Mouthwash

The salivary glands continuously secrete fluid that contains a dense bacterial population, including E. coli and other organisms. Aajonus described this as the body's deliberate mechanism for inoculating food with digestive agents before it even reaches the stomach. When a person sucks liquid slowly through their teeth and over their tongue, as he consistently demonstrated and recommended, saliva mixes thoroughly into whatever is being consumed, introducing bacteria that begin breaking down food immediately. That process depends entirely on the bacteria being present.

When someone uses antibacterial mouthwash, either Listerine or any similar product, the bacteria in the oral environment are destroyed. The residue of the mouthwash then remains in the mouth, mixing with the next meal. Instead of introducing bacteria into food, the person is introducing the chemicals of the mouthwash into their food. Aajonus described this as putting poison with food instead of bacteria, and said it directly harms digestion. His formulation was precise: "You've just destroyed your ability to start digestion in your mouth. Saliva comes out, it mixes with all that Listerine that's in the mouth or whatever you're using. And then you're putting poison with your food instead of bacteria."

The consequence he identified is a reduction in the body's overall digestive capacity, which over time reduces the body's ability to maintain health. Less digestion means less nutrient absorption, and less nutrient absorption means less capacity to repair, regenerate, and detoxify.

The marketing claim that mouthwash "destroys all bacteria in your mouth" for 24 hours was, to Aajonus, not a selling point but an indictment. He understood bacteria as essential partners in digestion rather than threats to be eliminated. The entire antibacterial dental industry, including antibacterial toothpastes as well as mouthwash, rests on the assumption that oral bacteria cause tooth decay. He rejected this categorically and explained in detail why it is incorrect.

Bacteria cannot eat through intact dentine. Aajonus described conducting laboratory experiments at least thirty times, over periods as long as six months, applying bacteria directly to teeth with no toxic minerals present and observing zero decay, zero deterioration of the dentine, no matter how long the observation period or how little brushing was done. The bacteria caused nothing. When he applied heavy metals such as thallium, mercury, or lead to dentine under the same conditions, damage appeared within ten to fourteen days even with very small amounts, and the longer those metals remained, the deeper the damage progressed.

The bacteria that appear in cavities arrive after the dentine has been damaged by toxic metals dumped from the brain through the gums. Their function is to consume the damaged, dead dental cells so that the body can regenerate new tissue. He compared them to janitors cleaning up after a rock concert. The janitors did not cause the destruction in the hotel room, and no one would rationally blame them for it. Directing antibacterial treatments at those bacteria, whether through mouthwash or antibacterial toothpaste, eliminates the cleanup mechanism without addressing the toxic metals that caused the underlying damage.

The brain accumulates heavy metals, including mercury from vaccines and dental amalgams, thallium, lead, and aluminum, as well as cauterized metallic minerals from cooked foods. Because the brain and nervous system use metallic minerals as part of their electrical and light-reflecting function, they concentrate these substances over a lifetime. When the brain detoxifies, it discharges these metals primarily through the gums, the salivary glands, and the tongue.

As those toxic metals move through the gum tissue, the body deploys alkalinizing minerals, specifically calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, and potassium, to bind with them and prevent them from reaching the dentine directly. The bound material calcifies and adheres to the teeth as plaque. Aajonus described plaque not as a product of bacterial activity but as the body's mineral buffer against heavy metal damage. A white coating on the tongue represents the same process occurring on the tongue surface: calcium and phosphorus binding with metals that would otherwise cause bleeding and tissue destruction.

One molecule of mercury, he stated, can destroy approximately 5,000 healthy cells. When mercury is unbound in the gum tissue, moving against dentine without sufficient mineral buffering, it begins dissolving dentine cells. The same applies to thallium, lead, and aluminum. Once dentine cells are damaged and dead, bacteria arrive to consume the debris. That is when the cavity becomes visible. The bacteria are the final stage of a process that began in the brain, not the initiating cause.

This is the mechanism that mouthwash entirely misses. Killing oral bacteria does not touch the heavy metals coming from the brain. It does not increase the body's mineral supply. It does not prevent the plaque from forming or reduce the toxic load coming through the gum tissue. It only eliminates the body's capacity to digest food properly and removes the bacterial cleanup crew that would otherwise help manage damaged tissue.

Aajonus's alternatives to commercial mouthwash and antibacterial oral hygiene products were built around the principle of dissolving and removing plaque mechanically and chemically with food-based substances, while preserving or enhancing the bacterial environment rather than destroying it.

Coconut cream was his primary recommendation for brushing. He described it as the best substance for dissolving plaque quickly and keeping teeth cleaner for longer. He specified that coconut cream, made by juicing the thick white meat of the coconut after removing the pulp, produces a substance that is approximately 3 to 4 percent coconut oil. He was explicit that coconut oil alone does not perform the same function as coconut cream, and the distinction mattered to him. The full coconut cream, with its combination of fat, water, and other components, is what makes it effective as a dental cleanser.

For a complete brushing formula, he combined coconut cream with sun-dried clay and, on a less frequent basis, raw apple cider vinegar. The clay formula he described most specifically consisted of a level teaspoon of caramel clay mixed with one tablespoon of coconut cream, kept refrigerated in a small one-ounce glass jelly jar. He recommended using an infant's toothbrush because it works on one tooth at a time and delivers the fluid up into the gum line more effectively than a standard adult brush. This combination, he said, dissolves plaque rapidly and makes it difficult for new plaque to build within a 48-hour period. It also whitens teeth.

The toothpaste formula given in his book "The Recipe for Living Without Disease" specifies one quarter teaspoon sun-dried clay mixed with two tablespoons raw butter or raw cream and two drops of ginger or mint leaf juices, described as sufficient for five toothbrushings and kept refrigerated.

Vinegar was included in the oral protocol but with strict frequency limits. He recommended adding a few drops of raw apple cider vinegar to the clay and coconut cream mixture approximately once every ten days to dissolve plaque that had built up deep under the gums. He was clear that vinegar will also eat into dentine if used too frequently or in too great a quantity. Distilled vinegar was specifically excluded; only raw apple cider vinegar was appropriate. In one communication to a patient, he clarified that brushing with coconut cream and clay could be done daily, but the full formula including vinegar should only be used every fifth day.

For areas where a toothbrush cannot reach, specifically deep in gum pockets, Aajonus recommended a high-powered water pick loaded with a specific mixture. The formula he described in his newsletter consists of one tablespoon each of raw apple cider vinegar, lemon juice, and coconut cream, strained through a thoroughly rinsed, clean, and damp white t-shirt to remove particles that would clog the machine, then stirred into naturally sparkling mineral water such as Gerolsteiner or San Pellegrino. He noted that naturally carbonated mineral water functions as a natural hydrogen peroxide, helping to dissolve compounds and bleach. The full water pick reservoir would be loaded with an additional cup of Gerolsteiner beyond the initial mixture. He described using this water pick mixture once a day for ten days to clear established plaque from gum pockets, and then approximately once every ten days for maintenance afterward. He specified that this approach could replace the need for professional deep root cleanings, which he regarded as damaging because the scraping injures gum tissue and can damage the cementum of the tooth.

He also described a technique he called cheese pulling, modeled on oil pulling but using raw cheese instead of oil. He would hold raw cheese in his mouth for approximately five minutes, moving it around the teeth, then spit it out. He followed this with eating an egg or a small amount of cheese and egg. He observed that the Russian oil-pulling technique, while effective at drawing heavy metals out of the gums through the action of the oil attracting them, tends to strip mucus from the gums and make them sensitive, and can cause the tongue to open and blister. He preferred the coconut cream method with cream and butter as a gentler alternative that accomplished similar drawing without the irritation.

Aajonus specified that plaque becomes difficult to remove after approximately three to seven days of accumulation, at which point it has begun to dry, solidify, and adhere firmly to the tooth surface. He recommended brushing at least once every three days to prevent the plaque from reaching the stage where it can no longer be removed by brushing and water picking alone. His newsletter stated that brushing thoroughly at least once every three days prevents caustic, acidic plaque from causing cavities.

He also mentioned that even rinsing the mouth with a small amount of milk or other liquid after eating could help by washing fresh toxic acids off the tooth surface before they have time to work through the mineral buffer layer and reach the dentine directly.

While discussing what not to use on teeth, Aajonus identified commercial toothpaste as problematic for a reason separate from its antibacterial properties. All toothpastes contain glycerin, which coats the teeth with a sticky film that he said requires approximately 25 washes to remove. That glycerin film prevents teeth from re-enamelizing. Even consuming foods high in calcium and phosphate, such as raw milk, increases the probability of re-enamelization, but only when the tooth surface is clean and not coated with glycerin. Commercial toothpaste therefore actively blocks one of the key mechanisms by which teeth can rebuild themselves.

Fluoride in toothpaste and drinking water was treated as a separate and serious harm. He described fluoride as interfering with the enzyme adenosine diphosphatase, which normally delivers phosphate to calcium on tooth surfaces, and as damaging the protein molecules that cause gums to adhere to teeth. He referenced fluoride experiments conducted in Boston in the 1950s in which the group receiving fluoride showed fewer cavities not because their teeth were stronger but because their teeth had fallen out. He estimated fluoride caused approximately 22 percent tooth loss in that population. In children, he said fluoride causes deformed palates, deformed salivary glands, crooked and discolored teeth, and tooth loss.

A thread running through everything Aajonus said about oral hygiene is that saliva and its bacterial content are not waste products or contamination but active digestive agents. He demonstrated at his workshops how he drinks, always sucking liquid slowly through his closed teeth and over his tongue rather than gulping. He explained that this technique maximizes the saliva mixed into whatever is being consumed. A tablespoon and a half sipped this way delivers far more digestive bacteria into the food than gulping an entire glass. He described a baby nursing at the breast as the model: the sucking action pulls saliva bacteria into the milk, and the milk is digested extraordinarily well as a result.

Mouthwash, by destroying the bacteria in saliva for up to 24 hours at a time, eliminates this mechanism entirely for the duration of its effect. Every meal eaten while the mouthwash is still active in the oral environment is a meal eaten without the initial bacterial contribution to digestion. He made clear that this is not a trivial cost, because the body's capacity to assimilate nutrients is cumulative, and repeated interference with the first stage of digestion leads to compounding deficits in absorption and ultimately in the ability to maintain health.

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