Ep 229: Mercury, Fluoride & The FDA's Dirty Secret with Dr. Marc DiNola
The Way Forward with Alec Zeck
Alec Zeck
4.8 • 968 Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2026
⏱️ 165 minutes
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We’ve been fed lies about our oral health.
Dr. Marc DiNola is a biological dentist who has spent more than three decades in clinical practice and over a decade focused on approaches that prioritize removing toxicity and addressing underlying causes. His background includes formal training at the University of Maryland and advanced study in masticatory diagnosis and treatment, along with ongoing work in dental ozone therapy and nutrition education.
This conversation reframes the mouth as part of a larger system rather than an isolated part of the body. Dental issues begin to look different when you consider nutrition, microbial balance, and the role of hidden infections that may not present with pain.
We question why certain materials and procedures remain common even when concerns are widely acknowledged. That tension points toward a deeper conversation about what it means to restore form, function, and long-term health.
Those questions matter if you’ve started to question conventional approaches to health and want to better understand how oral health connects to the rest of the body.
You’ll learn:
[00:00] Introduction
[06:15] How Dr. Marc went from a conventional dentist to a biological dentist
[13:29] What Weston A. Price actually discovered traveling the world
[25:00] The real history of mercury fillings and why dentists still use them
[35:08] What happens inside a root canal tooth
[57:41] What a proper biological tooth extraction looks like
[01:12:32] The metals in your mouth may be acting as a battery
[01:21:06] Why removing a mercury filling can make you sicker if done wrong
[01:35:44] What Chinese medicine says your teeth reveal about your body
[01:57:39] Conventional braces may be working against your airway
[02:14:55] Rebuilding enamel and reversing decay through food
[02:30:18] Whether gum disease is contagious and what kissing has to do with it
Resources mentioned:
Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Weston A. Price | Book
Your Body is Your Best Doctor by Melvin E. Page, and H. Leon Abrams Jr, | Book
Good Energy by Casey Means, MD | Book
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art by James Nestor | Book
The International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology | Website
Find more from Dr. Marc:
Dental Wellness Center | Website
Weston A. Price Foundation | Website
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The Way Forward | Instagram
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| 0:00.0 | Does it make sense to put a battery in your mouth that leaks mercury? |
| 0:04.0 | Maybe not. |
| 0:05.0 | Mercury vapor comes off of filling 24-7, depending on the heat, the stimulation, if there's friction. |
| 0:10.0 | The vapor goes into the tooth also. |
| 0:12.0 | By definition, it's coming out everywhere. |
| 0:14.0 | The bone is intimate with the gums, and it just starts to leak into that area. |
| 0:19.0 | So it's like a toxic shock syndrome. It's wild to hear that the FDA even acknowledges that this is a problematic substance to put in people's mouths, but they're still being taught in dental schools. A good chunk of them are still offering amalgam fillings. If you read the books about fluoride, it goes into the uranium. Does fluoride make hydroxyaptides stronger the |
| 0:38.2 | answer might be maybe not but putting it in the water is a big problem well my story's like |
| 0:43.5 | i want to be a dentist since i was eight but i was always questioning everything i mean i used to |
| 0:48.5 | uh i lived on a lake when i was younger and i used to dissect animals which which sounds weird, but they would wash up on the |
| 0:56.4 | shore, you know, often. And I always like to, this will be a public confession of me when I first |
| 1:01.4 | had a BB gun, which is sad. But a lot of boys have done it, I guess maybe, because we are hunters, |
| 1:08.1 | I guess, deep down. So I excuse myself now because I made an estuary, |
| 1:13.0 | a beautiful place, a garden for the birds and the bees now. But I mean, I think my, |
| 1:18.3 | my dad may have been aware. But I did dissect a couple of the animals that I, that I did take |
| 1:24.5 | off the planet. But I feel a little guilt from that. |
| 1:28.3 | But then I think is it experiential to teach me something that I didn't know. |
| 1:33.1 | But anyway, I learned about blood flow there. |
| 1:35.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:35.6 | So I wanted to be a dentist. |
| 1:38.6 | So we were eight years old, but I kept, you know, asking questions. |
| 1:42.1 | And every time I got into a subject matter, I, like, dove deep. |
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