Founder and Creator of Primal Life Organics, Trina is a wife, mother of three, dental health and natural skincare expert, Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, Yogi, Paleo advocate, and educator. By nature, she loves creating products that heal, soothe, mend and repair the body and soul.
Trina is a Natural Skincare Expert and Skincare Biohacker and is improving the way you feed your skin. She is a 25+ year nurse with a Masters in Nursing Anesthesia. Trina is the international best-selling author of Beauty’s Dirty Secret, skincare and health related speaker/writer and her food-based skincare products have been featured on TV stations all over the country including ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox. She is dedicated to helping others realize the dangers in everyday cosmetics and skincare, and spreading awareness for the importance of using plant-base, nutritional skincare products.
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ABOUT TRINA
My background is in nursing. I am a registered nurse
I am still doing nursing, but I get to do it in a different way promoting health and wellness
It started back 12 years ago
My husband and I got married and I ended up suffering from a miscarriage at the age of 40 and that totally opened my eyes to what a toxic world we live in
Everything I put in my mouth was healthy, but I did not care about the other things in the environment at that point
One day, I realized that the skin care products that I was using were loaded with neurotoxins, endocrine disruptors and cancer-causing agents
I was pregnant at that point and realized that it was not only affecting me, but also my baby
I pretty much ditched everything
I quickly learned how to make my own skin care products
Everything was working amazing and my acne that I had for 20 or 30 years was gone, my skin was really good and I had a healthy pregnancy
I started my own skin care company
My daughter, at the age of 2, ended up having a molar erupt with a cavity in it
I started doing some research on what is the tooth made of, what’s the mouth cavity about
And I realized that if I kept on brushing her teeth with the products that I am using, I am going to do her no good as far as that tooth goes, but also her health
I happened to find Dr. Western Price who was a dentist in the early 1900’s
He did research about the 3rd world countries and why their dental health and overall health was really fabulous
And when those people come to USA and start eating our diet and brushing with our toothpaste, their dental health declines and they will have heart disease, diabetes or high blood pressure
What I discovered from him, and what I put into my product, is that clay is the perfect medium for brushing your teeth with
It is very detoxifying and pulls toxins out of your body
You really want to detoxify your mouth tissues
So, I made a product called “Dirty Mouth Tooth Powder” and it has different clays in it and it mineralizes your teeth
The temporary filling my daughter has is still in place
I believe the ADA has us brainwashed into believing that we should brush our teeth to clean them and that is completely wrong
When you brush your teeth to clean them, you use products that are on the market
These products are the formula for creating a cavity, destroy all the bacteria inside your mouth and they create an acidic environment inside your mouth
Your mouth is the start of your immune system and that is the place where you need a good microbiome to keep out harmful bacteria
The cavity is created by the bad bacteria that lives inside your mouth or that can be inside your mind, plus the sugar and starches from the foods that you eat creates lactic acid
That lactic acid creates plaque and demineralization
Demineralization is the mineral loss from your tooth
There are things that you can change that will create where you can remineralize your teeth and change your entire health
The products that claim to kill 99% of bacteria, kill both good and bad bacteria
To know that you have bad bacteria in your mouth is that you have a bad breath
Bad breath is an imbalance between your good and bad microbiome inside your mouth
Clay is very alkalizing for the body
Alkalizing the body is the way to health
Bad bacteria thrive in the acidic environment inside your mouth
Your saliva is a very good indicator on what your mouth is going to look like
Your mouth is the indicator of what your insides look like
If your condition inside your mouth is not healthy, I can tell you that you have inflammation internally
Leaky gum syndrome is just like leaky gut syndrome, but it is your gum tissue
Leaky gum syndrome is basically any kind of inflammation redness breakdown in your gum tissue all the way down to periodontitis
If that doesn’t get healed or prevented, it can lead to leaky gut syndrome or leaky brain syndrome
Your entire digestive system is outside of your body – tongue to tail
Inside of your body doesn’t happen until things pass through the tissue
If you have healthy microbiome, you have healthy tissue
Most people heard the saying “good health starts in your mouth”
If it starts in your mouth and you are using the wrong products and you don’t have a healthy microbiome, that is exactly where health stops
Oral health and hygiene are different
Hygiene means that you are not brushing your teeth, health means it is poor health inside your mouth
You might be brushing your teeth, but it might be creating problems
So, if you open your mouth and you have poor oral health, you probably have poor internal health as well
When you brush with something that kills 99% of bacteria, you just have to stop and look at that like you took a massive dosage antibiotic twice a day
Brushing with something that kills 99% is killing both bad and good
What grows faster is bad bacteria because you are exposed to it
On top of that, you are creating an acidic environment inside your mouth
Good bacteria grow in an alkaline environment
It is more difficult to grow good bacteria even when your mouth is very acidic
Most foods are acidic by nature
Your saliva is supposed to wash away the food particles after you eat
Saliva neutralizes the acids
While it is neutralizing the acids, it is also remineralizing your teeth
When you swallow your saliva, it takes whatever’s in your mouth and feeds and seeds the rest of your immune system
So, you are feeding bad or good bacteria in your gut
There’s nothing in toothpaste that is going to make your teeth healthy or strong
It is loaded with fluoride, it does not strengthen your teeth but it replaces the hard minerals that were put on your teeth on purpose
Fluoride is a neurotoxin
The other ingredients in a typical toothpaste is glycerin
Glycerin is also in a lot of natural toothpaste
When you brush with something that has glycerin in it, glycerin will put a coating in your teeth and those minerals are washed right by
The coating of glycerin prevents you from feeling sensitivity to hot and cold
That sensitivity is your signal that you have demineralization. You have more minerals leaving your tooth that are not being replaced
If that continues, it will cause cavities
You can stop that by using products that do not have glycerin
The formula for a cavity can be converted to a formula for a healthy mouth
In my opinion, there is no way you can cut out sugar and starches from your diet
I think we should be healthy in our choices and choose the healthiest choices for our body
We can play with the bad bacteria inside the mouth that feeds off the sugar, starches and the lactic acids
If you take either one of those, you just eliminated the chances for cavities and gum disease
To change that, change what you are brushing with
Bacteria is not all bad
Without the good bacteria, you have no healthy defense
By choosing the right products, you can regrow your good bacteria
It takes approximately 3-4 days of brushing to destroy your microbiome inside your mouth
It also takes 3-4 days to rebuild your microbiome
If you create good bacteria even if you are eating sugars and starches, you aren’t feeding bad bacteria
You are not going to have an acidic environment, instead you will have an alkaline environment inside your mouth
The tooth powder cleans your teeth, detoxifies and pulls the toxins out of your gum tissues
The serum was made with an olive oil base
Most people use coconut oil because it tastes better, but olive oil is better for your gum tissue because it has more nutrients and more detoxifying
The olive oil has 11 essential oils and it helps increase blood flow, decrease inflammation, speed the turnover of the cells and helps to heal gum tissues
If you don’t have healthy gum tissue it can really affect not just the roots of your teeth and your teeth, but also your bone health underneath
Plaque is basically a bacterium that has created a home
The plaque that is found in your mouth, is the same plaque found in heart disease
If you have gum disease, you have bad bacteria inside your mouth
The exact same bad bacteria that causes gum disease has been found of the brain of dementia people
Fluoride opens the gateway for aluminum to enter your brain
If you are brushing with fluoride and using an aluminum antiperspirant, it is possible to get dementia
In the dental care, we are not asking you to do anything different to your routine
It’s just changing what product you are using
When you brush with clay, it pulls those bugs out of your mouth and it creates the environment where good bacteria will grow
Charcoal helps detox the body just like clay and it also help to detox your mouth a little bit, whiten your teeth and break down plaque
Brushing with an activated charcoal toothbrush is great
If you want the best oral care, you will scrape your tongue to help scrape off the bacterial coating
WHAT’S YOUR DIET
I eat pretty clean and healthy
I used to call myself vegan or “cheagan” a cheating vegan because I do eat meat, but not a lot
I eat mostly paleo
I pretty much cut out sugar from my diet, because it does not work with my body chemistry
I noticed that I stink really bad after I eat sugar and I can totally tell since I don’t eat it
I just listen to my body and what my body wants
Sugar and gluten are evil for my body
Table sugar and honey are the worst bacteria for your teeth
I am not saying to do not eat honey, but just be aware
Make sure to swish your mouth out after eating a food with honey
Knowing what a certain food does, makes you make better choices
Your brain cannot decipher real sugar from fake sugar
When your brain tastes sweets, it wants more
If the first thing your brush your teeth with is artificially sweetened and your brain can’t decipher that and it wants more, you might have just demolished your success at any type of diet that you are doing
If you just stop brushing with something that tastes so sweet, you might actually be able to stick with your diet a little bit longer that day
TO USE THE TOOTH POWDER
Wet your toothbrush and just shake off any excess water
Dip the tip, pull it back out and what’s on your brush is all you brush with – you don’t need much
Brush for 2 minutes
When you are done, put a little bit of gum serum on your finger and rub it on your rub tissue