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HEALING TOOTH DECAY WITH NATURAL NUTRITION HEALING TOOTH DECAY NATURAL NUTRITION WITH The underlying cause of dental cavities and gum disease is lack of proper nutrition, but remineralising with the kinds of foods originally eaten by indigenous people can prevent and even reverse these problems. o longer do we need to allow ourselves to be fooled into believing that dental treatments, fluoride, tooth-brushing and toothpastes are the only cure for cavities. No longer should people suffering from gum disease or tooth infections have the truth of the real causes of these afflictions hidden from them. Originally, I never spent much time thinking about teeth. I assumed that my good diet would keep me free from cavities for my entire life. Yet the glass of my limited beliefs was shattered the day my partner and I observed a small, light-brown spot on the top of a front tooth of our one-year-old daughter. I wondered to myself, "Is this a tooth cavity?" Days, weeks and months went by, and to our horror the spot grew and grew. Every day I would look at my daughter's teeth with dreaded fear as this cavity rapidly progressed and other teeth began to decay. Being a natural parent, which includes keeping my daughter free from chemicals in the forms of processed junk foods, Western drugs and vaccinations, I was extremely concerned with taking my precious little girl to a dentist for a dental treatment. Wanting to avoid traumatic anaesthesia and surgery for my daughter and not wanting to have her teeth pulled left me in a grave dilemma: either I had to subject her to a dental treatment, which to me was inappropriately violent for a small child who was not experiencing any pain or suffering, or I had to find the real cause of cavities. Only through grace, persistence and hard work did I find a cure, and I share an important part of it in this article. At the peak of my daughter's tooth decay, her teeth disintegrated so rapidly that the one decayed tooth crumbled apart within a few weeks' time. Meanwhile, / was diagnosed with four new cavities, and I was not prepared to have more synthetic materials added to my overburdened body. Also, these four cavities did not even address the places on my teeth where I felt a great deal of sensitivity: on the sides of many of my molars near the gum lines—a condition which I now know is called abfraction. Today I write nearly three years later. My teeth, once sensitive and loose in my mouth, are now firmly embedded and strong. The sensitive spots have hardened dramatically. Although my daughter's teeth continued to decay to some degree for a while, her teeth have protected themselves. Even with two teeth worn to the gum line, she has no pain, no sign of any infection and no problem eating hard foods like peanuts. These results are not by way of some special product or dental treatment, but by food alone. Your Teeth are Not Designed to Decay I started to find hope when I read and re-read the research of the world's greatest dentist, Dr Weston A. Price. In 1915, he was appointed the first research director of the National Dental Association (its name was changed a few years later to the American Dental Association). Dr Price did not seek to find the injurious factors that were causing cavities in his patients, but instead sought to understand why indigenous people around the world were immune to cavities. (Note: Not all indigenous people are totally immune to cavities, but many groups are.) In the early 1930s, he began a multi-year survey of indigenous peoples around the planet to seek the true nature of their immunity to cavities. About 70 years ago, in the very same Journal of the American Dental Association that now promotes amalgam fillings, fluoride and other chemical treatments for teeth, Dr Price revealed the formula needed to cure cavities. He wrote regarding his field studies: "All groups having a liberal supply of minerals, particularly phosphorus, and a liberal supply of fat-soluble activators had 100 per cent immunity to dental caries."' Dr Price visited the people of such places as the high plateaus of the Andes, the isolated by Ramiel Nagel © 2008 Los Gatos, California, USA Email: yourreturn@gmail.com Website: http://www.curetoothdecay.com Website: http://www.curetoothdecay.com APRIL — MAY 2008 NEXUS 29 In Search of a Cure for Cavities by Ramiel Nagel © 2008 Los Gatos, California, USA Email: yourreturn@gmail.com www.nexusmagazine.com