up to better health.
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  So we're going to talk about root causes, Hashimoto's, fluoride,
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  toothpaste, and what you can do.
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  Let's start with the periodic table of elements. Now, can you picture it?
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  Can you picture this grid, this chart of a whole bunch of different chemical formulas?
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  And, you know, the ones on the top are lighter, they're, you know,
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  smaller, and the ones on the bottom are usually heavier, they're a little bit more toxic.
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  Generally, the ones on the right are, you know, there's differences,
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  right and left, middle, there's different colors for different categories.
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  But there's one little column and it is the halides and like three spots down is iodine.
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  Now, why do you need to know about iodine?
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  Well, it's because this, your thyroid gland, that little butterfly shaped gland
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  at the base of your neck, it produces thyroid hormone, right?
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  It produces thyroid hormone called T4.
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  That's what we abbreviated as. The four stands for four four molecules of iodine.
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  Your thyroid gland produces hormones that use four molecules of iodine,
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  and then your body takes it and converts it to an active form, which is T3.
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  It kind of takes one or absolutely takes one of those molecules of iodine off,
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  and then it can work in your cells.
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  It works like the ignition switch kind of lets them work.
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  And of course, if your cells are working, then your organs and tissues are working,
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  and then you're working.
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  If your your cells are not working, then your organs and tissues are not working,
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  and you're not working, right? We really have to focus on cellular health.
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  What happens on a cellular level matters to the whole you.
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  So your thyroid is producing T4, which uses iodine.
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  What does that have to do with toothpaste and the periodic table of elements is this.
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  Above iodine, which is technically like the fifth box down, but the top box
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  is empty because of the way that the periodic table is, the top the three things
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  over it are fluorine or fluoride, chlorine or chloride, and bromine or bromide.
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  All three of those, because they're lighter, because they're above iodine on
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  the periodic table of elements, they can impact your thyroid and how much iodine
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  it stores and what is available to use.
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  So fluoride, chlorine, and bromine, like which of those do you use twice a day
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  when you brush your teeth?
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  Fluoride, right? Now, of course, we're exposed to the others as well.
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  We're exposed to fluoride if you're on city water or any water that is fluorinated.
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  Is that what they say?
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  Fluoridated? I don't know. And then chlorine also is in our water or when you
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  go swimming, chlorine is all around.
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  Bromine, you might be like, Esther, I don't do anything with bromine. Well, actually, you do.
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  Bromides are used a lot as fire retardants in fabrics.
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  And so couches, carpets clothing and
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  then also I have heard that the bromide is
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  used as a wheat conditioner so
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  if you're eating anything that's made with wheat
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  like bread then there's a chance that there's bromide in it that's not listed
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  on the label because it was used previous to make the wheat to grind it and
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  I don't know what they do with it but it can get in your bread so bromine chlorine chlorine and fluorine,
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  they all can impact your health, especially the health of your thyroid.
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  Of course, if you have Hashimoto's, you want to support your thyroid as best
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  you can. You want to do everything possible.
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  We're not going to talk about bromine, chloride, or, you know,
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  fluorinated water right now.
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  We're just going to talk about toothpaste because it's so simple.
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  Something that you use twice a day and hopefully, you know, you spit it out,
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  but maybe you don't. Have you ever noticed that all fluoride toothpaste has a warning in it?
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  It's like, do not swallow, well, that's because it can build up and it does
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  have toxic problems if you keep swallowing it.
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  That's why they teach kids to spit it out. That's why they tell you exactly
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  how much to put on your toothpaste.
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  Fluoride is not good, except you're never going to hear that from your dentist,
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  at least not from most of them.
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  Now, I was a little curious about toothpaste.
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  Well, well, okay, I take that back. I've been very curious about toothpaste
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  for probably 15 years since one of the first fluoride-free toothpastes came
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  out that I was introduced to. And I was like, why is fluoride a big deal?
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  But whatever, I trust this guy. He's super, super passionate about health and
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  I use all of his other health products.
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  And so of course, I'm going to trust him with this.
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  There's no downside as far as I could see to switching to a fluoride-free toothpaste. paste.
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  But that was before hydroxyapatite hit the market. At least I'd never heard of it before.
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  And then about a couple months ago, I was listening to a podcast.
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  You're listening to this podcast, so you're probably a podcast listener.
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  Go look up this podcast episode.
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  It is the Red Pill Your Health Cast with Dr.
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  Charlie, I don't know how to say his last name, and nurse practitioner Lauren Johnson.
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  Episode 45 was an interview they did with a dentist, Michelle Jorgensen.
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  It was a fascinating interview. There were so many times in the interview,
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  I was like, whoa, I did not know that. And what?
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  You should go listen to it. So it's episode 45 of the Red Pill Your Health cast.
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  Such a good episode. You will learn things from the dentist,
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  Dr. Michelle Jorgensen.
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  A little bit about her story is she was poisoned by her work.
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  She got to the point where she was having neurologic symptoms.
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  She couldn't work. She was either going to have to quit dentistry or find a different way to do it.
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  And she realized that she was exposed to all of these nasty toxins every day at work.
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  So she switched and she is now, I think she calls herself a biologic dentist,
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  and she doesn't do anything to poison her patients.
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  Now, of course, no dentist is going to purposely poison their patients.
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  But one thing she said that struck with me, stuck with me, is that the American
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  Dental Association will never distance themselves selves from fluoride because
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  if they do, they will have class action suits from everybody who has been damaged by their advice.
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  So they will never distance themselves from that advice.
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  But there are things that you can do because fluoride does impact your health.
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  And switching your toothpaste is such an easy thing. So let's talk about hydroxyapatite.
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  I think I am saying that correctly. I mean, it certainly looks right.
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  It is the mineral that your teeth are made out of and your bones.
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  And when you're working on your teeth, of course, you want to use what is going
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  to help them. You want strong teeth.
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  You want white teeth. And hydroxyapatite is that.
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  Now, back when they first discovered fluoride, they realized that people who
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  had more fluoride naturally in their well water had better teeth.
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  And that's kind of why they started looking at fluoride for tooth health.
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  But now we know that, like I said, fluoride has problems, but hydroxyapatite,
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  it is what your teeth are made of.
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  It is a form of calcium. It makes up 97% of your tooth enamel and 70% of the
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  dentin. So that's like underneath the enamel.
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  And when you brush your teeth with a toothbrush or a tooth powder that has hydroxyapatite
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  in it, then that actually can, it goes into your teeth. They will absorb some of that.
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  And this is why when you brush your teeth with a toothpaste with hydroxyapatite,
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  you shouldn't rinse your mouth or eat for 30 minutes after. You should just leave it.
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  Of course, you're going to spit out your stuff, but it's going to continue working
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  on the surfaces of your teeth even after you're done brushing your teeth. teeth.
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  So both fluoride and hydroxyapatite can remineralize your teeth,
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  but hydroxyapatite is more effective and it's better for your oral microbiome.
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  So you've heard me talk about the microbiome in your gut before, of course, right?
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  We really want to focus on a healthy gut. We want to make sure that we're getting
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  pre and probiotics. We want to make sure that we're taking care of our her gut.
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  Well, you have a microbiome in your mouth too, an oral microbiome.
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  And one thing that you can do to help that is brush with the right toothpaste.
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  So here are five different benefits of hydroxyapatite.
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  And this is from a website called askthedentist.com and it's their article on hydroxyapatite.
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  Number one, it can prevent and heal cavities. Well, that's good, right?
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  We really want to do that. It increases the micro hardness of human enamel. That's what it says.
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  It also says it reverses enamel erosion more effectively than over-the-counter fluoride toothpaste.
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  Right? We want that. Number two, it's non-toxic and it's biocompatible.
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  And we want that because fluoride at high doses is a neurotoxin.
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  It impacts your brain.
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  Hydroxyapatite is not. The CDC found that most kids use and potentially swallow
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  more toothpaste than they should.
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  We want to protect the safety of our kids.
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  Number three, this article says it can help the teeth appear whiter.
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  Even without extra whitening ingredients, hydroxyapatite toothpaste can help your teeth look whiter.
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  It doesn't change like the polishing activity of the toothpaste.
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  It actually adds a whitening element.
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  I don't know about you, but some of the whitening toothpaste, like they just tear off.
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  It's like they, like, I don't know, sandpaper your teeth to take off some of
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  the yellowness. And then you get sensitive teeth, and then that adds more problems.
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  So it's going to help whiten your teeth and strengthen them.
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  Number four, like we already said, it's good for your oral microbiome.
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  It's going to protect your teeth from the acid attacks by bacteria,
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  because bacteria causes more acid.
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  Number five, it's resistant to acidic pH.
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  The pH, the acidity of your mouth, should remain slightly basic or alkaline,
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  and that helps you avoid inflammation and oral disease.
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  And hydroxyapatite is going to help with that.
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  Number six, it may improve gum health.
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  And they do say there's preliminary results that found that hydroxyapatite can
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  improve gum health in patients with gum disease. disease.
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  That's a lot of reasons. I mean, six reasons, but there are some really good
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  reasons in there why to switch.
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  And of course, when you switch from something that can cause thyroid problems
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  to something that's not going to cause thyroid problems, that's a no-brainer in my mind.
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  So what I did when I found this out, I went on Amazon and I just typed in hydroxyapatite.
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  It's It's Hydroxy, H-Y-D-R-O-X-Y, and then Appetite, A-P-A-T-I-T-E.
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  Just type that in. If you start to write toothpaste with H-Y-D-R-O-X-Y,
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  Amazon is going to say, oh, do you mean this? And there are so many different brands.
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  It's getting more and more popular. You can also go on Dr. Michelle.
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  That's the dentist that I heard the interview with. You can go on her website
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  and she sells a couple of different things, including tooth powder.
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  So that's not a toothpaste.
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  It's a powder. You get your toothpaste wet and get that powder on there and then brush normally.
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  She sells it. Her website is living living well with Dr.
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  Michelle. Doctor is D-R. Living well with Dr. Michelle. She also advocates for tongue scraping.
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  And let me tell you, I don't know if this has anything to do with thyroid health. I have no idea.
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  But have you ever scraped your tongue in the morning?
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  Oh my goodness. So gross and disgusting. Now I don't mean like with a toothbrush.
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  I used to think that it was just fine. I didn't need to buy something else to
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  scrape my tongue. I could just brush my tongue with my toothpaste.
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  I've done that for, I don't know, decades, but I bought a tongue scraper and
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  I scraped my tongue in the morning and it was so disgusting.
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  I highly recommend it. And so now almost every single morning I do that.
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  And why do you want to do that?
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  It's because your oral microbiome, it really makes a difference in your overall health.
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  They have associated poor dental hygiene and your microbiome in your mouth to more heart attacks.
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  You wouldn't think that, right? You wouldn't think that something as distant
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  or like unrelated as what's going on in your mouth is going to impact your heart, right?
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  But it does because you are a whole person. Everything is related to everything.
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  My kids, I have four kids and they've got three friends over today.
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  They are downstairs and they are playing a board game, but they're having lots of fun.
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  So if you can hear them. Just know that it sounds of joy and competition.
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  I don't know what game they're playing. Probably Catan or Seven Wonders.
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  Or Wingspan, maybe? I love Wingspan. If you have any good board games,
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  totally unrelated to this episode, but if you have any good board games,
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  let me know because I'm always looking for another good board game.
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  My kids go screen-free two days a week and then a month or two out of the year.
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  So we're big on games. Okay, what was I talking about? Heart health.
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  You want to improve your oral microbiome. And when you wake up in the morning,
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  of course, you've been sleeping.
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  You You know what, you know, morning breath smells like, right?
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  Well, a lot of that bacteria lives on your tongue. So first thing in the morning,
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  you go to the bathroom and scrape off that nastiness and spit it out,
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  get rid of it, just clean your tongue.
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  Unlike brushing your teeth, you only technically have to scrape your tongue once a day.
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  And then also you should know this, don't brush your teeth within 15 to 30 minutes of eating.
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  And why is this? It's because when you eat, your mouth is more acidic.
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  Acidic now when you brush your teeth
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  and it's more acidic the enamel is
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  a little weaker and you're actually brushing it off you're damaging
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  your enamel so you want to wait at
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  least 15 to 30 minutes after eating before you brush your teeth now if you're
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  going to just you know quick get up eat your breakfast brush your teeth and
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  leave i totally understand that you know sometimes you just can't help it you
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  got to do the best you can do you evaluate your choices before you and you choose
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  the best one even though it is not the optimal.
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  But do what you can do, right? Always do the best you can do.
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  And I know that's what you're doing. And you're doing a good job.
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  You are listening to this podcast.
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  You don't have to do that. You are listening to me because you want simple and
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  sustainable things that you can do for your health. Good job.
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  And I know that maybe you don't implement something every single episode.
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  Maybe you listen and you have intentions, but you you don't actually do it,
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  but there are some episodes that you implement something.
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  And other times when you're going about your life and you learn something new
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  and you implement it, good job.
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  You are working every day and every week to improve your health.
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  And I'm proud of you. I want you to know that. I know that we've probably never met face-to-face.
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  I would love to meet you in the app. Join the Health with Hashimoto's app and
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  say, hi, give me a little little bit of your story.
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  I would love to meet you in there as we're growing that community.
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  And so even though we haven't met in person, I want you to know that I'm proud
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  of you. You're doing a good job. You're learning.
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  You're evaluating your health. You're evaluating your choices.
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  You're figuring out what you can do, and then you're implementing.
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  And then you evaluate, and you figure out what you can do, and you implement
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  something else. I'm proud of you. Keep going. You're doing a good job.
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  This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only,
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  please be sure to discuss any concerns and plans with your trusted healthcare professional.
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  Music.