Balanced Tooth Decay Remineralizing Program

Balanced Tooth Decay Remineralizing Program

Food Intake Suggestions

• ½ teaspoon two or three times per day of Green Pasture’s™ Blue Ice™ Royal Blend
• 2-4 cups of raw, whole-fat dairy per day in the form of milk, kefir, whey, yogurt, clabber, or buttermilk. You can substitute about two ounces of cheese for every cup of fluid dairy. Also consider an eggnog smoothie as described in the next chapter.
• 2-4 ounces of raw cheese
• 1-2 cups of homemade gelatin-rich bone broth per day from any animal including beef, chicken, and fish.
• 6-18 ounces of high quality animal protein throughout the day and prepared for maximum digestion including stews, or raw, seared or marinated variations. Beef, chicken, pork, fish, lamb, eggs and so on. Have some protein with every meal. Divide your ideal weight by 15 for your minimum daily protein requirement in ounces.
• Plenty of cooked vegetables including but not limited to beet greens, kale, chard, zucchini, broccoli, celery, and string beans. These can be consumed as soups. I provide a mineral-rich recipe for an Ayurvedic Green Drink in the next chapter.
• At least once per day have something fermented such as kefir, yogurt or sauerkraut.
• 1 teaspoon or more of healthy fat with every meal. The fat can be raw or cooked. Grass-fed butter or ghee is preferred. Other animal fats like lard or tallow are also good choices.
• Twice per week eat a comfortable amount of liver from any animal.
• Twice per week choose one shellfish or other organ of land animals. Here are some suggestions:
  • Oysters, clams, crab or lobster (consumed with innards), whole crayfish
  • Fish eggs
  • 1 – 3 tablespoons of bone marrow
  • Animal tongue or kidneys from any animal

You might want more carbohydrates in this type of diet. If you need more see if sweet potatoes or yams work for you. You may also use phytate-free grains like sourdough bread made from unbleached flour (bran and germ removed). If your diet includes grains that are soured to remove phytates, please review the grains section in the previous chapter to make sure you are using grains mindfully.

Foods to Avoid in All Protocols

Even with a healthy diet, some foods on this list will cause a tooth disaster. Other foods may not be that bad for your teeth if consumed on occasion. The details on these foods were discussed in the previous chapter. The more you avoid these foods, the more completely your teeth can remineralize.

I have received some complaints that the food protocols presented in the previous edition of this book are too strict or complicated to follow. My job is to share with you my best understanding of Nature’s principles for health so that you can activate your body’s natural tooth and gum healing abilities. Please do not interpret this as me dictating to you what you can and cannot eat. You are always free to do whatever you want with your life including eating foods that can be toxic to your body. If you cannot follow the recommendations on this list, or believe that I have made mistakes, or feel that you deserve to eat foods on the “avoid” list, then know that such a decision may affect your ability to heal your teeth. The more disciplined you are in avoiding foods that cause or aggravate deficiency states in your body the more successful you will be in healing cavities quickly. How you translate that teaching into action is totally your choice. I suggest giving these guidelines your best attempt, and then judge how you feel.

Avoid sweets and foods sweetened with these items – white sugar, cane sugar, evaporated cane juice, xylitol, agave nectar, jams, dried fruit, candy bars, health food bars, yacon syrup, erythritol, lo han, palm sugar, coconut sugar, stevia extract, glycerin, fructose, high fructose corn syrup, inulin, fructooligosaccharides (FOS), brown rice syrup, malted barley and grain sweeteners, maltodextrin, sucrose, dextrose, sucralose, aspartame, and saccharine. If you do not know what the sweetener is then avoid it.

Acceptable sweets – Unheated honey, organic maple syrup (grade B preferred), real cane sugar (Heavenly Organics™ or Rapunzel’s), stevia (actual herb only; no stevia extracts), whole fruit including dates or fresh squeezed fruit juice but not fruit extracts or concentrates.

Avoid white flour or denatured grain products including organically labeled ones: crackers, cookies, doughnuts, pies, breakfast cereals, granola, muffins, pastries, flour tortillas, bagels, noodles, pasta, pizza, couscous, bread that is organic but not made from freshly ground and fermented grains, and nearly every packaged product that contains grain products. Watch out for sprouted whole grain products and gluten-free foods made with brown rice.

Avoid whole grains that are not soured according to guidelines presented in this chapter including whole wheat, rye, kamut, spelt, brown rice, and quinoa.

Acceptable grains – Sourdough bread made with unbleached flour (bran and germ removed), partially milled rice that is soaked with a starter (white rice is acceptable), grains properly soured based upon indigenous preparation methods.

Avoid raw nuts and nut butters – including all raw nuts, as well as peanut butter, raw almond butter and raw tahini.

Acceptable nuts and butters – Nuts and nut butters should be roasted or otherwise cooked. Low temperature dehydrated nuts and nut butters are acceptable in moderation.

Avoid hydrogenated oils – such as margarine or other butter substitutes.

Avoid low quality vegetable oils – such as vegetable, soybean, canola, corn and safflower oils. Avoid potato chips, Crisco®, and any food not fried in a natural fat. Unfortunately most restaurants use these cheap vegetable cooking oils which make their food unhealthy for regular consumption.

Acceptable fats – are all natural, organic and ideally from small producers. They include coconut oil, palm oil, olive oil, butter, lard, tallow, chicken, duck and goose fat.

Avoid pasteurized, homogenized or grain-fed milk and ice cream . Also avoid low-fat dairy products and powdered milk along with anything that contains it.

Avoid store-bought rice milk, soy milk and nut milks like hemp and almond.

Acceptable dairy products are raw and grass-fed from any type of ruminant and whole fat, not skimmed.

When you have only grocery store options for dairy products – then choose pasteurized, but grass-fed dairy products from smaller producers. Yogurt, butter and grass-fed cheese that are pasteurized are the best of the pasteurized dairy products. There are some nice pasteurized grass-fed cheeses from Australia, Ireland and New Zealand that are reasonable in cost.

Avoid table salt – Many foods have commercial, refined salt added. Table salt seems highly irritating to the body.

Acceptable salts – Himalayan salt, Celtic Sea Salt®, and other sea salts are good to use. Celtic Sea Salt® seems the best out of these options.

Avoid conventional fast foods and junk foods. – These foods are usually high in trans fats, food additives and sugar.

Avoid stimulants. – Do not drink coffee, sweetened drinks, sports drinks, or alcohol. Do not smoke cigarettes. Reduce or avoid chocolate.

Avoid unfermented soy including isolated soy protein, tofu, soy / veggie burgers, soy “meat” and soymilk.

Acceptable soy products are traditionally fermented. – You can have small amounts of unpasteurized soy sauce, miso, and natto.

Avoid green powders – most green powder supplements have sugar added and contain questionable ingredients. There are a few exceptions to this rule, which would be 100% food-based dried powders with no sweeteners added.

Avoid factory farmed meat, fish, and eggs. These offer inferior quality proteins.

Acceptable proteins are grass-fed or wild . These offer superior quality and bolster health.

Avoid too much fruit. Even though fruit is natural, people often eat too much. Be very careful with sweet fruits like as oranges, bananas, grapes, peaches, blueberries and pineapple.

Avoid prescription drugs, over-the-counter drugs, and vaccines . These alter your glandular balance and many are causative factors in tooth decay.

Avoid food additives like MSG, nitrates, and nitrites.

Avoid commercially processed foods, such as TV dinners and packaged sauce mixes.

Avoid synthetic vitamins and any foods containing them.