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Nutrition Protocols that Remineralize and Repair
Cavities
Hippocrates believed in 
vis medicatrix naturae
 – Nature’s innate ability to heal. Weston Price also
acknowledged this same principle, concluding that “Life in all its fullness is this mother nature
obeyed.”
1
 All you need to do to heal cavities is understand Nature’s rules for health, and then follow
them. When you follow these rules, the built-in ability for your teeth to heal will take over. Dr.
Price’s tooth decay prevention protocol has shown a success rate of over 90%. 2
 To heal your teeth,
align yourself with this subtle natural force, and change how you eat.Nature’s Rules for Healing Teeth
Let us review some key points of the book thus far to help you align with and understand the
principles that govern the functions of your body and teeth:
 
Tooth decay is caused by environmental forces such as food; you have complete control over
your diet. “Dangerous” bacteria are not the cause of cavities and do not randomly attack innocent victims. Our modern diet is deficient in fat-soluble vitamins and minerals needed for healthy teeth and
bones. Tooth decay occurs when your body chemistry falls out of balance and your body sends
hormonal signals that tell your teeth to stop remineralizing. The imbalance is caused by blood
sugar spikes and a disruption in your calcium and phosphorous metabolism. Eating plenty of
vegetables, limiting your sugar intake, eating enough proteins and a diet that includes plenty of
fat-soluble vitamins usually resolves this imbalance. Dentists are surgeons who treat the symptoms of dental disease with surgery. Dental treatments
usually provide only short term results. Dentistry has never promised to remineralize cavities or
to prevent future cavities.Remineralize Your Teeth with Diet
In the previous chapter I presented detailed dietary instructions on what to eat and why in order to
remineralize your carious teeth. We learned about Nature’s health principles by examining the diets
of indigenous peoples across the globe. I will now compile several highly effective dietary programs
based upon decades of research performed by some of the world’s best dentists including Weston
Price and Melvin Page. I will also draw upon the lifetime of dental experience of dentist George
Heard, and the decades of controlled feeding experiments by doctors Edward and May Mellanby. In
addition these programs are brought together using volumes of research from dental and nutritional
publications as well as from my personal experience of five years in helping people remineralize
their teeth with diet. Each program presented here may have new tips, tricks and ideas for you to learn. You will also find
meal ideas and recipes in the next chapter. Nothing in this chapter is meant to replace your innate
knowledge. If something does not feel right, or does not work for you, then please change these
guidelines to fit what feels the best for you. I will offer a basic program that is easiest to follow, a
balanced program designed for most readers, and an advanced as well as a vegetarian program. Each program involves several important aspects to heal tooth decay. I want you to understand the
structure so you can cr
eat
e the type of diet you want. 1
. Add fat-soluble vitamins A, D and Activator X to the diet. 2
. Consume portions of protein throughout the day to balance blood sugar. 3
. Avoid or reduce modern denatured foods. 4
. Eat foods to increase mineral intake, particularly broth, dairy products and vegetables. For simplicity’s sake I will consistently recommend Green Pasture’s™ products in these programs. You can use the guidelines in chapter two to find substitute sources of fat-soluble vitamins to your
liking. Green Pasture’s™ products can be purchased at: 
codliveroilshop.comBalanced 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 youcannot 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.The “One-Amazing-Meal-a-Day” Protocol
This is a useful introductory protocol for people who want to make a good dent against tooth decay
(pun intended), but who have difficulty instituting a complete dietary overhaul. How well your teeth
remineralize is a factor of the mineral and fat-soluble vitamin density of your diet, along with the
avoidance of foods that deplete your body of nutrients. This program is designed for someone who is
very busy, does not like to prepare his own food, or in other situations when it is too difficult to have
three or more solid meals per day. This program is not recommended for people who have severe
cavities, tooth infections, or who are trying to heal highly sensitive teeth. This program will not be as
effective as the balanced program discussed later on, but it will be effective for most people who
want to prevent cavities, or heal small cavities naturally. This program is based on Weston Price’s
one-good-meal-per-day diet for poor children that we described in chapter two. The goal of this
program is to get most of your daily supply of vitamins and minerals from one superlative meal. In the
other meals of the day you will need to watch out for the foods that cause the most havoc on your
teeth, but you will be able to eat a wide variety of foods that are convenient for you. Reduce to the
best of your ability other foods on the just-mentioned “avoid” list. Food Intake Suggestions
 
½ teaspoon two or three times per day of Green Pasture’s™ Blue Ice™ Royal Blend
2 cups of grass-fed, whole-fat raw milk, kefir, clabber, or yogurt or 4 ounces of raw grass-fed
cheese. For non-dairy alternatives you will need about 3 cups of a variety of cooked green
vegetables. Nourishing meat and/or fish stew made with a gelatin-rich broth prepared by simmering animal
bones. Many of the ingredients listed below can be included in your stew. 2-8 ounces of high-quality land or sea protein. Vitamin C-rich foods such as broccoli, cauliflower, bell peppers, mustard greens, cabbage,
sauerkraut, kohlrabi, liver and adrenal glands. Plenty of other vegetables. Twice per week choose one shellfish or other organ of land animals to include with your meals. Examples:
Oysters, clams, crab or lobster (consumed with innards), whole crayfish
Fish eggs
Bone marrow added to your soup, or liver, animal tongue or kidneys from any animal
If you cannot have a meat or fish stew, you will want to have a cup gelatin-rich bone broth on the side
with tender cuts of your favorite meats, or rich seafoods. Have plenty of healthy fats with your meals. During your other meals you will need to avoid foods that are especially harmful to your teeth
including highly sweetened drinks, foods with high fructose corn syrup or other high intensity
sweeteners, whole grains that are not thoroughly soured, oatmeal, breakfast cereals and soy products. If you choose to eat bread, make it sourdough whenever possible. Choose white rice (or white rice
products), or partially milled rice over brown rice (or brown rice products) in this introductory
program since brown rice takes more care to disable the substantial amounts of phytic acid itcontains. Consider replacing sweetened desserts with fruit.Tips for Going out to Eat
Many of us go out to eat, especially those of you who are busy and will be following the one-
amazing-meal-a-day plan. The minimal goal of restaurant eating is to enjoy nourishing and tasty foods
that will not set you back in your tooth or gum healing process. The restaurants that are thoroughly
engaged in whole-food, nutrient-dense cooking with high quality ingredients tend to be the most
expensive. The style of their cuisine typically has at least some inspiration from traditional French
cooking. These restaurants do not use excess grains to fill you up with low-cost calories, and you can
expect local ingredients, grass-fed meats, and wild caught fish. Many of them understand the value of
organ meats and serve sweetbreads, liver, oysters and clams. Expect to pay $20-30 or considerably
more per adult. I recommend that you avoid pasta or grain-based dishes from these restaurants. If you
are the type of person who can afford to dine this way regularly, why not take care of yourself and
give your body what it needs by eating at the best restaurants? Before going to restaurants I usually look at the menu to see if there is some type of high-quality
protein such as a wild caught fish, or grass-fed meat. Restaurants offering catfish, tilapia, shrimp, and
salmon are usually serving the farm-raised variety. Most of the other types of fish in restaurants are
usually wild caught. We also call restaurants in advance to see what type of cooking oil they use. Some restaurants cook food by smoking or grilling, in which case the cooking oil becomes much less
of an issue. Depending on the dish or restaurant you might be able to request that your food be fried in
butter or lard, as compared with the unhealthy vegetable oil too many restaurants use. We avoid deep
fried dishes fried in vegetable oil. Do not be afraid to sneak your favorite butter into the restaurant. Many restaurants try to fill you up on bread. I generally avoid this bread although my family will eat a
piece or two if they are hungry. If you are getting a sandwich or a hamburger, try to get it on
sourdough bread. If the bread is not sourdough, consider eating only half of the bread served. When you go out to eat while you are trying to heal your teeth, I would encourage you to skip the
sweet drinks, beer, wine and desserts on the menu; all of these items will affect your body chemistry
adversely. With a little bit of discipline you can convert your restaurant adventures into meals that
support or at least do not harm your efforts to heal your tooth decay.Advanced Tooth Decay Healing
This diet is good for people trying to turn around severe tooth problems. Every item in this diet is
designed to be the best of the best in terms of food nutrient density and in its ability to remineralize
teeth extremely fast. This regime also aims to capture elements of a diet that may be close to optimal
in maintaining health. Following these recommendations will make your teeth rock hard. Even if this
diet is not right for you, or if it seems unbalanced, you can take aspects from this framework and add
it to your personal tooth remineralizing diet. Please prepare the food or pick and choose items from
this list so that you feel your efforts are life-affirming based upon your belief systems and personal
goals. In this diet you want all your protein to be as fresh as possible. The highest quality proteins are
seafoods and meats that have never been frozen. In fact, if it so fresh that it has never been
refrigerated, then all the better. Daily Food Intake
 
½ teaspoon two or three times per day of Green Pasture’s™ Blue Ice™ Royal Blend
⅛ teaspoon two or three times per day Blue Ice™ fermented skate liver oil
2 ounces of grass-fed liver four or more days per week. Raw is preferred but cooked or seared
with onions is totally fine. 4-12 oysters, clams or mussels several times per week. Raw is preferred, cooked is acceptable. 1-2 tablespoons of bone marrow cooked or raw several times per week. 2-8 cups of fermented dairy per day such as kefir, yogurt, whey, buttermilk or clabber. 0-4
ounces of raw cheese depending on how much dairy you consume. 1-2 tablespoons of raw cream several times per week. 8 or more ounces of protein from grass-fed or wild sources per day. Proteins are to be consumed
raw, rare, or fermented such as ceviche, or as a stew. Ideally your proteins should be a mix of land foods and sea foods. 1-2 cups of fish head soup per day. Otherwise use beef, chicken and so forth. 2-4 raw eggs. These can be consumed in smoothies with your soured milk. Alternatively have
your eggs soft boiled. Fermented vegetables like sauerkraut
Cooked leafy green vegetables or vegetable soup. If you are a primal food eater then vegetable
juice is fine. Bonus items to this diet include: Colostrum, fish eggs, crab and lobsters with the innards, spring and
summer yellow butter, organ meats like adrenal, thyroid and the brain, and animal blood. Eat the crab
and lobsters cooked, some of the glands are best raw and the brain should be cooked. In this diet carbohydrates are obtained mostly from dairy products. If you are not trying to heal severe
cavities, and you are not on a low-carb program then you can add sourdough bread from unbleached
flour made from freshly ground and sifted grains (bran and germ removed). Alternatively you can
include sweet potatoes, yams, and other root vegetables. Souring or fermenting these vegetables will
enhance their digestibility. If you do not have cavities, then an ideal diet can include moderate amounts of lacto-fermented drinksand homemade alcohols that do not contain malted grains or commercial yeasts such as sweet potato
beer, apple cider allowed to ferment, grapes allowed to ferment or homemade mead (honey wine). People following this diet must strictly avoid all processed and denatured food. Generally the highest
quality ingredients are obtained directly from the farm, such as through buyers clubs or farmers’
markets.Healing Tooth Cavities on a Vegetarian Diet
I created the vegetarian program because it is possible to significantly improve your dental health as
a vegetarian. Even though I do not recommend anyone to choose vegetarianism as a way of life, I
want to respond to the many requests for help from vegetarians. I ask you to reflect on a few points
before continuing onto the vegetarian program. Just to be clear in this discussion, when I say meat, it
includes fish. If you want to avoid land animal food and only consume sea food, then you can use the
other protocols in this book and enjoy very gratifying results. When I was a vegetarian I never completely thought through why I had chosen that lifestyle, although I
believed I did not want to contribute to the killing of animals. Instead I slowly and unknowingly
started to kill myself by consuming large amounts of tofu to satisfy my hunger. My two years of
vegetarianism ended when I was on a vision quest. High up on Mount Shasta in California I fasted for
two nights and three days. I could not finish the last night of the vision quest because I became
obsessed with one vision only: a turkey sandwich! I was starving and depleted and I resolved during
that fast to quit vegetarianism. I no longer am vegetarian and I do not encourage a vegetarian diet for
women who are pregnant or planning for pregnancy, or are breastfeeding. Neither do I encourage a
vegetarian diet for children. Current commercial livestock practices around the world damage the environment, and the animals
are in general mistreated. But depriving ourselves of what we need by avoiding animal foods sends
out into the world the energy of impoverishment and deprivation. I did not realize that there was a
choice of animals humanely cared for. There are even some grass-fed farms that include prayers in a
ceremony before killing the animal. By choosing foods carefully, making certain that the animals are
well cared for and raised humanely, I personally feel it is good to satisfy my body's hunger by eating
meat. In an idealized world, I probably would not eat meat because I honestly prefer not to kill things. Yet
until that idealized world becomes a reality, I do not have energy or vibrancy without eating some
type of animal protein with every meal. Healthy vegetarians still need animal fats and proteins; they
simply get them from dairy products and eggs. Before domestication of animals, humans hunted their
animal proteins. Nature’s design for humans, who are able to fashion tools, is clearly for us to hunt. Humans would not be able to live in colder climates without making clothing from animal skins. Our
genetic and ancestral heritage is one of hunting and gathering. Most people are vegetarian for religious purposes. Over the last millennium or two, certain groups
relied upon a meat-free diet to aid them on their spiritual path. Today many monks and spiritual
leaders eat some animal meat; they just do not kill it themselves. So until the wolf and the lamb feed
together and lions start eating only grass, I am going to continue to eat and recommend that people eat
some type of animal flesh. There are healthy vegetarian societies in the world, but this is not a common finding. When Weston
Price did his field studies he could not locate even one traditional culture that was vegetarian. However Dr. Price did not travel to India. Village people in certain parts of India, following a
carefully designed diet based upon ancient Ayurvedic knowledge, have what appears to be a low rate
of tooth decay. Each part of their diet is carefully orchestrated including planting and harvesting inharmony with the moon cycles, special soil fertility practices, special combinations of vegetables to
ensure mineral balance, absolutely no processed food of any sort, grains aged for one year and freshly
ground, aged sugar, special spices to enhance digestion, herbs and berries such as amalaki to enhance
the mineral content of diet, complete avoidance of all nightshades, and perhaps the most potent and
nutrient-dense dairy on the planet from the water-buffalo. The milk is also processed differently in
accordance with the season. A rare few deeply spiritual and traditionally rooted societies have found
ways to create enough mineral density in their diet to have a high resistance to tooth decay without
relying upon animal flesh. This type of diet is very difficult to recreate in the United States. The key problem area for the vegetarian diet is fat-soluble vitamin D which is the most important fat-
soluble vitamin for remineralizing teeth. Even most grass-fed milk is low in fat-soluble vitamin D. It
is highly likely that special foods given to the water-buffalo and its ability to absorb and utilize
sunlight led to milk with fairly high vitamin D content. Since I know for certain that Green
Pasture’s™ X-Factor Gold™ high vitamin butter oil is rich in vitamin D, (most butters are not rich in
vitamin D, even many grass-fed variants) using this regularly is an essential key for a vegetarian plan
to work well. To purchase it go to: 
codliveroilshop.com
The vegetarian plan relies heavily on minerals from vegetables. People who eat meat and fish can get
some missing dietary minerals from animal flesh. On the vegetarian plan there is not going to be that
extra measure of safety. Success will be partially dependent on the quality and freshness of the
vegetables that you use. The success of this diet also greatly hinges on the quality of the dairy you use. The higher the quality the dairy products, the higher chance you have of success. Daily Food Intake
 
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 dairy. Also consider
an eggnog smoothie as described in the next chapter. 2-4 ounces of raw cheese
1-4 eggs per day, either raw, soft-boiled or fully cooked
Plenty of vegetables such as provided by the Ayurvedic Green Drink (recipe provided in the
next chapter), or vegetable soup. Vitamin C-rich foods such as broccoli, cauliflower, bell peppers, mustard greens, cabbage,
sauerkraut, kohlrabi, liver and adrenal glands. Plenty of butter or ghee with every meal. At least once per day have something fermented such as kefir, yogurt or sauerkraut. Optional: Seaweed
You will want to focus on having concentrated vegetable sources as your dietary base. This is best
obtained from vegetable soups or the Ayurvedic green drink discussed in the next chapter. Vegetable
minerals can also be obtained from vegetable juicing if you are aware of the principles of avoiding
plant toxins from juicing. As with the other dietary programs you will want to have some form of
protein with every meal. Cheese is particularly concentrated in the important minerals calcium and
phosphorous and is a very high quality protein. Yogurt makes a great addition to meals. Make sure to
get genuine grass-fed cheese whenever possible. Be extremely careful with your use of grains in thisdiet. They must be phytate free. If you consume brown rice it must first be soaked with a starter as
described in the next chapter, and very well cooked until the grains burst open. If the vegetarian plan
fails for you consider adding some fermented cod liver oil to the diet to provide the missing
vitamins needed for success. Self Care
Healing your teeth is all about taking care of yourself. In natural eco-systems undisturbed by humans it
is easy to see how Nature provides for all of her creations. Plants and animals generally have plenty
of food and nutrients, and they do not suffer from relentless stress. Even though we are also a part of
Nature, the design and structure of our civilization is built upon the belief systems of deprivation,
competition for resources, and exploitation rather than upon a belief in abundance for all. Rather than
giving, our society takes, and then takes some more. The designs of our buildings and transportation
systems take tremendous amounts of resources to build and maintain. The government takes our money
as taxes and we can question how much of that money is being used to nurture and support citizens
and social networks. All of this taking is disharmonious, stressful and destructive. The society and world many of us live
in makes it hard for us to relax. If we can relax, however, we find it is much easier to take care of
ourselves. Taking care of oneself is in alignment with the law of personal responsibility. If you feel
unimportant, undeserving, or unhappy, it will be difficult to take good care of yourself and give your
body the food that it needs. When you truly are willing and able to take care yourself you will find
healing. Allow yourself space to make your needs important and take excellent care of yourself.Common Mistakes Made By People Who Think They Are Eating a Healthy Diet
Making mistakes in food choices is very much tied to your level of self care. When you rush too
much, or are unwilling or unable to take proper care of yourself, then you cut corners on food
selection and health problems can result. If you think you are eating in a healthy fashion but are
suffering from tooth decay, I want to remind you of some common mistakes that people often make so
that you can avoid them. Poor food quality
 – Watch out for packaged food, even organically labeled food, as it may not be
good for you. If you are a great fan of dairy products, be aware that grain-fed dairy products, even if
they are raw, can cause imbalances in some people. Get the best and freshest food you are able to
find. Skipping fat-soluble vitamins
 – I have been absolutely clear on insisting that fat-soluble vitamins are
of utmost importance in order to have strong teeth. If you skip this step, tooth remineralization will be
difficult to achieve. Too much sweet food
 – A sweet is a sweet. If you have cavities you must be disciplined and limit
your sweets. Your teeth are worth it. Natural sweets are safer than highly refined ones, but that does
not mean you can eat as much as you want and not suffer the consequences. Lack of minerals
 – Bone broth aids in nutrient absorption and is rich in minerals. Seaweed, fish and
shellfish are very rich in minerals. If you exclusively eat land animals for proteins, and they are not of
a very high quality, it is possible to run into problems from nutrient deficiencies. Make sure to get
high quality animal foods as farm fresh as possible. In addition, eating some of the animal organs will
help fill in the missing mineral gaps. Poor food absorption
 – Perhaps you are not digesting your food well. Focus on adding fermented
foods, bone broth, kefir, raw eggs, and probiotics to aid in digestion. Consider getting support from a
natural health care practitioner to help you with herbs to strengthen your digestive abilities,
particularly to clean and strengthen your liver.Cleansing and Fasting
While on the topic of food, we must discuss fasting. Cleanses can be helpful, but cleanses that involve
ingesting maple syrup or other excess amounts of sweets like fruit juice are not good for your teeth. If
your teeth are healthy then you will be fine on a short fast. I have talked with many people who tried
to cleanse or fast and their teeth have gotten worse. However for some people a very short fast of one
day or less has helped. I encourage gentle cleansing, which can be done with herbs, restricted diets,
raw eggs and vegetable juices. Watch out for cleansing or fasting if you are already very thin or feel
hungry often. Heal Your Teeth in Six Weeks or Less
Controlling tooth decay means that the decay ceases to progress and that new dentin forms. Dr. Price
believed that "well over 95 percent" of dental caries could be controlled with a painstakingly careful
nutritional protocol. Like a broken bone, your carious teeth will get strong and mend themselves. If a
tooth has a hole, pit or previous filling then that hole or pit will be strong and resilient, but it will not
likely fill in. Each time you take a bite of food, your body decides to mineralize or demineralize your teeth and
bones. 24-48 hours of following the balanced protocol, provided you have increased your fat-soluble
vitamin intake, should lead to a perceivable tooth remineralization. For example, you would feel less
tooth sensitivity, or your teeth would feel stronger. At the beginning of the nutritional protocol used on
school children, Dr. Price found that the chemical analysis of the saliva of the children showed active
tooth decay. In a period of six weeks, this same analysis showed that tooth decay had stopped. Over a
period of five months on the special diet, the status of the saliva continued to improve. 3
 You can infer
from these statistics that noticeable results should be seen in about six weeks. You can also see that
damaged teeth continue to heal long after this initial six-week phase of healing. A badly damaged
tooth could take months to mend itself. The good news is that you can heal your teeth with diet, and
getting results starts with your next meal. Chapter 5 References
1
 Price, W. A. Nutrition and Physical Degeneration 
8th Edition
. La Mesa: Price-Pottenger Nutrition
Foundation; 2008:506. 2
 Ibid. 6 th Edition 293. 3
 Price, W. A. Nutrition and Physical Degeneration 6th Edition. La Mesa: Price-Pottenger Nutrition
Foundation; 2004:290. * * *Chapter 6
Stop Cavities with Your Next Meal
Recipes and Meal Plans
Eating healthy is about getting in touch with your roots. Eating healthy is about what connects you to
life. It is about what connects you to the Earth and to a feeling of being well here. One way to connect
to your roots is to recall some experience of real food in your life, particularly from your past. See
what comes to mind for you right now. One example might be the memory of a family member who
cooked a traditional dish from your cultural heritage. Or for someone who has immigrated to the
United States, it would be the favorite foods from the past from your home country that were real
foods. Meals made from foods from your family’s roots evoke memories of feeling connected. Often
these homemade meals consisted of nutrient-dense dishes made with bone broths, organ meats, and
high quality fats. From my past it was as simple as my cousins who ate wild salmon every day, and
my father who would prepare a simple dinner of rice, vegetables and fish or chicken. My
grandmother would make chicken soup with the entire chicken, and eat the marrow in the bones. In my
more ancient roots, before I was born, my grandfather grew up where people carried animal skin bags
of fresh pastured goat milk and drank from them all day. No matter where you are from, one key to
finding a healthy diet for you is to go back to your own past. Maybe that connection was a special
restaurant or a memorable meal in a friend’s or relative’s home. See if you can recall that wholesome
good food from your past. Many people have grandparents who used to eat wholesome foods, or own
nearly forgotten cookery books full of golden recipes for real foods. And here lies the untapped
wisdom of the older generations. No matter where you live, connecting to your roots can connect you
with a diet that is nourishing, life sustaining, and rich in fat-soluble vitamins. No matter where you
are from, or where you live, reach for that distant but ever-so-close connection to wholesome foods. And then make it present here and now in your life. Seek out the old family recipes, contact relatives
who live in far off lands, or create your own traditional foods with a little help from recipe books. It
will probably take some work, but the rewards will be more health and happiness. In this chapter I will present you with specific recipes, meal ideas and I will tackle the complex
question of how to prepare grains safely.Tooth Decay Healing Diets that Worked
Doctor J.D. Boyd created a grain-free diet that turned soft cavities into hard glassy surfaces. The diet
contained milk, cream, butter, eggs, meat, cod liver oil, bulky vegetables and fruit. The daily menu
included one quart of milk with plenty of cream. Dietary fat came from cream, butter and egg yolks. The diet contained no processed sugar, bread or grains of any sort. I am using a grain-free diet as the baseline of my recommendations because I want to give you
material that I am certain will work. One method that I suggest for some people is to start with a low
grain or grain-free diet, try it out a few weeks and then add grains gradually later so you can feel how
grains affect your body. Here is a modified outline of Dr. May Mellanby’s tooth decay remineralizing diet. Each category
contains several meal ideas. In this diet cod liver oil was given daily to the children and is a key
element in allowing this diet to arrest cavities. Breakfasts
 
Omelet, cocoa with milk. Scrambled egg, milk, fresh salad. Omelet containing two ounces of ground beef. Fish cakes with potatoes dipped in egg and fried. Bacon, fried or finely chopped with parsley and scrambled egg. Eggs that are boiled, fried or poached. Fish fried or steamed. Lunches - 
Lunch is the biggest meal of the day. Potatoes, steamed ground beef, carrots, stewed fruit. Irish stew (a lamb or mutton stew with soup bones), potatoes, cooked fruit and milk. Cold meat cut into small pieces with cold diced cooked carrot, onion and potato, and served on
lettuce leaf. Desserts 
– Dessert is served after lunch rather than after dinner. This is the ideal time to have
something sweet in the day. Fresh fruit salad with egg custard or cream. Baked apple with center filled with golden syrup before baking. Fresh fruit salad, cocoa made with milk. Baked apple, centre filled with maple syrup before cooking. Honeycomb which contains bee larvae. Dinners or Snacks 
Minced beef warmed with meat juice and a green salad. Potato cakes or fish cakes. Eggs, cooked in various ways. Fish and potatoes fried in lard or tallow with milk to drink. Thick potato soup made with milk. Lentil or celery soup made with milk and chopped meat. Cheese, served in various ways. Milk
Potatoes, steamed minced meat, carrots, cooked fruit, milk. In Dr. Mellanby’s plan lunch is the main meal of the day, and sweets are eaten after lunch not after
dinner. Cure Tooth Decay Meal Ideas
Here is a list of tasty and nutrient-dense meal ideas. You can use these meals for breakfast, lunch, or
dinner. This is by no means a complete menu, merely suggestions to work with. Ideally you will have
a mixture of both sea foods and land foods. However, I understand that many people do not have
access to both, or have a preference for one. Examples of Dishes from the Sea
Sushi:
Miso soup made with fish broth, seaweed and bok choy or misome. Sushi rolls made with raw tuna, carrot, cucumber, avocado or sushi with smoked salmon and
cream cheese. Ceviche fish
with a cup of miso soup made with fish broth
. Sashimi raw tuna salad
(also known as poke) with a side of miso soup made from fish stock, with
greens and/ or seaweed. Lobster, clam, or oyster chowder
Fish cakes
made with potatoes dipped in egg and fried in animal fat. A cup of fish broth on the
side. Fish sticks 
white fish, cut into long strips, homemade sourdough breadcrumbs, 2 raw eggs mixed
and seasoned with sea salt and pepper, and ghee for frying. Dredge fish in egg mixture, then
breadcrumbs, then fry in ghee. Make tartar sauce for the side and have with fish soup. Fish head soup
Cioppino. Seafood stew, including fish stock, fish, squid, mussels, and clams.Examples of Dishes from the Land
Meat loaf 
made with 25% ground organ meats, cooked in beef stock. Beef meatballs 
in beef broth marinara sauce that includes vegetables with cheese on the top. You
can also add spaghetti squash and have the meat balls with vegetable spaghetti. Butternut squash soup
made with beef broth and the cream juiced from fresh coconuts (you can
use coconut cream in jars as a replacement). Liver with caramelized onions
, 
orroasted bone marrow on sourdough bread. Steak tartare
with raw ground beef mixed with Italian herbs and mustard (for one pound ground
beef, use two teaspoons of herbs and one teaspoon of mustard, and two teaspoons of finely
chopped red onion, sea salt to taste. Sauerkraut and raw liver cut into small chunks on the side. Kabobs. S
hrimp, chicken pieces, lamb pieces, with liver, heart and/or kidney, assorted vegetables
(peppers, zucchini, mushrooms) tossed in oil, sea salt, pepper, placed on skewers and then grilled. Side of beef broth, and corn on the cob. Hamburger
with shredded kidney fat and yam chips fried in lard or ghee on the side. Examples of Side Dishes / Snacks / Other Meals
 
Vegetable soup
Tooth-strengthening eggnog smoothie
Pickled beets
Sauerkraut / kimchi /pickles
Omelet with mushrooms and cheese
Poi: soured sweet potatoes or taro root
Raw cheese custard with fruit 
1 cup of fresh raw milk curd (the milk solids after the whey is
separated) blended with 2 raw eggs, 1 teaspoon of raw honey
Soft-boiled eggs with a dash of salt
Cheese and apples or pears
Dosas soured overnight with yogurt
Cheese and roasted nuts
One cup of raw milk
Seaweed snacks such as dried sea palm
Boiled beef tongue with minced garlic or creamed horseradish
Sweetbreads breaded with flour (nut powder or sourdough bread crumbs) and fried in lard, ghee
or tallow
Seared sweet potatoes: 
roasted sweet potatoes, sliced thickly, then pan fried in ghee, or lard. Squash "cupcakes": 
roasted acorn and butternut squashes, flesh removed from peel and seeds,mashed and blended with a touch of maple syrup. Place into cupcake wrappers, and garnish with
coconut cream or fresh, unsweetened raw whipped cream. Stir-fried kale 
(can also be used for bok choy) chopped greens sautéed with butter, ginger, garlic,
and tamari. Chicken with liver. Fried liver with ghee (clarified butter) or lard, mushrooms and onions. Have
with a side of chicken soup (soup cooked with chicken feet and heads). Deviled eggs. H ard boiled eggs, peeled and cut in half lengthwise. Remove the yolks, mash with
homemade mayonnaise, fresh chopped chives, sea salt, fresh cracked pepper, dash of mustard
powder. Fill eggs with egg yolk filling. Flavorful scrambled eggs
. Include chopped onion, chopped tomato, sautéed in ghee with a dash of
red cayenne pepper and a dash of turmeric. Eggs Benedict on sourdough rye
 - 
just two fried eggs on a split sourdough rye bagel with
hollandaise sauce (clarified butter with 2 raw egg yolks, dash of cayenne and lemon juice whipped
until fluffy) poured over eggs. The menus that follow are creative concepts. These exact food combinations or having those specific
meals in the same day may not work for you. Do not force yourself to eat anything, rather look for and
eat the amount of food that feels good and satisfying to you. Sea Food Sample Menu
Day 1
Breakfast
: Scrambled eggs with fish eggs, sweet potatoes fried in ghee, a cup of milk. Fermented
skate or cod liver oil with butter oil. Lunch
: Smoked salmon with kale that was simmered in water. Side of liver with onions. Snack
: Peaches in raw milk yogurt. Dinner:
 Miso soup made with fish broth. Sushi rolls with tuna (can be raw or cooked), avocado,
carrots, rice and cucumbers with wasabi and pickled ginger. Fermented skate or cod liver oil with
butter oil. Day 2
Breakfast: 
Scrambled eggs with grated cheese and boiled and mashed sweet potatoes. Glass of raw
milk. Fermented skate or cod liver oil with butter oil. Snack
: Blackberries with cottage cheese.Lunch:
 Fish head soup. Dinner
: Vegetable soup with string beans and zucchini. Side of potatoes and rice. Chicken, fish, or
sausage. Fermented skate or cod liver oil with butter oil. Land Food Sample Menu
Day 1
Breakfast: 
Butternut squash soup made with beef broth and the cream juiced from fresh coconuts. Fermented skate or cod liver oil with butter oil. Lunch:
 Hamburger with caramelized onions and mushrooms. Fermented ketchup, pickles, sauerkraut
and mustard on the side in a lettuce bun. Raw liver or liver with onions on the side. Hamburger is
mixed with kidney fat or cooked in tallow when available. Snack
 – Fruit with raw milk custard made with 1 cup raw milk curds, 2 raw eggs blended with about
one teaspoon of raw honey. Dinner 
– Meatballs cooked with homemade tomato sauce made with tomato paste and beef stock. This goes great on spaghetti squash or with other squash. Plenty of cheese on top. Liver and onions on
the side. Fermented skate or cod liver oil with butter oil. Day 2
Breakfast
 – Soft cooked or scrambled eggs with goat cheese and organic baby spinach
(liver, kidney, or some organ meat is needed on the side). Lunch
 - Steak tartare with raw beef mixed with finely chopped red onion, Italian herbs, sea salt, and
mustard. Sauerkraut and raw liver cut into small chunks on the side. Snack
 – Homemade vanilla raw milk ice cream lightly sweetened with maple syrup and/ or a banana. We use about one or two tablespoons of maple syrup per quart of ice cream. Or one or two teaspoons
of maple syrup with a mashed banana with the milk and cream and vanilla extract. Dinner
 – Shish kebabs with a cup of broth on the side, and corn on the cob. Pound the steak or
chicken pieces flat and marinate in teriyaki sauce over night. Fermented skate or cod liver oil with
butter oil.Recipes for Healing Your Teeth
Bone Broth Recipe
Just as a reminder, bone broths are very effective towards improving your health and encouraging
tooth mineralization and should be included in your diet on a daily basis. 1
. Bones—from chicken, fish, shellfish, beef, lamb
Regular bones are fine. But ideally for chicken use chicken feet and heads. For beef and lamb
knuckle bones work very well. For fish having the head with the carcass is ideal. 2
. Cover the bones with water
3
. Add two tablespoons of vinegar (any type) per quart of water
4
. Vegetables such as carrots and onions can be added to soup stock
Making broth is not difficult. Put the bones in a pot, add water and vinegar to cover by a couple of
inches and let it stand for 30-60 minutes. Bring the pot to a boil and then reduce heat to a simmer. Remove any scum at the top of the broth with a spoon. Ideally simmer for 24-48 hours. As little as 6
hours will do. Strain the broth to remove the bones. The meat on the bones or marrow inside the
bones is edible. Bieler’s Soup
This is the original healing soup of Dr. Henry Bieler, which will help strengthen your glands and
provide balance to a diet rich in animal foods. 1 pound of string beans, ends removed
2 pounds zucchini, chopped
1 handful of curly parsley*
Enough water to cover your veggies
Add all ingredients to rapidly boiling water and boil for 10-15 minutes, or until a fork easily pierces
the zucchini skin. Purée using the cooking water (it is important to use this water as it contains
vitamins and minerals) and make the soup to the consistency you desire. This specific recipe is designed for healing when the body is ill. Feel free to modify this recipe by
adding all kinds of different vegetables to make a soup to suit your personal needs. *Pregnant and lactating women should limit their parsley intake as it dries up breast milk. Eggnog Tooth-Strengthening Formula
For those who have difficulty absorbing nutrients from foods, organic or high-quality raw eggs will
help heal this problem. The raw egg formula gave me food to eat when I was having difficulties
digesting other types of foods. Combining raw eggs with raw milk ensures the maximum level ofassimilation of nutrients from the raw milk. This mixture regenerates intestinal mucosa and helps heal
leaky gut syndrome. Try the following blend:
 
1 cup raw milk, kefir or yogurt
1-2 raw eggs
 
optional ingredients include:
2 ounces of raw cream
½ teaspoon raw honey, or organic maple syrup 
dash of nutmeg and cinnamon for flavor 
a drop or two of vanilla extract 
carob or chocolate powder
To enhance assimilation, have ingredients at room temperature. Note
: If you are pregnant and eating raw eggs, then for every five days of eating raw eggs, abstain for
two days. 1
A word of caution. You may initially feel worse after eating raw eggs if you do not regularly eat
them. Raw eggs can induce intense detoxification symptoms as your body cleanses. For example, on
one occasion I ate raw farm-fresh eggs, and my body started to release and detoxify residues of
Valium (a drug I had taken 15 years earlier for pain). I knew it was Valium because of its
unmistakable feelings of nausea and disassociation, and I was violently ill for about one day as my
body dumped the drug residues into my stomach. Afterward I ate the same eggs both raw and cooked
without aversion or health problems. Egg whites:
 Some people believe in only eating the egg whites. Others believe in eating only or
mostly the egg yolks, and limiting their egg white intake because of the risk of possibly inducing a
biotin deficiency. Eating only the yolk is an acceptable practice. My personal preference is to eat the
whole egg. Spicy Steak Tartare for Fighting Tooth Infections
This raw meat recipe was used to successfully heal a tooth infection. 1 pound raw ground pastured bison, beef, or lamb
4 oz. of yellow butter
1 teaspoon of cayenne pepper or fresh spicy chilies
1 tablespoon of raw, unheated honeyPlace butter, cayenne, and raw honey in a glass jar or bowl. Then immerse that bowl in a bowl of hot
water that is not too hot. A double boiler turned on low will suffice. You must not raise the
temperature of the food above 93 degrees Fahrenheit in order to preserve the enzymes. Once the
butter/honey/cayenne mixture is melted, add the ground bison and stir. This is a healthy raw food
dish. If you try this recipe with cooked meat, your success rate will be greatly diminished. Cayenne pepper is used in many natural healing remedies and can promote the healing of tooth
infections. Fish Head Soup
Fish head soup is a delicacy in many parts of the world. The basic concept of fish head soup is boiled
fish heads and flavoring. This soup will be richer if prepared with fish stock, but it can also be
prepared with water only. I chose a recipe here that does not retain the whole fish head, but when the
head is floating in the soup it is much more fun. ½ to 2 pounds of fish heads. Remove the gills before making the soup and clean head thoroughly
with water. Fill your soup pot with water just up to the heads or slightly below. Simmer with 1-2 tablespoons of thinly sliced ginger for 15-30 minutes. Strain the broth. Pick all of the meat and soft tissues off the bones. Anything that is soft is edible. Return the meat
to the broth. There are many variations of the soup. You can sauté any or all of the following with sesame oil, fish
sauce or wine including onions, garlic, leeks, bamboo shoots, and red peppers. You can also add
cabbage or other vegetables while the soup is cooking. Alternatively make a creamy soup with cream
and potatoes like a fish head chowder. Ayurvedic Green Drink
Many ancient traditions including Ayurveda believe that most vegetables need to be eaten cooked, not
raw. This recipe provides the green goodness of vegetables with spices and calcium to provide a
nutrient rich-smoothie or soup. ¼ teaspoon natural salt
¼ teaspoon turmeric
1 teaspoon garam masala
1 tablespoon of ghee
8 ounces of water
16 ounces of fresh vegetables
4 ounces of paneer raw or cooked (cheese curd) 
1
. Make paneer. 2
. Add turmeric, salt, water, oil, and cook for 15 minutes. 3
. Add greens and masala and cover with glass top. Watch for brightness in the green color of the
vegetables. When you see a rich brilliant green, stop cooking. Blend the vegetables with the
paneer and serve with lime. Cooked Paneer
4 cups whole fresh milk
3-4 teaspoons of natural acid from fresh lime juice, lemon juice, or vinegar. Heat milk to just below boiling, stir often while heating. When the milk is just below boiling turn
off the heat. Add acidic substance one teaspoon at a time while stirring. When you add the correct amount it
will immediately curdle. Strain with cheese cloth or clean towel to separate curds from whey. Wrap curds in cloth and let it hang over a pot or bowl for one hour to remove the remaining
liquid. The curds are paneer. You can further refrigerate and press it into little cheese blocks. You can use the whey for a drink by mixing it with lime or orange juice, or you can also add it to
soups as a base. Raw Paneer
If you want to use a raw dairy product with this smoothie, then you will want to sour milk by leaving
it out in a glass jar for several days until the whey separates. Strain out the whey with a cloth. The
solids of the soured milk can substitute as a paneer replacement but it won’t be as firm. Poke (pronounced POH-kay) Fish Salad
 
1 pound fresh or sashimi-grade tuna, cut into small cubes
2-3 stalks of green onion chopped
½ cup soy sauce
2 tablespoons sesame seed oil
1 tablespoon grated fresh ginger
Splash of vinegar and salt and pepper to taste
Optional variations
: 2 tablespoons olive oil, chili peppers finely minced, toasted sesame seeds,
small pieces of celery, chunks of avocado, cucumber
In a large bowl, combine tuna, soy sauce, green onions, sesame oil, ginger, salt, and mix lightly. Cover and refrigerate two hours or more before serving to let the flavors blend. This can be servedon a bed of lettuce.Cooking Suggestions
I do not recommend using a microwave for cooking. Microwave ovens are the only cooking source
that needs a shield. Yes, regular ovens have a heat shield, but you can still open them when they are
operating and you will be fine. Studies show that microwaved food can pose a greater health risk than
foods cooked by other conventional means. 2
 Also watch out for aluminum cookware. At home we use
cast iron and high quality stainless steel cooking vessels. Other methods of cooking to retain flavor of
the foods include clay pots and copper pots lined with tin. The copper pots are very expensive and if
the tin coating is scraped and the copper is exposed to the food it can be toxic to use.Preparing Grains So That They Do Not Cause Cavities or Disease
The presence of lectins, phytic acid and other anti-nutrients in grains and beans means that they need
to be carefully prepared in order to prevent them from causing tooth decay. My disclaimer on these
conventions is that I cannot tell you for certain that these methods will not cause cavities. By
reviewing indigenous cultures’ grain preparation techniques in chapter four, you can see that part of
healthy grain preparation is using specific varieties of grains, fresh grinding, aging, sifting and sun
drying the grains. It is difficult to replicate every step of the process. How safe grains are to consume
also depends on your level of health and ability to digest grains. How much effort is required to prepare whole grains to make them healthy to consume depends on
how much you eat. The more grains or beans you eat, the more careful you need to be with the
preparation methods. There is an upper limit to how much phytic acid we can have in our diet without producing negative
effects to our teeth and bones regardless of how much vitamin A and D our diets provide. To make
grains healthy to eat, we want to remove as much as we can of phytic acid and lectins. Phytase Content of Grains
Phytase is the enzyme needed to transform phytic acid into phosphorous through the fermentation
process. In order to sour or ferment your grains to remove phytic acid, there needs to be substantial
amounts of phytase. Grains are listed by the concentration of phytase. Rye, wheat, buckwheat, barley
all have fairly high amounts of phytase. Amaranth and quinoa have moderate amounts. Mung beans,
lentils, millet, peas, rice, corn, sorghum and oats are all very low in phytase and they do not have
enough phytase in them to disable phytic acid from soaking or souring without a starter. Three days of
sprouting in laboratory conditions increases phytase respectably for mung beans, lentils, millet, and
corn. 3
Phytic Acid Removal Summary
To remove phytic acid you need warmth, moisture, the enzyme phytase, and the absence of too much
calcium. Adding the equivalent amount of calcium contained in about two tablespoons of yogurt
(40mg of calcium) to ¾ cup of flour reduced the amount of phytic acid dissolved by 50%. 4
Without going into the details of the specific figures, it is important to understand that all whole
grains, nuts, seeds and beans contain substantial amounts of phytic acid. There are no commonly
available low-phytic acid whole grains. Therefore I do not recommend any shortcuts for whole grain
preparation. Vibrant Sourdough
You will need to use your own sourdough recipe for reference. I believe the best sourdough would be
produced by sprouting rye for 2-3 days and then drying it. Fresh grind the dry rye grains. Sift out 25%
of the mixture removing a large portion of the heavy particles. Knead the dough very well and sourfor at least 16 hours at 75 degrees F or warmer. Oat Preparation
I do not want to endorse oat consumption because I do not know all the requirements for certain for
safe oat consumption. If you want to eat oats, here is how to remove the phytic acid. Start with raw
oats. Germinating oats for 5 days at 11 degrees C (52 F) and incubation (souring) for 17 hours at (120
F) removed 98% of phytates. Alternatively sprout the oats, crush them and then sour them for two
days. Soaking, germinating and souring oats with a starter will remove phytic acid. The problem is
that most store-bought oats are heat treated and cannot be germinated.Quinoa Preparation and Phytic Acid Removal
 
Cooked for 25 minutes at 212 degrees F removes 15-20 percent of phytic acid. Soaked for 12-14 hours at 68 degrees F, then cooked removes 60-77 percent of phytic acid. Fermented with whey 16-18 hours at 86 degrees F, then cooked removes 82-88 percent phytic
acid. Soaked 12-14 hours, germinated 30 hours, lacto-fermented 16-18 hours, then cooked at 212
degrees F for 25 minutes removes 97-98 percent of phytic acid. Preparing Brown Rice without Phytic Acid
If you eat brown rice with any regularity I recommend removing the phytic acid through this method. Since brown rice is low in the enzyme phytase, a starter is used to increase the enzyme content and
break down the phytic acid. Brown rice needs to be thoroughly cooked until the rice burst open. Even
better than whole brown rice is cooking with a partially milled rice in which some of the bran is
removed. Alter Eco™ Fair Trade sells semi-polished red rice. Ethnic food stores may also carry this
type of rice. 1
. Soak brown rice in clean water for 16-24 hours at room temperature, without changing the
water. Reserve 10 percent of the soaking liquid (which should keep for a long time in the
fridge). Discard remaining soaking liquid. Cook rice with clean water. This will break down
about 30-50 percent of the phytic acid. 2
. The next time you make brown rice, use the same procedure as above with a fresh batch of clean
water, and add the 10 percent soaking liquid reserved from the last batch. This will break down
more phytic acid. 3
. Repeat the cycle of fresh water soaking with the previous 10 percent reserve. The process will
gradually improve until 96 percent or more of the phytic acid is degraded at 24 hours. It takes
about four rounds to get to 96 percent. 5
Note: You can prepare a phytase-rich starter using small batches of brown rice in case you don’t
want to eat the higher phytate rice. In the ancient Vedic diet, rice would always be prepared with turmeric, cardamom, cinnamon, cloves
and other pungent spices which have a synergistic effect against rice anti-nutrients as well as enhance
overall digestion. Chapter 6 References
1
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: Los Angeles: Carnelian Bay Castle Press;2005: 292. More than five consecutive days of raw
eggs may cause thinning of uterine mucus, so a two day break is advised. 2 Radiation Ovens, The Proven Dangers Of Microwaves, Available At:
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3 I. EGLI, L. DAVIDSSON, M.A. JUILLERAT, D. BARCLAY, R.F. HURRELL. "The Influence of Soaking and Germination on the
Phytase Activity and Phytic Acid Content of Grains and Seeds Potentially Useful for Complementary Feeding." Sensory and nutritivequalities of food
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Am-J. Clin-Nutr
. Baltimore, MD. : American Society for Clinical Nutrition. Jan 1991. V. 53 (1) p. 112-119. Calcium: effect of different
amounts on nonheme- and heme-iron absorption in humans. 5 Guyenet, Stephan. "A New Way to Soak Brown Rice." Whole Health Source. N.p., 4 Apr. 2009. Web. 11 Sept. 2010. <http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2009/04/new-way-to-soak-brown-rice.html>. * * *Chapter 7
Healthy Gums Lead to Healthy Teeth
Having healthy gums will significantly aid your chances of having healthy teeth. Healthy gums also
will improve your overall health and resistance to disease. Gum disease has been directly correlated
as a significant risk factor for heart disease and stroke. 1
 Most people are not even aware that they
have the beginnings of gum disease. Symptoms of gum disease include receding, swollen and
bleeding gums, loose teeth, increased gum pocket size, dying gum tissue and tooth loss. Periodontal
disease, pyorrhea, and gingivitis are some of the many names for different types and stages of gum
disease. About 75% of the US population is afflicted with gum disease. As with tooth decay, gum
disease gets worse with age. 2
 This is not because gum disease is a part of the aging process, but it is
a symptom of physical decay and degeneration that results from our modern lifestyle. Dentist W.D. Miller, the originator of the most commonly held theory of the etiology of tooth decay,
believed that one of the essential keys to immunity to tooth decay was “the protection of the neck of
the tooth by healthy gums.” Even if you do not have any noticeable gum disease, the advice in this
chapter will teach you how to make your gums healthier. And healthier gums mean healthier teeth and
a healthier body.
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 Ibid. , 113-114. 11a
 Page, Melvin E.
0-4 ounces
What is the recommended daily intake of raw cheese?
6-18 ounces
What is the recommended daily intake of animal protein?
Cooking with a starter and then drying, or using a cast-iron or copper pot
What is the recommended cooking method for grains, according to the author?
25-30 minutes
What is the recommended cooking time for brown rice?
Freshly grinding and fermenting the grains
What is the recommended way to prepare grains, according to the author?