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Alright!
This is John Kohler with okraw.com, today
we have another exciting episode for you,
we’re here at the 2014 Woodstock Food Festival,
I’m having a great time, and I had the chance
to pull Don Bennett, DAS aside, he’s been
into a raw vegan fruit-based diet for over
20 years now, if you want to learn more about
him and his work you can check him out at
health101.org, and why we’re here today
is because Don gave an hour-long presentation
here that you guys were not able to come to
because you guys probably weren’t at the
Woodstock Food Festival having all this fun.
So I’m here to actually interview him and
share some of the top tips that he shared
in his talk with you, and the talk that we’re
going to be talking about today that he gave
was how to have healthy teeth on a fruitarian
or fruit-based raw vegan lifestyle.
So Don, what would you say the top three tips
are for people out there that may be having
some challenges with their teeth and want
to heal them, or people that just want to
not have the problems in the first place?
Exactly, that’s the thing, not have the
problems in the first place.
Just like anything else, with cancer, diabetes
or heart disease, don’t get them in the
first place, prevent them.
Prevention is the way to go.
Normally during the day you’re passing,
first of all on a fruit-based diet you’re
passing a lot of fruit by your teeth, a lot
of sugar, but that’s normal, that’s natural,
that’s what we’re designed to get, so
why do teeth go south, why do they start losing
enamel when people start eating a lot of fruit?
The body has a balancing mechanism.
You’re passing a lot of fruit, a lot of
sugar by your teeth, it feeds the bacteria
in your mouth, that bacteria, their waste
products are acidic, it’s the acid, it’s
not the sugar that rots away teeth, you could
take a tooth that your child lost, put it
in a glass of sugar water, it’s not going
anyplace, it’ll stay there forever.
Put it in a glass of soda or something acidic,
the boom it’s gone.
So the bacteria in your mouth will make acid,
and it starts to erode enamel away from your
teeth, a very thin layer of enamel, but what
happens is your saliva is constantly also
bathing your teeth, and if it’s mineral-rich
saliva, it just replaces that enamel that’s
being lost, that very thin, tiny micro thickness
of enamel.
So no worries.
And you don’t lose enamel.
So here’s the problem – if you’re not
eating mineral-rich fruit and greens, the
sugar’s still there right?
And it’s feeding the bacteria, the bacteria
are pooping, it’s an acid waste, and it’s
eating away at the enamel of your teeth, but
your body isn’t able through the saliva
to remineralize the teeth because you’re
under-mineralized basically.
So tip number one is make sure you’re eating
mineral-rich food.
If you can’t get it somehow and you can’t
grow your own, then the only option, well
there’s two options – let your teeth rot
away, or get a really good worthwhile green
powder, you know a superfood that’s mineral-rich
into your diet, I’ve only found one that
I really like, one that works, it works for
me and all my clients, and get it in your
diet, now you’ll have mineral-rich saliva
and that’ll help to keep from eroding your
teeth.
Also you want vitamin D, some people say “Well
vitamin D doesn’t really help the teeth,”
well the jury’s still out on that one, so
make sure you get it and you keep your Vitamin
D levels up to where they’re supposed to
be, if not for your teeth for your bones for
crying out loud right?
Also, there’s a thing called dental genetics.
Some people have strong dental genetics where
no matter what they do their teeth are bullet-proof,
they have good teeth for their whole lives.
So if you have possibly weak dental genetics
like I do, then before you go to sleep at
night do some oral hygiene, it’s a good
idea.
Floss to get some stuff out from stuck between
the teeth, use a toothbrush but not as a brush,
use it as a tooth tool, very slowly, moving
it around at 45 degree angles to the gums
to get trapped food under the gum line, and
don’t anything on your toothbrush.
What did he say?
Don’t put anything on your toothbrush.
It’s called dry brushing.
Because the capillary action of the toothbrush
will help to pull the stuff away from the
gum line into the toothbrush and then if you
rinse it out or just [inaudible] you know
[inaudible] I mean it’s your own stuff,
don’t worry about swallowing it, just keep
going slow you won’t annoy your, but you
don’t want to use any toothbrush, number
one you want to use a soft toothbrush, and
not just any soft toothbrush, but one that’s
designed to do this very thing that I’m
talking about.
My dental blog on my website I give links
to the two toothbrushes that are designed
by dentists to specifically do this, to not
be used as a brushing action but more as a
tooth tool.
They look the same as other toothbrushes,
but they’re really good and they won’t
annoy your gums because you don’t want receding
gums either.
Alright and another part, number three you
can call it is also part of oral hygiene,
where with weak dental genetics it’s a good
idea to rinse your mouth out with something
before you go to sleep.
I’m not talking about Listerine or any of
those kind of mouthwashes, you can make your
own it’s a lot cheaper, diluted clove oil
and there’s an iodine mouth rinse that you
can use that not only kills the bacteria but
strengthens the teeth, and you can leave that
in your mouth for ten minutes, that’s what
I do, and just swish it around and spit it
out, and it’s like a fluoride treatment
for your teeth, but instead of fluoride which
is a toxin, it’s iodine, and that’s good
for your teeth and it strengthens them and
kills the mouth bacteria.
So you do that and you should not have any
problems with your teeth.
So definitely I would agree with Don on all
those factors, one of the most important things
for me because I have had teeth issues in
the past and I don’t want to have anymore,
so I also have researched this topic really
a lot in detail, and I agree with Don, one
of the things I like to do is I like to use
an oral irrigator, like a Water Pik type device,
or I got one actually I think on Don’s referral,
hooked up to my shower so I just spray my
teeth down.
Basically you want to get rid of the bacteria.
The bacteria are a big problem, they cause
the problem, so we want to try to especially
up in the gum lines and get a teeth cleaning
if you need to do that if you’ve got pockets
that you can’t get in there with some of
these devices and with general maintenance
maybe just to get you a fresh start, and then
start off with a fresh, mostly bacteria- free
mouth and then if you can maintain that, the
problem is many of you guys out there already
have a lot of bacteria hanging out, and even
with your best flossing and the techniques
you’re using, you’re just not getting
rid of them, so they keep multiplying and
breeding, and they just make the problem worse.
Oh I got a 3A.
Three A is don’t eat unripe citrus.
Unripe citrus is very acidic, and that will
just really erode away the enamel of your
teeth.
And if you do eat regular citrus, it has citric
acid in it, don’t brush right after you
eat ripe citrus, because your enamel is soft,
and if you brush right away, you’re brushing
away the enamel.
So just rinse your mouth out with water, the
minerals in the water help to re-harden the
teeth so to speak after you eat ripe citrus
fruit.
Yeah, I mean one of the other things I like
to do is I like to brush often throughout
the day, not just at the end of the night
and not just in the morning to help get some
of that sugars off which then will not feed
the bacteria and also help get the bacteria
off at the same time.
So Don, if somebody wants to learn more about
their teeth than we shared in this simple
couple minute video, how can someone learn
more about their teeth and ensure that they’re
going to have healthy teeth on a fruit-based
or raw food diet?
Absolutely, I have a dental blog that I started
that I just keep putting stuff in and adding
all the advantageous things that you can do,
the beneficial things you can do, it’s on
my website, health101.org, go do the EDU section,
that’s a section for you guys, it’s not
really for mainstream people, and there you
just go down to it says “Don’s Dental
Blog” or something like that and you’ll
find all this information, and remember if
you’re having problems with your teeth,
don’t blame it on a fruit-based diet, there’s
something else going on.
Yeah I mean I definitely agree with Don’s
suggestions that he gave you guys today, I
look up to Don, he does a lot of research,
he’s been doing this an awful long time,
so yeah check out his blog, check out his
website for tons of information not only on
the dental stuff but a lot of other stuff
as well.
I hope you guys enjoyed this episode and now
with some of this information you’ll be
able to prevent problems with your teeth and
hopefully even start correcting them if you
are having some challenges.
Once again my name is John Kohler with okraw.com,
we’ll see you next time and remember, keep
eating your fresh fruits and vegetables, they’re
always 
the best.
