If you value your health and well being in any way shape or form DO NOT USE IT!!!That said,if you go to your local healthfood store they should carry a variety of gums sweetened with zylitol which is not only great for your teeth but also helps your breath because it also destroys candida which is a major cause of bad breath.I also recommend purchasing some liquid chlorophyll to add to your drinking water.

I've been oil pulling/swishing for a little over three weeks now. My gums are healing (no more bleeding and pain), my mouth and I assume my breath is fresher, my teeth are whiter (which is really blowing my mind), my cracked heals are healing and I have much less dandruff! There is a forum here on curezone for it. You will find information on it there.

I also am using toothpaste, mouthwash and chewing gum with Xylitol.

Oh and another thing you might want to check out is Colloidal Silver (also a forum here).

Good Luck!

Meowmaste
Kitty

Yes, that gum is toxic.
If you find the "healthy" kinds, make sure to read the ingredients, sometimes the xylitol gums also have aspartame. Have you done total body cleansing? It would be better if you got rid of the root of the bad breath problem. Then all you would need would be to chew on some parsley or a mint leaf, or maybe eat an organic breath mint made with molasses or something like that. Or just brush your teeth and tongue.

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I came across a dozen cases of trident splash gum for free, and found myself taking full advantage, about a pack a day. One day my feet started to have many muscle twitches which lasted a week. I blamed the gum and cut it out of my diet. The twitches eventually gave way to a pins and needle sensation, and then went away.

I have since researched this, and have found my symptoms matched exactly with Atherosclerosis. My diet was quite high in saturated fat, however I had no problems until I started chewing the gum. I believe that my system was able to handle the high fat diet, as I am very physically active, however the Aspartame either overloaded my system or took precedent. Instead of dealing with my high fat diet my body had to detox the Aspartame first. So the fat stayed in and stuck to my arteries, and the symptom that made it's prescence felt was Atherosclerosis.

My conclusion: Aspartame is a toxin, which takes priority for your body to detox. While focusing on the aspartame, other "fringe" problems that previously were not causing symptoms will begin to make themselves known. A medical diagnosis will likely reveal a condition not directly caused by the aspartame, but caused by aspartame taking the first spot in the detox line up. This is why it is approved by the FDA, because a substance that produces a wild variety of symptoms flys below the radar of Western medicine. Aspartame poisons by exacerbating a previously existing but deactivated problem.

A corollory: Why not use aspartame for better health? If my conclusion is correct, a two week period of regular aspartame abuse could teach you about a problem that is years off. It certainly taught me something. But be careful, as forcing a health problem to the surface could do permanent damage. Hopefully I'm healthier now than I would have been had I not artificially advanced my Atherosclerosis symptoms with aspartame, and continued my high fat diet.

Something else, after brushing your teeth and tongue, is to put the tiniest amount (less than one drop) of peppermint essential oil on the back/middle of your tongue. That stuff is powerful! Helps oxygenate your blood, too.