Disclaimer: Please take note that this dissertation does not offer medical advice. I am not medically trained, and I am not qualified to give medical advice. This essay is purely a discussion of my personal experience, and is presented as entertainment Consult your doctor for any medical advice you may need.
“One if by land, and two if by sea —
And I on the opposite shore will be . . .
Ready to ride and spread the alarm . . .”
And so it seems established that the urge to spread warnings of imminent danger is founded in our heritage . . .
And accompanying that is the desire to share awareness of cures and solutions.
Being of a somewhat analytical bent I fancy that I have on numerous occasions devised or discovered causes and cures that seem to escape the attention of others. This is written to share a personal experience.
When I was a teenager many of my contemporaries chewed gum. I did for a time . . . I favored Juicy Fruit...
But somehow I found greater pleasure in sucking on a Life Saver.
Pop related that his dentist referred to them as “Tooth Rotters.”
I seemed addicted to them. Always had a roll in my pocket, and a mint in my mouth.
Perhaps that may have contributed . . .
The antibiotic regimen that is followed by patients of dentists is well understood — a loading dose of 500 mg of Amoxil four hours before a dental procedure that is deemed risky, and 250 mg every hour for the next four hours preceding the dental procedure.
That is the standard prophylaxis, to prevent bacterial incursion through the teeth, into the circulatory system, which might then initiate a myocardial infection.
Bacteria into the teeth, then to the blood, then from the blood to the heart . . .
It has taken me a long time to perceive and accept that ingesting sugar can stimulate the colonization of bacteria in my teeth -- recognizable by the unique pain in the teeth. And demonstrated by vigorously rinsing --”swishing” — a 40% ethyl alcohol solution to sterilize the teeth and eliminate the pain.
( I found a 40% ethanol solution in a bottle on my shelf labeled “Vodka.” )
Avoiding sugar in my diet spares me the pain of the infection that sugar induces into my teeth. Which, should I falter and consume significant amounts of sugar, produces the infection and its uniquely identifiable pain.
If bacteria in the dentist's office can induce bacterial myocardia, then bacteria from my sweet tooth can certainly create the same sequence of cause and effect.
And in the distant perspective of 60 plus years I am speculating that I may have, by yielding to my craving for sugar, induced the pericarditis that stopped my heart in 1955. i (footnote)
As I said in the opening phrases of this triviality, I am bent in a most peculiar way.
My training and experience in troubleshooting the complexities of a malfunctioning main frame computer equip me for the pursuit along abstract lines of logical inquiry, to reach a meaningful conclusion and solve a problem.
The subject matter may vary, but the techniques are mutually applicable.
Sugar consumption may be responsible for many “Heart attacks” — heart failure due to bacterial colonization transmitted through the circulating blood to a susceptible heart.
I know it. But nobody else knows it.
“Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing.”
Voltaire
“...there is no new thing under the sun “
Ecclesiastes; 9
i While attending Del Mar College I went to my nine o;clock organic chemistry class with a slight chest pain. Sitting in class, I suddenly experienced a vigorous cardiac irregularity, which soon yielded to a total cessation of all heartbeat.
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