The Surprising Foods that Heal Teeth (Plus what Damages Them)
Summary
TLDRThis script explores the connection between diet and oral health, highlighting studies that suggest cheese can help prevent cavities in children. It emphasizes the importance of ending meals with tooth-protective foods like cheese, avocado, and fibrous fruits to counteract acidity and promote saliva production. The role of saliva in healing teeth and gums is underscored, along with the impact of digestive health on oral bacteria. The speaker recommends avoiding constant snacking to allow saliva to interact with tooth enamel and suggests incorporating foods rich in nitric oxide and butyrate for better absorption and gut lining. The script concludes with a mention of a complete mouth care system to support natural healing, advocating for dietary changes and mindful eating habits for lifelong oral health.
Takeaways
- 🧀 Cheese, particularly Edam and cheddar, can help prevent cavities in children according to studies conducted in Denmark and Europe.
- 🍏 Consuming tooth-protective foods like avocado, celery, and apples can help maintain oral health by not causing acidity or decay.
- 🍓 Foods with a bit of fiber, such as strawberries and raspberries, can be beneficial for teeth and stimulate saliva flow, which aids in oral health.
- 🥛 Whole milk is considered tooth-protective and can be included in a diet to support oral health.
- 💧 Drinking water can help wash away food particles and clean the mouth, which is essential for oral hygiene.
- 🍽 Ending a meal with a tooth-protective food can help counteract the acidity that comes from consuming various foods.
- 🚫 It's important to avoid eating or drinking for an hour or two after a meal to allow the saliva to interact with the enamel and promote healing.
- 🌿 Foods rich in nitric oxide, such as salads, lettuce, beets, onions, and mushrooms, can contribute to a healthier saliva composition.
- 🔁 The health of the digestive system influences the minerals in the blood, which in turn affects the quality of saliva and oral health.
- 🌱 Good gut health starts with foundational bacteria like Acromania and short-chain fatty acids like butyrate, which are crucial for nutrient absorption.
- 🍇 Incorporating foods like pomegranate, which are rich in antioxidants, can help support the health of the digestive system and oral health.
Q & A
What was the key finding from the studies conducted in Denmark and England regarding cheese and children's dental health?
-The studies found that children who were given small pieces of cheese, specifically Edam and cheddar, before going to school each morning had fewer cavities compared to those who did not consume cheese.
What is the best solution to prevent teeth from becoming acidic after a meal?
-The best solution is to end every meal with a tooth-protective food, which does not cause acidity, decay, or contain sugars. Cheese is an example of such a food.
What are some examples of tooth-protective foods that can be consumed at the end of a meal?
-Examples include cheese, avocado, celery, and apples. These foods are fibrous, do not cause cavities, and can help protect teeth.
How do strawberries and raspberries contribute to oral health?
-Strawberries and raspberries are tooth-protective because they contain a small amount of xylitol, which stimulates saliva flow, helping to clean teeth and heal gums.
Why is whole milk considered tooth-protective?
-Whole milk is tooth-protective because it helps to neutralize acidity in the mouth and can contribute to overall oral health.
How does saliva play a key role in oral health?
-Saliva is crucial for oral health as it helps to clean teeth, heal gums, and stimulate the flow of minerals that protect and repair teeth. Stimulated saliva is more alkaline and healing than resting saliva.
What is the significance of not eating or drinking for an hour or two after a meal for oral health?
-Giving the teeth and enamel time to interact with saliva allows for the minerals from healthy foods to be absorbed, supporting tooth health and promoting the growth of good bacteria in the mouth.
How does the food we eat influence our saliva?
-The foods we eat, especially those rich in nitric oxide and fiber, can improve the quality of our saliva, making it more healing and mineral-rich, which in turn supports oral health.
What is the relationship between oral health and digestive health?
-Oral health and digestive health are interconnected. Poor oral health can lead to poor digestive health and vice versa. Good bacteria in the mouth and a healthy gut are essential for overall health.
Why is it important to maintain good digestive health for optimal nutrient absorption?
-Good digestive health is necessary for the absorption of minerals and nutrients from food into the bloodstream, which then contribute to a healthy immune system and the production of healthy saliva.
What is the role of probiotics in maintaining digestive health?
-Probiotics can help maintain a healthy balance of bacteria in the digestive tract. However, it's important to nurture foundational bacteria like Acromania through habits and dietary choices rather than relying solely on probiotic supplements.
How can food pairing improve nutrient absorption in the body?
-Certain food combinations, such as bananas with dairy products, can enhance the absorption of nutrients like calcium. Understanding and incorporating such food pairings can maximize the health benefits of what we eat.
Outlines
🧀 Cheese and Tooth Protection
This paragraph discusses the benefits of cheese for dental health, referencing studies conducted in Denmark and England. The studies showed that children who ate a small piece of cheese, particularly cheddar, before going to school had fewer cavities. The paragraph emphasizes the importance of ending meals with tooth-protective foods, such as cheese, which do not cause acidity or decay and do not contain sugars. It also mentions other tooth-protective foods like avocado, celery, and apples, and the role of saliva in oral health, highlighting that stimulated saliva is more alkaline and healing than resting saliva.
🥗 Foods for Saliva and Digestive Health
The second paragraph focuses on the relationship between the foods we eat and the health of our saliva, which in turn affects our overall digestive health. It explains that certain foods, like salad greens, beets, onions, mushrooms, and garlic, are beneficial for nitric oxide production and support both digestive and immune health. The paragraph also touches on the exchange of minerals between the blood and salivary glands, and how our diet influences the mineral content of our saliva. It stresses the importance of good digestive health for nutrient absorption and the cultivation of foundational bacteria like Acromania, which is crucial for a healthy gut. Probiotics are discussed as a means to support digestive health, with an emphasis on the role of butyrate in creating a protective lining in the digestive tract.
🍽️ Food Pairing for Optimal Health
The third paragraph explores the concept of food pairing and how combining certain foods can enhance their nutritional benefits. It provides an example of how eating a banana with a dairy product can increase calcium absorption due to the fiber in the banana. The paragraph also highlights pomegranate as a particularly beneficial food for incorporating into one's diet to support the growth of beneficial bacteria like Acromania. It encourages the consumption of fiber-rich foods such as fruits, grains, and vegetables to promote the production of butyrate, which is essential for a healthy gut lining. The importance of ending meals with tooth-protective foods and avoiding eating or drinking for an hour or two afterwards to allow for the circulation and absorption of minerals is reiterated. The paragraph concludes with a recommendation for a complete mouth care system to support natural healing and improve oral health, especially for those at high risk or experiencing dental problems.
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Keywords
💡Cheese
💡Cavities
💡Tooth protective food
💡Acidity
💡Fiber
💡Xylitol
💡Saliva
💡Digestive Health
💡Probiotics
💡Butyrate
💡Stress
Highlights
Studies from Denmark and Europe showed that cheese can help prevent cavities in children.
Cheese, specifically Edom and cheddar, was given to children before school and resulted in fewer cavities.
The importance of ending meals with tooth-protective foods to counteract mouth acidity from food.
Cheese is recommended as a tooth-protective food that can be consumed at the end of a meal.
Foods like avocado, celery, and apples are considered tooth-protective due to their fiber content.
Strawberries and raspberries contain xotl, which is beneficial for teeth and stimulates saliva flow.
Drinking whole milk is tooth-protective, and water helps wash away food particles.
Xotl not only prevents cavities but also feeds good bacteria in the mouth and promotes healing.
Stimulated saliva is more alkaline and healing than resting saliva, aiding in tooth remineralization.
The recommendation to avoid eating or drinking for an hour or two after meals to allow for saliva interaction with tooth enamel.
Discussing the role of saliva in oral health and its healing properties for gums and teeth.
The connection between the foods we eat, our gut health, and the minerals in our saliva.
The impact of digestive health on oral health and the importance of foundational bacteria like acromania.
The role of probiotics in maintaining digestive health and the preference for nurturing existing bacteria.
Foods that promote the production of butyrate, which lines the digestive tract for better mineral absorption.
The concept of food pairing to maximize nutrient absorption, such as bananas with dairy.
Pomegranate as a food that supports the growth of beneficial bacteria in the gut.
The suggestion to incorporate whole grains, fruits, and vegetables into the diet for gut health.
The recommendation to end meals with tooth-protective foods like xylitol to stimulate saliva flow.
The importance of not eating or drinking for an hour or two after meals to allow for the circulation of nutrients and saliva interaction.
The offer of a complete mouth care system to support natural healing and improve oral health.
Transcripts
so are there any foods that actually can
heal your teeth and the answer to that
lies in some studies that were done some
in Denmark and some in other parts of
the country uh of Europe and also in
England where they actually gave small
pieces of cheese to Children before they
went to school each morning after
breakfast they had this little piece of
cheese that was one with Edom that was
one with cheddar cheese and in these
studies it showed that cheese can
actually help children prevent cavities
there were less cavities than the
children who had this little tiny piece
of cheese on the way to school now
that's obviously not a complete story
and we have to go further than that if
we're going to look at foods and decide
which foods are good for our teeth
really I'm going to stop the
conversation there though
because what we should be doing is
looking at our meal time
and almost every food that we consume is
going to end up making our mouth acidic
and acidity weakens teeth so the best
solution to this is to make sure that
you eat and drink and end every meal
with what I call a tooth protective food
now this would be a food that doesn't
cause acidity it doesn't Decay your
teeth it doesn't have sugars in it so it
could be something like cheese which is
very tooth protective say say you're
eating pizza and you're drinking a soda
and you're having other Foods alongside
with it vegetables and fruits eat and
you might want to end with a little bit
of that pizza cheese that would be one
way of doing this very simply ending the
meal as they do in parts of Europe with
a little piece of cheese or something
else that is food protective and I get
asked well ell what is food protective
things that like avocado
celery uh apples in fact are tooth
protective there's enough fiber in a
fresh Apple not in apple juice but in a
fresh Apple so there are certain foods
that you can end a meal with because
they are fibrous because they do not
cause cavities there are also foods like
strawberries and raspberries that are
delicious and they contain a little bit
of zalad
and xotl is this food that I love
because it is so easy to protect your
teeth with xotl it can be in the form of
a fresh strawberry or a fresh raspberry
at the end of a meal or you could get
some granular zotol and actually dip
that strawberry into it the other thing
would be to drink whole milk if you are
a milk Drinker whole milk is tooth
protective as well and of course water
can wash away the food particles and
clean your mouth so the sequencing is to
eat and drink and then try to clean or
wash your mouth and then end with a
tooth protective food and of course
zotol is my favorite because it not only
doesn't cause cavities and does protect
your teeth and does feed the good
bacteria in your mouth but it also
stimulates a flow of the liquid in your
mouth the saliva that cleans our teeth
and heals our gums and teeth and
stimulated saliva is even more
incredible than resting saliva the
saliva that just happens to be in your
mouth every time you stimulate with
silol a flow of the saliva to come into
your mouth it's going to be two units of
pH higher that means more alkaline more
healing than resting saliva so what an
incredible thing you can take one 1 gr
two mints put it in your mouth and heal
help to stimulate the the saliva flow
that will heal your teeth reverse any
demineralization that occurred during
eating and then if you don't eat or
drink for an hour or two afterwards
you're going to actually feed the good
bacteria in your mouth and develop
healthy
biofil so saliva is really the key to
oral health I want to be the marketing
person for saliva because it is
incredible to heal your gums and your
teeth the problem with us is we nibble
we snack We
Sip I was discussing this with somebody
the other day and they said what do you
mean I'm going to actually sit there
without sipping anything for an hour or
more this to some people seems
incredible but this is why we have tooth
problems why we have sensitivity why
teeth get soft and wear away we have to
give our tooth in enamel time to
directly interact with our
saliva so then we could flip here to a
conversation about what kind of foods
actually feed our saliva what foods make
our saliva more healing and these are
all the foods that are really good if
you're into nitric oxide production
they're very much the same Foods salad
Foods lettuce celery beets uh onions
mushrooms garlic all these good foods
that not only help our digestive health
our immune system but in in that whole
sequencing our immune system influences
our blood content of
minerals and these flow around our body
and our salivary glands are where
there's an exchange between the blood in
our body and our salivary ducts they
they in these salivary glands there is
this networking between capillaries the
small blood vessels and the little ducts
of our the our salivary glands and this
interaction is where the minerals from
our blood go into these ducts are then
concentrated and pushed into our mouth
as saliva so what we eat what's absorbed
which depends on our gut health what's
then circulated around our body which
depends on your exercise and movement
and then it end up in our salivary
glands and finally pumped into our mouth
as healthy saliva to support not only
our tooth Health our gum health but the
bacteria
population in our mouth that protects us
from all these this damage and disease
so food is incredibly important in this
cycle but you have to understand it
isn't a direct not so much a direct
influence as an influence through saliva
that is really the way to think about it
in my opinion so before we start eating
all these healthy foods that are going
to help our salivary Health it's really
important to understand that you have to
have good Digestive Health in order to
absorb from your gut the minerals and
into your bloodstream into your immune
system to help your immune system and
digestive health is different your
digestive health of course the tube that
starts in our mouth our mouth and our
nose are the openings to this tube goes
through our body and bad mouth health of
course can influence Digestive Health a
lot of people with bad mouth Health find
they have poor digestive health and vice
versa we don't actually know which
happened first I have a belief that if
you have poor oral health as a child or
you have a lot of fillings and sealants
as a child it can affect your digestive
health as an adult so I have a lot of
interest in helping children never have
sealants never have fillings for their
Digestive Health in later life but your
digestive health depends on certain
foundational bacteria and these are the
bacteria that we wipe out if we have
antibiotic treatments if we take a
course of antibiotics they can easily
wipe out these very delicate and very
foundational bacteria one of the most
important is called
acromania and this particular strain of
bacteria you really cannot as far as I
read in the studies take it as a
probiotic it's something that you have
to
nurture in your body and this is why
probiotics for Digestive Health I think
are a big conversation and I think
there's been a lot of misunderstanding
and certainly probiotics in the mouth I
feel the same about it's better to try
to look after your mouth bacteria with
the habits that you have and the way
that I recommend than to simply try to
take a probiotic and sort of think
you're injecting good bacteria into your
mouth because it doesn't happen that way
we have to support the bacteria that we
cultivate in our digestive tract and for
gut health there are fermented foods
that are really great that will help
your digestive tract
to become healthier but you have to
start really with these foundational
acromania and the short chain fatty acid
that's called butyrate if you've never
heard of butyrate it's a good thing to
start hearing about it because it's the
butyrate that actually creates a lining
to your digestive tract that allows you
to absorb better to absorb more minerals
into your blood into your system from
the foods you eat and today there is a
food
pairing uh science where we learn how we
can pair certain foods together to get
the maximum benefit from them this is a
big subject and we'll do another video
on it but just to tell you for example
if you eat a banana with a dairy product
like a yogurt for example or a
custard the fiber in the banana the kind
of bacteria that that fiber feeds will
allow you to absorb more of the calcium
from the dairy product that's G that's
being eaten with the banana so it isn't
just food now we have to look at it's
combinations of foods and for acromania
it appears one of the very best foods
you can start to incorporate into your
diet is pomegranate pomegranate seeds
pomegranate fruit pomegranate juice
appears to work well and then for
butyrate which is the other
foundational product or the sort of
mucus part the lining of your gut you
want all the foods that have fiber
fruits uh grains whole grains uh
vegetables lots of vegetables lots of
fruits I mean these are the things you
know you should be eating but perhaps
you don't know why and if you do
incorporate some of those Foods it's not
huge quantities but some of those foods
with every meal meal that you have or
most of the meals you have and then
remember end the meal with a tooth
protective food if possible and if you
don't know what to end it with have some
xylol that is the the quickest easiest
way to deal with this because a little
bit of xotl is going to help stimulate
Sal salivary flow and then try really
hard not to eat or drink for an hour or
two afterwards nothing not even water
try and do do your eating and drinking
and then stop and then during that time
all the good food that you just ate is
going to circulate around and it's
usually within half an hour that that
the minerals will appear you can
actually do this test with ph testing
paper you will see that your salivary pH
will stay high or become higher about a
half an hour after a really healthy meal
if your digestive processes are working
well now stress
medications even being a woman with our
hormonal
fluctuations and so on can change it
makes it harder and all I encourage you
to do is keep at it do the best you can
go through these periods being pregnant
is so hard because your salivary pH is
always acidic digestive health is
challenging but if you stick to these
principles I believe you will get
through those periods of difficulty and
enjoy improved oral health for life now
if you need extra help and you want to
speed what I've talked about this
natural healing I have a complete mouth
care system which utilizes
over-the-counter products that work in
Synergy with each other to
speed the repair of your teeth and the
repair of gums that have been damaged so
for people who are at high RIS risk
those who are taking medications those
who have these hormonal changes people
under stress or if you're trying to
reverse a dental problem I would highly
recommend using my complete mouth care
system along with these
dietary suggestions and
changes do it for 3 months you can even
test the bacteria in your mouth and see
how they change within 3 months 12 weeks
might change your life
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