We have been told that all you need to take care of your teeth is to brush regularly and visit your dentist.

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Weston Price, back in the '30s, travelled worldwide and visited many indigenous cultures who were totally isolated from "civilized" society. He found that people who never brushed their teeth had virtually no cavities compared to their modern counterparts with 25% tooth decay. He found that diet, not brushing, was the answer.

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Citing the Prologue of his book Nutrition and Physical Degeneration (amazon "read sample"):

"Price's research proved conclusively that dental decay is caused primarily by nutritional deficiencies, and that those conditions that promote decay also promote disease. Price found fourteen indigenous diets that, although radically different, provided almost complete immunity to tooth decay and resistance to illness. Contact with outside civilization, followed by adoption of what Price termed the "displacing foods of modern commerce," was disastrous for all groups studied. Rampant dental caries was followed by progressive facial deformities in children born to parents consuming refined and devitalized foods. ... Significantly, when some of these people returned to their traditional diets, open cavities ceased progressing... ."

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Price discovered three essential nutrients: (fn4)

Calcium 1,500 mg daily

Phosphorus 2,000 mg daily

X-Factor (later discovered in Butter Oil) 1/2 tsp twice daily.

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Note: never use synthetic vitamins to obtain these nutrients; they are not effective.

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The rapid decline in health of native peoples subsisting on a modern diet is chiefly the result of not enough available calcium and phosphorus in the blood.​ Another factor, the X-factor, is supplied by butter oil which is also a natural source of vitamin A.

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It is precisely due to the lack of fat-soluble vitamins and activators in the vegan diet that makes it difficult for vegans over time to remain immune to cavities and the effects of physical degeneration.

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Calcium is easy to come by, there are many suppliers. (fn3)

Phosphorus is more difficult to find (described below).

Butter oil - see here.

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​In 1942, Hereford, Texas earned the nickname “Town without a Toothache” due to Dr. George Heard’s discovery that residents had remarkably low rates of tooth decay. He attributed this to the regular consumption of raw, grass-fed milk and fermented dairy products like buttermilk, clabber, and yogurt. Heard observed that individuals who drank a quart of this nutrient-rich milk daily—especially from cows grazing on mineral-rich native grass—developed resistance to cavities. The milk provided essential minerals (calcium, phosphorus), fat-soluble vitamins (A, D, C), and beneficial probiotics. Soured milk products, naturally fermented before refrigeration existed, aided digestion and nutrient absorption, further promoting dental and overall health. (fn2) If you want to consume milk products using the proper ayurvedic milk recipe, see here.

Here is a quote from Dr. Price's protocol:

"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 two or three meals is usually adequate to prevent dental caries and maintain a high immunity; it will also maintain freedom from colds and a high level of health in general. This reinforcement of the fat-soluble vitamins to a menu that is low in starches and sugars, together with the use of bread and cereal grains freshly ground to retain the full content of the embryo or germ, and with milk for growing children and for many adults, and the liberal use of sea foods and organs of animals, produced the result described."​ (fn5)

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Not all cod liver oils are alike. Cod liver oils purchased at health food stores do not have any of their natural vitamin D intact. Green Pasture™ produces the highest quality, most nutrient-dense cod liver oil on the market called Blue Ice™ fermented cod liver oil. It contains all of the cod liver’s vitamin D intact because they use a fermentation process rather than a distillation process. See here. See footnote 6 for Medical Medium advice on cod liver oil.

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