If you ask most people whether or not a cavity can heal, the answer you would get 99% of the time is that it is impossible.
Even conventional dentists would agree with this assessment. Ask a typical dentist at a routine cleaning whether you can heal a cavity on your own and he/she is likely to look at you like you’re crazy (I know this from experience).
In stark contrast to this current conventional “wisdom”, Dr. Weston A. Price DDS wrote of numerous situations in his dental practice back in the 1920′s and 1930′s where cavities healed with no need for drilling and filling. Dr. Price discovered through research that cavities are caused by nutritional deficiency and when this nutritional deficiency is corrected, the cavity heals.
If you think about this in an open-minded manner leaving all preconceived ideas about cavities behind, doesn’t this make sense? Shouldn’t the body be able to heal a cavity just like it heals a broken bone or a cut on your arm? Why would teeth be any different from a broken wrist after all?
Having read Dr. Price’s epic work Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
For this reason, I am very excited to relay to you a recent story regarding one of my children. You see, my oldest child recently developed a cavity in his top right lateral incisor. It was behind the tooth right on the gumline. My husband noticed it one night as he was checking his teeth to see if he was doing a good job brushing and flossing (he’s way too old for nightly brushing by Mom or Dad).
There was a definite hole in the tooth and not a small one either. My husband called me over to take a look and I was alarmed to see the hole and I used a rubber tipped tooth probe that we have on hand to check how deep it was. The tip of the probe went way into the hole. There was no doubt that this was a cavity, and we both agreed that we needed to get it filled pronto. Our reasoning was that the incisors are very prominent teeth and taking a chance that the nutritional approach would not work quickly enough to save the tooth was a big concern for us especially given that our soon to be teenager’s diet could likely not be controlled closely enough to ensure rapid success.
I called the dentist right away and made an appointment. In the meantime, I began insisting that my son take 3 butter oil capsules every morning along with his normal, daily teaspoon of fermented cod liver oil. I’ve always been pretty strict about the daily cod liver oil dose before school, but a bit slack about the butter oil along with it to be perfectly honest.
Not anymore. With this big hole in the back of his incisor, I knew that he needed to take both together. Dr. Price discovered that cavities healed faster when these two therapeutic and nourishing oils were taken together.
The dentist appointment was a few weeks out, so I continued with the butter oil capsules every single day. I also told my son that he really needed to go back to his breakfast of two slices of toast each morning with raw butter and honey instead of tahini and honey which is what he had been having in recent months.
He was fine with that as he loves raw butter and had just gotten out of the routine of having it every morning like he usually did. Did this simple change of breakfast have an impact on the development of his cavity?
Probably.
I didn’t change anything else. He didn’t go off grains and he still ate the occasional sugar junk that he gets at school (it was Easter time so this type of stuff was rampant). He is almost a teenager, after all. Try to take all grains and sugars out of their diet and you are going to get a rebellion. Kids need to learn some things on their own.
I’ve found you can’t protect your kids from this stuff and raise them in a bubble – you can only teach them to be wise and they will learn moderation on their own over time.
On a side note, I was pleased to see that at a party following his class’s Poetry Day recently that he bypassed the big bottles of soda and Hershey bars that were being handed out afterward (no, I’m not kidding).
I was very very proud of him. He knew that eating that stuff would give him a couple of zits for sure and make him feel lousy all afternoon and probably the next day too. We Moms have to celebrate little victories along the way, don’t we?!
Anyway, back to the cavity story.
As it turned out, the day before his dental appointment, the receptionist calls to say that the appointment needed to be rescheduled as the dentist had to unexpectedly go out of town for family reasons. This pushed out the appointment for another couple of weeks, but all the while, we continued with the 3 capsules of butter oil with a teaspoon of fermented cod liver oil after a breakfast of 2 slices of raw butter and honey toast.
Last weekend, I decided to take a peek at the cavity to see if it was getting any worse. It had been about a month since my husband discovered it and I was a bit concerned given that it was one of his top front teeth. I took a flashlight and he tipped his head back and I looked, and looked, and LOOKED!
NO CAVITY!
That’s right. There was no hole at all. It had completely filled in and was as smooth as the tooth next to it. I told my husband and he took a look too. He was delighted to see that the hole was gone.
I took the probe and pressed around just to be sure and confirmed what my eyes were telling me – the cavity had indeed healed over.
I will still be taking him to the dentist to have a check-up but there is no doubt that there is nothing wrong with that tooth any longer.
The best news of all is that I changed very little to get this tooth to heal. He continued on his normal, nourishing diet at home with the lapses that typically occur at school and playdate events. We just added the butter oil with his daily fermented cod liver oil and he substituted raw butter for tahini on his toast every morning.
That’s it!
I hope you find this story encouraging! Dr. Price’s research really does work in practice!
Dentist’s Conclusion After Examining My Son’s Tooth
This brief update has been added since the original posting date of this blog. I did indeed take my son to the dentist to have a full examination and there was no cavity to be found anywhere in my son’s mouth. Hole was there, hole is gone. Nutrition can indeed heal cavities!
Where to Buy Fermented Cod Liver Oil and Butter Oil
Please see my Resources page for where to buy fermented cod liver oil and butter oil.
* Click here to watch my videoblog on how to make butter oil if you are not able to order Green Pasture Products where you live.
Sarah, TheHealthyHomeEconomist.com
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Wow I am impressed; I just ordered some cod liver oil from green pastures. Guess I should have also ordered butter oil since I’m afraid I have some cavities forming myself.
I actually have a question about the fermented cod liver oil. I have only been taking it a few days and have had some really bad bloating and gas. And I only took one capsule, the dosage is 2. A faq on the site said people with a low-fat diet may have issues but I have a very high fat diet. Should I keep taking it and it will get better, and how long would it take to adjust? It is quite uncomfortable. Also, are the capsules still beneficial or is the liquid really that much better.
Summer, you may well have gall bladder issues. Are you seeing an alternative practitioner? Do you have issues with other fats?
As someone who’s cavity-prone and has a mouth filled with fillings, I read this with great interest. I’m going to have to start employing this method for myself! Also, I recently discovered that if I stop buying all commercial bread, even the “healthy” kind (like Arnold’s no high fructose) and make my own, my plaque is greatly reduced.
The capsules are fine .. you really need to work up to a full tsp though per day which is I think 6 capsules. Try to slowly work up to it and take it with food.
Oh one other suggestion. If you find that you don’t do well on the fermented cod liver oil, try the fermented skate liver oil. Some folks do better on one versus the other.
Hi Sarah!
Great post… I purchase Ghee from Pure Indian Foods. I’m assuming this is equivalent to butter oil? Am I right?
Thanks!
Ghee is fine but it has been heated. The butter oil from Green Pastures is raw which does improve its nutrient value. But .. ghee is wonderful – don’t get me wrong. I have a jar in my pantry too for cooking!
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Sarah, can you confirm that Green Pastures actually is raw? I have looked and looked and haven’t been able to confirm this.
Also, Pure Indian Foods themselves dispute the claim that being raw improves the nutrient value. I agree with you that normal ghee must lack lots of nutrients, but Pure Indian Foods’ ghee is no normal ghee. (See their website for details.) I wrote the company a letter asking about this very issue. Here was their response:
On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Sandeep Agarwal wrote:
Hello Gene,
We recently had our ghee and this “raw” high vitamin butter oil (HVBO)
supplement tested in a lab. The results show that our ghee has more Vitamin
A than this HVBO, even though this HVBO costs over 7 times our ghee. The
test also shows that our ghee has more Vitamin K2 (X-Factor) than HVBO
supplement.
Please check out this link about impact of pasteurization on fat:
http://www.westonaprice.org/faq/784-faq-dairy.html
I quote from the above article:
“Q: What does pasteurization do to the fat in cream?
A: Pasteurization is much more damaging to the proteins than the fats. The
only thing ruined in the fats will be the Wulzen Factor, which protects
against arthritis. If only pasteurized cream is available, you can get the
Wulzen Factor by taking high-vitamin butter oil.”
Comments: When you purchase a high-vitamin butter oil, it does not get
shipped to you in a container that is temperature controlled. As you know,
the temperature in a delivery truck reaches 20 degrees higher than outside
temperature. If the outside temperature is 100 degrees F (which is the case
in many areas in summer) then you have to wonder if the supplement is still
“raw” once you receive it. There are no tests available to measure the
Wulzen Factor in a product before it is shipped or to measure the impact of
heat during the transit.
As such, we suggest that one should consume some form of raw dairy from a
reliable local source to get Wulzen Factor. You don’t have to rely on a
supplement to get it.
Please check this link about impact of heat on fat-soluble vitamins:
http://www.realmilk.com/whichchoose.html
Please look under “Pasteurized Milk” column and scroll to “D. Nutritional
Values”, and then see “3. Vitamins”. You will notice that except Vitamin A,
other fat-soluble vitamins are not altered by heat.
Your concern for raw or pasteurized is valid. The process of making our ghee
starts with raw milk. However, this milk goes through other processes which
are separating cream from milk, churning cream into butter and then heating
butter to make ghee. This processing involves pasteurization and heating
before ghee is finally made. Please note that the ghee making process
involves less temperature than what is used in UHT pasteurization. We are
well aware of the immense health benefits of raw dairy products. Does it
mean ghee is not healthy for you?
Well, we first need to understand what ghee contains and then see if those
constituents are impacted by heat.
Ghee is 100% dairy fat plus fat-soluble vitamins (Vitamins A, D, E & K). The
fat and fat soluble vitamins are heat stable
(http://www.beyondveg.com/tu-j-l/raw-cooked/raw-cooked-2e.shtml). The reason
for consuming ghee is that it is the “most” concentrated source of milk fat
and fat-soluble vitamins. It takes 25 lb. of milk to produce 1 lb. of ghee.
When cows are grazing on green grass, these fat-vitamins in their milk
increase many folds. Grass-fed cows’ milk has 500% more CLA (Conjugated
Linoleic Acid) than cows that are not on pasture. In fact, heating increases
CLA in the milk. Now, to get the benefits of the enzymes, proteins and other
heat sensitive constituents of the milk, regular consumption of safely
produced raw milk, raw cream, raw kefir, raw butter and raw buttermilk is a
great idea. It should be noted that 8 oz. of whole raw milk will provide you
only 10 gm. of milk fat whereas 8 oz. of ghee is 240 gm. of milk fat
(approximately).
Heating destroys lactase which help in the digestion of milk sugar lactose.
However, there is no lactose in ghee. Heating also impacts the structure of
milk protein, and ghee does not contain that either. On the other hand, it
is the process of homogenization which impacts the fat molecules, and we use
non-homogenized milk.
So, the most important factor to consider while selecting a ghee is not
about raw or pasteurized, as there is no such thing as raw ghee. The most
important factor is the source of milk used in making the ghee. Our ghee is
produced from only those cows that are on pasture and eating rapidly growing
fresh green grass in spring and fall only. Our product is USDA 100%
Certified Organic, and we make it ourselves in New Jersey.
I hope this helps. Please don’t hesitate to contact me for any additional
questions.
Thanks for this post. I take the blue ice fermented cod liver oil/butter oil blend capsules, two a day. Is this sufficient or do they need to be taken separately? I’m afraid cod liver oil makes me heave…unfortunately I’d rather have a vitamin deficiency than taste that every morning!
Take care!
Hi Jacqueline, this is not nearly enough. Two capsules of the fermented cod liver oil/butter oil blend each day is only a little more than 1/6 tsp of FCLO and less than 1/8 of a tsp of butter oil. You would need to take 8 capsules a day to get a decent adult dose.
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Hi Sarah,
What’s a good child’s dose of the FCL/butter oil blend capsules? I was doing 2 for my 6 year old but maybe that’s not enough? and she does have a very small cavity brewing…
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Hi Sarah,
In your opinion – I am a pregnant/nursing mother and I take 10 fermented cod liver oil tablets a day is that enough? They use to put the amount in each capsule on the bottle and since they don’t I have been second guessing myself. Thanks so much for your advice, it means a lot to me
My kids each take about 1/2 tsp. or so of the FCLO/BO blend daily. They beg for more. But, that is sufficient to provide them over 1000 IU of vit D and now that it is summer they are outside a lot too.
I take 1.5 tsp. of FCLO/BO daily, though reducing to 1 tsp. now (I am 34 weeks pregnant and taking a lot in the final weeks of pregnancy can, apparently, increase the risk of hemorrhage so I will stop temporarily in a couple weeks then go back to it immediately after birth). I am also nursing. I am not sure what the equivalent is in capsules. The gels are a MUCH better deal for your money, and I actually like the cinnamon.
I heave on the butter oil too, so I have a full bottle not being used even though it should be as I’m expecting. Sarah–are the butter oil capsules large too? Is the recommended dose for butter oil only a tsp? If so, *maybe* I could swallow it, maybe my serving sizes have been too large. I take a full dropper’s worth of the FCLO nightly.
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Hi Megan, you only need 1/4 – 1/2 tsp of the butter oil each day. The capsules are pretty big but my six year old takes them.
Sarah, cavities have always been a challenge for us. By changing our diet, moving away from SAD, it seems none of the cavities we already have, have progressed. But none have healed completely. I will get the family on this protocol soonest. Can you tell me if the children are okay with the butter clo gel blend as they cannot do capsules yet, and at what dosage? (looks like i will try the chocolate) and just to clarify, 3 capsules of butter and 1tsp fclo for adults? if adults do the blend, what dosage? Thanks so much Sarah, I am pinning my hopes on this to finally heal the cavities after a few horror stories at the dentist, that i sort of gave up going
Gail,
Sarah is lying to you. She is not a dental or medical professional. She claims she has cured the most common disease known to mankind, caries. Please don’t risk the health or yourself or your family based on her outrageous claims. The longer you wait to fix that ‘tooth hole’, as she calls it, the more expensive and painful it is to fix. There are a lot of good dentists out there, go find one you like. Good luck.
I am not lying, Adam. HOW DARE YOU. Have you ever even read Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Dr. Weston A. Price DDS and attempted to put it into practice with your patients? Of course not. Your idea of a “good dentist” is one that believes cavities need to be drilled and filled with money going into your pocket.
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Wait, according to your own disclaimer:
The information on this website is provided for informational purposes only and is not intended to substitute for the advice provided by your doctor or other health care professional. You should not rely upon or follow the programs or techniques or use any of the products and services made available by or through the use of this website for decision making without obtaining the advice of a physician or other health care professional. The nutritional and other information on this website are not intended to be and do not constitute health care or medical advice.
Hm, interesting….
Adam, cavities can be cured. Read Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Dr. Weston Price. According to my dentist, she says that dentistry school has no classes in nutrition, the most important element in the health of teeth, so intelligent lay people who do lots of research can be as knowledgeable as the professionals in this area. The people who I know that have cured cavities don’t go to ignorant dentists – they either don’t go at all or go to an informed dentist who prescribes butter! Please get informed!
Adam, Mr Misinformation
Sarah has made a claim and has proof. You made no argument because you have no argument. You have no proof. You have nothing to back you up.
Come back when you have something substantial.
Honest question here, Eve – where is this so called “proof?”
I have three BMW’s, a 12-bedroom house and 3 swimming pools. Oh, and a sweet jacuzzi tub!
Just because I type that, it doesn’t mean it’s real. There are no photos, videos or dental records put up as “proof,” so I’d like to know how exactly your substantial hearsay “backs you up.”
I’m sure that maybe this could help remineralize a small cavity, but a large one or a hole (which can cause severe infections, by the way!) NO WAY.
J – same go’s for you – as for Adam – we do not need skeptics on this site – go hang with your medical buds and leave us in peace – and stop wasting precious space.
Sarah – thanks so much for being You ! Don’t change !
I have healed a cavity and I have proof: two xrays taken a year and a half apart. I had an exam and xrays taken, with decay found. I scheduled a filling. But then I learned I was pregnant and didn’t get I filled. I went back when my lo was young. I got another set of xrays. No decay in the spot! The dentist reallybelieve me until he compared them side by side… It is very possible!
Adam – you appear to be very ignorant of all the intricate details of natural health so you have no place to judge Sarah – Sarah is brilliant beyond her years and she is very far advanced beyond allopathic – Way beyond – you are on the wrong page bud – you should go hang with the medical crowd whom you believe in – we do not need you here.
Yes, we can’t tolerate dissenting opinions on this site, because we know we don’t have the data to back up what we say… the plural of anecdote is not data.
Amazing, just amazing!
Do you think the butter oil in the FCLO is not high enough for general dental maintenance in our modern society? My oldest has some cavities in her front teeth that need filling. I’m not sure yet about the other dc. I give them the FCLO w/butter oil but maybe I should give them extra BO? Is this something that is just recommended short term or can be done long term?
Thanks!
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That is SO cool, Sarah! And to see such healing with such a simple intervention is awesome. I’m going to have to share this post with my FB fans!
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I’m so happy to read this. Everything in my body has been telling me all my life that cavities can be healed, like bones and other things. I knew it was possible and got strange looks when I talked about it. I recently had three cavities filled (before I heard about Dr. Price) and I still had this feeling that I could have healed them. Thanks for sharing this story. Bodies are amazing.
Fascinating! Do you have a more in depth post on the 2 supplements? I have 5 kids, and I’d like to get them on the supplements, but I’m not sure what to do since their ages range from 3 to almost 15. Thanks!
Off the spoon is the best way! My youngest who is 6 just started taking the butter oil capsules as she can finally swallow them. Prior to this, she did not take the butter oil only the fermented cod liver oil. I do cook with ghee (butter oil) though so she was getting some that way though probably not as much as with a straight capsule. I do have a post on cod liver oil and the wonders of it:
http://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/2010/08/why-i-get-midday-sun-and-take-cod-liver/
http://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/2010/05/should-babies-get-cod-liver-oil/
http://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/2011/01/fish-livers-in-ancient-medicine-how-does-your-cod-liver-oil-stack-up/
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Hi Sarah,
Thanks for the great posts all of the time. I love seeing you pop up in my email!
Quick question: Do you need to increase your dose if you are trying to heal cavities or does the recommended dose do enough?
TIA,
Paula
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Hi Paula, it depends on how much you are taking to begin with and your deficiency level (if any) at that current time. It is almost impossible to say … in my son’s case all I needed to do was add the butter oil which is what I should have been doing already with his daily FCLO dose. I didn’t increase the FCLO nor did I give him a mega butter oil dose. My kids have been taking FCLO for years though. Another child may have to take a larger dose to produce the same effect.
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This is amazing. What brand of oils do you use?
Yay! Working on my 5 year old as well! Has halted some decay!
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That’s fascinating! I wonder if it will work on all my already-filled teeth.
Hi Sarah, Do you have any suggestions for demineralzation of the teeth? I just had a baby in January and I noticed that my front teeth are becoming transparent! (very discouraging) Prior to Jan. I had switched to tooth soap (from a local person who was selling it along with Kombucha mushrooms). I don’t know if that had anything to do with it. I have never had a cavity and my plaque went down considerably after switching to tooth soap (was using a glycerin tooth gel.) I’m just confused why they demineralized and are now sensitive. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
I’m also having issues with transparent teeth. If you find anything that helps please let me know. I’ll reply here as well if I read something that may help. Hopefully others will offer some tips.
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Do you get their fermented CLO and butter oil? Do you use the regular or Emulsified CLO? I’ve been having issues with my teeth and would love to five this a try.
My daughter has had two cavities which did not fill in after we changed her diet but the decay did stop progressing. I think I will increase her butter oil dose though. They are baby teeth so perhaps they don’t have the permanent plumbing required to regrow the tooth and fill in holes.
I am about to place my first ever order for FCLO and butter oil. I was going to get the new flavored emulsified FCLO for my kids. Since I’m not getting them the formula that has the butter oil and FCLO together, how much butter oil do I give them on a daily basis?
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Hi Christy, 1/4-1/2 tsp of butter oil a day given with the fermented cod liver oil works well.
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And what dose of the emulsified CLO would be equivalent to 1 teaspoon of the regular CLO? Sarah, where is the information on the Green Pasture web site about the amount of Vit. D in each dose? I find their web site rather cryptic.
Thank you.
I don’t know Tiffany. I would call or email Green Pasture Products to find out. There is only so much they are allowed to say on their website because of the FDA. For example, Green Pastures couldn’t even use a testimonial like this blog post to show how effective it’s products are because the FDA would not allow it.
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All I can say is AMAZING!! I am just finishing Rami’s book “Curing Tooth Decay”. Although my children don’t have any real dental issues, except one cavity 3 years ago, that was BEFORE my conversion to a traditional food diet. We have recently found a raw grass fed milk resource across the border. Unfortunately they don’t sell “just cream” in the raw. But, I was able to make butter with the cream and then make the oil butter. I put them into capsules (following your video, of course
). I’m hoping to give them a little bit of this each day, along with the FCLO. We can’t afford to do the whole reccomended dose for everybody, but I figure 1/2 is better than nothing. We are slowly working the FCLO and raw dairy into our budget, as well as some raw cheese. Thank you for your encouragement in this, perfect timing. I was a little discouraged, after reading this book, because we DO eat grains (mostly properly prepared). Eating just meat and vegetables would be very hard on us financially . Thanks again for your encouragment, and congrats on this. So EXCITING for you!!
Marcee, you mentioned finding a good raw milk source across the border. We have just moved to a US border town with Mexico and have not had good sucess finding raw milk. Is it a border with Mexico you were referring to?
Also, our family has been blessed to find a few different natural treatments for dental decay and infection (including bentonite clay packs, fermented garlic “medicine”, and single drops of tea tree oil directly on the tooth), though we have not yet experienced significant re-mineralization or a “filling in” of the original cavity. I am anxious to try pairing butter oil with our CLO to see if we might have a similar sucess with a few cavities we have dealt with. Sarah, I appreciate your butter oil recipe and video, and have been able to obtain a few pounds of KerryGold for the purpose. Green Pastures is not in our budget right now, so do you think the homemade (heated, or maybe just a 2-tsp slice of the KerryGold) butter oil would be sufficient to help fill-in the small holes, or do you think that level of healing is only attainable with the raw, centrifuged butter oil? Has anyone else had a similar experience with non-raw, quality butter? I know that the raw oil would be beneficial for a wide spectrum of health issues, but thankfully, we do have a good array of other nutrient-dense foods, and have been eating in a nourishing, traditional way for about 7 years. Thank you for your help!
That is very exciting!! I’m glad the cavity healed!!
We have BIG issues with tooth decay. My 4.5yr old has had to have her top front 4 extracted & has 4 crowns besides that. My 2yr old just recently had her top front 4 crowned. I, myself, had 8 cavities last fall, & I need crown besides those. We do not eat junk!!! (At least according to most.
But, as much as I would love to begin this protocol, we are allergic to dairy. I have also cut out gluten for the 3 of us, because it literally makes me ill. I’ve also cut all artificial ingredients & most sugar. I want to get us pkg free eventually. (Baby steps, right?)
We are not on FCLO so I *must* look into getting some. Is there anything I could use to replace the butter oil? I need to do whatever it takes to heal my family.
Danita, the butter oil has the milk solids taken out. So most people with dairy issues can take butter oil or use ghee.
I would suggest fish eggs, Danita. Fish eggs are another superfood like the raw grassfed butter oil. Liver is awesome too but I’ve found that kids like fish eggs better. My kids think they are like “healthy candy” and love the salty taste.
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What about natto in supplement form? That’s supposedly VERY high in K2…
Natto has K2-MK7 instead of MK4. Studies in Japan showed that MK-4 helps with osteoporosis so following that line of reasoning, I decided that it should also help tooth density and therefore heal cavities. Something we were doing worked as it increased my daughter’s tooth density and healed her cavity.
We’re dairy free and even though the High Vitamin Butter is supposed to be casein and lactose free, we reacted to it. We use K2-MK4 supplements from Carlson and Solgar Norwegian Cod Liver Oil, Now Brand Vitamin D, and a Country Life Calcium Magnesium Phosphurous complex. We also split 3 bottles of Dr Ron’s Grass Fed Liver capsules between my son, daughter and I. Once, we ran out of the Liver Capsules, I never ordered more. Hope that helps!
I went and looked on their site. How long does a bottle of the stuff normally last. We are a family of 6 so I didn’t know how much of each one I would need to purchase to last for a month.
Very true, teeth are made of the same stuff bones are so they can remineralize in the same way.
Well, I would definitely be pissed if my mom ever attempted to control my eating habits (especially since she eats SAD), however, I’ve learned from hard experience just how bad junkfood makes me feel!
I have a problem though. I strongly suspect that I have a wisdom tooth coming in the bottom right back of my mouth. Do you know anything natural/alternative I can do about this? I’ve been trying to do a warm salt water swish every other day. I’m not sure my mouth is big enough for a wisdom tooth, but so far it hasn’t caused me much pain.
Is the FCLO and butter oil blend a good option? How is the taste? I am going to try this but am not sure if I should go with capsules or gels.
If you are really taste sensitive, then get the capsules. It does taste very strong, but you do get used to it over time. But, if you have a strong gag reflex, just get the caps.
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I use the fermented cod liver oil liquid (cinnamon is a great flavor). I just got the emulsifieds as they are new but my kids are sticking with the cinnamon as they are used to it. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, right? The FCLO lasts many months in the refrigerator and a month or two on the counter. Remember, it is raw and fermented and is self preserved from that standpoint.
I bought three bottles of the chocolate gel BO/FCLO Blend. I can’t stomach it. I am very disappointed since I was planning to give to my 3 yr old. I would be happy to sell for what I paid. I can take the capsules no problem. email if anyone is interested seachele68 at hot mail dot com
The chocolate flavor BO/FCLO Blend was nasty. It reminded me of earwax. The cinnamon is much better! You might try it for your 3yo.
My son and I take the plain FCLO with butter oil by using a syringe (without the needle of course) and shoot the oil to the back of our throat and then take a drink of water, we barely taste anything.
Try it on her anyway, my kids LOVE it. They call it “special chocolate.” Tonight after I gave it to them they both asked for seconds. I don’t like it though.
If you don’t wanna waste it, you can buy capsules and fill them with a syringe and take the capsules yourself. That’s what I’m doing.
Very nice to hear that it works! I have the FCLO/butter blend in the gel form. How much should my son and I be taking? He’s 6. I usually take 2 tbs a day and give him 1 tsp. Thanks!
I give my 6 year old 1 full tsp of the FCLO liquid each morning and 1 butter oil capsule which I will be increasing to 2 capsules as she just started being able to swallow pills.
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What is the recommended daily intake for each person in a family on a daily basis? What I am trying to figure out is if each person takes 1 tsp a day for instance how many bottles would I need to purchase a month?
So excited to see this post in my news feed today! I had a similar experience with our oldest when we switched our way of eating. We did completely eliminate grains as well, and I seriously upped all of our fat intake as well as Vitamin D, etc and we limit phytic acid, even from non-grain sources.
Even though I’d read Nagel’s book and Dr. Price’s work and believed the science behind healing cavities, I was still amazed at how fast it actually worked! (If things like teeth that “can’t health themselves” can improve this fast, it makes a person question how drastically food choices can affect every aspect of life!)
The part I didn’t expect was the changes in my own teeth. We now make our own remineralizing toothpaste, and between that and dietary changes, my teeth have whitened themselves a lot! A few weeks ago I was eating some homemade ice cream and actually bit into a bite with my teeth. Not a big deal, except I’ve had sensitive teeth my whole life and this would normally cause a lot of pain. It took me a second to realize that my teeth weren’t sensitive at all! The last time I went to the dentist (a conventional one) he also noted surprisingly that my enamel had gotten stronger and my teeth didn’t have any plaque buildup whatsoever. He credited it to me being pregnant and having “growing hormones” in my body, which is funny, since my teeth have a;ways been weaker during pregnancy…
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Would you mind sharing your recipe for your remineralizing toothpaste?
I second that request! Our teeth are looking transparent …
Katie please share how you stopped the plaque build up.I’ve always suffered from that as well as acid? the dentist said. and it cost too much to go for cleanings so often:)
Katie – Could you share the main sources of phytic besides grain? I’ve just gone grain free. Tough tough tough! I’m going to try your toothpaste recipe. I have receded gums and some root showing and there appears to be a small cavity starting so I’m on the path to see if I can heal it!
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School of thought on this varies but I take 1 2/3 tsp per day of FCLO which is 5000 IU of vitamin D which is the current school of thought for maintenance of adequate vitamin D levels. My kids take 1 tsp. I take 1/2 tsp of butter oil per day and the kids take 1/3-1/2 tsp of butter oil per day.
Ok I need a dummies guide to this. I have a DS 9yo and a DD 6 yo both have Celiacs and are Gluten Free. Both have cavities. My dd just developed it, she has been GF for almost a year. My son has had two cavities for about 2+ years and has been GF for over 3 years, they haven’t progressed and since they are baby teeth we were trying to wait it out and have them fall out since we have HUGE dentist fears and will have to be gassed to get anything done. There health has improved drastically but I think they are still deficient in some things since they are still healing. What exactly should I be giving them? How much do I give them? How often? Where can I buy the stuff at a good price since I really cant afford alot? Do you think its to late if there has been color change to the tooth at the hole? Thanks for your help.
Go to NutritionXpress.com dear.Amazing quality and value.I’ve been thier customer for yrs:)
Oh and capsules would be best since they all can swallow them
Would it work for my nursing toddler if I take the cod liver oil?
That’s a great story!! Thank you for telling it. I’m sure you won’t mind me sharing it on my facebook page OraWellness. More people need to understand and to hear storied like yours and mine that teeth and gum DO regenerate given the proper conditions. Way to go family!!
Hurray on your son’s choices! Yes we do have to celebrate the little victories along the way.
It is recommended by the WAPF for children to begin getting their own individual dose of cod liver oil starting at 3 months old even if the Mother takes it herself and the child is still nursing. My kids got 1/4 tsp to start with an eyedropper.
Really? I just can’t bring myself to give kids anything until they are over 6 months…. 3 months even for FCLO seems awfully young.
How awesome is that?! I’ve actually been wondering about that lately. I somehow suspected that was possible.
Thanks for sharing!
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This is impressive information; thanks for posting.
Is there a specific brand of Butter Oil/CLO that you recommend to folks just starting to get into this WOE?
okay, so, i have 2 kids. my 4 yo had 2 cavities. i’m sure butter oil/CLO will work for him.
my 2 year old has amelogenesis imperfecta. there are only 3 teeth in his mouth that do not have cavities. the dentist wants to pull 2 of his teeth and give him root canals/stainless caps on 11.
any advice? i REALLY don’t want to have ANY of that done.
we already eat as TF as we can. we live in a VERY small town in the middle of the desert so it’s tough to get quality foods. we order as much as we can online but we aren’t rich, ya know?
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Going on the GRAIN FREE GAPS diet was the key for us. We needed this diet to halt the decay. We ate NT for years and it just wasn’t enough for our family.
Shari
Hi Shari – yes, for sure grain free is the ticket for some with decay issues. Sometimes extreme measures are warranted but it is good to know that the decay can be arrested even with simple changes like what I did with my son.
Hi laura b,
I was reading through this post as it was sent to me as a joke that is circulating through the dental community. When I came upon your question, I could’nt help but notice that Sarah, the so called health professional, has not responded. That is because amelogenesis imperfecta is a serious medical/dental condition that requires professional treatment. As a board certified and nationally recognized doctor of dental surgery ( i.e. a dentist), I can not sit by and let this go. You need to go back to your dentist and take heed to his/her recommendations or visit another licensed dentist for a second opinion. Doing nothing will ONLY cause unnecessary harm to your child.
Good luck.
Hi adam,
She’s not a “so called health professional” but a “healthy home economist”. Please read my comment to you above. My dentist is a also a board certified and nationally recognized doctor of dental surgery and treats and supports patients through the WAPF diet before doing invasive dental work. You need to read Dr. Weston Prices’s work before you ignorantly speak out against it.
Well said, Emily.
Pulling teeth on a 2yr old! That sounds sick and archaic and who knows how many toxic chemicals those caps carry,gold is better.This adam guy must be really hard up for patients or is really threatened by the effectiveness of the power of nature.Which one do you think it is
….Act quickly dear and God give you wisdom:)
Excellent post! So well rounded. I am filled with hope and inspired. Thank you so much for taking the time to write this!
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Thank you, Sarah for this wonderful and inspiring post!
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Amazing! Thank you for posting! My son’s too love the deep gold butter on their toast each morning. What a great testimonial. I agree with the parenting, always tell my friends that you can protect your child but you should not shelter them
There is a big difference.
While he is gung-ho about eating it, I never thought he would be preaching it! hahaha, my little testimonial too 
The other day I cought my husband telling an adult couple about sprout fed eggs and how much better tasting and better for you they are, I almost fell over
Also- since I have switched our toothpase over to the Young Living Theives Ultra, not one cavity in our house of 5 for 2 years since we switched!!!! My husband has horrible teeth from growing up out of the US and no dental or steady nutrition, he was always having to go in for root canals and yucky stuff at the dentist, not once since the Theives Toothpaste switch. My last check-up, the dentist told me she wanted MY teeth! So funny, I keep telling them what I use so maybe one day they will stop telling me to use flouride??? I too have had many a cavity growing up without dental ins. and raised on Kraft. Knowledge is power. Thanks again for sharing your evidence.
Natasha..what is Young Living Theives Ultra and where can I get it?
Hi Sarah,
I love your post! Actually, I always love your posts, lol! Are some people more susceptible to nutritional deficiencies? I rarely had cavities when I was young, and I never ate an “ideal” diet until now. However, I didn’t eat candy or sugar very much during that time either. I wonder if it’s because I’m the oldest in the family, and my mother ate a lot of fruit and meats while I was in her womb. My younger brother who is a year and a half younger than me is more easily susceptible to cavities. My mother was consuming more junk food while she was pregnant with him. I can eat the same SAD diet that he’s eating, and still won’t get cavities unless I’m eating a LOT of junk.
Hi Erica, as Mom’s nutritional stores go down, her later babies will be born with more degenerative problems. Cavities are one of these problems. Also when babies are spaced too close together (less than 3 years apart), Mom does not have time to replenish her stores (especially if she is breastfeeding). and these problems can crop up from this as well. This is why traditional societies took such GREAT CARE to space children no closer than 3 years apart and to provide special superfoods to Moms and Dads so that nutritional stores were optimal BEFORE conception.
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Thank you so much for sharing this testimony! I am SO very impressed that I am not even writing my blog tomorrow, but just putting in the link to your story. Again, thank you…what a blessing!
~’Clee’, The Nourished Nana
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Hi Cindy, how wonderful! I am glad that you are finding the testimonial of help for your readers. Best to you and thanks for the link!
Blogspot was down last night and a good portion of today, but I did finally get a chance to share your story. I’m still amazed and thrilled.
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I’ve never heard that ghee is equivalent to butter oil – butter oil is an extracted fraction of raw butter, not just raw butter with the milk solids removed – right? If it were just ghee… $50 a bottle is a rip.
Hi Mati, the Green Pastures raw butter oil has the milk solids extracted by centrifuge (just like Dr. Price made it) so it is raw whereas ghee is not. If you get a group order together the price comes wayyyy down, so it is much more affordable.
OK, I’m still confused. If it’s just removal of milk solids, what is the advantage (for people who can use whole milk products)? I’ve made ghee and the milk solids are are small percentage of the total weight. In addition, the butter oil has a relatively strong “pasture” taste vs. raw grassfed butter. I don’t see how they can be equivalent. If they are, I can just up our consumption of raw butter and cream much more pleasurably (and inexpensively) than taking a supplement.
That’s the other issue – my daughter loves raw butter, so do I – but she won’t take butter oil and I’m none too fond of it either. It just seems to catch at the back of my throat. I have two bottles of the regular, scoopable “liquid,” , not gels/capsules, that I don’t want to waste. Any suggestions on how to take this without tasting or “urping” it? We have no problem with the CLO – she calls it “cinnamon drops” and just likes a little elderberry concentrate after.
Thank you for sharing this, Sarah. Just last week I was telling my husband how much better my very sensitive gums and one very touchy tooth felt (couldn’t chew with it for 1 1/2 yrs), which all started when I was sick 7 weeks ago (fever/chills/cough/aches/congestion) . I downed lots of extra chicken bone broth during those two weeks, and as I healed I noticed my mouth feeling better too. I can now chew with that tooth! I must admit that weeks prior to the illness, I had become more regular with flossing and I attribute both to my mouth healing. Never underestimate the power of good bone broth!
Sarah, is cultured butter as healthful as raw butter? I purchase vat-cultured butter that is vat-cured with live active cultures (Sierra Nevada Cheese Co.). What brand of raw butter do you use, or do you make your own?
Hi Corinne, my wonderful deep yellow raw butter comes from my local dairy farmer. I love it. It is full of the fat soluble activators and down here in FL with the cows on pasture in the sun, chock full of vitamin D too I’m sure.
Very impressive! I just went Monday to have two cavities filled. Guess what? They weren’t there anymore! I was just there TWO weeks prior and the cavities were diagnosised with a DIAGNOdent.
They tried two different machines on me because they couldn’t understand what was happening. I just smiled. They would never believe that teeth can be healed. In all honesty I’m awful at taking my cod liver oil and the only thing I tried was going on a primal diet with tons of animal fat.
Keep up the great work Sarah!
It’s amazing how quickly they heal when you get the nutrient dense animal fats back in the diet! I won’t be making the mistake of letting my kids lapse on the butter oil ever again, that’s for SURE! I’m glad it happened though or this post would never have gotten written.
But everyone is always dissing animal fats saying they are high in saturated fats,that they raise artery clogging cholesterol …about the calories? Please elaborate.
Watch the movie “Forks Over Knives” or read “The China Study” (T. Colin Campbell) and “Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease” (Esselstyn). It will show you clearly what animal fats and animal proteins do to overall health. Especially the heart disease book.
Wow, this is amazing. I can’t believe you can actually cure a cavity. I wish I had this info when my kids were younger. Thank you so much for sharing this with us. If you can cure a cavity, is there a cure for degenerative joints and discs and osteoarthritis and torn meniscus. I am in pain all the time. Anyone have any natural cures that can help me. Thanks.
Gina –
Matthew Wood (herbalist) mentions healing a torn meniscus with the use of goldenseal tincture (externally), by rubbing a few drops on the affected area. The goldenseal will not be effective if there is inflammation in the area, keeping it from healing together. So you’ll want to take a natural anti-inflammatory internally at the same time as you’re using the goldenseal externally. With all of the issues you have going on, if I were you, I would be looking into finding a well-trained naturopath, as well as an excellent chiropractor. Also, you might check out the book “Earthing”, as some people with chronic pain have found relief using the method described there. Don’t give up searching; in trying to find a natural solution, you’re bound to stumble across a few that won’t work. But there is hope out there, so don’t quit looking for the answers. I hope you find some relief from your pain soon!
My mother has a degnerative disk and has been taking Arthrenew fr Nutrition Express.com It has natural anti-inflammatory ingredients and also Curcumin natural pain reliever,MSM for regenerating the soft tissue in the joints and Glucosamine Chondroitin do similar things.Try it it might just change your life:) The Lord’s healing hand touch you dear, Psalm 103:1-5.
Wow, this is an AMAZING post and really inspiring!
For the last two months I’ve been taking half a teaspoon of Green Pastures FCOL and Butter oil blend. Is that sufficient?
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Hi Lauren, not really enough I would say. I would suggest 1 full teaspoon morning and night. this would give you 1 1/3 tsp of FCLO plus 2/3 tsp of butter oil which is probably overload on the butter oil but you can’t overdose on that so it’s ok. I like them separately as you can control the dosage a bit more closely.
wish i knew that when my children were young……well done
I was actually reading this post while sitting in the dentist chair today! I was having a crown replaced. I have an appointment to have 3 cavities filled in 2 weeks, might get give the butter oil a try and see if I have any luck. Thank you for your post!!
Heidi, that is soooo funny! You need the butter oil along with the fermented cod liver oil. Together they give cavities the one-two sucker punch.
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Brilliant! I am thrilled to read this. I have been losing trust in dentists and don’t want to be a slave to their methodology. Thanks for putting this out there.
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This all sounds fasinating. I have had cavitees since I was 5 years old and a lifetime of dental problems.
where do I get butter oil and raw butter?
I am 60 .. Is it too late for me?
what about receding gums?
Hi Judee .. it’s never too late. My parents started take fermented cod liver oil and butter oil in their late 70′s and it has really helped them tremendously.
Check my resources page for info on Green Pasture Products.
You can get raw butter from a small local farm. Contact the westonaprice.org for a copy of the 2011 Shopping Guide which has farms that will mail order raw butter to your door.
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Wow! Great to hear your first hand experience, thanks for sharing
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I’m checking out the Green Pastures site, where I get my FCLO, and I’m assuming the liquid butter oil is a better deal per dose than the capsules?
I’m also wondering about the flavors. We’ve hit and missed on the flavors of the FCLO… Cinnamon was a hit, Orange was a big miss, lol!
Any favorites for the butter oil?
I know several folks in my area that really enjoy the Butter Pecan flavored butter oil
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My doctor just started my two year old and I on daily D3 drops. The amount is 5,000 for me and 2,000 for her..but it’s not FCLO. What is the major difference where it is derived from? We could always add the butter oil now, and when our drops are out replace it with the FCLO and get the D that way then.
Hi Jackie, the FCLO would be better as the FCLO has vitamin D along with the vitamin A in a natural form rather than D3 drops which – to me- is like a drug form of the vitamin. Getting the vitamin D from whole foods form with all the nutrient co-factors makes it safer and more effective.
Which vit D is in the FCLO?
Would this help a dying tooth too? My husband has a tooth (incisor, I believe) that was damaged at some point and is turning gray and I would hate for him to lose it. What dose would you recommend for a man?
Hi Little Bird – YES, it does help a dying tooth. I have a friend that had a dying incisor and the dentists wanted to do a root canal. She started in on the FCLO and butter oil (I don’t remember her dosages but they were large) and the tooth was saved. This was several years ago and the tooth is still fine.
I was supposed to have a root canal more than a dozen years and a pregnancy ago. I didn’t know about butter oil and CLO, but I did hit Vitamin A, D, E and C supplements pretty hard for a few days and by the time the appointment came around, the tooth was better.
Way to go Sarah! My 14 year old son has a similar cavity. He has been taking the plain FCLO with the butter blend for nearly two years and the cavity isn’t healed yet, but it is rare that it bothers him. Most days he takes 1 tsp with a syringe at the back of his throat, some days he takes this twice a day. I still have hope for healing, since a dentist told him 2 years ago he needed a root canal. Keep up the great work at home and the blog, I appreciate your time and knowledge.
GREAT and TRUE! Last year, my four year old’s dentist said, “Uh oh, he has a ‘stain’ which can become a cavity. Keep it really well brushed.” After much reading of Weston Price I realized that a stain is a soft spot which indicates he needed more fat soluble vitamins (not necessarily more brushing). We found an amazing raw milk source, added cod liver oil (from quantum at that time) and didn’t cut out grains as we had not read Rami’s book yet. The next visit, 6 months later, the dentist said the enamel was hard as a rock. My 6 year old daughter has a ‘watch spot’ on her tooth now. We’ve cut out most grains (esp oatmeal!) and switched from regular CLO to FCLO. We’ll see how the next visit goes.
Sarah-I’ve been giving her 1/2 tsp. I wonder if she needs 1 tsp? Also, can the 2 1/2 yr old twin boys take more than 1/4tsp? We live in VERY sunny NM, but I realize the dietary need for vitamin D is critical. Also, do you think giving them a spoonful of Kerrygold or raw butter with the FCLO is powerful or does it need to be the butter oil from Green Patures? Finally, do you also give your family skate liver oil periodically like Rami suggests in his book? I understand it has some healthy different nutrients than the FCLO. THANKS! It’s so important to encourage one another on along this journey.
This is from the WAPF website – recommended doses for fermented cod liver oil. it doesn’t have capsules listed for those under 12 but based on the other dosages, it would be 5 capsules for that age group.
Children age 3 months to 12 years: 1/2 teaspoon or 2.5 mL, providing 4650 IU vitamin A and 975 IU vitamin D.
Children over 12 years and adults: 1 teaspoon or 10 capsules, providing 9500 IU vitamin A and 1950 IU vitamin D.
Pregnant and nursing women: 2 teaspoon or 20 capsules, providing 19,000 IU vitamin A and 3900 IU vitamin D.
thank you, carolyn. for some reason i thought the dosages on the site were for the non-fermented CLO-it’s a “tired mom of little ones” brain thing. i appreciate the posting of dosages.
Carolyn…I have read that vit A at such high levels is toxic is this true? As apposed to Beta Carotene which I take daily….Anyone?
Amazing!!! I just shared this on Facebook.
If we’re only taking it once per day, is there a benefit to doing it in the morning rather than at night?
And to think that the dentist I went to (several months ago) laughed in amusement when I asked if my cavity can heal on its own! I actually refused the filling and the antibiotic, and the pain went away by itself after a few days. The cavity is still there, but this testimonial gave me hope that I’m not crazy – and that added nutrition can heal a cavity. Worth trying especially if I don’t care for a filling …
This is very encouraging! I recently got diagnosed with a cavity about a month ago and have been doing a nutritional protocol in line with that suggested by Nagel in his Cure Tooth Decay book for almost a month now. Compared to your situation, it seems my cavity is less severe and the protocol I am adhering too much stricter so it gives me good hope especially considering that my father recently went to a periodontist who says he has a lot of cavities and needs to have some tooth implants done. However, my father has no tooth pain so I am going to see if I can help him heal his cavities before he submits to $7000 surgery he can’t afford.
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It seems the ‘strictness’ of the routine required to heal the cavity is based on the person’s past health/diet. Unfortunately, I grew up on the “low fat, high carb (a.k.a. enriched flour)” regime. I think Rami Nagel talks about “damage from grains” in his book Cure Tooth Decay. Some of us are going to require more strict measures to make up for old damage. However, this is a blessing because we can help others and, most importantly, our children.
Yes … some folks require extreme measures (no grains, no sugars, no starches) to stop tooth decay while others require mild tweaks. My son has been on the FCLO and eating traditionally his entire life so the cavity was a shock to say the least but the great news is that it didn’t require much to fix it quickly. I know many readers of this post feed their families nourishing meals as well so will be encouraged by this.
I am highly allergic to dairy and need to stay off it for a while. Is there an alternative to the butter oil? This news is incredible!
Liver or fish eggs would contain comparable levels of the fat soluble activators. You might want to try the butter oil though as all the allergenic aspects of it (milk solids) have been removed. Many allergic to dairy can use butter oil (ghee) with no problem.
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Thanks so much for this information. We have been eating a WAPF diet for over 6 years now, but have only been taking 2 fermented CLO pills per person. I’m a little disappointed in the Blue Ice packaging as it recommends 2 as a daily dose and says that you don’t have to refrigerate until after opening. It sounds like these things may not be true?
Also, have you done a post on glycerin-free toothpaste options or how to make your own?
Thanks again!
Hi Melanie, Green Pasture Products is only allowed to recommend a certain dosage due to the FDA. You don’t have to refrigerate the FCLO if you don’t want to. It says to refrigerate again due to labeling regulations.
Hi! I’m wondering if the fermented cod liver oil would create a problem if someone were highly yeast sensitive. So many people have yeast problems (I was reading that people were having gas and bloating, plus having the problem myself,I personally know many others who do) that I’m wondering if I were to take it, would it really hinder and not help. With my yeast problem, I have been told to stay away from all things fermented. While I’m sure that these products and Weston Price are a miracle for many, I’m just wondering if anyone can tell me more if one is yeast sensitive. Thanks very much!
Hi Jenny, it would help much more than it would do any harm. You can always eat other superfoods such as liver and fish eggs instead, but I find people find taking the fermented cod liver oil much more convenient. You can’t do without these vitamin A/D/K superfoods. You will degenerate quickly without them.
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Hi Jenny,
Dr. Norman Shealy explored supplemental magnesium absorbed through the skin (transdermal) and more recently Dr. Mark Sircus has taken up the cause. They write about soaking in a magnesium chloride bath and list the many ways it helps health. Search for “transdermal magnesium” and you’ll find many other source articles. The reason I’m bringing it up here is because I began using Epsom salt baths after reading about transdermal magnesium (Epsom salt is magnesium sulfate). Both sulfur and magnesium promote good health.
My son has always had problems with yeast, since birth. He had recurring thrush problems as an exclusively breast-fed infant, and has always been sensitive to sugar intake touching off another candida overgrowth. After learning about transdermal magnesium, I had my son soak in an Epsom salt bath, and – voila! – the candida vanished from his mouth. Now he can indulge himself at birthday parties and trick-or-treating, because he has no more issues with sugar/yeast. In my reading about magnesium, I read that it helps with sugar metabolism, actually getting the glucose into where it can be used by cells. I can attest that it dramatically improved my son’s sugar metabolism with regard to candida overgrowth.
Perhaps you could try transdermal megnesium with your son, to get past the yeast issues which seem to be holding you back from tooth health. By the way, magnesium and sulfur (Epsom salt) also contribute to good dental health.
Yes SE and the best Magnesium for blood glucose is Magnesium Glycol in liquid form.That’s the one in the medical paper:)
This couldn’t have come at a better time! Just yesterday the dentist told us that my 7 year old daughter had a “sticky spot” in one of here molars (a permanent tooth). She wasn’t positive it is a cavity, but wanted me to bring her back in a couple weeks to “get it ready for a sealant”, saying that once they clean it out to prepare it for the sealant, they’ll be able to tell whether it really is a cavity or not. I’ve been lax on the FCLO/BO-taking (all my kids take the combo), so I’ll get right on making sure she takes it. Two questions: should I also have her take just the butter oil by itself (I do have some that I recently got to try) to help speed healing? And somewhat off topic, but any input you have on getting the “sealants” would be much appreciated!
Hi Jennifer – NO SEALANTS. They are full of estrogen mimicking chemicals!
Take the FCLO/BO together always if possible. They work better together than on their own.
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I guess I was a little foggy in my question. She does take the Green Pastures combo product that has the Fermented Cod Liver Oil and Butter OIl together. I was just wondering if I should be adding MORE butter oil to that dosage to help her tooth heal faster?
And this is somewhat off the topic, but I’d love your input on a different tooth issue, if you don’t mind. My son broke a top front tooth off nearly at the gum line when he was 8. The dentist put a hard coating over the exposed dentin, but several months later my son started having pain in that tooth area, and we were referred to a pediatric dentist, who sent us to an oral surgeon for a consult on the tooth. The oral surgeon did a root canal on that tooth (without asking my permission, and I was so shocked and frozen that I failed to step in or stop it; I’ve been kicking myself ever since!). Any way, he is now 11, and every day I feel terrible about the fact that he has a root canal-ed tooth. My gut feeling is just to pull it ASAP, but then what? We found out last week that he’s got all his permanent teeth in now (early!), so it seems like now is the time to do something, since we don’t have to worry so much about shifting or crowding. Any thoughts? Is an implant just as bad as a root canal-ed tooth?
Hi Jennifer, I would consult with a holistic dentist about this. Root canals are bad news even that young. My husband was in a car wreck at 8 and had 2 front teeth knocked out and had root canals in them. Those 2 root canals caused him more health grief over the years until he FINALLY had them out a few years ago. Major improvements since that time. Wish we had done it years ago but we didn’t know.
If you are giving the FCLO/BO together to your daughter that is fine and enough BO.
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PS – Thanks for the input on sealants! Very good to know.
What is a Sealant?
Holy Cow!!! That’s insane! How exciting! I admit, I did not know that was possible. SO glad I found your website. We have changed quite a few things in our diet as a result of what you share here, even though we have eaten a fairly traditional, nutritious diet already.
I am excited to try this…I was wondering, tho. Raw butter v. raw milk. We already drink raw milk. Is raw butter necessary for healing a cavity through proper nutrition, or will raw milk suffice? Thanks!
Raw milk is great but not enough. Raw butter is a magical food and was given special preference for pregnant mothers and growing children by Traditional Societies.
I am very pregnant and admit that there are times I have simply EATEN butter. I crave it. People look at me like ‘OMG!’ but I just have to have it. Smart traditional societies.
When I’ve been going through my growth spurts, I, too, have been guilty of eating straight raw butter! Grass-fed butter is SO delicious!
Ah, thanks.
I like Kim have been avoiding dairy due to allergies, but is there something different about the raw versions of dairy? I would love to think I could use raw butter and take the oil, but I’m a little scared since cutting out dairy has had very positive effects on my digestion.
Many people do report that they can tolerate raw dairy but not pasteurised/homogenized. (It has to do with the changes to the fat structures caused by those processes, and how those altered fats interact with your gut.) I can handle minimal amounts of very old cheese or well-cultured yogurt, but pretty much as much clarified butter/ghee as I can get in my mouth! Clarifying is dead easy and a lot cheaper than buying ghee, at least where I shop.
Yes because it’s in the fat that the pesticides and harmones etc…all those toxins accumulate.I get it.When you say raw do you mean Organic?
Great post, Sarah! We have been taking the FCLO/OB combo, just my husband and I at the moment, to see if it really makes a difference. My husband recently went to the dentist and needs some deep cleaning procedure and 4 crowns. I suggested we try this first. In just a week, he said the pain of the 1 tooth has subsided considerably! I have a tooth that just broke off, so I don’t think I have any other option besides a crown. I have 2 root canals from many years ago that have never felt right, but the holistic dentists in the area are way beyond our budget. ( I have issues w/ their pricing…not all of them are that way as we had a holistic dentist in WA who was wonderful! He gladly billed our ins. and did not inflate prices just because his services were unique. He even goes around the country teaching other holistic dentists! ) We have also eliminated most grains (I had even ‘properly’ prepared them prior to this) and found a raw milk source nearby. The same dairy will be coming out w/ raw butter this summer. Now we need to figure out how to afford the FCLO/OB for all 4 of my kids! I have been giving them Nordic Naturals clo, but this is probably not at all equivalent. My 17yo has 4 cavities, and my 12yo has one tiny one. I want to work on these before submitting them to fillings. The good news is, the dentist we are going to a dentist who practices functional orthopedics. My 17yo and 12yo will be using these services and we are quite pleased w/ this vs. converntional orthodontics.
One other thing, Sarah, concerning your comment “Kids need to learn some things on their own.
I’ve found you can’t protect your kids from this stuff and raise them in a bubble – you can only teach them to be wise and they will learn moderation on their own over time.”
I heartily agree! I would just add, if their choices affect the whole family (they make poor food choices/don’t brush/floss the way they were instructed, etc.) and the family budget is blown because of what is necessary to correct those poor choices, then, in our house, consequences follow. This may sound harsh, but I think it teaches them at an earlier age that there are consequences for every action in life, be it good or bad.
Thanks again for the great post!
Hi Lori .. sounds like you are making some awesome changes in your home. Congratulations! Nordic Naturals has next to no vitamin D. It is not a good brand to take by a long shot especially compared with Green Pasture Products which is so far above the rest of the brands out there. You can make your own butter oil (ghee) to save $$ – just get GREAT quality grassfed butter. It won’t be raw but it will be almost as good. I have a video on my site on how to make butter oil:
http://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/2011/03/video-how-to-make-ghee-butter-oil/
Thank you for the encouragement, Sarah! I will check out your video. Do you know what the difference is w/ Green Pasture’s ‘gel’ formula (which we have now and can swallow it in a lump) and ‘emulsified?’ We would have to get the emulsified if we get it w/o the butter added (or liquid and put it in caps ourselves!)
They are very similar. I don’t know the exact difference so just give them a call if you need.
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Many people who have trouble with dairy have no trouble with butter oil as the milk solids have been removed.
Wonderful! So just to clarify, the butter oil should be safe…but maybe not cooking with butter itself?
Cooking with butter is fine of course. The butter oil is a concentrated form of butter (especially when grassfed butter).
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You should always trust something you read on the internet over a doctor who has years of medical or dental training.
“The information on this website is provided for informational purposes only and is not intended to substitute for the advice provided by your doctor or other health care professional. You should not rely upon or follow the programs or techniques or use any of the products and services made available by or through the use of this website for decision making without obtaining the advice of a physician or other health care professional. The nutritional and other information on this website are not intended to be and do not constitute health care or medical advice.”
Hi JohnAtl, doctors have the same sort of disclaimer on their own website. Your point is?
?????
Still waiting. Guess you have no point after all, huh?
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Oh yeah, John, you should always trust the advice of someone who tells you that mercury is safe to put into your mouth and swallow every day for the rest of your life; someone who happens to make lots of money for telling gullible people how healthy it is to swallow mercury. The ADA has made so much money from endorsing and defending mercury that they cannot face the truth and continue to corrupt the FDA despite having lost lawsuits which proved in public records that mercury fillings are neurotoxic. How can you live with yourself, John? You must have had a consciencectomy.
Amazing! As my awareness of holistic health has grown, so has my unease around dental procedures. In the past 6 months I had to replace 3 fillings, two with crowns…the work was by the absolute best dentist I’ve ever found…yet I still had a gut-hunch that something was wrong. Now my 2 year old son has had 2 visual dental exams, both diagnosing the need for root canals, crowns and many fillings. And of course general anesthesia. And of course this just seems wrong, so very very wrong! The guilt I’ve felt over nursing him to sleep has been tremendous. Well, in the past few weeks since the initial exam, we have become quite adept at brushing his teeth–he’s actually gotten very good at most of it, then my husband and I come in for the final sweeps. I am gathering courage as I type this to say no to the dental work, at least for now…to try ghee and FCLO for a couple of months first…
I have downloaded the Kindle version of Ramiel Nagel’s book, and ordered Dr. Price’s book. Now to be able to convey all of this to my husband and team up on this angle.
Thanks so much for such a great collection of info!
Becky, all three of our sons had dental issues and we went along with conventional medical advice with the first two, which ended up in extractions and a very expensive root canal. With our third we said no to conscious sedation and dental work when he was 1 1/2 y.o. He is now 4 and has no pain. His teeth don’t look great but I am confident that he will be fine until he loses his baby teeth. We cut out most grains from our diet and started on a herbal formula to decrease yeast from his digestive system. I wish I had done the same for our older boys. Good luck and stand your ground!
Great post! So far we have not had any cavities with our four children, but I will keep this in mind if we ever need it for sure! My question is where do you get a tooth probe?
Nickole @ http://www.savvyteasandherbs.com
Hi Nickole, the local pharmacy has quite a nice selection including a dental mirror so you can easily see behind teeth.
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Sarah,
You are making all of this up. Stop risking the dental health of dental phobics and/or people who may have life threatening oral conditions. You are a menace and a nutjob.
Sincerely,
Every Dentist in the world
Calling people names for being passionate about holistic health only makes you look bad. When you point a finger, there are three pointing back at you…
This isn’t holistic health. Holistic health is a concept that all potential contributing factors which may affect a person’s well-being, are taken into consideration when assessing a person’s overall health. What Sarah is suggesting is called ‘quackery’. Sarah may know a thing or two about holistic health, but when it comes to dentistry and dental advice, she is borderline dangerous.
Quackery only applies to a professional. I am not a professional and have made it clear as such. I am a Mom who applied the research of Dr. Weston A. Price DDS in her own home and had amazing results.
Get a life, Adam. Your tedious comments are a chore to read.
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adam,
How much training do you have in nutrition? How much research have you done in the works of Dr. Weston Price, Dr. Pottenger, and similar doctors. If someone wants to take a few fat-soluble, food-based supplements in an attempt to heal a tooth and avoid an invasive dental procedure in the time it takes to get an appointment with a dentist, what do you care? I don’t understand your hostility. Maybe you need some cod liver oil!
http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/holisticdent.html
Yeah, whatever.
Dentists blackballed Dr. Price back in the 1930s (even though he had been the President of the American Dental Association) because they were afraid of his research .. that root canals brought on chronic illness and that cavities could be healed. They feared that his research would put them out of business or cause them to lose a lot of money from lost business. The same fear undertones are in your comment. When people are afraid of something that is outside the box of ideas that they have believed, they call that person a nutjob. It only shows your closed mindedness and lack of ability and desire to learn anything new. Don’t worry, there will always be plenty of folks who drink soda and eat garbage for you to fill their cavities and do root canals on.
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Sarah,
It isn’t the fear of losing money that I’m worried about, it is your uneducated dental opinion that you are providing the people on your website that scares me. Posing as a dental professional and giving advice to people with real problems is irresponsible and cruel. You are quouting 1920′s research for crying out loud. In the 1920′s they used to think small worms caused decay! They were wrong! Here’s the truth, IF YOU HAVE A HOLE IN YOUR TOOTH, IT WILL NOT GO AWAY! No matter what! Please stop enabling dental phobics by giving ridiculous “cures”, and preventing them from getting proper treatment before there conditions worsen.
It’s always about money and power when a new idea threatens your livelihood. Don’t deny the obvious. That big house payment is beckoning.
The hole disappeared. Simple as that. It is amusing to me that you can come on my blog and tell me what I saw with my own eyes. Are you calling me a liar? I guess so.
Me posing as a dental professional? How hilarious is that? Now, you are really grasping at straws. The post is clear about who I am and what I did.
What’s wrong with 1920′s research? If they conducted the same research today and wouldn’t be any different. Like the research today is so cut above with all the faked results, fudged data that keeps coming out so frequently. Just read yesterday about how the Body Scanner radiation tests were faked. At least people didn’t seem to lie as much back in 1920′s and 1930′s.
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I maintain a blog called The National Fork, http://www.nationalfork.com/, and I’ve been reading this post and some of the comments.
In regards to the comments by “Adam”, I have to say the following.
Either he is a dentist who is extremely insecure on a personal level and who has nothing better to do with his time than to put down honest individuals whose opinions differ from his. OR, and more likely,
He is a paid agent of the medical and dental community whose agenda includes promoting ignorance among the population as to how to avoid health problems through proper nutrition. Commonly, the agendas of such people also include promoting not only ignorance, but promoting the actual health problems themselves by encouraging unhealthy practices. A stark example of one extremely unhealthy practice that dentists encourage is the consumption of fluoride, which is known to impair the mineralization of bone and teeth and promote the mineralization of soft tissue.
On my blog, I discuss in various posts how medical professionals (assuming that “Adam” is one) are not entirely to blame for their ignorance. Rather, they are victims of their education, which is funded largely by the pharmaceutical companies, national governments, and global banking establishments. And we all know the extent to which such entities care about our health.
adam, again, you are uneducated in the area of nutrition. So you really shouldn’t be going around posing as a nutritional professional by saying proper nutrition can’t allow the body to heal teeth or bones or skin.
If we are such idiots, why are you spending such an inordinate amount of time refuting us? You are terrified of the truth and that is the long and short of it.
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And I’m sure that you just have EVERYONE’S best interests at heart…
Adam, It’s you who is a fraud, just like your mentor Fishbein, who popularized the term “quackery” as a tool to drive out competition from doctors who refused to assimilate into the Borg/AMA. May you go down in flames of infamy just like he did, only may the world be protected from harm on your way up & back down.
Who is this person talking to me as though I need her WRONG advice!!!
I will have my people talk to her people………..
My dear friend Adam, there are stupid people all around us, don’t take it to heart brother.
Even stupid people can tell when a tooth hole is gone when it was there before. If that makes me stupid, then so be it.
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Grisha, I assume you are in the conventional dental field? I don’t think you should be calling other people “stupid” unless you have researched both sides. According to my enlightened, board certified dentist, there is no nutrition training in dental school. So before you, or your people, spout uneducated information, go read Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Dr. Weston Price. Maybe it will save your teeth or health someday!
To proceed with your “idea” on dental decay we should ask for proof.
Pictures, etc. If decay documented by a dentist, then I want documentation by the same dentist that the decay is not present after your treatment. Without proof(clinical evidence), then your words are an untested theory which is dangerous when people listen to you and not demand clinical research. I have read items on evidence based dentistry, thus the research supports dentists. I care about my family health so I research, do you?
It’s not an idea, Mark. Dr. Weston A. Price DDS researched this and wrote about it many years ago but it was ignored and blackballed because no one can make money on folks healing cavities themselves.
Why don’t you try it and see for yourself? But, then … it might work and then what would you do????? Oh horrors. Your little box of ideas would be shattered then wouldn’t it? Couldn’t live without your preconceived ideas and judgmental attitude that puts down others who don’t follow your “keep people sick, make lots of money” allopathic methods, right?
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Mark,
I do understand that it is hard to believe that cavities can be healed in the same way other parts of the body can heal, but it is true. Most people who heal their own cavities are so frustrated with dentists not believing this or encouraging this before filling the tooth, that they either do this on their own or go to an “enlightened” dentist. I hope some people who want to try to heal their own cavity will get documentation from an ignorant dentist who’s opinion will satisfy the conventional dental community, though I think if someone did this and was successful, most dentists would still not believe that it was true. I care about my family’s health and the health of your patients, so I hope you explore Dr. Weston Price’s work.
My friends and colleagues Adam, Marc & Grisha are on point here. This type of anecdotal evidence is worthless if not backed up by clinical, reproducible results. There is a scientific method for a good reason: it works! If you want to convince anyone with a scientific background or an analytical mind, you need to approach the forum of discussion with a modicum of scientific evidence. Otherwise, you’re embarrassing yourself, as are the sheep of your flock.
-Dr. Gross
It’s this kind of stupidity that really angers your patients. Hole in tooth is there, hole in tooth is gone. What kind of study is needed to see the obvious> No wonder you guys still believe mercury amalgams are safe. You folks can’t tie your shoes in the morning without a study to verify it works.
I don’t need to provide you any “proof”. I did not write this post for you, I wrote it for Moms and Dads who want to achieve the same results for themselves.
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Dr. Gross,
I do understand that it is hard to believe that cavities can be healed in the same way other parts of the body can heal, but it is true. Most people who heal their own cavities are so frustrated with dentists not believing this or encouraging this before filling the tooth, that they either do this on their own or go to an “enlightened” dentist. I hope some people who want to try to heal their own cavity will get documentation from an ignorant dentist who’s opinion will satisfy the conventional dental community, though I think if someone did this and was successful, most dentists would still not believe that it was true.
Why the sheep comment? We are not the sheep – we are the ones going against the grain instead of just blindly following the ADA and tv commercial’s advice of using fluoride and seeing a dentists 2x per year.
Do not need the double blind tests.
I healed a cavity on a bicuspid using this healthy protocol.
Proved it to myself that it does work.
Now mainstream dentists and big pharma do not want to double blind this because they do not want to prove it does work.
They’d much rather keep us coming for expensive treatments and drugs than prove something as simple as this works.
And they cannot patent this so no money in it for them.
So they loose-we win.
Actually is this kind of stupidity that offers dentists more problems to treat, keep publishing this and instead of just a filling, the “healed”cavity will be in need of a root canal or an extraction and yes that is way more expensive than a filling. Of course you dont need to show proof, why would you?, you can write anything you want even if it is a big lie. These ‘followers’ will jump of a bridge if you tell them that will prevent any disease. There is a reason why asking a ” typical dentist at a routine cleaning whether you can heal a cavity on your own and he/she is likely to look at you like you’re crazy” and that is because you are.
I don’t need your approval to know what happened G. Kaiser. You can deny all you want. Do I care? Nada, my friend.
All I care is that my blog is my platform for getting the truth out that nutrition can heal cavities and that Moms and Dads can come read it right here and try it for themselves.
Go back to sniffing the amalgam fumes. It seems you are quite addicted to it.
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Um, what do you mean. All she did is give food-based, fat-soluble supplements between the time the cavity was discovered and the dental appointment.
I would not jump off a bridge if Sarah told me it would prevent a disease. I’m smart and can do my own research.
How many times have you saw cavity-free teeth that looked like this?
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5g7j5Ph9VcA/TAswmGCphOI/AAAAAAAAAEs/n7WPXll1S74/s1600/HealthyTeeth.jpg
I know doctors go through a lot to become doctors. We should all have compassion for them, because it would be very difficult to undergo such extensive, and expensive training, only to discover, via the internet (of all things), that you do not know everything, after all. It would be very sad to realize that your years of effort, training and sleeplessness, while procuring a title, may not, actually have prepared you in the best way possible. We shouldn’t beat up these poor docs. We should feel sorry for them, as they are the victims of a system which has failed to recognize nutritional truths, in favor of dogmatic tradition. I am quite certain that the blood-letting physics of the past felt much the same angst when they learned of their failing techniques….
What a kind comment full of compassion. I absolutely agree. I hear the fear in many of the naysayers arguments here, and I feel sorry for them too. If I ever have a cavity form in our family, I’ll take a picture of it before and after the butter oil therapy and we’ll have the proof people need to believe it (which I don’t blame them for, it’s very satisfying to have proof; and if these things are true then proof is easy to come by!)
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Well said G.Kaiser.
Quack Sarah needs to get her head examined and obtain a dental degree before she tells people about dentistry. Or maybe she will be given an honorary degree because she “discovered a cure for the worlds most common disease”!!!
Amazing what people fall for!
You can do whatever you want Sarah, but stop duping gulible people and leading them to more trouble.
Thanks for the laugh though.
P.S wanted to ask if you have a stake in this company you keep promoting?
I have no stake in the company. Zero. It’s too bad you can’t just be happy that my kid’s tooth hole is gone and be open minded that there might be a way to fix it that doesn’t line a dentist’s pocket. Folks like you enjoy tearing down other’s optimistic and positive stories. I’ll bet you are quite the joy to live with.
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I was inspired by something someone said about your colleges, so I will say it here again to you. I am so glad you posted a comment so I know to avoid your dental practice! I want nothing but encouragement from my dentist.
Mr. arrogant “LOL”, read up on your history about what happened to Fishbein, the popularizer of employing the term “quackery” as a political tool. Although he headed the AMA for far too long and utterly corrupted it, he was himself a poser, having never practiced medicine a day in his life. Never healed a single patient, or even tried. He devoted his energies to ruining the lives of effective healers who chose not to assimilate into the Borg/AMA political machine. The truth finally caught up with Mr. Fishbein (he doesn’t deserve the title “Dr.”, so watch out for yourself. Truth will out, sooner or later, and false idols fall when it does.
Understanding why this seems far-fetched requires an understanding of the basic idea of how the body heals and then correlating that with the specific part of human anatomy that needs to heal, in this case a tooth. This will hopefully answer why you’re line of reasoning below is, in my opinion, flawed.
Sarah wrote: “If you think about this in an open-minded manner leaving all preconceived ideas about cavities behind, doesn’t this make sense? Shouldn’t the body be able to heal a cavity just like it heals a broken bone or a cut on your arm? Why would teeth be any different from a broken wrist after all?”
I thought about your first question and took you up on it, I actually took cavities completely out of the equation and thought about what if your child just chipped his tooth instead of a cavity. Because after all, the end game is the same for the body. There is a part of the tooth that isn’t there anymore, regardless of how or why, the process of healing should be the same, right? In fact, it should be much more difficult to heal a cavity than a chipped tooth because a cavity is chalk full of bacteria which would hinder or delay the healing process. So I thought about this and I decided to give the body ideal conditions for healing. After thinking about that the answer to your second question is no and the third question is answered below.
In order for the body to replace damaged or missing tissue it requires a blood supply or a pipe-line for reparative cells to the damaged area. Tissue doesn’t appear out of thin air, the body must send immune cells as well as progenitor cells (precursor cells/stem cells) that are capable of differentiating or transforming into the tissue that is to be replaced. Now the tooth itself DOES have a blood supply contained within the pulp or the inner part (canal) of the tooth, as well as nerves and various other tissues. This is where it stays, some cell processes (NO blood vessels) are found a few micrometers into the dentin but when it comes to the outer layer of the tooth, the enamel (which is a few millimeters from the pulp), it just simply isn’t there. This is not a preconceived idea about cavities, this is not a theory of dental anatomy, this is well proven, well documented, well researched human anatomy that has been proven over and over again. So with that in mind, there is no way this hole in your child’s tooth regrew to the point where it was as smooth as the tooth text to it, because this would suggest the body grew new enamel, this would require a blood supply to the enamel, which I just outlined it does not have. Softened enamel can re-harden but once it cavitates, or once a hole forms, its gone for good. A little more on this later one. Bottom line, the bulk enamel you are born with is the enamel you die with. This is why your reasoning that “shouldn’t the body be able to heal a tooth just like a broken bone” is flawed. The bones enjoy a very rich blood supply as well as progenitor/healing cells and thus are capable of healing themselves in most instances. This is why I think you were most likely mistaken in your initial assessment of the cavity or hole. Based on your description of where the alleged hole was, this is a difficult area to see and I can easily see how one could misinterpret what they were seeing. I don’t mean this to be insulting or condescending but based on what I said above I don’t see any other explanation. Additionally, unless your child has rampant tooth decay this is a very uncommon place to get a cavity. I’m glad your child didn’t have to get a filling, I just don’t believe there was ever anything to fill.
Side note: The word “cavity” is a generic term that is easy for the lay person to understand. Not all “cavities” are the same, not all “cavities” need to be “drilled and filled,” there are various stages to tooth decay or cavities, some of which ARE reversible. The outer layer of enamel can become demineralized (no hole, just a chalky white appearance) by bacteria and as long as this area remains plaque/bacteria free it should remineralize itself by using fluoridated toothpaste or high concentration fluoride treatment by a dentist, it may even return to the smooth, lustery appearance of healthy enamel. But like I said before, once the enamel cavitates, (i.e. a hole forms), that enamel just isn’t coming back.
As far as Dr. Weston Price goes, his ideas were simplistic and much of what he claimed has been refuted by years of well-designed and reproducible research. Yes, research, research is done to PROTECT us, to make sure what we are doing to treat ourselves is based on proven outcomes. The system is not perfect but it is there to make sure that the care being provided is safe, effective and ethical. Dr. Price’s ideas and theories have been abused by many clinicians since and have caused great harm to a great many people that unfortunately could not find help from modern medicine or dentistry. There are those that have been helped or were perceived to have been helped by his theories. There just as many whose conditions could have been managed by proven, time-tested treatment’s that delayed their treatment in lieu of a natural cure resulting in a worsening condition and in some cases resulting in irreversible damage. I am all for thinking outside the box and finding new conservative ways to treat our common ailments but we MUST be careful. Your method may seem like a harmless, conservative method to treat tooth decay but without a clear understanding of what your recommending it can become very dangerous and harmful. I don’t make a habit of commenting on blogs but I felt compelled when I came across this. If this butter/fish oil concoction is misused or misinterpreted by even one person then a great injustice has been done.
If what happened to my son and the healing of his tooth is so far fetched, then why are you dentists converging en masse to this blog to refute it? Obviously, there is something about this anecdotal story that scares you to the bone. The very real possibility that teeth can indeed heal as Dr. Price researched and discovered and that all that you have believed and practiced your entire dental career is a sham and false.
The more you come on this blog to pontificate and deny my story and the stories of others who have commented with similar stories, the more you give credence to this fact that teeth can indeed heal.
“Thy Protesteth Too Much!” -William Shakespeare
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“The more you come on this blog to pontificate and deny my story and the stories of others who have commented with similar stories, the more you give credence to this fact that teeth can indeed heal.”
I’m not even sure how that makes sense, unless you truly believe we are all evil and money hungry. If that is the case you are just as close-minded as the next person. I provided some very sound and logical information that I hope you read, yet the portion you chose to comment on was the fact that I was a dentist and that thought the idea seemed far-fetched, both of which were in the first sentence. Perhaps I should have started with there is NO way Sarah is wrong about this, since that is probably how you feel.
Please re-read it, this time with the open mind you asked us to have as we read your story.
As I said before, I DID NOT write this blog for close minded dentists.
I wrote this for Moms and Dads who are interested in nutrition and want to try it for healing/preventing cavities in their children and for themselves. I DID NOT write it for you and have no interest in debating with people who cannot be debated with because they are so locked into “their way is the only right way” modality.
I learned years ago that arguing with conventional dentists/doctors is a waste of time. I spend my time giving info to open minded people. I do not cast pearls before swine.
“Do NOT try this at home people, listen to we dental professionals and disregard nutrition as a way to keep your teeth healthy” argument is absolutely comedic. I don’t read your story with an open mind because it wasn’t written with an open mind.
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Hi,
I have read your post very carefully as I also always look at both sides. I do appreciate your logic and reason, and also your (for the most part) very respectable tone. But let me ask you this, have you actually sat down and read the entire book Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Dr. Price?
I have read the book and I can’t see how someone could read it and look at the pictures and not be convinced that nutrition plays the most important role in dental health? I’m just curious, what did you see that indicates that his work is false?
Hi Another Dentist,
Your calm and well written comments were a very refreshing change of pace compared to the other “professionals” who outright called Sarah a liar and mocked her. I have two comments about your thoughts.
One, if you remove a chunk of a tooth, an entire tooth, or a foot or finger, you cannot expect them to regenerate. But if you drill a small hole in bones, or the skin, or any other body tissue, it will heal. It may scar, but it will eventually heal. Small holes in teeth are no different.
Secondly, I always look at both sides of research. When I first discovered Dr. Price’s work, I looked at the opposing sides. I couldn’t find anything that refuted his work. A few people calling him crazy or a quack or whatever, but nothing actually indicating that they had read his work. Where have you seen something that successfully and accurately refutes his work? The person that runs quackwatch would be an example of someone who does not successfully and accurately refutes Dr, Price’s work and obviously has little understanding of his work.
“The more you come on this blog to pontificate and deny my story and the stories of others who have commented with similar stories, the more you give credence to this fact that teeth can indeed heal.”
The take away from this is that this blog contains nothing more than stories. You refuse to provide anyone with any actual evidence of any heating what so ever. If your story is true, prove it. Otherwise keep your uneducated mouth shut before you hurt someone.
Mr. “Another dentist”, you lie through your mercury-encrusted toxic teeth. In the mouth, as you well know, blood flow is not required to all surfaces because enamel is both dissolved and deposited through circulation of saliva. Perhaps you forgot that little tidbit, given the neurological damage you may be suffering from mercury exposure.
Well said, Another Dentist. I could not have said it better myself. It is biologically and physically impossible for enamel to regenerate. I believe that Sarah thinks she saw a hole but it is more likely that it was something stuck in the gum tissue or a stain in a groove that was eventually cleaned out. Its just not possible for enamel to grow back…sorry.
I do agree that dietary changes can affect your teeth. If you are eating a more wholesome, natural diet there is evidence that suggests your risk of tooth decay is decreased. The oral bacterial that cause the disease dental caries can more easily “digest” and use refined sugars and simple starches found in our modern and processed foods. With such a great food/energy supply, those bacteria can multiply more rapidly and put out more harmful by-products that lead to tooth decay. Perhaps more importantly, if you are eating a high protein and fiber diet, you are likely to eat less frequently and, therefore, you are “feeding” the bad oral bacteria less frequently. With less food, they do not thrive. That being said, diet is a preventative measure in the fight against tooth decay. There is nothing that you can eat or drink that will actually heal a cavitated lesion or hole in your tooth.
What is dangerous about Sarah’s advice is that the infection that starts out as a simple cavity that could be fixed with a filling, can progress to a more serious condition if left untreated. Painful and dangerous abscesses can form, and if the infection progresses enough, hospitalization may be required. It is especially dangerous in children. Sadly, there are cases in which children have died as a result of untreated dental problems. It is rare, but are you really willing to risk it?
Please don’t take the advice of someone who is not qualified to counsel on this subject matter and advises taking oil supplements to heal a tooth. Seek the opinion of a trained dental professional…or a few dental professionals if you would like more than one opinion. There are ways to prevent tooth decay and remineralize “soft spots” on teeth, but as many have said before, there is absolutely no way for a tooth to regenerate itself and heal a true cavity.
If you want to drill and fill, then go right ahead. Let others choose for themselves. Taking butter oil and fermented cod liver oil for a few weeks to heal a cavity is not much of a risk at all. If the dentist thought that my son’s cavity was that bad, she would have given us an appt. right away, right? I described it IN DETAIL on the phone, yet an appt a few weeks out was the best they gave me. Plenty of time to heal it as it turns out.
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Um, you are chastising Sarah’s readers for taking “the advice of someone who is not qualified to counsel on this subject matter,” but spent the previous three paragraphs giving dental advise about how enamel can’t regenerate. ??
Btw, children have died as a direct result of dental “treatment”, so are you willing to risk that?
Please don’t take the advice of anyone who has monetarily supported the ADA and its agenda of lying to the public about mercury toxicity. Such a person has ZERO credibility, as he or she devotes his or her energies to destroy the health and lives of their hapless patients. Mad as a hatter they are!
Sarah,
I exclusively see children in my practice and mothers like you make my job beyond difficult. Because of you a mother isn’t going to have one of children’s cavities restored believing that she can ‘heal it’. Rest assured I will eventually see that patient who has a true cavity when it has caused an abscess to form. My hope is at that point it has not become a life-threatening cellulitis. Perhaps more research into the ramifications of untreated dental decay might curb your missed placed enthusiasm for out-dated research. Children die EVERY year from untreated dental decay for reasons such as access to care. Please do not let a child die because you think oil capsules actually work. Are you SO SURE that you would gamble with a child’s life all because you ignorantly thought a wedged piece of lettuce was on your child’s tooth was a cavity? If you would, Sarah, you have no soul.
Tell me since you believe dental research from 1930′s with little regard to updated information do you still believe medical research from 1930 as well? Should we not use gloves, should we not test blood products before transfusion, should we only provide whiskey for anesthetic, should medical instruments be washed in this magic oil you speak of instead of sterilized? I’m sure I can find some quacked-out research that supports all of that, too.
How about IGNORED research, not outdated? Just because research is old does not make it outdated.
I love all these comments from dentists on this blog. It puts on display for the thousands of people who read this blog to see how closed minded the vast majority of dentists really are and how very cautious we must all be with what they tell us.
And,the hole was not a piece of lettuce. My husband and I both saw it appear and disappear. It wasn’t just me.
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Sarah! I thought we were done! Oh well. Just post some pictures of your son’s ‘toothhole’ , before and after, and all these crazy, immoral, and money-hungry dentists will go away……oh you say you can’t do that? Find someone else with a cavity (pretty easy to do), and use them as an example. Easy. Conflict resolved.
I don’t have a camera that would take a picture at the back of a tooth on the gumline and zoom in that close. Also, I didn’t think to take a picture at the time as I was just as shocked as anyone when it DISAPPEARED! I told you I made an appt to get it filled but started in with the butter oil heavily as the hole to me was an indication of nutritional deficiency .. I did the butter oil to prevent future cavities and was delighted that the existing one filled in.
Why can’t you stop the Doubting Thomas routine and just admit that it is possible and try it for yourself? You look silly ganging up on me calling me a liar. It makes you look desperate and very much a bully.
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Oh, and by the way. I have another anecdotal story from someone else to post very soon. So, all you dentists can wait in the wings to converge on that post and call that Mom a liar too.
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Sarah,
I just wanted to piggyback on to the well-informed comments made by “Another Dentist”. To understand the process of tooth decay, you need to look at it from the molecular level. A tooth is made up of layers. The outer layer, “enamel”, is an inorganic crystaline matrix. This matrix is made up mostly by the molecule hydroxyapatite. There is no blood or nerve supply to this layer as “another dentist” explained. In the case that the process of decay begins, acids produced by bacteria begin to “demineralize” the outer layers of enamel. This process occurs when the acid breaks the chemical bonds of the hydroxyapatite crystal, and calcium ions, phosphate ions, and other ions are lost into your saliva. Once the hydroxyapatite crystals have demineralized, the crystal structure deeper into the enamel begins to demineralize, and so on, and so on, until that demineralization process reaches the dentin layer. Once the dentin layer has been compromised, the tooth is considered to have a “cavity” and requires a filling.
Let’s take a closer look at your hypothesis that dental caries can be “cured” with the use of butter oil and cod liver oil, and how those supplements would augment the remineralization of the enamel. Since the enamel does not recieve a nutrient supply from the pulp of the tooth (because there are no pathways or vessels for those nutrients to travel in) the process of remineralization can only occur externally, through the nutrients provided in saliva. The levels of nutrients in saliva can be affected by diet for sure, but first we need to understand what nutrients are required for the remineralization process to occur. As the hydroxyapatite breaks down, calcium ions, phosphate ions, hydroxyl groups, and other ions are lost. It would stand to reason that REmineralizing the enamel would require exposure to these ions correct? It was also discovered that a fluoride ion could replace the lost hydroxyl groups in the hydroxyapatite structure, resulting in a much more acid resistant structure. This led to the inclusion of fluoride in drinking water and toothpaste in the 1950′s. Since this addition, there has been a DRAMATIC decrease in the occurence of dental caries, but I digress. In order for the two oils in question to aid in the remineralization process, they would need to have an abundanc of Calcium, phosphate, and fluoride ions, which they do not. Therefore, we can conclude that the hypothesis that they aid in the remineralization process is a false hypothesis.
Now lets take a look at the hypothesis that the introduction of these oils into the diet can heal a hole in the tooth. In order for any “healing” of a cavity to take place, there must be an inorganic matrix present for the hydroxyapetite molecules to fill in. Think of it like a hole in your roof. Without a wooden scaffolding, there is nothing for the shingles to attach to, and the roof would cave in. You postulated that your child had a hole in his tooth, and that after weeks of supplementing with oils the hole was gone. I am not here to question what you saw, I believe that you believe that there was a hole. No question, it is, however, biologically impossible for a hole in a tooth to repair itself because the matrix has been lost forever. We currently do not have the technology to regrow an enamel matrix in the mouth. God willing we will in the future, but science has not progressed that far yet. I have read the arguements above, with good points from both sides, but we can’t overlook the fact that it is impossible to regrow lost tooth structure. So that hypothesis is also debunked.
Now let’s talk about your hypothesis that Dr. Price’s work was “epic” and that he was a “visionary”. There is no denying that Dr. Price contributed greatly to the dental world. His application of the paralleling and bisecting angle technique when taking radiographs is a staple in all radiology classes taught in dental school. His application of the porcelain furnace has allowed dentistry to take leaps and bounds in the world of recreating natural looking smiles. His research regarding western diets has good points, but was flawed from a scientific standpoint, this is why it was debunked. His lack of quantitative analysis and alternate hypotheses made it impossible to reproduce his findings, and therefore made his research unacceptable in the scientific community. On a whole, there is nothing wrong with scientific findings from the past, AS LONG AS THEY CAN BE REPRODUCED. This is the basis of facts, results that can be reproduced over and over until they can be overwhelmingly accepted as truth. His research IN THE AREA OF TOOTH DECAY does not fall under this category. He is spot on with his analysis that a western diet consisting of refined sugars and starches will contribute to the progression of decay, but his research does not support the hypothesis that tooth decay can be healed.
I understand that you have a degree in economics (Phi Beta Kappa no less, well done. I am also a member of the prestigious society), and as a student of higher education, you have to force yourself to take in different views, process them, and adapt your views accordingly. Your vehement defense of your viewpoints shows that you aren’t open to different ideas on the subject. I for one have appreciated this article and subsequent debate because it has forced me to research my own knowledge of the subject, and I am more informed because of it.
As a journalist in the blogosphere, you have a responsibility to your constituents and those that happen onto your site. You owe them a well informed, researched article with MULTIPLE resources to back up your statements, just like writing a research paper in college. Your works cited is the most important part of the paper. By providing an unbalanced article, you are risking the health of the children of parents reading your articles that might not have the sense to double check the facts. I hope in the future you will look at both sides of the arguement before posting. I look forward to your response.
Hi Zak,
You are rather presumptuous in telling me what my blog should and shouldn’t do. I have no responsibility on this blog other than to blog about what I find interesting and fascinating in my life … and your take on cavities, dear sir, I find less than interesting and downright boring as it is the same old line that most dentists dish out (not all – I know several holistic dentists that teach the tooth can heal philosophy). I am interested in other realms of possibility as with Dr. Price DDS’s research which has been overlooked and underappreciated by the dental community as evidenced by your comments.
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I’m pretty sure those children who die from unfilled cavities also have very poor diets, too. They likely live in poverty and don’t have money to go to the dentist. Right? Therefore, what you say is not applicable. If you don’t fill it AND you don’t nourish the child, sure, there are going to be problems….
To all of the dentists that have previously commented – Many of you have expressed concern for the ignorant housewives, such as myself, that will blindly follow Sarah’s professional advice to the detriment of our children’s health. I would just like to remind everyone that this is a BLOG. I am under no illusion that Sarah posses some magical knowledge on the subject of dentistry. This is not a dental forum or a scientific journal. This is a blog. A place where someone can tell their own story, from their point of view, be it fact or fiction. I will take her story for what it is, an anecdotal account. It is up to me to decide how much weight I want to give it. If I want conventional dental advice I will go to a dentist. If I want to read someone’s story I will read a blog.
I have also read the work of Dr. Price and Ramiel Nagel and have put their teaching into practice in with positive results. I don’t need to read a blog to know that you can reverse cavities. I have seen it with my own eyes in my own childrens’ teeth!
D, can you not read? Dental picks do not disappear into lettuce shards. Now drink some more mercury and go back to your poisoning practice.
Sarah, what do you think might happen to filled teeth that get better on this protocol? Would the fillings just fall out as the hole fills in with new matter? I understand that all holes may not heal, since some are very large. I have had almost entire teeth full of fillings. Just curious, if I started using this protocol how would my fillings respond? And I’m not asking any of you dentists out there, so don’t even TRY to respond, please!
I don’t have many teeth left and certainly want to protect the remaining ones as much as possible. I have a tooth from which the filling dropped out, and was on stand-by at the dentist’s office to repair it since February, but nothing has opened up for me yet. I’m wondering if maybe I can heal it on my own. Yes, 3 months have passed without dental treatment and hark! I still live and breath!
Hi Naomi, a filled tooth would present a different scenario altogether. I don’t think fillings would fall out unless they were very small ones. Sounds like yours are larger, drilled out areas however. Your dental health and risk of future cavities would no doubt be reduced considerably by following Dr. Weston Price DDS’s protocol.
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How can I determine the proper dosage of the CLO and the butter oil for my kids (and, heck, myself)?
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Hi Sarah, I really appreciate you blog! Its so much help to me! My kids were just at the dentist yesterday and my 8 yr old had four small ( I cant see or feel them) cavities and my 4 yr old has ‘soft spots’ that arent yet cavities. Do give my kids a nourishing diet for the most part, but still not perfectly, I am definatly going to try the FCLO and BO and hope for the best but Im wondering should I go to a different dentist to get them rechecked? My dentist is ‘holistic’ but all that means at this particular dentist is that they dont do mercury fillings. The nutrition stanpoint is still shunned, so Im wondering if they would just say the cavities are still there even if they happen to heal…
If it were my kids, Sara, I would hit the FCLO/BO hard (twice a day) for a few weeks and then go to different dentist to see what he/she says (don’t say anything about the other dentist’s diagnosis).
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As I read this, I became a bit saddened. Our kids are getting sicker and sicker, and we all need to work together to find ways of improving their health. I’m a dentist too, and I’ve read Dr. Price’s book, and what he wrote sounds reasonable. We need to give it a chance before we shoot it. Why not try it? Why not improve the diets of our children? Let’s listen to each other. As dental/medical professionals we can learn a lot from this parents that work so hard everyday to make bone broths, lacto fermented foods, homemade bread, and on and on. It is hard work. How dare we accuse them of being liars or having no heart? We earned a degree to work for them, for the community and their families. And they in turn, should feel comfortable in taking their kids to us, and that we will give them the best advice possible. Doctors are needed when prevention, or diet, or hygiene is not working. We forget who we work for. On the other hand, there has been times when I’ve given dental advice on other blogs or forums like these, and my input is always shot down, because its not what the community wants to hear. We can all learn from each other.
Harmony .. SO GLAD you commented. Thank you. I KNEW there were some dentists out there who would be open to some new ways of thinking (actually old ways that are being rediscovered).
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I love that Harmony left a comment here. I hope to bridge more of the disconnect between the holistic community and mainstream medicine as well. There is much to learn from each other, yes, but also I already take the best from both communities myself! We are lucky to have ancient wisdom coupled with current research (if you can sift through the kinds that are “bought”).
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THANK YOU!!! my family and i started GAPS and taking CLO/BO shortly after you posted this. i had a HUGE cavity in one of my molars that i could literally stick my tongue into. the cavity is still there but it is a fraction of the size. i can finally have ice touch my teeth when i drink without pain also.
my 4 and 2 year olds had cavities also. we had gone to the dentist about a week before you posted. they both “needed” work done. we figured that we would wait it out for a month and try this first. couldn’t hurt, right? boy, am i glad we did!
my 4 year old has STOPPED complaining of tooth pain. his cavities are visibly MUCH smaller.
my 2 year old had amelogenesis imperfecta. some of his molars are completely healed. he had some teeth that had NO enamel on them whatsoever. they now have some enamel and everyday i can visibly see more.
thank you!!!! i can’t wait until our next appointment for the dentist to see the difference!
I saved my son’s front upper baby teeth by putting black walnut extract on them every night before bed. He had a bunch of defective teeth, due I’m sure to a nutritional issue during pregnancy. I had read that topical fluoride could reverse tooth decay and a dentist actually told me that applying topical fluoride was one thing we could do for the teeth. I didn’t want to use the chemical version and had read that black walnut hulls were high in naturally occurring fluoride so I decided to try. The black spots on his teeth went away, the decay stopped and he kept the teeth for another 3+ years until they fell out naturally.
This is a great story! Thanks for sharing it! I was just at dentist this week and he thought one of the small outside fillings he had done on one of my very old wisdom teeth had a small cavity underneath it. (under the filling) On second thought/look he said it was NOT a cavity YET but that I should ‘watch’ it. I am 48 and have already had a bad root canal extracted and all my mercury fillings switched to the white stuff! I am curious if you think that this butter oil remedy would help my POSSIBLE cavity under that filling on my wisdom tooth? I HATE dental work and would love to heal this rather than see it get worse. In other words, can adults use this remedy too? I already eat butter alot though it is not raw. Is the ‘raw’ part important? Thanks ! Julie
Raw grassfed butter is more potent and has the anticavity Activator X in it whereas store butter may or may not.
Hi Sarah. You may know of this book already, but as I was looking for the Weston Price book on Amazon, I found this title, “Cure Tooth Decay: Heal and Prevent Cavities with Nutrition”, by Ramiel Nagel. I thought your readers would like to know about it too. The foreword is by a DDS, so there’s at least one more out there in support of nutrition to strengthen our teeth. :0)
Hi Sarah,
My interest was really piqued about this cure b/c my husband has a very painful cavity developing and told him about it and he was excited to try it – until I read about the fermented cold liver oil aspect – you see he has a severe allergy to any and all fish related things that trigger his asthma… I went to the Green Pastures website to see what they said about this and even they recommend avoidance of their product should you have a fish allergy… So what do we do for him? Do you know of any alternatives to the FCLO??? I feel like if I don’t get an alternative answer for him very soon he will just go to the dentist to get it filled b/c of his pain… Help! I have a willing and receptive person for now but not for long!
Hi Karen, lots of liver! 2-3 times per week would be great!
Thank you for your reply Sarah,
The only thing about liver 2-3 times per week is that he is a vegetarian and would be not at all receptive to that route! (although I am working on him slowly and steadily to get him to eat meat again…)
Any other suggestions? He is severely allergic to all nuts and fish and is vegetarian… Tall order, I know!
Hi Karen Elpant,
I would steer him away from vegetarianism if he has tooth decay that doesn’t go away even with the inclusion of raw dairy and eggs. I’ve heard Sally Fallon stating that some people may need to eat beef or other red meats every day due to their specific nutritional requirements possibly due to ancestory. I would recommend him read the book “The Vegetarian Myth,” by Lierre Keith.
With regards to the allergies and asthma, it seems that his gut is not in good condition, and may need to be on a special diet in order to fully be healed. I recommend the GAPS diet for him because it can heal the gut, eventually eliminating all of his allergies, and even his asthma.
Hi Sarah,
We are going to try the cod liver/butter oil to try to get rid of some cavities. We do our best eat a healthy and balanced diet. Could you provide some guidance regarding key foods that we should avoid or be sure to eat to get maximum effectiveness from this treatment?
Thanks!
Hi Lisa,
I would avoid all processed foods. Be sure to consume animal foods rich in vitamins A, D, and K2 on a daily basis like grassfed butter, liver, fish eggs, etc.
I’ve been reading these comments with interest, and decided to weigh in with my “testimonial” if you will. My 16 y.o. daughter was diagnosed with a cavity (her first) on May 10. I read your post on May 12.
My interest was piqued and thought we had a perfect test situation. She was willing to play along and so I immediately ordered some FCLO and butter oil capsules. I also made an appointment for filling the tooth for July 6 (couldn’t get in earlier because dd was going to camp for 4 weeks). During those weeks, while she was at home she diligently took the oils, and ate good food. At camp, she was very inconsistent with it, and ate junk (she is a teenager, after all).
At her appointment last week, I urged the dentist to show me the cavity because I couldn’t see it, and she was having no discomfort. Well, he had a hard time finding it! It was a teeny, tiny soft spot. He said he could use a “football” to open it up and then put a sealant on it. Considering this to be a good compromise, I agreed. It took about ten minutes, no anesthesia necessary, NO FILLING!
I sincerely believe that had she not been at camp with the poor food quality, and inconsistent usage of the oils, it would be gone. Note that I did not read your post: “neglect going to the dentist.” I love my kids more than anyone, including the dentist, and if there is something I can do to avoid the mouthful of metal fillings that are in my mouth, I’ll do it. I will not however, compromise their health by neglect.
Thank you for bravely sharing your life and wisdom with those who are interested in what you have to say.
I too have read this whole page and would also like to add my experience. I will try to be brief with what I can, forgive typo’s I am typing fast. 10 yrs ago, my 2nd daughter was 2 3/4 yrs old at the time. She had candida issues that my reg. Ped. could not identify or help me with other than steroids and other drugs. We were complete S.A.D. eaters. She also had 8 cavities 4 on the top front teeth, and 4 behind the top front teeth. Upon return home from the diagnosis of these cavities from our Ped. Dentists, in the entry of my home, I knelt down before her and with tears in my eyes I vowed before her and God that I WOULD find the answers to her problems and I apologized to her for not already possessing this information that I SHOULD have possessed to raise her properly and to pass on to her and her children. I had all of her cavities filled as these were baby teeth, her apt. with the dentist was only 3 days away. It was done. I then began to read ALL that I could find on the computer on pulp, enamel, decay, carries, etc. I did not know who or what to believe, so I began with a “clean” slate. We went raw vegan. Over the next 2 years my son (my youngest who was 4 at this time) developed 6 cavities, my oldest 8yrs old had developed 1 cavity and myself 3 cavities one of which was VERY bad. We ALL had been grinding our teeth when sleeping and clenched them during waking hours. I had migraines that were debilitating due to the constant clenching and severe grinding, my dentist told me I would probably never stop grinding, that I would not find the answer to my grinding because “it is not medically know why people do it”. My children would wake me in the night with their grinding and their teeth became worn from it. We were about 90% raw vegan which is very high. Still something inside me could NOT help but give them raw goat cheese, and weekly wild salmon (thank GOD). We had an amazing diet with all of the raw green juice, smoothies, nut loafs, salads, eggplant bacon, raw soups… just amazing dishes and foods, however our Raw Vegan diet had failed us. 2 years 9months into being raw vegan my 4yr old son had 6 cavities. I had only 2 of them filled right away. the rest I prolonged the apt.’s for and I got in my truck and I made a B-Line for the local book store to purchase “Nourishing Traditions” AND “Nutrition and Physical Degeneration” THEY HAD THEM BOTH !! I was amazed. I then made a B-Line for my local Whole Foods Market and purchased all that I could find there for me to replicate the meal protocol that Weston Price HALTED & REVERSED rampant decay with when he gave this one meal to mission clinic groups of children ( 7th Edition, Chap.22, Pg. 428-433) I went straight home and made my first vat of Mediterranean Fish Soup (Nourishing Traditions revised 2nd ed. Pg. 207) I also bought what I could at Whole Foods for CLO (nordic naturals) as I waited for my green pastures to come in… I made the soup that afternoon and gave it to my family that night and for the next 6 nights. yes they were sick of the soup lol. During that week I also made my own sourdough starter (pg489) and old world sourdough rye bread (pg490) so they also ate this bread with lots of grass fed butter along with the CLO and the rest of the protocol meal. On day 4 NO ONE in my family was grinding their teeth. Not one of us. I also took note that my constant headache was no more and I did not have any other migraines from then on. I followed this protocol for my family for 8 months varying the soup as Dr. Price did with the mission children. At this 8 month mark I took my son back to the Ped. Dentist for another x-ray. He said he could still see the decay slightly. But I could not see it on the films… so I took my son for a 2nd opinion to another dentist. While I cringed at the thought of a 2nd x-ray… it was digital which is less radiation, and I just needed to know for sure. This dentist said that he could not find any decay on my son’s teeth or on x-ray. My son is now 10 years old. We have followed a Weston Price diet for the past 6 years and have not looked back. I now understand what our S.A.D. diet and raw vegan diet lacked and why we had decay with each of them.
I don’t understand why many dentist and professionals in the dental industry INSIST that enamel does not regenerate…. but will sell you a tube of MI paste, a complex of casein phosphopeptides (CPP) and amorphous calcium phosphate (ACP) for about $20 to $25 in the bat of an eye http://www.mi-paste.com/faq_10.php OR tell you to use a mouth wash that will “remineralize” your teeth, OR a toothpaste for “strengthening and rebuilding your enamel” http://www.crest.com/crest-products/3D-white-advanced-vivid-enamel-renewal-toothpaste.aspx
I mean it’s ALL over the place. Such contradiction. And I really don’t understand “Professionals” who do not act “Professional” when confronted with sincere questions and or people who sincerely share their experiences.
“First you guess. Don′t laugh, this is the most important step. Then you compute the consequences. Compare the consequences to experience. If it disagrees with experience, the guess is wrong. In that simple statement is the key to science. It doesn′t matter how beautiful your guess is or how smart you are or what your name is. If it disagrees with experience, it′s wrong. That′s all there is to it.”
Richard Feynman
“…man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but usually manages to pick himself up, walk over or around it, and carry on.”
Winston Churchill
“It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.”
Henri Poincare
One more note… I frequent a good handful of health websites, one of which is a message board for children with autism… I have no issues with autism… but the things these Moms are doing with their children… actually “recovering” them … is AMAZING. It is well known that children with autism do not utilize calcium properly and so there is a protocol called the “vitamin K protocol” where there is a list of supplements to give these kids to help their brains function properly, utilize calcium properly etc. Well it has been reported over, and over, and over again by these parents that their children’s teeth improve dramatically on this protocol. It involves probiotics, fat soluble vitamins A, D and of course K (as well as other supplements) I can see the correlations with Price’s findings all over the place.
Thanks Sarah for your AMAZING dedication to being the Mom & wife that you are, you inspire me and MANY other people who are all in search for truth.
Great post, thanks so much for sharing. =)
Wow, thanks for this post. I just bought the Nourishing Traditions book, I’d been on the fence about it. Also been on the fence about soaking grains… do you/did you use ANY grains? That’s my big remaining question. My 5 yr old has more than 2 black cavities in her mouth, from, I know now, holding frozen blueberry skins in her mouth every afternoon… Anyhow, cutting sugar OUT, and been doing the FCLO/with GHEE (grassfed Indianfoods ghee) instead of the butter oil. Ordered REAL centrifuged butter oil last week, should be here this week, so will do IT with the FCLO instead of the ghee… or maybe with the ghee. Anyhow, using xylitol toothpaste and sugar substitute too. I’m now a little scared of sugar with my daughter, and using a lot of mouthwash to keep her mouth clean. So the only thing I’m on the fence now about is the grain question… any comments will be appreciated, especially if they’re from personal experiences!
I am having some problems with my son’s teeth and would like to try the cod liver oil but he is allergic to cows milk so i don’t think i can do the butter oil. Is there anything else we could use or would just the cod liver oil work? he is also allergic to coconut. Thanks!
Hey I just started using it today it does not taste to fine but I really hope it works and is there anything to get rid of the taste I am using lemon flavored right now
and can u spread it out when u have it or does it needed to be all at the same time?
Are these a good choice too? http://www.greenpasture.org/public/Products/ButterCodLiverBlend/index.cfm
Thanks!
Ashley
I am 17 years old, I have 7 cavities, it hurts to brush mt teeth
so what do I get/ how mutch do I take
I have no clue what any of this stuff is
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Hi, wow! I am so encouraged by this. I was recently told by my dentist that I have four cavities, and was so bummed out. I thought I had been eating okay, but clearly not well enough. These were my first cavities ever! I got the first two filled last week, and after coming home from the appointment, I picked up my copy of Nourishing Traditions, and decided that now (at the age of 22) was the time to really commit to eating traditional and nourishing foods. I thought that I would still probably have to go back to the doctor to finish getting the other two cavities filled, but I think that I am going to cancel that appointment and try to heal my teeth with food first. Thank you for the encouragement!
Christiana
We were recently told that my son’s front tooth was “dead” because it was turning grey near the root and that he would need a root canal or it will get infected. The dentist says this could be from trauma to the tooth many, many years ago – which doesn’t sound right to me.This sounds very drastic, but we do not know what else to do. Do you have any knowledge or resources to help us? Thank you.
My 5 year old son has 4 very tiny cavities on his back molars. They want to sedate him in order to fill them because he isn’t the best patient in the world. I was wondering, since your blog is about a teenage boy, how much butter oil and cod liver oil to give a 5 year old that weighs about 33-35 pounds? Also, can you give it to a 2 year old? On the Green Pastures site, you can buy a combonation of the butter oil and cod liver oil. Do you suggest that or buy them each seperately? Thank you so much for this blog and information. I am excited to try it out before doing any sedation on him.
As a mom who has read several, several articles on this blog and learned a lot I do have to say that I don’t really think you can ‘heal’ an actual cavity. I am in no way discounting what sara saw happen to her son.
I just think it sounds a little extreme and fantastical to heal a cavity with just butter and cod liver oil. I think my main concern is the fact that this idea is only based on a study from the 1920′s. I just feel a little uneasy about trusting a study from that long ago when we know so much more about our bodies and medicine today. I would love to see a little more recent information on this topic. I’m all for trying this method while I wait to take my kids to the dentist, but I don’t think I’ll be cancelling any of their or my own appointments to get our cavities filled.
Sara- thank you for some very good advice and tips on many other things. I just don’t think I can grasp this one as much.
You really wouldn’t be so skeptical if you had read Dr. Price’s book.
I healed 5 gumline cavities in 6 months and need only 20 minute cleanings every 6 months since. I use xylitol, baking soda and fine celtic salt to brush my teeth . The baking soda takes the minerals from the greyish salt and builds teeth. The xylitol kills off some of cavity causing bacteria. Simple and even can swallow this. My grandfather used baking soda and celtic salt for 50 years and had his teeth until 97. He said none of the dental work in his mouth was from salt and baking soda. Toothpaste has glycerin in it which keeps the minerals from fixing your teeth again. So make your own. Amazon and vitacost have ingredients. Baking soda from grocery store.
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My grandpa told me that he would rub his teeth with raw ham meat every night before bed and he had all his teeth till he died at age 42. I have been using similar treatmeat for 6 years now and things been good. The meat smell got rid of my nagging wife and now I suppliment with Benson & Hedges smokes. Pretty happy with results, I will add the cod liver to this and report any improvements.
Here’s a story about how butter oil (ghee) + cod liver oil cured a cavity naturally…. http://t.co/EuhrqaCD
Really cool to hear what I already suspected. Having never had a cavity I never could try and heal one myself. I have a pretty tiny chip on my front tooth that has been “fixed”. I’m sure it will eventually come off. Do you or anyone else know if a chip could heal itself? Anyone have any ideas if it falls off way down the road and I can’t see a dentist? Might just have to live with a little “character” as it doesn’t affect function really?
Ok….I’m a believer! I never have dental problems….but about 2 months ago I had a toothache that wouldn’t go away. Eating and drinking hurt. I took a look in the mirror and there was a tiny dark spot on the top of one of my back teeth right where the pain was. I already had a routine dental cleaning appt in 3 weeks so I decided to give the natural thing a shot. I already ate grass-fed butter but I really slathered it on now. I started taking FCLO oil daily too. By the time my dental appt came around, the pain and the dark spot were gone! I even asked my dentist to check that area out and told him I had been having trouble there. He said “Everything looks perfect. I don’t see anything.” Ha! I love it!! Be it chance or real, I don’t care….seemed to work for me!
I don’t know where you’re getting the idea that nobody believes that teeth can heal, especially dentists. Current evidence does support that teeth can heal. There’s no question about that. Inflammation of the pulp can be quelled. An injured tooth can grow reparative dentin. Enamel can remineralize. But you can’t ignore biological facts: you are not going to re-grow enamel whose structure has been compromised to the point of cavitation.
Allowing a tooth to heal naturally does not preclude working with a dentist and I hope people with problems can locate a reasonable professional to work with. A dentist should be your partner. They have the tools and knowledge to assess the state of your oral health in an accurate manner. You are a consumer of their services and have the right to refuse treatment and go against advice if you please.
I hope anyone with younger kids, especially, doesn’t put their kids’ health at risk by not working together with a trusted dentist. There are options out there besides drill & fill. For example, my 15 mo daughter had decay all around her top 4 incisors and the standard of care would be crowns, possibly pulpotomies all under general anesthesia. Instead, we opted for ART (manual removal of decayed tooth structure – soft and beyond repair) followed by ozone (to remove the bacterial load and jump on remineralization) and temporary fillings to aid cleaning. This was all done in 15 mins without anesthetics. The treatment was successful and we maintain her oral health on a largely sugar-free and grain-free diet. I tend to think the success that people have with the WAP diet is in large part due to the lack of fermentable substrate which would otherwise feed pathogenic bacteria.
Sarah,
Based on your description of your son’s “cavity”, it doesn’t sound like it was a cavity at all. That is not where they form. You cannot diagnose dental caries. You have not been trained to. You don’t know what they look like, where they form, or what they feel like when they are probed, PERIOD! Everything else that has been stated about enamel being unable to remineralize itself once cavitated is also true. This is what the research has shown, and the research is the most unbiased source of truth we have. Don’t accuse those who hold to it of being close-minded.
Research funded by harmaceutical companies and/or the mercury-pushers in ADA comprises the best lies money can buy. And that’s about all it’s worth. Much of it is pure fiction, ghost-written for the journals by credentialed con men. Seriously, Dave, have you had your blood mercury levels checked recently? Seems like your prefrontal cortex functioning has been impaired by mercury toxicity.
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Cavities do indeed form along the gumline frequently. I don’t need to be “trained” to know what a cavity looks like. Anyone can plainly see a hole or decay (black spots ) on a tooth and identify what that is. I even talked to the dentist about it and based on my verbal description, he said that would definitely be a cavity.
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Actually, Sarah, you do need to be trained to know what a cavity looks like. A cavity is more than simply a hole in a tooth. It is true that they often form along the gumline, but it is almost always on the buccal side, and almost never on the lingual side (especially on an upper incisor), like you have described. I wish I could have been there when you and your husband found this “cavity”. I don’t know how you managed to convince yourselft that you stuck a probe in it. All I know is that I have seen hundreds of cavities on upper incisors and I have never seen one that was as you have described.
I am so excited to find this article through NaturalNews.com! My 19 year old son has a cavity and I would like to begin implementing the use of Butter Oil capsules and Cod Liver Oil to begin healing it until I can get him to a dentist. If I give him 3 Butter Oil capsules and 1 tsp Cod Liver Oil , this will be enough? I hope this is enough.
Hi Molly, hopefully it is the fermented cod liver oil. If your son is on a nourishing traditional diet this has a good chance to work. I would also recommend the book Cure Tooth Decay by Rami Nagel which goes into how teeth heal in more detail than this blog does.
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Oh Sarah! My son *knows* he should be eating healthier but chooses not to. He did agree to eat healthier at least while we try this, so we’ll see. I may be making an emergency appointment to the dentist if he doesn’t take this seriously. Yes, it is the fermented cod liver oil. Thank you for the book title.
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really???? How I Healed My Child’s Cavity — The Healthy Home Economist http://t.co/ggaV3WT0
Wow, this is an amazing story of natural healing of cavities. Check it out! http://t.co/0jb0vdE9
Wow, this is a pretty amazing story of how 1 woman was able to heal her child’s cavity without drilling & filling! http://t.co/DkLC6c5H
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Amazing: How To Heal A Cavity Without Drilling & Filling
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This is really revolutionary if true. I am skeptical. Are you saying a tooth should be able to regenerate itself if I took its fillings out? What was your son’s typical diet throughout the week. What exactly was he eating. Please elaborate.
If you look at her website and read just a few of her blogs, you will know that Sara feeds her children a nutrient dense diet, based on foods that traditional cultures have thrived on for hundreds of thousands of years. There’s a lot of variety involved in traditional eating, but some good foods to start out with would be traditional fats and sacred foods.
Traditional fats include butter, cream, and tallow from healthy, grass-fed cows, lard from pastured pigs, virgin coconut oil, cold-pressed olive oil, and, as Sara mentioned above, fermented cod liver oil, taken in conjunction with high-vitamin butter oil. All of these whole, unrefined fats contain the fat-soluble vitamins A, D, and K, that are essential for human health, as these vitamins allow you to absorb all of your OTHER vitamins.
Some other excellent foods to provide optimum nutrition for your body would be sacred foods, that is, foods that many traditional cultures have held sacred in their societies for special feeding to members of the community who needed extra nutrition, such as women of child-bearing age, pregnant women, children, and the elderly. These sacred foods included grass-fed butter, as afore mentioned, liver of all kinds, fish eggs, and pastured chicken egg yolks. All of these foods contain a huge collection of vitamins and minerals in large quantities.
I hope this helps, Jason, but I absolutely encourage you to do your own research about traditional eating. I assure you, it is an enlightening experience!
Ariel
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Hi Jason,
Look at this paper : http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2009/03/reversing-tooth-decay.html
now it’s there, now it’s gone… http://t.co/yvOhJv5F
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I would love to drill a large hole in a front tooth and document the healing process with daily photos. Any volunteers?
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It’s so encouraged that dental problems can be solved by 100% natural and non-intrusive method. I suffer from severe periodontal disease for more than 10 years and spent a lot of money on dentist but the disease just keep coming back again again and again after each treatment. I’m sure that it is not a problem caused by any improper teeth brushing habit. What is your opinion? Is there any diet can save my life of my teeth? Thank you very much if you can provide your precious advice.
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Thank you so much for this article! I’ve had issues with my teeth recently and haven’t wanted to go to the big D as I KNEW there had to be a way to heal them naturally. I had asked the universe just a few days ago to show me what to do about it, and up pops a reference to your article via Mike Adams and naturalnews.com! All I have to do now is find raw butter. Ghee I can make and Cod Liver Oil I already have.. and the honey can be purchased right up the street. Thanks again!
Best regards,
John
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Hi Sarah,
I tried to read through all the comments to see if you answered this, but there are so many. I got half way through.
My question is, do you have to have raw butter also to heal the cavity? Would the butter oil and CLO have healed your son’s cavity alone without the raw butter?
Thanks
Hi Sarah,
My kid is three years old and i found cavity on his two front teeth, how much FCLO/BO i should give to him….
i received a jar of the fermented cod live oil/butter, which i ordered based on your recommendation. i do not blame you; maybe it worked for your son. my problem was the smell of the stuff. i have a large kitchen, and just taking the top off the jar immediately sent the horrific order all through the room.
i made a second try, thinking i’d misjudged the smell. i put a very small amount on a slice of bread, but could not eat it. i tried to give my dog the piece of bread; he wouldn’t touch it. this dog will eat anything, including what the cats leave in the yard.
i guess some have stronger stomachs. i was told by the Green Pastures person that the smell was normal for the product.
i am out $50+, but i guess the lesson was learned: don’t believe everything you read; trust your nose; don’t open the jar again; buy locally where you can ask for/get refund for unsatisfactory product.
What to do if your child is allergic to dairy? He can’t even do ghee. We are starting the GAPS diet, but I need something now. He also reacts a little to the fermented cod liver oil, but it is not big – a runny nose and sneezing (which he only does after his dose). Should I keep him on the FCO or take him off that too? He is 5 years old. Thanks for any help.
I have the same story only more dramatic. My two-year-old daughter hit her tooth on the bathroom sink and took two big chunks out of her front teeth. They were obvious. But since they were baby teeth we were just going to let them alone until she aged and they fell out. We started drinking raw milk that year. I didn’t really see any difference for a year. Then we moved to our house and had all the raw goat milk, yogurt and butter we could eat. Plus our freerange chicken eggs. Two months ago I looked at my daughter and realized she has perfect teeth. I was shocked. Asked her to let me look at her teeth. I can see a tiny line on her teeth outlining where the crags used to be. If I wasn’t looking at it with a magnifying glass I wouldn’t be able to tell anything had happened to them. This happened over the space of two years. the missing pieces were each half the size of a pencil eraser.
Sarah, I am very confused with so many comments. I want to purchase the cod liver oil and butter oil for me, my son 14 and my daughter 13. What is the best to get from Green Pastures? They have the mixed version and seperate version, emulsified and regular. I am new to all this. Funny & short story, my 1st job was in a drug/food store in a depressed area (didn’t know that info at the time 16 years old), the african american people would always come in in the winter time and purchase cod liver oil. I was told it keeps you healthy in the winter!!! The one man said he has been taking it for his whole life. He must have been 70 or 80 at the time I met him. Now it comes back to me full circle. I should have listened to him,
Could someone please tell me if I can still make raw butter oil at home. Buying it seems sooooo expensive and also……..Can I use regular CLO or does it have to be fermented to be effective?
I had severe tooth pain at the root all the way to the tooth end and the dentist took one look and sad Root Canal. Not an option. I was to heal it, but I need to know if it needs to be CLO or FCLO? and how to make my own raw butter oil.
It sounds great but I need to do more research before doing this. I have a few cavities myself that I need to fix.
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Hey all
I’m not here to argue so I’m just going to leave one message and leave it at tha
I’m all for home remedies, some have worked great, others have bombed. I slept with my foot soaked in apple cider vinegar for two weeks and lost all of some gross warts..so I’m willing to try things, I’m not doubting you.
This is about drilling dentists (haha) and that they’re all about money and such and about a tooth problem that I had five years ago that almost killed me. My family had no dental insurance and I was developing a cavitiy so we tried dozens of methods to heal it, while staying healthy with foods and bringing a toothbrush to school. One morning I woke up and there was a massive abcess on my gums around my tooth that we thought we’d fixed. I pushed my tongue against my gums and the tooth would move very far out. I became very sick and almost numb because the infection from the tooth was moving through my mouth into other parts of my body. My mom picked me up and I had to go into emergency surgery. Everything turned out fine, thank God…but the bill. My cavity could have killed me that day (I swear to God I’m not lying) and we were out thousands of dollars. We were already in debt and had no idea what to do and felt hopeless…then the doctor looked at us and waived the entire bill. I kid you not!
Now I’m happily married in San Diego, finishing all of my college work but living off of my Navy
sailors paycheck. I will always support the military but the insurance sucks. I got diagnosed with epilepsy a couple of years ago and everything was A-OK until I got a few toothaches. It had nothing to do with my problem when I was in h.s, I found out that my epilepsy meds were eating away my teeth’s enamel while I was sleeping. Now I’m living on the west coast I lived in Milwaukee) and the cost of dental is a bit more here and the Navy only covers 1,500 dollars of dental for spouses each year. I had my teeth looked at it turned out thay meds had my whole mouth rotting. About 15-ish cavities. I looked at the bill estimate in the office and started balling. The hygenist went and got the dentist
-oops! I got cut off.
(ctd)… The estimate was 10,100 dollars,which for three root canals and twelve csvities sounds about right. The dentist came in and I said “we really can’t afford this” and he told me, “I do this because I love it and I loved people, I want to help you” he told the papers and crossed off s bunvhtuff and handed it back to me..he knocked off 8,000. My teeth and bank acvount will live another day!
I just mean to say that they’re not ALL liars and crooks. An untreated tooth really can , no matter how rare, can kill you, and I saved fifteen grand. Maybe home remedies can heal a tooth, but it’s worth seeing someone. Cheers and happy holidays!
I had an experience with a ‘healed cavity’. When I was in college my dentist found a cavity, but I couldn’t afford to fix it right away. By the time I went back to the dentist, it was gone. This has been nearly 30 years ago, and still no cavity there. I wasn’t taking any supplements or trying to heal the cavity, so I’m not sure why this happened, but obviously it can happen.
I’m grateful to have dentists in real emergencies, but it does seem like a lot of growth in the nutrition/dentistry area is still waiting to happen.
We’ll, I ordered both for myself. I have a cavity and sure hope those work for
a 55 y.o. woman…
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Thanks for sharing your wonderful work and news, Sarah. I’m a huge, huge fan of Dr. Price and his discoveries. My daughter was getting large cavities left and right a couple years ago. I was starting to get 2. I put both of us on butter oil alone, weekday mornings…just enough to cover half a piece of toast. My small ones cleared up completely…xrays proved it. My daughter no longer has big holes in her teeth at all. I see 0 cavities. I took her to the dentist recently, she has 2 small ones. My plan: Give her butter oil 2x a day (14 doses/’week vs our old 5), do sun lamp for vitamin d (so we don’t overdose), and rub cod liver oil on her skin (she won’t take it orally) so she can get some transdermally. i’m also going to feed her crab legs a couple times a month. And floss brush with just water at night (due to glycerin making remineralization tougher), and brush with weleda salt toothpaste (fluroide free) in the morning. I have high hopes to knock out those 2 little cavities. Then I will keep her on this higher dose regimen.
p.s. the cod liver oil i’ll rub on her skin won’t have vitamin d added to it. it’s nordic naturals. i’m not going for fermented since i personally don’t think it’s good to supplement vitamin d in case of overdose (toxic) and i don’t want to do regular blood tests to check.
i didn’t go to the dentist for 13 years (before i had kids). then when i did finally go i had 0 cavities. i suspect if i’d gone regularly, they would have found something small that was able to heal over on its own. I’ve only had 3 small fillings my whole life (all at 12 yrs when i got braces on), and i didn’t need anesthesia, they were so small. my daughter has vitamin absorption issues (half size placenta..anomaly) so it’s crucial i help her problems from the root up. that’s when i did research a couple years ago and learned about the amazing dentist Weston A. Price and all his fabulous, true research. It’s real. ‘Activator X’ (Vitamin K2) that he discovered is the missing key for HEALING and forever preventing cavities. We’d tried extra fluroide in the past w/ zero improvement. We also tried sun lamp and cod liver oil, with no noticeable improvement. But once we started that butter oil, I noticed an improvement in my daughter’s cavities within a couple weeks and then huge, huge improvements w/in 2-3 months. My theory is you need to keep taking it. It’s pricey, but one bottle used to last us both 3 months. Now I’m aiming for 1 bottle a month, at least for awhile, but that is sooooooooo
worth it for my daughter’s health and happiness. there’s nothing she hates more than the shot in her gum and the ‘plastic raincoat’ (rubber dam) that makes it hard for her to breathe, and then the drilling. Not to mention fixing the teeth will fix her full body health. Butter oil and clo are full of vitamins you can’t get elsewhere and these vitamins are awesome for all the body systems. Good luck everyone. Believe these reports, they are true.
No one has ever overdosed on vitamin D with cod liver oil. EVER. Nordic Naturals is a worthless brand as there is basically no vitamin D in it at all to do much of any good.
The people who overdose on vitamin D are those who take vitamin D drops, pills etc in isolation. When you take it as food, the vitamin A and K synergize with the vitamin D helping to prevent toxicity.
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thanks for this article! i have just the liquid butter oil (solid in the fridge). what do you think is the equivalent to one capsule?
One capsule is about 1/8 of a tsp I think.
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Hi, interesting story…
I have a few cavities in my mouth as a 40 years old male, that really started in the past 3 years. I am taking Cod Liver Oil, i.e. 1 teaspoon per day… Enough and with it i take 1 teaspoon of just pure unsalted raw butter. You speak of butter oil, what is this? Is ordinary raw unsalted butter not good?
Regards
Mark
Hi Sarah – would love to hear what I can do to help heal cavities for me. I am 55 years old and they want to pull a tooth that has a couple cavities at the base of a crown. I am a bit hypoglycemic (reading about the honey) and don’t each much grains (toast) – have a sensitive system at this time. Trying to make out the recipe amidst all the info – could you make it simple. Where to buy, what to take and how much? My dental appt was reschedule for a few weeks from now and I’d LOVE to save my tooth and have a couple other cavities be healed. Thank you for your quick response at the holidays if possible!
Sacred foods are what you need for healthy strong teeth in older age. Please see my videoblog on this.
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Hi Sarah! I read your article and I was impressed. I bought the cod oil/butter oil capsules for my 4 year old son who seems to have not that good teeth and without really changing his diet (he eats few things mostly bread and pasta and a couple of sweets every day) we did see an impressing change on him. He used to have yellow teeth although i brush them every day and one of his tooth had something like a crack un ugly one. After one bottle of the stuff his teeth became whiter and the crack is less visible now. I expect the second bottle now and i have to say that it is really working. I wish i could affort to use them on myself! Even my hubby noticed the difference on our son’s teeth, i thought it was just me! So thank you for the recomandation and many kisses from Greece. Your blog is really great and interesting and many Greeks are reading it. Keep up the good work!