Xylitol

And it wasn't until I instituted the xylitol and it was like within a couple of weeks.

And

you have that, you have a highlight reel on your Instagram page where you've got those products that are in there that you're talking about, right? The Xylitol, like the spray.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So if you've got covered in mucus in there, then really it's completely ineffective.

So that's why I do recommend rinsing, give a good blow, get as much off of those tissues as possible so that...

Xylitol or any spray that you're using can actually hit the tissues that you need to.

Somebody needs to study to figure out what do we need to do to close this gap.

But to that, so when people fill it out and they answer these questions, one of the first things that you see over and over again, my dentist says, instead of sugar, take xylitol.

Xylitol is a sugar substrate that does not cause cavities.

But xylitol does not increase your blood sugar.

So not helpful.

For example, one of them is substitutes for sugar that can be deadly for dogs.

Xylitol, or they call it birch sugar now, you have to watch for the wording, and that can kill a dog.

It can wipe out their liver and cause hypoglycemia, low blood sugar, in 15 minutes.

A golden retriever-sized dog, after eating seven little sugar-free candies, started seizuring in 15 minutes.

I mean, there was just, I mean, they've tried to come out with vaccines to kill certain bacteria.

Xylitol kills strep mutans and all this stuff.

All that is garbage.

Xylitol is a synthetic chemical.

that's made by an industrialized process of hydrogenation.

They say, oh, well, we make it from birch bark and we make it.

If you see xylitol in the product, put the product down.

I can tell you that from a tremendous amount of research.

because it is a fiber and fibers tend to be can be having some similar effects but it's going to be a fraction of what you're going to find with the sugar alcohols.

The sugar alcohols will tell you on the package that this product will cause laxative effect it may cause diarrhea if you consume a significant amount of these so the significant amount is different for different people for some people it's a couple of tablespoons or three or four tablespoons and for other people it might be a teaspoon or two so people a lot of people are sensitive to these and some people who are really sensitive might have a little trouble with the chicory root but it's not going to be anywhere near the problems with with this one now let's talk about toxicity do you want to live to see retirement then it's not just about losing weight it's not just about how you look it's what your organs look like on the inside and here is where these are some of the most potent neurotoxins that we know they're right up there with with lead and arsenic and margarine and and things like that and i would put probably a triple x on the aspartame because it has so many different toxic substances it breaks down into wood alcohol it breaks that down into formaldehyde it's an excitotoxin it kills off your liver and your kidneys and your brain it's really just not a good idea the others have various different degrees and i wouldn't recommend them for anything in the world but they're probably not quite as bad as the aspartame if you want to rank them xylitol erythritol maltitol they are typically considered natural substances but all of them are industrially produced now they are produced through various chemical processes so let's just put a little question mark on on these because it depends Xylitol for example is called birch sugar because it supposedly occurs naturally in birches and that's where they started deriving it but that's not where they get it from anymore.

Sucrose, honey, agave, high fructose corn syrup, most of these are relatively natural so honey obviously is a very natural product.

and it even has some good healthy benefit it has some nutrients it has some properties to it so here I would have to say check depending on the how the sugar is made but a good organic turbinado sugar is still basically a natural product honey I would even put two check marks as far as natural agave is usually made from cactus, from cactus sugar but depending on how it's processed we might want to be careful high fructose corn syrup is a very very synthetic product and it has been shown to be laced with various toxins including mercury so I would probably put a couple of X's on that coconut sugar is generally a healthy sugar so I put that up there with with a good quality sugar if you want to call it such a thing.

So, um, so there's a lot going on with the mouth.

So, um, any particular, well, before I ask that, what about these sugar substitutes like xylitol and stevia and all of that? What, how, how do they affect the gut or the oral microbiome?

Yeah, Xylitol is probably the one that there's the most research and there's some really good dental research.

And I would say a lot of dental people would probably go to that one.

That would be their first choice.

No, as being safer or there's even some studies in our dental world that for seniors that aren't able to brush anymore, maybe extended care and they're only getting their teeth brushed once a day, looking at xylitol sprays and that sort of stuff to not have caries rates and those kind of things, cavities.

as high and there's some promising stuff there.

Um, so I would say Xylitol is probably the one that, that is most researched and that they would go to first in from the dental side.