Regenerating lost body parts

i have receding gums because of having gotten orthodontic braces when i was in 4th-5th grade. i had no choice about getting braces because i was too young and just did whatever my parents told me. they removed teeth, and the remaining gums just sagged and stretched while the teeth were bent and moved to new positions. it's very bad for your gums. they also say that mercury can make your gums have problems too.

there's going to be a mercury poisoning when they remove the filling, but i won't use any chelators or added nutrients. i am just going to take it as is.

i think the braces caused me to get a cavity. i had perfectly healthy teeth, but the braces put this metal band around the very back tooth to hold the wires in place. because of that metal band, food would have caught in there and been impossible to brush out, for weeks and months and years at a time, causing a cavity. my teeth had no cavities at all until then.

i actually like the way my mouth looks BEFORE the braces better than the way it looks now! i look at the childhood photos, and i had a cute grin. now, my mouth is somehow set back deeper into my face, in a flattened way. back then, i had a little overbite, and it actually looked cuter than this new, unnatural, flattened face.

this type of thing is one reason why i want to have children. i won't do idiotic, permanent, stupid things to their bodies when they're too young to say no. it's a way of fixing the world, when you aren't able to undo the damage that was done to yourself. i'm not blaming my parents, because they're just as innocent and ignorant as everybody else. there are things we're taught that we're supposed to do, and everybody thinks they're good and okay and safe.

i still advocate stem cell research, or some other technology, to regrow lost body parts and make them as good as the originals. they will someday regrow teeth, foreskins, tonsils (unless they stop the idiotic practice of removing tonsils and adenoids when all they need is holistic troubleshooting of problems), appendices (does the plural of the bodily appendix also get a 'c'?), gallbladders, lost limbs, etc. anything that it's stupid to remove. they just love to remove irreplaceable body parts at the slightest difficulty. even if there aren't any problems at all.

removing sick organs, such as the appendix or gallbladder, isn't necessary. there are almost always other ways to fix the problem. gallstones shouldn't be an excuse to cut out the gallbladder. supposedly you can change things in the diet and it will get rid of gallstones. appendicitis is caused by a viral infection, as far as i know, and it can be fixed by draining the fluids and materials that threaten to rupture it. sometimes these diseases are caused by temporary factors, such as a medicine you're taking. there is always a specific cause for the problems, and often, you're able to get rid of the cause. but they give you a permanent 'solution' to this temporary problem by removing the organs.

something in your body isn't quite working properly? here's a solution: chop it out and kill it, so that it REALLY won't work ever again! we wouldn't want to be half-assed about anything. let's do a thorough job of destroying it altogether. i am totally against this point of view. i advocate troubleshooting, especially now that we have the internet and can easily get so much more medical information and patients' experiences than we could long ago.

when you remove those organs, there are harmful consequences. doctors are set on believing that we have all these useless 'vestige' organs that evolution forgot - organs we don't need, organs that have no function, organs that just sit around and do nothing because they came from some primitive time long ago when our ancestors actually used them. in reality, we still use all those archaic things. when you cut out those organs, you get more health problems. digestion gets permanently messed up after you remove the appendix or the gallbladder, yet they hastily, casually remove those every day and say that it will have no effect on you at all.

it's funny, i once found a little 'recipe' book that i wrote when i was a very young child. i liked pretending and i believed in magic. so i wrote a magic book with little recipes for doing various things. one recipe was made to 'regrow lost body parts.' you had to make a potion using 'berry crystals,' which were inspired by some little plastic beads that looked like clear blue crystalline raspberries. then, you had to recite a long list of rhyming words, where you only changed the first letter of the word. i forget how it went, but it was sort of like, 'afto, bafto, cafto, dafto, eafto, fafto...' through the whole alphabet. for some reason, i liked the idea that every single letter of the alphabet had to be used, and not a single letter could be left out. i was a perfectionistic collector of stuff - i had to 'collect 'em all,' when i got a favorite toy or anything - and i always wanted to feel like everything was included together and nothing was left out.

i think i was about nine years old when i wrote that magic book. that's back when i was playing dungeons and dragons outside with the two kids next door, in west virginia. we got our plastic swords and shields and ran around fighting invisible monsters. i was the magical healer, and i carried a medicine bag filled with plastic beads, little fragments of jewelry, interesting objects, shiny things, and anything that i could pretend was medicinal and magical. (nowadays, i have to fight REAL invisible monsters, like the fiat money system. my little magic bag of healing contains books and authors who explain everything to me.)