Tooth Decay What Your Dentist Won't Tell You
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by Nate Max
Dr. Weston Price (1870-1948) was an America dentist from Cleveland in the early 1900’s. At the end of his practice heembarked on a research journey around the world to find out “what was a healthy diet” and what caused tooth decay. His findings laid the groundwork for proper nutrition and cavity free teeth, which your dentist will NOT tell you about during your office visit!
“While a primary quest was to find the cause of tooth decay which was established quite readily as being controlled directly by nutrition, it rapidly became apparent that a chain of disturbances developed in these various primitive racial stocks starting even in the first generation after the adoption of the modernized diet and rapidly increased in severity with expressions quite constantly like the characteristic degenerative processes of our modern civilization of America and Europe. ” Dr. Weston Price in Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
WHO DID HE STUDY?
Dr. Price traveled and studied the isolated and modernized Swiss, Gaelics, Eskimos, Peruvian Indians, Polynesians, Melanesians, African Tribes, Australian Aborigines, Torres Strait Islanders, New Zealand Maori, Ancient Civilizations of Peru, and the North American Indians. He observed the culture’s dietary habits of each group along with tooth health. For instance he found the Swiss drank milk liberally (raw milk, cream & butter) 2-4 cups milk per day or 3-6oz cheese, and consumed dark rye sourdough bread (fermented). The Swiss eating the traditional diet were free of tooth decay and dental deformities, and had immunity to disease (tuberculosis at the time).
ANALYSIS
The common theme was when processed foods arrived in the food stream the tooth decay rate increased from about 1% to around 30%. When the processed food diet was passed on to the next generation teeth crowding and dental deformities were commonplace.
Dr. Price saw a large variation of foods among the groups he studied. According to Sally Fallon, president of the Weston Price Foundation:
Some had a high intake of animal foods, some had a lower consumption.
Some had more cooked foods where some had mostly raw foods.
Some had fruits where as some had properly prepared grains.
Some groups consumed dairy, some did not.
None of the traditional diets had:
Food additives
Vegetable oils or hydrogenated oils
Canned food
White flour
High fructose corn syrup & refined sugar
Low or reduced fat milks
Protein powders
COMMON DENOMINATOR IN LOWERING THE RISK OF TOOTH DECAY: DIET HIGH IN MINERALS AND FAT SOLUBLE VITAMINS (A, D, E & K2)
Dr. Price took thousands of food samples from the indigenous groups he visited back to his lab for nutrient analysis and compared them to processed foods that were quickly entering the modern food supply. He found that the traditional foods contained 10 times more fat soluble vitamins more and 2-4 times more minerals than a refined diet.
All the groups ate from these special food groups to get fat soluble vitamins:
Grass-fed dairy
Seafood
Organs from land animals
Organs from sea foods
Insects
Use of sacred foods rich in fat soluble vitamins: vitamin rich butter, shark liver oil, & salmon roe.
WHAT CAN YOU DO TO PREVENT TOOTH DECAY?
Fill in the “holes” in your diet with MORE fat soluble vitamins and more mineral rich foods. I also highly recommend reading Cure Tooth Decay: Remineralize cavities and repair your teeth with good food by Ramiel Nagel.
Get high levels of fat soluble vitamins:
Vitamin D: Animal blood, beef fat, duck eggs, oily fish, cod liver oil, & raw milk.
Vitamin A: Liver, animal eyes, cod liver oil and in smaller amounts in goat cheese, raw milk, butter and eggs.
Vitamin K2 (activator X according to Weston Price): Aged cheeses, grass- fed butter, high vitamin butter oil
Ramiel Nagel called cod liver oil the “liquid dentist” due to the high amounts of A & D, as well as X factor vitamin K2 with a recommended dosage 1-3 tsp/day according to the Weston Price Foundation.
Get more minerals in your diet:
Bone broth
Fruits & easy to digest vegetables
Grass fed butter & dairy products
Balance intake of calcium & phosphorus
Be sure to check out the Price-Pottenger Foundation for more information about tooth decay, and additionally you can find Dr. Weston Price’s book Nutrition and Physical Degeneration here.
Do you struggle with tooth decay? Please share in the comments!