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Written by Hal A. Huggins, DDS, MS

Bottom line answer is that your body is destroying your body. The word auto means self. Immune refers to your white blood cells, which are assigned to defend your body by eliminating harmful materials. Just how does your body determine whether something is harmful or not? If your body manufactured it, then it has a special code (called the major histocompatibility complex, or MHC) stamped on it. This is like your own license plate number or social security number. It belongs to you and you alone. Your body has a special surveillance team that checks out every cell in your body several times each day. It has only two responses, kill, or let it alone. It has only two things that it looks for in determining this decision. Is the object under examination "self" or "non-self?" If the object is, say, a liver cell, then it will have a MHC code that identifies it as "self," or made by you. If no code, or an altered code exists, then the object is identified as "non-self," and a flag is implanted on its surface that says to the killing immune cells, "kill this object, it is not one of us." Should the object be a splinter, there is no MHC on it, and white blood cells will create an infection around it and destroy it.

Now, how does the body become non-self? If a normal cell that has undergone dozens of investigations and been pronounced self each time is suddenly invaded by mercury, there is a change. Should mercury become attached to the outside of a cell, the I.D. number is changed from self to self-plus-mercury. To the immune system, anything except pure self is automatically non-self. This normal cell with mercury on its membrane is thus flagged for destruction by your own immune system, and an autoimmune disease has started. Should that tissue be kidney, the disease might be glomerular nephritis, or autoimmune disease of the kidney. Should mercury attach to a nerve cell, the disease response could be called Multiple Sclerosis, Lou Gehrig's disease, seizures or several other things. If mercury attaches to an antibody in a nerve cell, it could result in Lupus. If mercury attaches to a nerve fiber and causes the Tau protein to disassemble and curl up into "neurofibular tangles," then the resultant autoimmune disease would be called diabetes. The list is actually quite long, but the process is similar for all autoimmune diseases. A proper interpretation by your immune system of a minor defect results in destruction of your normal tissue, resulting in a disease process that you may have "caught" in a dental office.

There are a variety of symptoms that frequently accompany autoimmune diseases, thus confusing the diagnosis process. Many people with autoimmune diseases, even in the early "prior to diagnosis" stages, may experience chronic fatigue, depression, changes in sleeping habits, recurring headaches, memory loss and anxiety. For some reason, low back pain occurs in a high percentage of patients. Because it goes away quickly upon proper dental revision treatment, there appears to be an "association" between the autoimmune process and the symptom, but no direct connection has been offered yet.

The following material consists of commentaries on specific autoimmune diseases. Note that there is a similarity between many of them, especially with the associated symptoms, and now that you know the action of the immune system, it does not seem surprising to see similarities.

• Multiple Sclerosis
  When I had treated 50 cases of MS from the dental standpoint, someone told me I should write a book on the subject. Seeing a wide variety in cases called MS, I made the statement, "When I have seen one thousand cases, I will write a book."

  Well, guess what? In mid-1999 I saw my thousandth case. May be off by a couple one direction or the other, but now I have seen a couple of dozen more. Call it one thousand. Out of these, how many sub-divisions do you think I have seen? You guessed it. One thousand!

  Yes, there are subtle differences in each of them, yet there are threads that are present in all of the cases.

  And now I've written the book! In "SOLVING THE MS MYSTERY" I address the central themes as well as the common variations. This book has practical information as well as scientific information for the professional. Take a look at the table of contents. Information you need to know to give yourself informed consent for treatment is now available.

  I made a video on the Coors Study a couple of years ago. In the Coors Study we did a big series of blood studies, took out amalgams, tested the blood again, tested again, then replaced the amalgam, tested again, and removed again and retested again. (Imagine volunteering for such a study.) The results were impressive.

  Are all the cases successful? No, but I think I know why. I know one thing - the Protocol works, but not everyone works the Protocol. Mathematically the Protocol is not fair. If you follow 50% of it, should you expect a 50% result? No. Maybe 10%. MS is an incurable disease. As of this writing, the MS society offers a zero percent possibility of improvement. Obtaining improvement is a tough job. Just removing fillings and root canals is not the answer. Part of it, yes, in fact a very important part -- but not the whole story.

  In "SOLVING THE MS MYSTERY" I tell the whole story. Success and failure are part of it. If you do nothing, you know what will happen. Over 85% of the people who have seriously tried this Protocol receive enough improvement to feel it was worth their efforts. Many have had super recoveries. But, my feeling is that win or lose, MS didn't have to happen. It is preventable.

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• Lou Gehrig
  Lou Gehrig's Disease (ALS) has been around for many decades, although when I was a child, Lou Gehrig was a baseball player. It has been on the increase over the past few decades, but figures of just how much increase are not known.

  ALS is classified as an autoimmune disease. The autoimmune diseases are a set of diseases in which the white blood cells of the immune system decide to attack and destroy cells and tissues within the afflicted individual. In the case of ALS, nerve cells are primarily attacked and rendered non-responsive. In many cases the voice is the first to go, which makes it a particularly challenging disease to have. Most folks with rapid degenerative diseases can tolerate the insult to their bodies if they can at least retain the ability to talk. ALS is one of the most vicious diseases I have encountered. I see why these people are the ones who seek the services of Dr. Kavorkian. It takes a real tough person to face this disease. And, what bothers me, is that many people probably did not have to face it.

  There is a genetic component, of course. Yes, one must have a predisposition first, then an "environmental" challenge. What happened when patients underwent dental revision with the protocol that we used? Successful? That depends upon your definition. If we got involved in the first third of the disease, yes, anyone would agree that the disease appeared to "go into remission" or disappear from some set of standards. At the other end of the scale, if we started after the wheelchair, and most motor function was gone, the patient usually died anyway, but reports from the remaining family said that their last few months were much more comfortable than the six months prior to having the treatment done. Of course there were those who may have responded for a short time, and then continued upon their collision course.

  No, the treatment was not perfect in turning people back into original equipment, mint condition, but over 70% found it worthwhile -- especially those who were diagnosed within a few months of initiating treatment. The patients we saw were fighters. They were not candidates for Kavorkian, and definitely had more stamina and positive attitude than I can muster on my best day. I love those people, learned from them, and pay them a verbal tribute for their ability to fight for life. They remind me of a quote, "Winners never quit. Quitters never win." That's the ALS attitude.

  Although there is great amount of similarity between all of the autoimmune diseases, there were a couple of items that made the difference in ALS. During the first 20 years of dealing with the dental aspects of autoimmune diseases, we had no success at all with the disease. All the chemistries told me where the problems were, and I knew how to correct all of them. The only problem was that it didn't work.

  Then we found the cavitation. This is the area where a tooth has been removed -- even decades ago -- and the extraction site is still hiding there under 2 millimeters of bone. Try to take an X-ray picture of a piece of air within bone. Cavitations are hard to find. They require lots of skill, years of experience, and most of all, a vivid imagination to spot them on an X-ray film.

  Upper wisdom tooth cavitations were the primary culprits, but they could be any cavitation I suppose. When these were cleaned out along with the rest of our protocol, we saw positive responses. This stimulated us to look further. The next item that produced a notable change was to remove fillings in what I termed, "absolute sequence". This requires more time, but what does the ALS patient have the most of? The one filling with the highest negative charge was removed first. Then at the following appointments new electrical charge readings were taken every second removal. This gave a notable improvement. Acupressure was used after each dental revision appointment; the acupressurists described the patients "pulses" as "scrambled". To us lay people that means that the patient’s nervous system was mixing up the messages it was trying to send to other parts of the body -- This is very important.

  All of the protocol was important, for if we left out one step -- blotto - no improvement. The most important thing that we found was that there was a series of events that preceded the onset of the disease. Usually a traumatic injury, and then placement of either root canals, nickel crowns, or amalgams with high negative current charges that seemed to precipitate its onset. In some cases the root canals were already there for years, and the traumatic event may have triggered the release of toxins that we have found on the root surface of non-vital teeth.

  Hopefully some day the relationship between dental toxic materials and the onset of degenerative diseases will be openly recognized and understood.

• Alzheimer's
  From the dental aspect, there seem to be several contributing factors. Looking in depth, mercury can enter the brain, destroy cells, and move on to the kidney or other organs for refuge. When one looks at the brain, yes, there is more mercury present in the brain of people who have amalgam fillings. That does not assure one of coming down with Alzheimer's however. Haley's work has shown that small amounts of mercury added to the drinking water of experimental animals, rats, I think, but I'm not sure, can produce some of the characteristic changes in brain tissue. It certainly looks like mercury can be a contributing factor, but it is probably not the only culprit involved.

  One of the notable changes in an Alzheimer's brain is the loss of beta tubulin. Tubulin is part of the "skeleton" of brain cells so to speak, and this disappears or is greatly reduced in the Alzheimer's brain. Tubulin is part of the transport system within each cell, so interference here is of high significance. Chemicals extracted from root canal teeth have been added to brain homogenates and the tubulin has been noted to be reduced in some people and to totally disappear in others. Since reduction of tubulin is a characteristic of Alzheimer's, it might be worthwhile to consider the presence of root canals in people with Alzheimer's.

• Parkinson's
  Parkinson's is a disease that attacks the nervous system. Tremors are one of the basic characteristics of the disease, and it has many symptoms that suggest an autoimmune component. Years ago, we looked at the chemistries and decided that the imbalances were very similar to Multiple Sclerosis and other autoimmune disorders, so it should respond with a similar treatment. Dental materials seem to be at the center of the issue, so why not try?

  It was true that all the chemistries were out of balance where the imbalances were anticipated, and the treatment was similar to other dentally stimulated diseases. It had one drawback. The chemistries responded as they should have, the only problem was that the patient did not respond. There was a little improvement, but nothing that would be considered substantial or worthwhile.

  After a few years of few tries and no successes, we noted that Lou Gehrig's disease began to respond to dental alteration, and that there were similarities between the diseases. In trying the alterations that had made Lou Gehrig's disease respond, we saw improvement in Parkinson's. What was the key?

  Keep in mind that the "key" is not the only thing that was used. Nutrition, lifestyle modifications, body disciplines, IV procedures to protect the patient during dental revision, detoxification, yes, the whole nine yards as the saying goes. In addition, the key that made it work seemed to be the cavitation. Cavitations contain chemicals that alter acetylcholinesterase, an enzyme necessary for nerve muscle activity. Perhaps this chemical is critical in the scenario of nerve interference Parkinson's disease. There was certainly a difference in patients who had total dental revision with cavitation cleaning and those who did not have the cavitation procedures performed.

  If Parkinson's is another dental disease from the causative aspects, then there is a possibility that it should be removed from the incurable list. One might even consider prevention by not having reactive dental substances placed in people who have a genetic predisposition for neurological problems.

Hal A. Huggins DDS, MS, is a leading pioneer and the world's foremost authority in identifying toxic dental materials, balancing body chemistry and developing a multi-disciplined approach to reversing autoimmune diseases.