Tooth Decay and the Vegan Diet

This page offers vegan suggestions for a vegan diet to help limit tooth cavities.

Before we begin: I was a vegan for eight months of my life. I currently eat allot of animal foods (humanely raised). I do not promote a vegan diet and I suggest it be strictly avoided in children or pregnant moms.

Furthermore, my books do not promote a vegan diet, and many people have dental health problems on a vegan diet. That being said, no matter what your diet or belief systems, I believe you deserve help in being as healthy as possible.

As as a side note, breast milk is not vegan. Humans are animals, and I fully support breastfeeding. But if your going to breast feed your child and you are vegan, you might as well give them other animal foods as well so they can be healthy.

In light of the fact that many vegan's are writing to me and complaining about a lack of a vegan tooth healing diet, I am going to provide guidelines for the best vegan diet possible. Of course it will require vegan people writing back to me to say if it worked. My book does not support a vegan diet, so I am putting this all up online only.

Successful vegans in general seem to be either previously overweight people who then go vegan or people who had amazing diets as children with lots of high quality animal products, and then go vegan as adults. Vegan diets can be good for healing or detoxifying the body in some certain situations, for example, Max Gerson's Cancer Curing Protocol.

The vegan diet lacks essential fat-soluble vitamins. (Vitamins from Animal fats), and amino acids (from proteins) needed to help the body rebuild tissues and bones. Weston Price searched the world for a vegetarian culture and could not find one. A vegan diet therefore is not a primitive diet, but a new diet for modern times and one that our bodies are not designed for.

What is the Chance it Will Work?

First you need to qualify your health condition. For example, a vegan woman wrote me who had one small cavity after ten years being a vegan. If you fall into this category, then the following suggestions MIGHT work.

Another vegan person had to have four root canals, and had cavities in several teeth. If you fall into this category. Forget about it. I suggest you buy my book and change how you are eating.

A possibly healthy diet.

#1. Fat-soluble vitamins. Weston Price found that healthy people without cavities ate an abundance of fat-soluble vitamins. Of course animal foods are the main source of these, and this is the problem with the vegan diet, and the modern diet.

Vegan sources of fat-soluble vitamins. Whole grains freshly ground and soured for a long time, wheat germ, avocado, natto (Japanese fermented soy beans), cold pressed olive oil, coconut oil, some oils in nuts.

#2. Minerals. The abundance of minerals is to be provided by consuming vegetable juices and vegetable soups. I suggest 6-16 cups of juice or soup per day. For clarity I suggest following the Gerson therapy. (minus the coffee enemas) Here are some soup recipes. Please avoid excess amounts of sweet vegetable juice, like carrot, and be careful with spinach and beet tops due to phytic acid content.

#3 Avoid the bad food.

First you need to understand the work of Melvin Page. Dr. Page found that tooth decay, or gum disease, or infections, happened when your blood chemistry goes out of balance. Specifically the calcium and phosphorus ratios. What causes this to occur?

A. Too much sweet food. I don't care what it is, if its sweet and you eat to much, it's going to change you blood chemistry.

B. Processed foods and drugs. Processed foods = toxic. Drugs and vaccines 10x more toxic.

C. Supplements and other strange foods. I suggest avoiding any supplement that does not have it ingredients entirely as foods.

D. Avoid Soy. Fermented soy sauce is okay, but otherwise tofu and other soy products generally remove minerals from the body. Soy is also found in most store breads even though it isn't on the label.

Here are some typical vegan sins.

Breakfast cereals, granola, vegan cookies, soy milk, rice milk, almond milk, agave "nectar," chocolate, sugar, tofu.

Why?

The sugar content of these foods promote tooth decay. The safest vegan "sweets" would be dates, and then the herb stevia that is freshly ground (don't buy the stuff in packets). After that, maple syrup.

Let's review.

So #1 don't eat ANY of that stuff listed under vegan sins. If you need to have rice or almond milk, make it at home, although I would be cautious of using too much almond milk as I believe it has thyroid inhibiting properties. To be clear, any sugar, is sugar. It doesn't matter what the label says, don't do it. Sugar, is sugar.

#2. Fat-soluble vitamins 3x daily. Take olive oil, natto, coconut oil, and wheat germ oil 2-3x daily in small amounts. Natto has K-2 supposedly. Also consider evening primrose oil.

#3. Veggies are your main food source. 6-16 cups of vegetable juice and/or soups daily. Also sea vegetables, kale, collard greens.

#4. Grains are to be freshly ground, soaked, and sprouted or fermented in a sourdough. Don't buy bread from the store, make it at home. Grains should be soured at least 3-4 days. Lentils and rice can be soured for 1-2 days. There are traditional Indian food recipes of lentil pancakes, dosas.

#5. Nuts and seeks to be soaked and sprouted before consumption.

#6. No Soy. No Rice Milk.

#7. Most vegans are sugar addicts due to lack of absorbable energy from the dainty diet. Limit fruit intake to 10-20% of your diet. Don't eat too much excessively sweet fruits like dates, peaches or bananas, this will guarantee you to have cavities, as excessively sweet food alters blood sugar.

#8. Use mushrooms to obtain protein.

Successful Vegan Tooth Decay Diet

I have one testimonial for a successful vegan tooth healing diet. Below is a testimonial plus comments.

The meat substitute that is made of it it is under the brand name Quorn. It contains a lot of zinc, 9 mg. per serving. If you don't use this, then eat lots of mushrooms.


Yes, here is a list of my vegan eating plan:

one of fruit for breakfast.

breakfast - "Go Raw" Live Granola for cereal (contains sprouted buckwheat groats, date, sprouted flax seeds, raisins) with "Living Harvest" unsweetened hemp milk.

Rami's Comments - These products are too sweet in my opinion. They also are expensive. I would sprout buckwheat at home and then use a small amount of sweetener. I would then mix with homemade fermented rice milk. Amazake.

"Vibrant Health" Green Vibrance, formula 9.0 - one scoop distributed throughout the day - gives nutritional support, enzymes, herbs to stimulate glands, etc. This formula contains non-GMO protein from pea, rice, spirulina and alfalfa are joined with four select free amino acids to create the first all-vegetable protein ideally balanced for human consumption.

Rami's comments- Again it appears you can sprout and eat these at home.

lunch - Quorn grounds or Chik'n Tenders (these two have the most percentage of mushroom product, which is high in zinc zinc, etc.) mixed with corn and pasta sauce or with pasta sauce and sourdough burger bun with olive oil on top on the side, along with 5 olives rinsed of salt (olives high in calcium and Vanadium, which is also needed for tooth building process)

Rami's comments -Quorn products are not made with soy but with mushroom fungus grown under special conditions.

apple sauce with 3 tablespoons of chia seeds (not ground) or less, ground

Rami's comments - Chia seeds apparently are a traditional food. I think I'll try them.

sauerkraut (high in calcium) as snack

dinner - can of Eden beans rinsed well and simmered in olive oil with spices, esp. Dill and Parsley for Vanadium, dulse and cooked spinach with about 5 olives (rinsed of excess salt) on the side

final snack - raw nuts, soaked, or ones that don't need soaking like macadamia


Sunlight - to encourage vitamin D production

This individual also thought the garden of life "Grow Bone System with RAW Calcium" was helpful for her. Other people have suggested nano-calc coral calcium for the body.

Final thoughts by Rami on Vegan Tooth Decay Healing

Without the fat-soluble vitamin this diet will eventually fail. The vegan person admitted she did eat some ghee (clarified butter) and eggs. This may be the key to her success.

I believe when her body runs out of fat-soluble vitamin storage it won't be able to use the minerals properly. If she continues to eat ghee, then her teeth may remain healthy. I am also not a fan of packaged foods. Many foods used seemed to be of fairly good quality but can be made at a higher and fresher quality at home.

good luck..

Please contact me with further feedback and vegan tooth mineralizing testimonials.

Further reading on raw and vegan diets.

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