Germs existed long before humans. When humans were created, their bodies were perfectly equipped to protect itself from harmful germs.  A germ is any microscopic living organism with its own DNA. Germs may include viruses, bacteria, fungi, mycoplasma and parasites.

 

Immune Response.

The human immune system is one of many methods that the body has to protect itself from harm.  Special white blood cells called macrophages recognizes substances that do not belong in the body.  These are called antigens.  Antigens include germs as well as toxins.  Certain germs, such as gut bacteria, are beneficial to the human body and others, such as flu viruses are not.  The macrophages know how to distinguish between antigens that are supposed to be present in the body (called “self” antigens) and those that are not supposed to be there are (called “non-self” antigens). In short:  The macrophages recognize and destroy non-self antigens. It then passes the DNA of the micro-organism on to the T-cells who command the bone marrow to create antibodies to fight that DNA.  Antibodies can be compared to clone soldiers programmed to do only one thing - destroy all with this particular DNA. The antibodies are then deployed throughout the body to do their work.  This is called an immune response.

 

An immune response can only be prompted by an organism with DNA.  Chemicals (including metals and toxins) are man-made and do not have DNA. Therefore it cannot prompt an immune response on its own.  Some chemicals are haptens. Haptens combine with a carrier, a larger molecule, usually a protein, once inside the body.  If the carrier is a self protein, the immune system will recognize the hapten-carrier combination as harmful.  This will trigger an immune response and generate antibodies to fight the SELF-DNA.  This results in an autoimmune disease, where the immune system attacks the SELF-DNA of the body as if there were an infection. The type of toxin (hapten) may influence the type of auto-immune disease.

 

Not all toxins are haptens.  Fluoride, for example, may be a hapten or not depending on the chemical compound when it enters the body.  Chemical compounds used in dentistry, foods and medicine may include ytterbium trifluoride, stannous fluoride, sodium fluoride, sodium monofluorophosphate, silicon fluoride, fluosilicic acid, sodium fluoride silicate and many others.  Some of these compounds may be haptens (causing an auto-immune response), some not.  For that reason, biocompatibility tests may indicate a toxin such as fluoride, as non-toxic.  However, fluoride is toxic, regardless of whether it causes an immune response or not.  For that reason, fluorosis can cause bone and joint destruction, without swelling.  In this case, the body confuses fluoride with calcium and deposits it in the bone, where the toxic fluoride molecules then destroy the bone.

 

Biocompatibilty tests rely on detecting elevated levels of lymphocytes and other components of the immune system. One would expect to see similar elevations in a person suffering from a cold or flu. These elevations indicate that the immune system is actively fighting an infection. The difference is that with a cold or flu, the immune system can eventually rid the body of the infection. Dental or orthopedic  toxicity causes chronic disease because the source of the problem is permanently imbedded in the mouth or body. This keeps the immune system on “alert” status all the time, while simultaneously using a significant portion of the body’s nutrients and energy in order to maintain this level of activity.

 

http://www.biocomplaboratories.com/biocompatibility-Testing-Dental-Toxicity.html

http://medind.nic.in/jac/t08/i3/jact08i3p201.pdf

http://press.endocrine.org/doi/full/10.1210/jc.2010-2891

https://buelahman.wordpress.com/tag/skeletal-fluorosis/