The Dental Diet: The Surprising Link Between Your Teeth, Real Food, And Life-Changing Natural Health by Steven Lin BDent (USyd) BMSci (UOW) Audible Book

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Throughout the years, dental health has often been characterized as a reflection of our overall health, where bad oral health results from issues with other parts of our body. But what if we flipped the paradigm? What if we thought about dental health as the foundation for our physical health as a whole? Dr. Steven Lin, an experienced dentist and the world’s first dental nutritionist, has analyzed our ancestral traditions, epigenetics, gut health, and the microbiome in order to develop food-based principles for a literal top-down holistic health approach. Merging dental and nutritional science, Dr. Lin lays out the dietary program that can help ensure you won’t need dental fillings or cholesterol medications—and give you the resources to raise kids who develop naturally straight teeth. With our mouth as the gatekeeper of our gut, keeping our oral microbiome balanced will create a healthy body through a healthy mouth. Dr. Lin arms you with a 40-day meal plan, complete with the Dental Diet food pyramid, exercises for the mouth, recipes, and cooking techniques to help you easily and successfully implement his techniques into your everyday life. The tools to improve overall wellness levels and reverse disease are closer than we think—in our markets, in our pantries, and, most frequently, in our mouths—if not just a well-chosen bite or two away. Author Information Dr. Steven Lin is a board-accredited dentist, speaker, and author. Frustrated by the dental profession’s limited approach to applying without addressing the cause of disease, Dr. Lin merged anthropological, physiological, and nutritional science with oral health to integrate effective prevention strategies into his dental practice. A passionate health educator, Dr. Lin engages in a wide variety of community and institutional programs to grow awareness of preventative lifestyles. He is the dental expert for I Quit Sugar, the online platform of best-selling author Sarah Wilson. Dr. Lin is based out of Sydney, Australia.

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Nothing new for me, March 07, 2018
By Cheryl

If you know anything about the Paleo diet or Weston Price or the Nourishing Traditions book, then this book is yet another book along those lines. Eat no processed foods and stay away from processed grains and sugar and drink some bone broth, plus eat plenty of vegetables with healthy fats and protein.

After 20 years of being sick, I believe the real culprit is blood sugar. So don’t eat anything that raises your blood sugar.

Dr Lin talks about getting nutrition from our diet by eating the right foods yet I feel that our stomachs are so damaged from sugar that we cannot absorb all the nutrients even if we are eating nutritious foods which is why I have started to take supplements.

My teeth should be healing but they are not even though I make my own low carb food from scratch and have for years but I have SIBO and carb intolerance or hypoglycemia, two things which cannot be cured by eating the “right” foods. I have Sjogren’s too and I supposedly get cavities by not having the right amount of saliva. He says “it’s not simply that sugar combines with bacteria to create decay but too much sugar sparks a chain reaction and leaches calcium from the enamel too quickly”. But in the end…it is still all about sugar or food that turns into sugar.

If you don’t know much about the Paleo diet, Nourishing Traditions or Weston Price, then this book will tell you about real food and might enlighten you on diet and the gut but for me there’s nothing new.