The Surprising Foods that Heal Teeth (Plus what Damages Them)

Summary

This 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

00:00

🧀 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.

05:01

🥗 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.

10:01

🍽️ 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.

Keywords

💡Cheese

Cheese is a dairy product made from milk and is rich in calcium and protein. In the context of the video, cheese is highlighted as a tooth-protective food that can help prevent cavities, especially in children. The script references studies conducted in Denmark and England where children who consumed cheese before school had fewer cavities, suggesting that cheese's properties may contribute to oral health.

💡Cavities

Cavities, also known as dental caries, are holes that develop in the teeth due to decay. The video discusses how certain foods, such as cheese, can help prevent the formation of cavities. It is mentioned that children who ate cheese before school had fewer cavities, indicating the importance of dietary choices in dental health.

💡Tooth protective food

Tooth protective food refers to any food that does not cause tooth decay or cavities and may even contribute positively to dental health. The video emphasizes the importance of ending meals with such foods to counteract the acidity that can weaken teeth. Cheese is given as an example of a tooth protective food, as are avocado, celery, and apples.

💡Acidity

Acidity in the mouth refers to the pH levels that can become imbalanced due to the consumption of certain foods and drinks. The video explains that acidity weakens teeth, making them more susceptible to decay. Therefore, it is crucial to balance meals with tooth protective foods that do not contribute to this acidity.

💡Fiber

Fiber is a type of carbohydrate that is important for maintaining a healthy diet and is found in plant foods like fruits and vegetables. In the video, fiber is highlighted as a component of foods like apples that can be tooth protective, suggesting that the fibrous content may aid in cleaning teeth and promoting oral health.

💡Xylitol

Xylitol is a natural sweetener that is used as a sugar substitute and has oral health benefits. The video mentions xylitol as a food protective ingredient that can stimulate saliva flow, which is beneficial for teeth and gums. It is recommended to use xylitol after meals to promote a healing environment in the mouth.

💡Saliva

Saliva is a fluid produced by the salivary glands that aids in digestion, lubricates the mouth, and plays a crucial role in oral health. The video underscores the importance of saliva in cleaning teeth, healing gums, and neutralizing acidity. It suggests that stimulating saliva flow with xylitol can help reverse demineralization and promote a healthy oral environment.

💡Digestive Health

Digestive health refers to the overall condition and functioning of the digestive system. The video connects digestive health with oral health, suggesting that a healthy gut can influence the minerals available in saliva, which in turn can affect tooth and gum health. The script mentions the importance of foundational bacteria like 'acromania' for digestive health.

💡Probiotics

Probiotics are live bacteria and yeasts that are good for health, especially the digestive system. The video discusses the role of probiotics in maintaining a healthy balance of bacteria in the gut. However, it also suggests that cultivating good bacteria through habits and diet is more effective than simply taking probiotics for oral health.

💡Butyrate

Butyrate is a short-chain fatty acid produced when certain types of bacteria ferment dietary fiber in the gut. The video mentions butyrate as a key component that helps create a lining in the digestive tract, which is essential for better absorption of minerals from food. A diet rich in fiber can promote the production of butyrate, contributing to overall digestive and oral health.

💡Stress

Stress is a state of mental or emotional strain or tension resulting from adverse or demanding circumstances. The video notes that stress can affect salivary pH, making it more acidic and potentially harming oral health. It suggests that managing stress is important for maintaining a healthy balance in the mouth.

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