Mouthwash Chemicals

Aajonus taught that the single most important thing to understand about the mouth is that it functions as the primary exit route for the brain's accumulated toxic load. The brain and nervous system require large quantities of metallic minerals to transmit electricity and light for neurological functions, which means the brain concentrates heavy metals more than any other organ. In people who have received vaccines, consumed cooked foods throughout their lives, or lived in polluted environments, the brain accumulates what Aajonus described as tremendous quantities of destructive free-radical heavy metals and chemicals that magnetize to those metals.

When the body moves to detoxify these compounds out of the brain, they exit predominantly through the gums, the salivary glands, and the tongue. This is not a pathological process but a normal and necessary one. The body simultaneously dispatches alkalinizing minerals, specifically calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, and potassium, to bind with these acidic toxic metals as they pass through, forming plaque on the teeth and a coating on the tongue. This plaque is the body's protective response, not a sign of poor hygiene.

In this context, mouthwash chemicals do not simply fail to help. They actively disrupt the biological environment at the precise anatomical location where the body is conducting essential detoxification. The bacteria that mouthwash products claim to eliminate are the very organisms supporting salivary digestion. Their destruction removes a first line of nutrient processing and introduces synthetic chemical compounds directly into the mucosal tissues of the mouth, where absorption into the bloodstream is rapid and efficient.

A central argument Aajonus made against mouthwash products is rooted in his position that the premise justifying their use is scientifically false. The mouthwash industry, like the antibacterial toothpaste industry, is premised on the claim that oral bacteria cause tooth decay. He considered this one of the most consequential medical falsehoods, calling it "the biggest joke in the world."

His argument was specific and repeatedly stated: bacteria cannot cause degeneration of dentine because bacteria require carbon and hydrogen to survive, and dental enamel, composed of calcium hydroxy phosphate, provides neither. He stated that myriads of animal remains demonstrate that teeth and bones resist earth-bound organisms. He said he had applied bacteria directly to tooth surfaces in laboratory conditions, at least thirty times over six-month periods with no brushing, and observed no decay whatsoever.

What does damage dentine is heavy metals. In the same laboratory setting, he stated that applying thallium, mercury, or lead to dentine produced visible damage within ten to fourteen days regardless of how thin the layer applied was, and the longer it remained, the deeper the damage progressed. Bacteria appear inside cavities not as the cause of decay but as janitors responding to already-damaged tissue, eating the dead and dissolved dentine cells so the body can regenerate. "The janitors didn't cause the decay. They're in there cleaning up the mess."

The mouthwash industry's claim of 24-hour bacterial elimination is, in this framework, an advertisement for a product that eliminates the only organisms doing useful work in the mouth while depositing chemical residues that compound the toxic burden the brain is already trying to offload.

Fluoride appears in both mouthwashes and toothpastes and received extensive criticism from Aajonus. He described it as an industrial poisonous waste that costs billions of dollars to isolate, store, and decontaminate, and that government and corporations responsible for producing it arranged for it to be added to municipal water systems and personal care products as a cost-effective method of disposal.

The claim that fluoride prevents tooth decay he called an absolute lie based on a manipulated experiment. He explained that in the communities used to support fluoride supplementation, those communities showed fewer cavities only because their teeth had fallen out, resulting in fewer teeth to develop cavities. He stated that fluoride caused approximately twenty-two percent tooth loss in those groups, and that proportionate to the number of teeth remaining, fluoride subjects actually had slightly more cavities than those without fluoride exposure.

In children specifically, fluoride was described as causing deformed palates and salivary glands, crooked and discolored teeth, and tooth loss. Drinking fluoridated water was said to produce the same problems as topical fluoride in toothpastes and mouthwashes. Fluoride in toothpastes damages protein molecules that normally adhere gums to teeth, and it interferes with the enzyme adenosine diphosphatase that normally delivers phosphate to calcium on tooth surfaces, which is precisely the enzymatic mechanism needed for re-enamelization.

When fluoride was added to the Los Angeles municipal water supply, the number of identified chemical toxins in that water rose from 157 to 192, which Aajonus cited as evidence that fluoride is not a simple compound but carries associated chemical constituents that further contaminate water.

When a person uses commercial mouthwash and then eats, the chemical residues of that mouthwash, whether Listerine or any comparable product, remain in the mucosal environment and mix with the saliva that is produced in response to food. The bacteria that would normally populate this saliva and begin enzymatic digestion have been destroyed. What flows forward into the digestive tract is therefore a solution of mouthwash chemicals rather than a solution of digestive bacteria.

Aajonus framed this as introducing poison at the point of first contact with food. Every subsequent stage of digestion is then operating under compromised conditions. Because the mouth is the place where carbohydrate digestion in particular is initiated through salivary amylase, the loss of normal salivary function has downstream consequences for how nutrients are extracted from food throughout the rest of the gastrointestinal tract.

The cumulative effect of regular mouthwash use in this framework is therefore not cosmetic but systemic, progressively reducing the body's ability to extract nutrition from food while simultaneously introducing chemical residues into tissues that are already working to eliminate toxins.

Aajonus extended his critique of mouthwash chemicals to the broader category of antibacterial personal care products. He noted that in antibacterial soaps, two toxins had been independently identified: triclosan and triclocarban. Both were described as endocrine disruptors. He cited the Natural Resources Defense Council's lawsuit against the FDA for failing to regulate these compounds in antibacterial soaps and personal care products.

The products he listed as containing these compounds included Dial Liquid Soap, Softsoap Antibacterial Liquid Hand Soap, Tea Tree Therapy Liquid Soap, Provon Soap, Clearasil Daily Face Wash, Dermatologica Skin Purifying Wipes, and Clean and Clear Foaming Facial products. While these are not mouthwashes specifically, the category logic applies directly: antibacterial chemical compounds used in personal care products destroy beneficial microbial populations and introduce endocrine-disrupting chemicals into the body through mucosal and skin absorption.

The fundamental marketing framework, "let's market antibacterial poisons," he compared explicitly to the bottled water industry as an example of creating commercial demand for something that causes harm while being sold as protective. He stated that bacteria has never created disease in anyone, and that bacteria exists in degenerative tissue as a response to damage, not as a cause of it.

Rather than commercial mouthwashes, Aajonus recommended specific natural formulas for oral hygiene. For brushing, he described a mixture intended to dissolve plaque, protect dentine, and support the gum environment without destroying bacterial populations or introducing synthetic chemicals.

His toothbrushing formula consisted of a level teaspoon of caramel clay, one tablespoon of coconut cream, and a small amount of raw apple cider vinegar. He recommended mixing these in a small one-ounce glass jelly jar and keeping the mixture refrigerated. He specifically advocated using an infant's toothbrush, on the grounds that its small head works on one tooth at a time and allows the mixture to reach up into the gum line where larger brushes cannot penetrate. He said this combination dissolved plaque effectively enough that teeth had difficulty building new plaque within a 48-hour period, and that it had a whitening effect through the natural carbonation mechanism.

For the gum pockets where a toothbrush cannot reach, he recommended a dental water pick using a specific rinse mixture. The formula from his newsletter was one tablespoon each of raw apple cider vinegar, lemon juice, and coconut cream strained through a rinsed, clean, and damp cloth. He described Gerolsteiner naturally carbonated mineral water as an effective addition to water pick use, noting that its natural carbonation has a mild peroxide effect that dissolves plaque in the gums. A protocol of vinegar and lemon juice in the water pick used daily for approximately ten days was described as capable of dissolving plaque without requiring dental scraping.

He specified that brushing thoroughly at least once every three days prevents caustic plaque from producing damage, on the basis that plaque requires approximately 72 hours to begin harming dental cells. More frequent brushing with the clay-coconut cream-vinegar formula was not discouraged; the three-day interval was the minimum threshold for safety.

Regarding hydrogen peroxide, which appears in some commercial mouthwashes and whitening products, he distinguished between food-grade and chemical hydrogen peroxide while noting that even food-grade hydrogen peroxide is "just diluted toxic hydrogen" and that real chemical hydrogen peroxide is dangerous. He did not endorse hydrogen peroxide as part of an oral hygiene protocol.

He mentioned that naturally carbonated Gerolsteiner water with a little coconut cream and clay could be used for brushing and would provide a teeth-whitening effect through natural carbonation without introducing synthetic chemicals. He suggested doing a more intensive plaque-dissolving rinse with nano-silver approximately once every ten days, noting that it can be mildly too acidic if used more frequently.

Toothpastes were addressed separately from mouthwashes but within the same framework of chemical products that damage rather than protect teeth. Every commercially available toothpaste, Aajonus stated, contains glycerin, which coats the teeth with a sticky film. He specified that it takes approximately 25 washes to remove this glycerin film, and that while it is present it prevents teeth from re-enamelizing. Consuming foods high in calcium and phosphate, particularly raw milk, increases the probability of re-enamelization, but only when the tooth surface is clean and free of the glycerin film that toothpaste deposits.

This is directly relevant to the mouthwash question because the use of commercial oral hygiene products, including both toothpastes and mouthwashes, creates a chemically modified oral environment in which the natural processes of mineral redeposition and tooth self-repair are blocked even as the products claim to be protecting teeth.

Because Aajonus's framework places the cause of tooth decay in the dumping of heavy metals from the brain rather than in bacterial action, and because the body's protective response to this dumping is to bind toxic metals with alkalinizing minerals before they contact the dentine, his nutritional recommendations for dental health center on maintaining high mineral reserves rather than on killing oral bacteria.

He stated that to neutralize one molecule of mercury requires twelve molecules of calcium, ten molecules of magnesium, approximately forty molecules of phosphorus, and five to twelve molecules of potassium. This scale of mineral demand means that a person with a high toxic metal load in their brain is consuming enormous quantities of minerals simply to generate the protective plaque that prevents those metals from burning through to the dentine. A person eating cooked food operates with calcium that is approximately fifty percent as effective at alkalinizing, and phosphorus that has essentially lost its alkalinizing capacity because it begins transforming at 98 degrees and is substantially degraded by 105 degrees. Pasteurized dairy provides minerals that are even further compromised in their alkalinizing capacity.

This is the nutritional context in which commercial mouthwashes are most damaging: a population already mineral-depleted and aluminum-and-mercury-loaded, trying to protect teeth using minerals whose alkalinizing capacity has been reduced by cooking, while simultaneously destroying the oral bacteria needed for digestion and coating the mouth with synthetic chemicals that enter the bloodstream through mucosal tissue.

His recommendation was to consume raw dairy, particularly raw milk and raw cheese, in sufficient quantities to maintain high reserves of bioavailable calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, and potassium. He suggested half a teaspoon of raw no-salt cheese every thirty minutes during waking hours for people undergoing intense detoxification through the gums and jaw, such as those with heavy vaccine toxicity or dental amalgam histories.