I have so many updates to this that I'm not sure I have time to type them all:
1) All this talk about tooth issues being caused ONLY by attack from the outside of teeth is only partially true from what I've read. It ignores that fact that teeth are alive, and have fluid flow from the inside towards the outside through the tubules in the dentin... and the bacteria, etc on the outside cannot get to the inside and decay the teeth. Thus it literally wouldn't matter if a person swished around a bunch of sticky sweet fruit and went to sleep. The problem would be from when the person INJESTED too many carbs too rapidly and the blood sugar spiked. Then the flow direction of the tooth fluid reverses.... At least that's what my research said. I have no idea if that's true. But thought I'd mention it here as a possibility, and why this talk of even just a single green apple with the very few carbs in it (they are not even remotely sweet and sugary like red apples) is something to practically fear unless all rinsed so well afterwards, etc. Yes, I rinse and even floss a bit after eating an apple, but it's more about the lower pH of them than the possibility to grow bacteria, that concerns me personally. In other words, I don't see any reason to be borderline fearful of them, or any other moderately sweet and/or acidic food. Humans eat much worse and still have all their teeth. And have for centuries. It wasn't until the PROCESSED foods (white sugar, white flour, etc) that the tooth decay really proliferated. Price's research proved that.
2) Along those lines, if you follow Natural Hygiene and other less common, but more accurate, principles... then it's more about the damage to the structure of the fats, protein, and carbs that causes the real problem. In other words: PROCESSED foods. The body has to deal with them more, and differently, than unprocessed raw foods (the real reason we are on this forum). Well, that concept that goes farther than just meats. It goes for ALL categories of food.
3) For example, I personally get far stickier nastier mouth in the hours following my eating too much meat and fat than I do from eating too many carbs. I ate half a pound of week old "high" raw salmon today, followed with a dozen leaves of raw spinach to scrub the mouth clean of all the fat. Then flossed, brushed, and rinsed with a baking soda paste. Clean mouth after. Within only an hour or two I had a sticky film all over my mouth (and was oddly voraciously thirsty. I still didn't drink water for a few more hours so that I wouldn't mess up (dilute) my digestion of the meat.) The point is: thinking that eating meat and fat somehow mean having a "cleaner" mouth forbacteria than if one eats sugary foods is totally not true for me, and no doubt many others. Those are foods that have an "acidic ash" (final state after being broken-down by the body in the digestive processes) and that can both be 1) just as acidic and 2) fuel/food for bacteria and other critters in a person's mouth, GI track, etc. I certainly wouldn't be falling asleep with a mouthful of meat, or fat, or anything else... just like I wouldn't with a mouthful of fruit, veggies.
4) And to cover that base too, I have also started using a new more comprehensive product called "Great Oral Health Advanced Oral Probiotics" at night in order to get the correct strains in the mouth before sleeping.
5) Meanwhile, from what I've learned, a big part of the reason that many high protein eaters can't lose weight, get rid of their diabetes, or even get their blood sugar levels down in spite of eating less than 20g carbs, is because the excess protein (more than a half pound per day) gets converted to glucose in the body, and thus into the blood stream. Thus, that concept plays into this tooth discussion in semi-related concept as well. Just thought I'd mention it as a side-point: endless meat consumption doesn't actually mean low carb. How applicable that is to the mouth end I don't know specifically.
6) No, I never drink carbonated or non-carbonated mineral water. Wrecks my digestion for the rest of the day. Good call. Thank you.
7) ALL my muscle testing has been "blind" to me. I purposely do not look so as not to influence the results. And there have been times that I have and the results were very much the opposite of what I preferred consciously, with no belief on my part that somehow my subconscious held some different belief. On the other side of the interaction: My practitioner is higher trained in being impartial and does an excellent job at it. And as such: my results have been absolutely consistent and repeatable. Over and over and over. Thus, your comments about it being biased and subconscious and such, although I feel are true for the majority of OTHER people doing it wrong, do not apply to me. Further: disregarding muscle-testing because OTHER people do it wrong, is a very foolish decision to make in life. You're missing out on a critical tool for personalized answers. Same as not believing in all sorts of other techniques like dowsing, aura-reading, physics, other meta-physical tools, etc. OF COURSE there are charlatans. But do they wreck it for you. No. EXAMPLE: Because there are shady crooked used car dealers, means you don't buy used cars ever? Well, whatever works for ya. I always buy used cars!
8) I won't get into it much here but there are many people who don't believe in the Conscious and Subconscious as conventionally described... which I what I believe was being referred to here. Many believe that the BRAIN is only 1) a PROCESSOR of the current surroundings (input filter and pattern recognizer) so that immediate responses/adjustments can be made (to stay safe, enjoy sensual experiences, etc), and 2) a RECIEVER of vibration/information from the universe. Memory, emotions, etc are not stored in the BRAIN. They are received from the UNIVERSAL MIND, to be experienced in the INDIVIDUAL MIND. The MIND is not the BRAIN. That's all I'll say on that, but not liking muscle-testing being based on the conventional [incorrect?] concept of subconscious to me is flawed in of itself. But to each their own.
9) Back to planet Earth and my teeth... I got a 2nd opinion from a different dentist just a couple days ago. This was 2 months after the first dentist saying that I had the 7 spots of decay and needed all subsequent numbing shots and drill'n'fills below the gumline. Well the 2nd one said that:
* I do indeed have exposed dentin (inside of the tooth) below my gumlines, which is dark in color INHERENTLY, and then gets darker because it's more susceptible to staining/discoloring from blueberries and similar without the enamel. But, that darkness is NOT a sign of decay for me!
* He poked with the goddam sharp pick (I HATE when they do that... making more dents in my teeth) but said that they were NOT soft areas of decay! He said that if it were him, he would NOT get any fillings.
* He said that my teeth are not decaying, but DISSOLVING. Why? Possibilities include 1) acid (real acid like stomach acid from GERD), 2) pressure: chewing too much, too hard, grinding, etc. I chew my food far too intensely, this I know. 3) Clenching/grinding, especially in my sleep. This I also do, and have done for years.
* RESULTS: The clenching pressure bends the teeth at the gumline (not at the root) and the minerals get removed from the flex point, and the gums recede further away even lower. The grinding pits the top of the teeth, and even wears the enamel away (I have little enamel left on the tops of my teeth and they are even getting flatter and flatter.
* PLAN: 1) I'm wearing a device while I sleep tonight that will measure my heart rate and oxygen levels to see how my sleep patterns are. (He recommended the book "Sleep Interrupted".) This can influence everything from GERD, to the clenching/grinding, to poor healing, poor mineralization, and feeling exhausted when I awake (I almost NEVER feel rested when I awake). 2) We will map the bite structure using a 3D mapping machine to find wear my bite is messed up and 3) probably build some sort of bite guard that will simultaneously help me with both challenges.
To me teeth are of highest priority. I figured typing all this might help someone somewhere sometime with their own challenges in these areas too. And to share how happy I am that I don't have nearly the problem that I was previously told I had. It doesn't mean I still don't have the above challenges, but I'll take them over decay ANY DAY. There's light at the end of the tunnel.
The real question is: 1) Was the 1st dentist wrong? OR 2) Was he correct, and my relatively low carb, high raw dairy and raw meat diet actually helping toughen the teeth up in the 2 month timeframe between dentists??? I'll probably never know. Life is a f'n rollercoaster, that's for sure.
Later yall.
Topic: Science of Tooth Yellowing and Decay (Read 18998 times)