“Your diet is the key to creating a healthy mouth, no other way about it.”
Cure Tooth Decay: Remineralize Cavities & Repair Your Teeth Naturally with Good Food
-Ramiel Nagel
As a practicing dentist for over 25 years, one day my feet went numb. After being misdiagnosed by several doctors, I finally found I was suffering from acute mercury toxicity. I had to have all my mercury fillings carefully removed, followed by twenty five intravenous chelations to remove the remaining mercury from my body.
From that moment on I had to practice dentistry in a different way. Most of the mercury-free dentists I know became that way only after suffering from the effects of mercury poising themselves. During placing & drilling all of those fillings, dentists are continually exposed to mercury vapors. But the conventional belief is that mercury is not problematic.
Mercury has many effects on the body, it affects the thyroid gland and is a known neurotoxin. Your entire body is connected to your mouth. There are meridians, energy channels, and biological pathways such as nerves, veins and arteries that run throughout your entire body, connecting everything. An infected tooth can therefore also affect a gland at a distant site. An infection or inflammation in the mouth can create a systemic (whole body) inflammation or infection. This whole body inflammation cannot be cleared until the condition of the mouth is addressed first. The immune system, minerals and hormone also interact with the tooth and related structures.
Teeth can heal naturally, they were designed remain strong & healthy for your entire life. Your diet the the key to creating a healthy mouth, no other way about it. False promises of conventional dentistry have led us down the wrong path of invasive surgical treatments, including fillings, crowns, root canals, and dental implants.
Without a good diet, your body’s ability to repair & maintain is severely limited, the result is tooth destruction, or demineralization. If you learn one thing from this book, it should be eating too much sugar & flour products upset the entire hormone system, setting you up tooth decay, gum disease, and makes your body overly acidic. Insulin levels spike, cortisol goes up, and the flow of parotid gland hormone changes (resulting in cavities). Too much sugar will change hormones that control mineralization change for the worse also makes your body acidic, a state where harmful bacteria and fungi can thrive.
Dr. Price’s program proved to be 90-95% more effective in remineralizing tooth cavities using only nutritional improvements in the diet. In addition, remineralize teeth, eliminate tooth pain or sensitivity, avoid root canals, stop cavities – and sometimes even form new tooth enamel, avoid or minimize gum loss, heal & repair tooth infections, and as a side bonus save you thousands of dollars.
Timothy Gallagher D.D.S
President, Holistic Dental Association
The Anatomy of Your Tooth
• Enamel is the hard white surface covering your teeth.
• Dentin is the hard, bone-like middle layer of teeth.
• The root of the tooth is embedded in the jaw bone.
The tooth pulp is in the middle of the tooth, and contains blood vessels, nerves, and cellular elements including tooth building cells.
Each tooth has a blood supply & a nerve that travels through the center of the tooth roots in the the jaw bone via the mandibular nerve (a branch of the largest cranial nerve in our body, the trigeminal nerve). The periodontal ligament lines the root of the tooth. It connects the tooth to the jaw through millions of taut fibers running in different directions. These fibers absorb the shock of chewing, and hold the tooth firmly in place. The cells in the periodontal ligament can degenerate & regenerate. A worn out ligament is a primary cause of tooth loss.
Dentin and enamel are fed from tooth building cells called odontoblasts which transport or diffuse certain nutrients through the dental lymph. Odontoblasts contain microscopic structures that act as pumps. In effect, a healthy tooth cleans itself out. Microscopic droplets of nutrient-rich solution from our blood are pumped through the tiny tubules. In a healthy tooth, the fluid flow from within the pulp, moving outward in a pressurized system that protects our teeth from corrosive substances in our mouths.
When the tooth fluid flow is reversed due to a signal from the parotid glands (poor diet), then it acts like negative pressure & starts pulling in saliva & food debris. Over time the pulp becomes inflamed & tooth decay spreads to the enamel.
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Tooth decay or cavities form on the enamel. If untreated or not eliminated with a proper diet, the decay will spread past the enamel into the dentin layer. Dentin erodes at a faster pace than enamel. Once your pulp/root becomes infected, the decay will travel down the root into your jawbone, and can evolve into a lump or ball of puss that can sometimes be seen as a bump along your gum line below your teeth. This abscess can become lethal if allowed to travel to your brain.
Tooth Fillings & Mercury
High speed drilling can reach 350,000 rotations per minute, creates high friction, and raises the temperature of the tooth nerve causing irreversible nerve damage in 60% of cases.
Gold fillings were too expensive, and ‘Bells Putty’ was used instead, melted silver coin mixed with mercury. While effective short term, the mercury was very toxic and many teeth discolored or died, not to mention the other side effects that were caused by mercury exposure. In 1845, the American Society of Dental surgeons banned the sue of mercury fillings because of health concerns. In 1896, dentist G.V. Black reformulated mercury fillings making them less toxic and longer lasting. In 1899 the American Dental Association came into existence to promote the use of mercury-laden fillings. Dentists are taught to drill big holes in teeth, because that is what works best with mercury fillings – a messy process causing hundreds of shreds of hazardous mercury spread all over the mouth.
Alzehimer’s disease, Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS), Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, lupus, and some forms of arthritis all have one thing in common – mercury. Mercury is considered hazardous waste in fluorescent bulbs at the amount of 22 milligrams. A normal mercury filling has approximately 1000 milligrams of mercury.
It isn’t just mercury amalgams that are toxic. While less toxic, white composite fillings made up of ground glass and plastic still cause immune reactions of average in 50% of patients.
The Dentist & Fluoride
Other than in how food sticks to teeth, dentists believe diet has little to do with tooth cavities.
False promises of conventional dentistry have led us down the wrong path of invasive surgical treatments, including fillings, crowns, root canals, and dental implants.
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fluoride
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Vitamin Supplements
A stalk of celery or a serving of greens has more absorbable vitamins & minerals than an entire bottle of synthetic vitamin tablets.
There are a handful of good vitamin supplements on the market. But only if made from whole foods. This keeps vitamins in a form that is recognizable and absorbable by your body. Which technically still makes them a food, and not a vitamin supplement.
If you need to use a vitamin supplement, I recommend looking for a vitamin that does not have any type of sugar added, and a vitamin made as close to nature as possible using plants or herbs.
Tooth Decay & Genetics
Genetics were ruled out in the ‘Healthy People of the Outer Hebrides’ study of two brothers with opposite diets.
One boy whom was missing multiple teeth and rampant caries had a nutrient-poor diet of white bread, jam, highly sweetened coffee, and sweet chocolates – the father noticed it was difficult for this boy to get up in the morning and go to work.
The other boy had excellent teeth, ate primitive food of oatmeal and oatcake, seafoods with limited dairy products.
Tooth Decay & Western Diet
Dr. Price visited Australia in 1936, the native Aborigines had tooth decay rate of 0%. In contrast, the modern Aborigines living on reservations and eating modern food, was 70.9%. The native Aborigine diet was a hunter-gatherer diet of roots, stems, leaves, berries and seeds of grasses and a native pea eaten with tissues of large and small animals. The large animals available are the kangaroo and wallaby. The small animals included a variety of rodents, insects, beetles and grubs, and wherever available various forms of animal life from the rivers and oceans. Birds and birds’ eggs are used where available. The modernized Aborigine diet consisted of imported foods, sugar, flour, packaged milk, tea leaves, and meat in tins.
“It should be a matter not only of concern but deep alarm that human beings can degenerate physically so rapidly by the use of a certain type of nutrition, particularly the dietary products used so generally by modern civilization.” -Dr. Price
The common theme of the healthy diets was 10x higher intake of fat-soluble vitamins and activators (A, D, E, K) plus 4-6x higher intake of minerals calcium & phosphorus.
“Tooth decay is not only unnecessary, but an indication of our divergence from Nature’s fundamental laws of life and health.” -Dr. Price
Dr Price’s Protocol
In this book, we observe the success of Dr Price’s seminal research, but add/remove/incorporate decades of other supportive studies & findings, then unite the sum to create even more potent tooth cavity healing programs.
Original & Unmodified Protocol:
• 4x ounces of tomato juice or orange juice
• 1x teaspoonful of a mixture of equal parts, very high vitamin natural cod liver oil, and an especially high vitamin butter
• 1x bowl of very rich vegetable & meat stew (made largely from bone marrow & fine cuts of tender meat). The meat was usually broiled separately to retain its juice & then chopped very fine and added to the bone marrow meat soup. The soup always contained finely chopped veggies and plenty of very yellow carrots
• Cooked fruit, very little sweetening
• Rolls made daily from same day freshly ground whole wheat, with a spread of high-vitamin butter
• 2x glasses of fresh whole milk for each child
The menu was varied from day to day, and fish chowder or animal organs substituted the meat stew.
In 27 cases of severe tooth decay in children, this diet was sufficient to stop cavities in every case & turn soft cavities hard and glassy.
Just this one healthy meal per day was adequate to control over 95% of dental caries. It did not matter if they continued to eat white bread, vegetable fat, white flour pancakes with syrup and doughnuts fried in vegetable fat. Just one healthy meal a day, was sufficient to prevent dental caries from forming.
The quantity of the mixture of butter oil and cod liver oil required is quite small, half a teaspoonful three times a day with meals is sufficient to control wide-spread tooth decay when used with a diet that is low in sugar and starches and high in foods providing the minerals, particularly phosphorus… A teaspoonful a day divided between 2-3 meals is usually adequate to prevent dental caries and maintain a high immunity.
Dr. Price & Activator X
NOTE: While Dr. Price was able to correctly make the observation, he was unable to isolate the connection that “Activator X” is Vitamin K2. Vitamin K2 plays the important role of gathering the calcium from the body & delivering the calcium to the teeth.
Click here for more in-depth overview of Vitamin K2
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The high vitamin butter was from free range cows, consuming rapidly growing green wheat & rye grass. Dr. Price referred to this high vitamin butter as “Factor X”. In his experience, grass-fed butter in the diet is essential in order to remineralize tooth decay. The more yellow and orange the summer butter, the more vitamin rich it likely is. Grass-fed butter is not always rich in Activator X, but only rich when there is rapid new growth.
Foods with “Activator X”:
• X-Factor High Vitamin Butter Oil (supplement from Blue Pasture)
• Raw Butter or Ghee (from grass-fed animals eating rapidly growing green grass)
• Raw Cream from dairy (from animals eating rapidly growing green grass)
• Wild Fish Eggs
• Skate Liver Oil
• Animal livers when the animals eat rapidly growing grass
• Goose or Duck Liver
• Bone Marrow
Besides fish eggs & grass-fed spring/summer butter, there isn’t clear data on how effective or potent each food source is in terms of its Activator X category. From land animals, depends on the season; sea animals have moderate amounts year round depending on the animal… He has found summer grass-fed butter to be highly effective in making teeth vary hard, and in securing loose teeth in their sockets by strengthening the periodontal ligament.
Fish eggs can be obtained from preservative-free caviar, Japanese food markets, and seasonally from good fish markets
Activator X Dosage options:
• 1/4 teaspoon, 2-3x daily of Green Pasture X-factor Gold
• 1x teaspoon, 2-3x daily of spring/summer grass-fed butter
• 1x tablespoon of wild caught fish eggs per day
Tooth Decay & Diet
Your diet is the key to creating a healthy mouth, no other way about it.
Your teeth are not designed to decay! They were designed to remain strong, resilient and cavity free for your entire life. Why would Nature plan for the failure and pain of disintegrating teeth?
“It is store food that has given us store teeth”. –Harvard Professor Earnest Hooton
The tooth loses its mineral density first (lime salts), and then microorganisms can cause trouble.
A bad diet means the body cannot repair, which leads to tooth destruction or demineralization.
Teeth can heal naturally, they were designed remain strong & healthy for your entire life.
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In 1922 dentist Percy Howe & his research team tried and failed to reproduce dental decay by feeding and inoculating guinea pigs with various bacteria associated with gum disease and tooth decay. However, he had no problems in creating tooth decay in guinea pigs by removing vitamin C from their diet.
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During Dr. Price’s research in 1930’s he found groups who did not use toothbrushes were immune to tooth decay. These groups had a liberal supply of minerals particularly phosphorus, and a liberal supply of fat-soluble activators, had 100% immunity to dental caries. This is documented in his book “Nutrition and Physical Degeneration” which basically concludes that modern food & lifestyle are the primary caused of tooth decay.
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The native Swiss diet consisted primarily of soured rye bread summer cheese, consumed with fresh milk of goats or cows. Meat was eaten once a week and smaller portions of butter, vegetables and barely were consumed regularly. Milk & Cheese are high in phosphorus, calcium, and fat-soluble vitamins.
The modern Swiss diet promoted tooth decay, consisting of white-flour products, marmalades, jams, canned vegetables, and fruits. Only limited supplies of vegetables were grown locally.
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The parotid gland is in charge of tooth remineralization, which explains why a small portion of the population is immune to tooth decay, even with a relatively poor diet.
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biochemical imbalance causes phosphorus to be pulled from bones
glands must be in balance to keep blood sugar levels controlled
cholesterol is a vital building block for the production of hormones
fat-soluble vitamin D is required for phosphorus & calcium & hormones
“By far the most important factor producing well calcified bones and teeth is vitamin D”
fat-soluble vitamin A & D required for cells to produce osteocalcin, the protein responsible for deposition of calcium and phosphorous into our bones
Modern people suffered from tooth decay because modern diets are severely lacking in fat-soluble vitamins. To cure cavities many people simply need to add these vitamins back into their diets
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Vitamin A notes:
• carotenes are water-soluble nutrients, found in carrots, squash, and green vegetables; carotenes are not a true Vitamin A
• fat-soluble vitamin A is retinol, and is only found in animal fats
• a healthy body can convert carotene to retinol, but requires 10-20x carotene
• large doses of vitamin A can be toxic, however any negative effects seem to be blocked when sufficent vitamin D is in the diet
Warnings of too much fat-soluble vitamins A & D are based off the synthetics, not the whole foods.
Whole foods are highly recommended to be sure the body can metabolize them properly.
Foods to Avoid for Healthy Teeth
Foods to Avoid:
• sugar & flour
• acidic drinks (sugar free or not, still has horrible pH levels ~3-5 pH)
• nuts, nut butter, grains, oatmeal, seeds, and beans (the phytic acid can impede absorption of crucial vitamins)
• fruits, jams, marmalade
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Too much sugar & flour:
• tooth decay gum disease
• acidic body
• high insulin
• increased cortisol
• hormone changes = environment for harmful bacteria/fungi thrive = cavities
When there are blood sugar spikes, minerals like calcium are pulled from our bones. When the amounts of calcium or phosphorus in the blood deviate from these levels, or if they are not in exact proportion of 2.5 parts calcium to one part phosphorus, minerals are withdrawn from the tooth or other tissues, resulting in tooth decay or gum disease or both. -Dr. Page
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Avoid Blood Sugar Fluctuations
• when blood sugar fluctuates, so do calcium/phosphorus ratios in the blood
• white sugar produces the most significant fluctuations, which last five hours
• fruit sugar is fewer fluctuations, but also last five hours
• honey is even less, stabilizes after three hours
The longer your blood sugar is out of control, the longer and more significantly the calcium and phosphorus ratios are altered, the higher the likelihood of tooth decay.
Dr. Page found that frequent meals containing vegetables, protein and fat are beneficial in controlling blood sugar fluctuations.
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Fruit
Fruit can add to your health, especially berries. But too much fruit means too much sugar. And that can cause tooth cavities by causing blood sugar fluctuations. Most of the fruit today is hybridized, an ancient apple was a small sour fruit, which probably need to be cooked to be edible. Today’s evolution has high sugar content.
Fruit is best eaten with fat.
Avoid sweet fruits (oranges, pineapples, dried fruit, blueberries, peaches, grapes, bananas) when you are trying to keep tooth decay at a minimum. Having cavities is a sign that your blood sugar mechanism is not working optimally, and eating excessive natural sweets will not allow your system to correct itself.
Once cavities are a distant memory, you can safely eat more sweet fruits.
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Grains
our bodies are not designed to eat grains in their raw form
“oatmeal and grain embryo interfere most strongly” with the building of healthy teeth
guinea pigs fed a high grain diet (mostly brans and oats) developed a condition that appears to be exactly the same as scurvy in humans. Another scurvy-producing diet consisted of whole grains like oats, barley, maize, and soy bean flour. An exclusive oatmeal diet would kill a guinea pig in 24 days from scurvy. This very same scurvy-inducing diet produced sever tooth and gum problems in guinea pigs as well.
Guinea pigs fed germinated oats and barley did not contract scurvy.
Reintroducing vitamin C in the diet of guinea pigs with raw cabbage (sauerkraut would work for humans) or orange juice resolved the disease.
Today we know that grains contain numerous plant toxins and anti-nutrients including lectins and phytic acid. Phytic acid is the principal storage form of phosphorus in many plant tissues, especially teh bran portion of grains and other seeds. It is found in significant amounts in grains, nuts, beans, seeds, and some tubers. In humans and animals with one stomach, the phosphorus is not readily bioavailable. It also binds with other minerals, such as calcium, magnesium, iron and zine, making them unavailable as well.
To produce rickets in dogs, they were fed oatmeal. The most sever rickets-producing diet was mostly whole grain diet which included whole wheat, whole corn, and wheat gluten. Germination of oats itself did not reduce the rickets (producing effect of whole oats). But germination together with fermentation of whole grains greatly reduced the severity of rickets. Rickets is cured by having adequate fat-soluble vitamin D in the diet. This is because vitamin D increase the utilization of phosphorous and calcium in the diets with phytic acid, and without phytic acid.
oatmeal interferes more than any other grain studied with tooth mineralization
white flour interferes the least with tooth mineralization
Phytic acid has a strong inhibitory effect on mineral absorption in adults, particularly on the absorption of iron. Even a small amount of phytic acid in one’s diet can lead to a significant reduction in iron absorption. While grains, particularly whole grains, are rich in phosphorous, up to 80% of this phosphorous is bound up as phytate, which is not absorbable by the body.
soaking pg 84
Summary of Basic Grain and Seed Consumption Guidelines:
• Do not eat products containing whole grains or added bran
• Do not eat whole grains that are not home prepared
• Do not eat sprouted whole grain products
• Do not consume bleached white flour products
• Do not consume seeds regularly
When you consume grains, nuts, seeds, or beans regularly, you need to make sure to have adequate calcium, vitamin C, and vitamin D in your diet.
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Nuts & Nut butters
Nuts are powerful inhibitors of iron absorption, and contain about the same level of phytic acid as grains.
It is common for people with rampant tooth decay to rely on raw nut & seed butters as staples, including too much raw tahini. The problem with raw nuts is people are consuming too many as a staple, rather than PART of a wholesome diet. This means high phytic acid, which blocks the absorption of important minerals in your body.
Nuts in moderation should not be a problem for most people with minor cavities. However, if you have severe tooth cavities, or have some nagging cavities that do not heal, consider avoiding nuts entirely until the problem resolves.
Vitamin C in the dose of 25 milligrams can prevent compounds in nuts from blocking iron absorption. Interestingly the iron-blocking characteristics of nuts may have to do with how nut proteins are digested. This may explain the indigenous cultures’ propensity to mix nuts with animal proteins.
Basic Guidelines:
• Avoid commercially produced nut butters.
• Moderate the amount of nuts you eat; do not make them your staple food.
• Make sure to have plenty of food-based vitamin C, or calcium-rich foods with your nuts, such as roasted and skinless almonds with cheese.
• Be careful with almonds; they seem to be very high in plant toxins. The skins must be removed.
“If you have unhealthy or brittle teeth from tooth decay, eating an overly hard/bad nut can turn into a broken or punctured tooth. I know this from first hand experience unfortunately.”
Foods to Eat for Healthy Teeth
Healthy Diets:
• 10x higher intake of fat-soluble vitamins & activators (Vitamins A, D, E, K)
• 4-6x higher intake of minerals calcium & phosphorus
Groups having 100% immunity to dental caries:
• liberal supply of minerals (particularly phosphorus)
• liberal supply of fat-soluble activators
A typical adult needs to eat roughly the following nutrients daily to be healthy:
• Calcium = 1.5 grams
• Phosphorus = 2 grams
• Vitamin A = 4,000 – 20,000 IU
• Vitamin D = 1,000 – 4,0000 IU
• 30-70% of calories are from fat
Synthetic vitamins are not as effective, only food-based forms of these vitamins are recommended.
Fat-soluble vitamins, particularly those found in animal fats, are essential to health not just because the provide nutrients to our body, but precisely because they are activating substances that help our bodies utilize the minerals in our diets.
Vegan diets lack fat-soluble vitamins and activators, over time making it difficult to remain immune to cavities and the effects of physical degeneration.
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Good Foods
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• dairy products, specifically grass-fed
• organs & head meat from fish & shellfish
• organs from land animals
• bone marrow included in stews
• liberal supply of whole milk
• high vitamin butter produced by cows pasturing on rapidly growing green wheat & rye grass “Factor X” (or Vitamin K2)
• Raw Butter & Ghee (from grass-fed animals eating rapidly growing green grass)
• Raw Cream from dairy (from animals eating rapidly growing green grass)
• Wild Fish Eggs
• Skate Liver Oil
• Liver from animals eating rapidly growing grass
• Goose or Duck Liver
• Bone Marrow
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Skate Liver Oil
• skate is a cousin of the shark and ratfish, it looks like a small sting ray
• skate liver oil is a hidden secret to obtaining a very high concentration of fat-soluble vitamins
• 1/8 to 1/4 teaspoon, 2-3x daily
Liver
• liver stops cavities
• liver helps your body live
• it contains nearly every vitamin and mineral needed to build healthy teeth & bones (except for fat-soluble vitamin D, magnesium and calcium)
Raw Milk
• Four cups (one quart) of milk provides one gram of calcium & one gram of phosphorus
• must be from unpasteurized & from grass-fed cows
Kefir
• milk sits in a jar with kefir grains at room temperature
• the kefir grains consume milk sugars and transform raw milk into a potent nutrient-rich cultured beverage
• can be drunk plain, or in smoothies
• can be obtained online, or from friends
Organs
• eatwild.com
• uswellnessmeats.com
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Bone Broth Soups
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• 1-2 cups of broth per day; consume it as a tea, in soups, in stews, or as gravy
• homemade broths are one of the most potent medicines for tooth decay
• broth is nourishing soup made by broiling cartilage-rich bones of chicken, beef, fish, etc.
• good broth is rich in gelatin, and when refrigerated it will gel
• people from Swiss Alps who were largely immune to cavities, had soups served throughout the week
Dr. Price’s successful protocol, used almost daily, beef or fish stews, prepared with plenty of bone marrow.
The best broth for tooth decay reversal is made from the carcasses of wild fish which ideally should have the head, if it has the organs even better. This broth is especially potent and rich in minerals.
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Dairy
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Even for those who have bad experiences with dairy, are lactose intolerant, or other issues… It can be due to the store bought versions, that are required to be pasteurized. It is that process that can be causing the issues of dairy with your body.
It is worth going out of your way to locate raw or unpasteurized milk & cheese, as they contain high amounts of phosphorus that healthy teeth require.
Many people have switched to nut milk, which often have higher amounts of calcium. But the phytic acid can block the absorption of necessary vitamins for teeth health.
To find raw milk & raw butter in your vicinity, search your location @ realmilk.com
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Calcium & Phosphorus
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Create Immunity to Tooth Decay, per 100cc of blood, a ratio of:
• 8.75mg calcium
• 3.5mg phosphorus
• with normal blood sugar levels (85mg)
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Perhaps even more important than calcium, it is in most foods, highly concentrated in dairy products like milk and cheese, and in the organs of land and sea animals, in muscle meats and proteins including eggs, and in grains, nuts and beans. Vegetables do not contain much phosphorous.
Foods with Phosphorus:
• hard cheese (3.5 oz) = 0.6 grams
• beef, chicken, or fish (3.50 oz) = 0.25 grams
• 4x cups of raw milk = 0.9 grams
• 4x eggs = 0.5 grams
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Trace Minerals
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Dr. Steinman identified the loss of certain key minerals in the process of tooth decay.
These are magnesium, copper, iron and manganese.
All of which are active in cellular metabolism and necessary for the energy-production that allows the cleansing flow of the fluid through dentin tubules.
An interesting note is that phytic acid, an anti-nutrient in grains, nuts, seeds and beans, has the potential to block the absorption of each one of these vital tooth building minerals.
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Copper, Vitamins B12 and Folic Acid, Zinc, manganese, Iodine
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iron deficiency is the most common nutrient deficiency in both less-developed as well as industrialized countries world wide. This deficiency is explained by the iron binding effects of phytic acid from grains and beans.
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Vegetables
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Uncooked Vegetables & Toxins:
• difficult to digest (except for lettuce or cucumber)
• contain a host of plant toxins include enzyme inhibitors, oxalates, saponins, and lectins
Cooked Vegetables & Enzymes:
• Enzymes help us digest our foods, but are destroyed when cooked over 150 F
• destroyed enzyme content act as catalysts in most of the biochemical processes in our bodies
Fermented Vegetables:
• can retain the enzymes by fermenting foods
• fermented radish, cabbage (sauerkraut), pickles, fermented sweet potatoes, and yogurt
Steamed Vegetables:
• soft cooked broccoli with some butter or cheese is much easier to digest than raw crunchy broccoli
• dark leafy greens have nutrients that are released only through cooking
Daily Food Programs
It takes about 6 weeks to stop the decay.
daily goals
…calcium = 1 to 1.5 grams
…phosphorus = 2 grams
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Each program involves several important aspects to heal tooth decay. I want you to understand the structure so you can create the type of diet you want.
1) Add fat-soluble vitamins A, D and Activator X to the diet
2) Consume portions of protein throughout the day to balance blood sugar
3) Avoid or reduce modern denatured foods
4) Eat foods to increase mineral intake, particularly broth, dairy products, and vegetables
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1/2 teaspoon, 2-3x per day of Green Pasture’s Blue Ice Royal Blend
2-4 cups of raw, whole-fat dairy per day in the form of milk, kefir, whey, yogurt, clabber, or buttermilk. You can substitute about two ounces of cheese for every cup of fluid dairy. Also consider an eggnog smoothie as described in the next chapter.
2-4 ounces of raw cheese
1-2 cups of homemade gelatin-rich bone broth per day from any animal including beef, chicken, and fish (preferably the entire fish w/head)
6-18 ounces of high quality animal protein throughout the day and prepared for maximum digestion including stews, or raw, seared or marinated variations. Beef, chicken, pork, fish, lamb, eggs and so on. Have some protein with every meal. Divide your ideal weight by 15 for your minimum daily protein requirement in ounces.
Plenty of cooked vegetables including but not limited to beet greens, kale, chard, zucchini, broccoli, celery, and string beans. These can be consumed as soups. I provide a mineral-rich recipe for an Ayurvedic Green Drink in the next chapter.
At least once per day have something fermented such as kefir, yogurt or sauerkraut.
1 teaspoon or more of healthy fat with every meal. The fat can be raw or cooked. Grass-fed butter or ghee is preferred. Other animal fats like lard or tallow are also good choices.
Twice per week eat a comfortable amount of liver from any animal.
Twice per week choose one shellfish or other organ of land animals. Here are some suggestions: Oysters, clams, crab or lobster (consumed with innards), whole crayfish, Fish eggs, 1-3 tablespoons of bone marrow, Animal tongue or kidneys from any animal.
You might want more carbohydrates in this type of diet. If you need more see if sweet potatoes or yams work for you. You may also use phytate-free grains like sourdough bread made from unbleached flour (bran and germ removed). If your diet includes grains that are soured to remove phytates, please review the grains section in the previous chapter to make sure you are using grains mindfully.
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Avoid sweets and foods sweetened with these items:
white sugar, cane sugar, evaporated cane juice, xylitol, agave nectar, jams, dried fruit, candy bars, health food bars, yacon syrup, erythritol, lo han, palm sugar, coconut sugar, stevia extract, glycerin, fructose, high fructose corn syrup, inulin, fructooligosaccharides (FOS), brown rice syrup, malted barley and grain sweeteners, maltodextrin, sucrose, dextrose, sucralose, aspartame, and saccharine. If you do not know what the sweetener is then avoid it.
Acceptable Sweets:
unheated honey, organic maple syrup (grade B preferred), real cane sugar (Heavenly Organics or Rapunzel’s), stevia (actual herb only; no stevia extracts), whole fruit including dates or fresh squeezed fruit juice but not fruit extracts or concentrates.
Avoid white flour or denatured grain products including organically labeled ones:
crackers, cookies, doughnuts, pies, breakfast cereals, granola, muffins,pastries, flour tortillas, bagels, noodles, pasta, pizza, couscous, bread that is organic but not made from freshly ground & fermented grains, and nearly every packaged product that contains grain products.
Watch out for sprouted whole grain products and gluten-free foods made with brown rice.
Avoid whole grains that are not soured according to guidelines presented in this chapter including whole wheat, rye, kamut, spelt, brown rice, and quinoa.
Avoid raw nuts & nut butters, including all raw nuts, as well as peanut butter, raw almond butter and raw tahini.
Acceptable grains:
…Sourdough bread made with unbleached flour (bran and germ removed)
…partially milled rice that is soaked with a starter (white rice is acceptable)
…grains properly soured based upon indigenous preparation methods
Acceptable nuts & butters:
…nuts and nut butters should be roasted or otherwise cooked
…low temperature dehydrated nuts and nut butters are acceptable in moderation
Avoid Milks:
…pasteurized, homogenized or grain-fed milk and ice cream
…also avoid low-fat dairy products and powdered milk along with anything that contains it
…avoid store-bought rice milk
…avoid soy milk
…avoid nut milks like almond milk & hemp milk
Acceptable dairy products:
…anything that is raw and grass-fed from any type of ruminant and whole fat (cannot be skimmed)
If only have Grocery Store Options (aka pasteurized) for Dairy Products:
…stick with only grass-fed dairy products
…stick with products from smaller producers
…Yogurt, butter, and grass-fed cheese are the best of the pasteurized dairy products
…there are some nice pasteurized grass-fed cheeses from Australia, Ireland and New Zealand that are reasonable in cost
Salts:
…avoid table salt, can also be highly irritating to the body
…avoid the many canned/commercial foods which have added refined salt
…Acceptable Salts = Himalayan, Celtic Sea, and other sea salts
Green Powders:
…avoid the bulk of these as most have sugar added & contain questionable ingredients
…there are a few exceptions to this rule, which would be 100% food-based dried powders with no sweeteners added
Meats:
…Avoid factory farmed meat, fish, and eggs. These offer inferior quality proteins.
…Acceptable proteins are grass-fed or wild. These offer superior quality and bolster health.
Fruit:
…Avoid too much fruit
…Even though fruit is natural, people often eat too much
…Be very careful with sweet fruits like oranges, bananas, grapes, peaches, blueberries and pineapple
Advanced Tooth Decay Healing
pg 116 pdf, pg 100 book
Doctor J.D. Boyd created a grain-free diet that turned soft cavities into hard glassy surfaces. The diet contained milk, cream, butter, eggs, meat, cod liver oil, bulky vegetables and fruit. The daily menu included one quart of milk with plenty of cream. Dietary fat came from cream, butter and egg yolks. The diet contained no processed sugar, bread or grains of any sort.
…omelet
…seared sweet potatoes (roasted, sliced thickly, then pan fried in ghee, or lard)
…bone broth (pg 129)
…ayurvedic green drink (pg 132)