Kevin Great. I was looking to talk with you about tooth care because many men and women that have the raw foods diet have distinct teeth issues which could develop. What exactly are some of the challenges that individuals face? What are some of the things that you have done to kind of help reverse some of that?
Kevin
Dr. Graham: Tooth care, it’s a fascinating point. Long ago people asked me to write about
Dr. Graham:
And obviously, but it also must be said, since anyone that is ever been to a dentist’s office has seen that the dentist offices around the world are filled with folks eating prepared foods. So we can’t simply look at raw food and point out, «Raw food is really bad for the teeth of yours because appear what happens,» because we’re seeing the identical thing happen on prepared food. At exactly the same time we are also seeing two other concerns taking place with the teeth of ours that must be a minimum of allowed for. One will be the reality, as disclosed in Pottinger’s Cat’s, that with every generation of cats consuming an eating plan which was not species unique there was degeneration, both physiological and physical. In any other words in the form as well as function and the style of the cat we saw decay.
We see in human anatomy which changes have happened. On the list of big ones that happens with malnutrition over generations is a loss in what’s known as the broadness, a narrowing of the tooth arch. So for example, if I smile at you, you might see 8 or maybe ten teeth whereas someone with a much wider dentistry arch will smile at you as well as you’d discover twelve teeth or perhaps fourteen teeth. The wider the front of that arch is, the wider the horseshoe, effectively, that the tooth make, the greater amount of room there is for teeth. So we’re seeing an increase with every generation. We’re seeing an increase in the number of children that require orthodontic job simply because there just is not sufficient room for the number of tooth which are coming in, so they start crossing over each other instead of sitting alongside of one another.
We have inherited not just this problem although a number of others, with the wellness of our teeth, before we ever before went raw. Next we have these problems with going raw. One of them is the fact that many individuals go raw and in addition have a truly tough time staying raw, so they’re switching forth and back between prepared and raw, and that doesn’t do the teeth of ours a lot of great,
The additional issue that comes in is almost invariably some facet of nature episode us when we go raw. We become’ nature boys’ and’ nature girls’ to an even greater degree than we ever before had been previously. A lot of folks have come to me as well as said, «I went raw four years back. I stopped using shampoo. I stopped using deodorant. I stopped making use of a toothpaste. No pet animal brushes their teeth. I stopped brushing my teeth.» The number of individuals who may have informed me that’s simply brilliant. And I’m heading, you know, «Yeah, you didn’t truly earn that properly the first day you went raw to expect that the body of yours can work as in case you had been raw your whole life and your parents happen to be raw their entire life also it had gone back for generations.» I’m definitely not positive that no teeth therapy will be the program.
In fact, it’s not the strategy that I recommend. I recommend a tooth treatment plan. I suggest you are doing clean the teeth of yours once you eat and you do not merely a careful swipe underneath the gum line, or directly at the gum line — this’s where the teeth of ours are very susceptible — but that you will also get out the particulate matter that’s in between your teeth. No matter if you are doing that with a bristly type of round brush or if you are doing that with floss or even whether you are doing that with pick or possibly a brush pick, there is a range of ways to do it.
We consume raw foods as well as our teeth really feel so clean but in fact there’s still things, there’s always material. And organic and natural material stuck between the teeth of yours is gon na be broken down by bacteria. The bacteria are going to produce acid which will harm your teeth. In nearly every case, I will say in each and every case of tooth issues that I have noticed with raw fooders, it’s a matter of them having decay at the gum line. It’s constantly at the gum line. it is not the enamel part which they are having these types of issues with, It’s in the gum line where there isn’t enamel. And also this’s because on the average cooked food diet we actually result in a loss of gums but in addition an inflammation of the gums. When the gums are inflamed, although we have lost some gum matter, the inflammation permits them to be larger which covers up that area of tooth that has no enamel. When the source of the irritation goes away, we start consuming raw food items that are not irritating to the gums instead of the cooked food items that have irritants built right into them, the food ingredients all function as irritants to the gums and so they start to be inflamed.