Regrow Tooth Enamel
There are many different natural ways to treat and cure cancer, and I am sure that these different approaches will all help to regrow tooth enamel.
It Doesn’t Happen Overnight: The important thing is to sustain your chosen diet over a long period: It took Jacqui Davison a year to regrow her tooth enamel…….Jacqui was following an adapted version of the Max Gerson alternative cancer diet which her daughter had come across. She was expected to die of cancer within a week or two, so she agreed to let her daughter have her way and try the diet out, because there was simply nothing to lose by doing so. Medical doctors had given up on her case, and she had come home to die.
After a year on a special dietary regime, with a castor oil cleanse every second day, Jacqui grew new hair, and her tooth cavities where she had had fillings before, all healed up.
Note: Tooth enamel will only regrow on teeth which have the nerve still intact. If this has been removed, then the tooth cannot be fed from the inside. Capped teeth will not regrow, as they are clinically ‘dead’.
So - it was by accident that Jacqui discovered that you can actually regrow tooth enamel. She was intent on staying alive and beating the cancer. As she began to get well, the old fillings all fell out. This was after about 6 months of doing the diet. She kept on the diet but did not bother seeing a dentist, as this was not a priority at this stage. After a year, she suddenly realized one day that she had great teeth. She just had not noticed them repairing themselves over ther year, because she was more concerned about whether she would survive.
It was by accident that I, too, discovered that tooth enamel does indeed repair itself when the diet is kept alkaline and is especially nutritious. My son had a cavity in his front tooth which had distressed me, but since it was only small, I decided to leave it for the meantime. My own teeth were drilled excessively when I was young, and so I considered it would be best not to make the hole deeper by drilling. ” We would just keep an eye on it”, I thought.
We were on a similar diet to the one which Walter Last had put me on about eight years earlier. This was to prevent eczema, which my son and I were very prone to since being sprayed by helicopter with 245T – farmers collaborated to kill blackberry which covered the hills around our house which we had bought, in the Hokianga.
Another outbreak of eczema had resulted from eating some foods which we were allergic to, and this decided me on returning to the stringent diet which avoided all wheat, sugar, and dairy products, with the exception of butter.
This particular ‘maintenance diet’ diet of Walter Last’s allowed lean meats, eggs, fish, nuts and seeds, but emphasized raw foods, with the inclusion of green salads with sprouted mung beans and alfalfa.
Regrowing teeth was not what I was concerned about: It was staying clear of eczema which was my prime concern. My eldest child was the one who suffered from this, as well as myself. After following the diet rigidly for six to nine months, I happened to notice that the tooth cavity in my son’s front tooth had just disapppeared.
This is a version of the diets which have been promoted by Walter Last and Max Gerson. This information might be helpful to those who wish to try to repair their teeth naturally. Ask your health professional about this before attempting the diet. There are also dentists about, though maybe hard to find, who treat teeth with combinations of minerals to fix those cavities.
The Diet We Used:
No Sugar – No Wheat – that means No Wheat Bread – No dairy products except for butter.
This is important. I believe that the removal of these things from the diet is perhaps 75% of the reason the diet works.
Carrots and Celery: These are very alkaline foods which benefit the health enormously. Eat several carrots a day, and a stick or two of celery. My children’s lunches had sliced carrot and a half stick of celery every day. We ate carrots and celery as snacks during the day, as well as almonds and sunflower seeds and fruit. Carrots and celery are great foods to clean the teeth after eating. I think that these two raw foods had much to do with my son’s tooth cavity which healed itself.
Milk: If you had your own cow which was fed on wholesome organic pasture, and your milk was unpasteurized, then that might be a different story. But commercial dairy milk, unless it is organic, contains all sorts of chemicals such as antibiotics, growth hormones, fertilizer chemicals, herbicides and pesticides. These get concentrated in the milk. So – commercial pasteurized milk is not the best food for people recovering from serious disease like cancer, and I believe it is not the best for tooth enamel either.
Walter Last believes that milk actually DEPLETES calcium from the body, instead of enriching it, and that milk causes mucous build up in the intestines which creates toxins. This mucous build up interferes with digestion and upsets the intestinal flora, resulting in candida and other sickness.
Where Do I Get My Calcium From?
So – You give up milk. Do you know that the brassica family are very high in calcium? These vegetables are cabbage, broccoli, brussels sprouts, kale and cauliflower. These vegetables are excellent for the teeth. Some of these vegetables should be eaten every day with the evening meal.
Do you know that sesame seeds and sunflower seeds are very rich in calcium? Sunflower seeds are especially high: One handful of sesame seeds is meant to contain around 1200mg of calcium and magnesium, which is more than you get in a glass of milk. Masticating these seeds is very good for the teeth, as the fiber content is a natural cleaning abrasive.
Nuts and Seets: A portion of either sunflower seeds, or sesame seeds should be eaten at every meal. Other nuts, and almonds are also good.
Almonds: Eat five or six almonds every day. If you are a tall person, then you could eat slightly more. Almonds are an alkaline and healing food. They contain Vitamin B 6, protein, and laetrile which has been shown to help cancer patients recover. Very small amounts of cyanide are found in almonds, and this small amount is helpful to healing if only a moderate amount is taken each day. Again, munching on almonds is good for the teeth.
Eat Two Raw Egg Yolks a Day: Iron, protein, Vitamin B, Vitamin A, Vitamin E, Vitamin D, calcium, an lecithin are some of the valuable goodies found in raw egg yolk. Raw egg yolk is slightly laxative, which means that it does not congest the bowels.
Note: You do not eat the egg white raw, but discard this. Raw egg white is difficult to digest unless it is beaten up in a smoothie, or cooked.
Raw egg yolk is easy to stomach if it is mixed into a fruit juice. It is also pleasant added to a mashed banana, with a little olive oil, as a dessert.
Alkaline Greens – Mung Bean Sprouts: These should be eaten in salads twice a day.
A large salad should be eaten at lunchtime and at the evening meal. Mung bean sprouts are very alkaline. they contain Vitamin C, iron, Vitamin B, calcium and other minerals and they are high in fiber. Their alkaline nature, and the fibrous quality of mung bean sprouts is good for the digestion and the teeth.
Alfalfa sprouts can be added to these two salads as well. Alfalfa is especially alkaline and is excellent for the teeth.
Celery is another excellent food for the disgesion and for the teeth. Eating lots of celery is good for promoting saliva flow, and the high fiber cleans the teeth. It is another high quality alkaline food.
Note: Celery is high in sodium, so if you have blood pressure problems, it might be best not to eat too much of this. Pregnant women and lactating women are not meant to have too much celery in the diet. However, I find that it is in excellent food when eaten raw, for the purposes of keeping the teeth in good health.
Lettuce, avocado, tomato, peppers, garlic, spring onion, chopped celery, parsley and fresh spinach are all good salad vegetables.
Sample Menu For The Day
You can survive indefinitely on this diet. It is a good all-rounder for improving the health, and is generally a good one for gluten-sensitive people and for people who are slightly over-weight. This diet, combined with appropriate exercise, should help you to lose excess weight in a healthful way, and tone up the immune system.
Carrot Juice: Begin the day with a glass of freshly juiced carrot juice. Put one raw, free range egg yolk into the carrot juice and stir it up. The carrots should be organic carrots if you can get them.
Oatmeal Porridge and Apple: Follow the carrot juice with a large plate of oatmeal porridge. Do not use sugar, or milk on the porridge, but grate up one whole apple instead, and put this on top of the porridge. A knob of butter or some olive oil may be added. Use about 5 dates for sweetening. A handfulof sesame seeds can be sprinkled on the grated apple. This gives you almost the daily requirement of calcium in one meal, without using dairy milk.
Max Gerson used porridge with grated apple for his cancer patients. Breakfast with porridge was the only cooked food taken for quite some time.
Morning Tea: Take a glass of juice, say freshly juiced celery and apple in a 50/50 combination. Eat a few sunflower seeds, or some almonds. Have a mashed banana with a handful of mung bean sprouts if you really are hungry.
Lunch: Eat a LARGE SLALAD which consists of Mung Bean Sprouts and any of the salad vegetables mentioned above. A small cupful of brown rice with olive oil or a little butter, and some tuna or a can of sardines can be eaten with the salad. If you prefer, lean beef or chicken could be used instead of fish; or a helping of gluten-free cornmeal bread can be taken for protein.
Afternoon Tea: Juice a beetroot with an apple. Drink this. Or have celery and apple if you prefer. Eat some sunflower seeds or a tablespoon or two of seame seeds mixed into a mashed banana. A little olive oil may be added. Munch on a half stick of celery to clean the teeth after the sweet banana.
Tea: Have a juice of apple and carrot, or celery and apple, or beetroot and apple. Add the second raw egg yolk to the juice. If you prefer, the egg yolk can be added to an olive oil aioli dressing instead of having them in juice. But try it – raw egg yolk in juice is quite palatable.
A large Mung Bean Salad with any of the salad vegetables as mentioned above. Use olive oil for dressing. Cooked greens such as broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower or brussels sprouts should accompany the meal for extra calcium and vitamins. Have one cupful of cooked brown rice with the salad and cooked greens.
A helping of lean beef, or chicken, or fish may be taken with the rice and vegetables. Or a slice of vegetarian and gluten free corn bread could be added to the meal to provide protein.
Dessert: One grated apple with chopped dates, olive oil, mashed banana and sesame seeds or sunflower seeds.
Finish with a stick of celery to clean the teeth.
If you are still hungry on this diet, then eat more of any of the allowable foods. For a change, a cup of pea soup may be taken in place of the brown rice for the evening meal, or eaten as well as the rice, salad and cooked greens.
Alternatives to Wheat – Gluten Free Bread:
At least one day in the week, I made cornmeal bread which was entirely gluten free. My recipe used several eggs, so this gluten free cornbread was a protein-rich substitute for wheat bread. This tasty bread was ideal for growing children. Eaten with plenty of salad, it is easy to digest.
Detoxify With Castor Oil: In doing justice to the healing methods of Walter Last and Max Gerson, more than a mention must be made of detoxifying methods. Max Gerson used castor oil every second day for cancer and other degenerative disease. Of course, the more strictly you practice your diet and detoxification methods, the more quickly you will heal. But you need not take castor oil every second day to regenerate tooth enamel. We only took castor oil occasionally the year that my son’s tooth healed.
Walter Last and Max Gerson both insisted that enemas be used daily for cleansing, in order for the body to regenerate itself and heal. I think that if you are serious about regrowing teeth, then cleansing on a regular basis is essential.
Detox With Kiwifruit: Having said that, if you really are averse to using an enema, then a whole meal of kiwi fruit taken once or twice a week will clean your intestines out very effectively. You need to eat lots at the one sitting – about 6 or 8 kiwifruit for the one meal, or as many as you feel you can eat. It is OK to take a vegetable juice such as carrot, or carrot and celery, or carrot and apple, with your breakfast of kiwifruit. Even better to do this with an enema to follow, but………….
Adjust Your Diet To Your Needs: More protein may be taken. More brown rice may be taken. More greens and fruit may be taken. More nuts and seeds may be taken. More vegetable juices may be taken. Adjust the diet to your needs. If you work hard on a physically demanding job, then you will need more food than someone who leads a more sedentary lifestyle.
The most important thing is to keep the level of alkaline raw greens ‘up’ in the diet, and to avoid wheat, milk and sugar.
When you followed this diet did your teeth regenerate? Im going to give it a try because i really want to regrow my enamel back but i also got a question, when you followed this diet did your tooth show improvement? Did enamel regrow? Actually im 18, do think this method would work for me? I would apreciate it you can answer my doubts and question and thank you for all the info Merrilyn, you have given me hope.
Hi again, Alan, and thanks for your comments and questions.
I only know of two instances personally, where a diet such as this one has helped the teeth. One was somebody I knew who came to me after I had just written a book about how you can treat illness with a diet such as that of Max Gerson’s and Walter Last’s: I did these books to spread the word, because diet had just worked for me in curing illness.
This person had a rare gum disease. She followed the diet I put her on very strictly, and used castor oil every second day. She had been told her gum disease would mean that all her teeth would have to be extracted individually, and that each tooth would have to be treated and then replaced in the gums. Very very costly. She decided to stop seeing the dentist at least until she had tried doing something ‘natural’. After doing just three months on the diet with castor oil too, she had recovered from the disease. She was one person who went away and meticulously did everything i said to do, including taking castor oil and using enemas. The dentist then told her that she can’t have had that gum disease if she had got better using diet and detoxification.
The second instance was when my son and I were on a special diet – not quite so rigid as the one I had given to Marian, but pretty much the same. We did not use castor oil every second day, or enemas, and my children did not necessarily have raw egg every day because they were at school. Instead, they had hard boiled eggs in their lunches, along with raw carrots and celery and apple, almonds, peanuts, cashews and cornmeal bread which was gluten free and which I made myself. On this diet, which was given to treat eczema, the tooth cavity healed after about 9 months. We were careful not ever to have dairy products, or wheat, and rarely took sugar except occasionally in a soy bean ice cream which was a rare treat. The diet is really hard work and you have to be determined.
Hope this helps. Regards, Merrilyn.
Dear Alan, Check out the post I have just put up on how to prevent kidney stones, entitled ‘Help Prevent Kidney Stones’. This is another version of the alkaline diet which might give you some ideas. The same basic diet, generally speaking, is helpful in treating many illnesses, because it works at improving the overall health. Of course, specific herbs and supplements might change, depending on what you are treating, but the basics of the alkaline diet remain the same.
Cheers, Merrilyn.
Thank you for this article. It has inspired me.
Hey thanks for the article. I have some fillings in . My dentist told me that I am prone to cavities because my teeth are so small. I have started to change my diet to a more alkaline diet I also use tooth-soap instead of toothpaste. You are saying the key is basically an alkaline diet? is there anything else that is really important?
Hi Becca, Thankyou for your comment.
The key things to avoid are sugar, dairy foods and wheat. Avoiding gluten is important. Use brown rice instead of wheat products. No bread or pasta.
The other key factor is to eat lots of RAW CELERY and CARROTS. End each meal with these. Chewing a stick of celery after each meal keeps the mouth alkaline
and cleans your teeth naturally with celery juice and fiber. Celery has natural antibiotic properties and helps to kill damaging bacteria in the mouth which cause decay. Eating raw celery and carrots also provides plenty of fiber for your digestion. Your intestines will be cleansed by eating these raw foods, which means that they will process your foods more efficiently.
Eat as much of your food raw as you can. All protein foods are OK – flesh foods and vege. Raw and cooked vegetables are good. Always eat something raw with every meal.
It takes a while to notice the effects of such a programme, especially to regrow tooth enamel. But you should see some positive results after about 3 months if you follow the diet faithfully.
Regards, Merrilyn
Hi,im trying to heal a damaged tooth,does this diet really work?
I´ve had this tooth damaged for so long that i figured it must be impossible to heal.
Thank you.
Hi,
could soya be used as substitute for dairy products or is that on the black list too? Also why are enemas/eating kiwi so essential? I understand that it helps to cleanse your body but how does this help with the regrowing of tooth enamel?
we get organic grass fed raw milk here in California. So, is it a good idea to include raw milk with your alkaline diet.
Traditionally, it is believed that milk is good for teeth, so is Dr Weston Price clinical studies/experiment.
Could you please comment on this.
Yes – organic milk could be a good thing. I used raw, unpasteurized, organic goat’s milk to supplement breast milk whilst feeding my youngest, fifth child. We had no problems with this.
Unpasteurized milk would be best, as pasteurized milk is not processed so well by the body.
When my eldest child recovered the tooth enamel on the front tooth, we were not on a specific cancer diet, but were using a high alkaline diet which included most proteins excluding milk. We used abundant amounts of raw, and some cooked, green vegetables, rice and a high proportion of salad foods at every meal. Large amounts of raw carrot snacks and celery were eaten daily.
This was a diet which we found effective for preventing eczema. Coincidentally, it worked to help heal the front tooth. But he was young and had plenty of vitality to grow tooth enamel on this diet.
Jacqui Davison was using mainly all raw foods and juices, and was also using daily enemas and castor oil every second day to treat her terminal cancer. Her diet was much more radical, and she coincidentally grew back all her teeth except for the one where the root had been removed. She found her teeth had restored themselves after a year on the diet.
So – while we did not use milk at all the year I was treating my son for eczema, I think that organic milk in the diet could be a good thing, so long as you do not have an intolerance to milk, and that you are using more than 50% raw foods in this diet.
Note: unfortunately, I had had all my teeth removed at the age of 26 or 27, after the death of a child: This happened before I discovered that people HAD in fact recovered their tooth enamel through diet. It was after becoming sick myself that I researched different methods to restore the health, and found that it is possible for the teeth to repair themselves.
Obviously, the more raw food the better. I would aim at 75% and include proteins with this. You must also make sure that you are getting AMPLE supplies of nutrients in your food. Ideally, you would have a fresh juice, as Jacqui Davison did, every hour, as well as the supplements of protein.
Regards, Merrilyn.
Where can i buy the book from Jacqui Davison ?
Hi Merrilyn,i would like to know what did you use to clean the teeth,is regular toothpaste ok?
Hello,
about regrowing tooth enamel in general. Like a tooth that is broken but the rooth is still intact and half of the tooth is gone but the other is still in the mouth but that tooth has a composit filling not facings or what ever just a composit attached. How would that enamel grow back again if that composit is attached to the teeth. Will the enamel destroy the composit or something.
Thankyou Henzer – The reports which I have about growing new tooth enamel indicate that it is possible, though difficult, to regenerate new enamel if the nerve is still inside the tooth. Composite fillings should not matter, unless the whole of the nerve has been removed. But it is a really full-on diet with much detoxification and raw food (protein too, in some cases, or at a later date in the cancer treatments) which has been helpful in growing new tooth enamel. Not many people would really put the necessary effort in unless they had a life-threatening disease such as cancer. But the essence of my message is really that diet DOES affect your teeth – not only the natural health of your teeth, but diet also helps maintain that tooth enamel. Hope that helps. Regards, Merrilyn.
I have suffered from bulimia for a few years now and it has taken a toll on my teeth. I am recovering and every day is a struggle for me. I am concerned about my teeth and I am wondering if this diet will work for teeth that have been damaged by acid.
Hi Jessica – It could help. However, I think that since you have suffered bulimia, you MUST see a naturopath, or holistic dentist, or some other health professional before beginning any diet such as the Max Gerson Cancer diet, or any other diet. Following any strict regime such as the Gerson one might be the worst thing for your eating disorder.
You need to see a naturopath or holistic dentist or naturopathic medical doctor so that your progress could be monitored, and so that deficiencies will not occur.
These diets have been undertaken by people who were seriously ill, Most people would not put the same effort into a diet just for the sake of their teeth.
The people who have recovered from disease using a diet such as this, and who have also recovered their tooth enamel, have been on diets rich in nutrients. Supplements such as wheat grass juice, carrot juice, liver broth etc are all helpful.
My son had a tooth heal when he was about 11 or 12. We had excluded dairy, wheat and sugar from the diet for the 9 months prior to discovering the tooth had healed. But we had a protein rich diet, with rice, cornmeal bread, olive oil, and lots of salad. He ate a lot of raw celery and carrot snacks, and hard boiled eggs and almonds in his school lunches, instead of the usual bread and suchlike.
However, I cannot promise that the same thing will happen in that amount of time, with the same modified diet we used: He was young and healthy except for excema – if you are an older person and you are already unwell, then I think that the addition of wheat grass juice, and vegetable juice taken every hour, might be necessary.
In your case, YOU SHOULD NOT MAKE ANY CHANGES TO YOUR DIET WITHOUT SEEING A PROFESSIONAL; if you have had bulimia, then you MUST see a professional – You don’t want to do anything radical with your diet that might bring this on again.
Regards, Merrilyn
I can attest to the benefits of animal products and the regeneration/regrowth of tooth enamel. The most beneficial animal products would be those that are high in fat, such as butter and cod liver oil. These fats offer transport to vitamins and minerals found in fruits and vegetables to your teeth and other bodily organs.
The absolute worst foods for teeth are grains, neolithic foods and processed foods. Wheat is thought to be the most cariogenic food to teeth, it has anti-nutrients (gluten protein being one) that wreak havoc on your body at the cellular level. All grains, legumes and processed foods should be eliminated from your diet if you expect to make any progress at healing your teeth and your body.
The absolute best diet would be to only eat fish, where you would eat mostly the heads (the brain, eyes, tongue, cheeks of fish contain unrivaled super nutrients) and the organs… and wadge the rest (suck all the fat and nutrients, spit out the protein).
Hi, Merrilyn.
Your post has inspired me and gave me hope that the situation is salvageable. I accidentally eroded my tooth enamel by using soap that hadn’t been cured properly.
Unfortunately, while I was using it I didn’t feel any stinging sensation or anything. The lightning in the bathroom actually made my teeth look whiter after using it and I kept on brushing. It was three days later that after seeing my teeth in broad daylight I was shocked. My teeth became yellow and horribly shiny (the dentin exposed). All my life I’ve been commented on how great I smile I had and now I feel like I’ve been umputated.
For two weeks I am on strict alkaline diet (only vegies pureed or juiced taken with a straw, 6 litres of alkaline water and almond milk) and supplement myself with Dr. Gerald Judd’s protocol -calcium carbonate, vitamin C Monosodium Phosphate, vitamin D-not in the dosages he prescribes but roughly half of it and Vitamin C and Monosodium Phosphate dilluted even further than he suggests because they are strong acids and taken with a straw.
How long do you think it will take me to see a marked imrovement. I am determined to follow it strictly.
Dear Chrysa – Thanks so much for your comment and the extra information you have provided. I have no experience with Monosodium Phosphate, so I cannot guess how this wll affect the growth of your tooth enamel. However, I think that the programme sounds pretty good.
I do know that teeth take at least six months to repair themselves, given that the diet is truly nourishing and devoid of harmful stuff to the teeth. People who have cured themselves of cancer have regrown their teeth after following alkaline diets with other specifics, like cleansing with enemas, castor oil, etc. They have taken around 9 months to a year to get well from cancer, by which time they discovered that their teeth had also benefited.
Good luck – Perseverance is the answer – Great that you found a specialist in the field to advise you about an alternative method to regrow tooth enamel.
Regards, Merrilyn
Thanks Charles for that added information. These are great comments which will help all those people considering regrowing tooth enamel through improving their diet.
Regards, Merrilyn
I am 22 years old.My front upper teeth (dentists technically calls it as one one and two one) both got broken. i made composite bonding. Is there any possibilities of regrowing the teeth. I am from Chennai, India. If there are any possibilities through diet, then please give me the diet which is available in Chennai.
This is very confusing,with the gerson therapy they say to avoid eating protein,animal products and all fats except flaxseed oil.
So much information,but who is right?
Hi Peter – thanks for your comment. The Gerson therapy diet was designed specifically for people who had cancer, but Gerson recommended it for other degenerative disease as well. It is not really a matter of who is right, as there are many different natural approaches to healing cancer and diseases such as arthritis. In using these particular diets, some people have regrown their teeth as well: The message is that diet really does affect your teeth. It has been proved that tooth enamel does regenerate if the conditions are right. Again – there are several different diets which might achieve the same result.
You should work with an experienced naturapath, or homeopath, or macrobiotic professional if you have a specific life-threatening condition. This is a good idea if you wish to change your diet so that your general health, and your teeth, improve.
Most natural diets for treating diseases such as cancer usually avoid protein for a certain time, to help the body clear out toxins and reverse the cancer. Flesh and dairy foods are usually avoided, although there is an Ayurvedic diet which I have read about which does use fresh, unpasteurized, organic milk which was made into yoghurt. We did not cut out protein when I treated my son for eczema – We used plenty of protein of all kinds, but eliminated milk, dairy foods, wheat, bread and sugar completely. A little butter was used, and lots of olive oil. After 9 months, my young son’s second tooth had healed itself of a small hole, though we were not actually aiming for that outcome at the time. This diet was for eczema.
The macrobiotic approach has cured people of cancer, and my guess is that it could also work for improving tooth enamel, although I have not used this one for any length of time: This diet does not use raw foods at all.
I experimented with the diet of Gerson’s and the ideas of Walter Last. Their approaches are similar: first detoxifying for several weeks on massive amounts of raw, freshly made juices, and all raw foods. Then I introduced Gerson’s idea of cooked porridge for breakfast, with dates for sweetening, and a little butter or olive oil, which Walter Last recommended. No sugar, or dairy foods, or wheat in any form was used. After the initial cleansing, I used two raw egg yolks in the daily diet, as Walter recommended, but still did not have dairy or meat or flour or sugar for many months. Any raw food was OK. Cooked greens were added after several months. I took castor oil every second morning, as Gerson recommended.
Walter was pretty keen on the castor oil treatment too, especially in the form of a pack which was put over the site of the problem. The breast lump I had disappeared after three months of this regime.
But if you do not have cancer, or another life-threatening disease, then you would not follow such a radical diet or regime such as this.
Hope this helps. Regards, Merrilyn
So good and So Inspirational !! Thanks A Lot !!!
Wow I love your blog! more fabulous information. But still the foods above will cause cavities, the nuts and seeds are high in phytic acid. Fruit alone spikes your blood sugar and should be stayed away from if you are trying to heal cavities.
Somethings still dont make sense about this diet,some say to avoid meats and high protein foods,others say they are indispensable for teeth regeneration.
Idk what to believe.
People who live on wheat grass juice and other raw fruits and vegetables and their juices usually take copious amounts of these things in a day: This is why they can survive with very little protein, if any at all. These sorts of diets have worked well in treating people for cancer, although not everyone who has attempted such a diet for cancer has lived to tell the tale.
People need to research these methods before beginning such a diet – they also need professional advice. People have also grown tooth enamel by using plenty of protein foods, and at the same time, avoiding wheat, gluten, sugar, yeast and dairy. Others who have written in say that dairy foods have been OK. There is no hard and fast rule, as there are many different natural methods for curing disease and rejuvenating the body.
Regards, Merrilyn
Is it true that she was eating raw liver calf during her recovery?
Hello Sam – I take it that you are talking about Jacqui Davison’s recovery from cancer? Yes – she used liver juice to supplement her mainly raw foods diet. I think she fasted initially on raw vegetable and fruit juices, and introduced this later, but cannot be sure at what stage. Dr Gerson and Walter Last, famous healers who used natural means to heal illness, both recommended the liver juice. Walter Last’s method was to steam the chopped up liver gently, in a jar which has water covering the liver. This jar is put into a saucepan which has boiling water in it – enough to come half-way up the jar from the outside, with a folded tea towel in the bottom of the pan to prevent the jar from cracking. The liver is steamed for a couple of hours, very gently. You strain off the liquid and discard the meat – you sip only a teaspoon or two at a time, throughout the day. The calves liver juice supplemented iron, digestive enzymes, and many vitamins, notably Vitamin B 12 and B 6 which can be deficient in people who use only raw food diets without supplementation. I have a method for making this calf liver juice amongst my posts here somewhere. I think it is entitled ‘Calf Liver Juice’.
Regards, Merrilyn
Hello Merrilyn,
i went to a dentist around feb-mar or this year. It was a free “consoltaion” and he just basically looked around inside my mouth, scraped and poked some of the back teeth but i felt no pain. Though i know the brownish/yellowish parts he was trying to see were cavities or not. i came in mainly for complaints about my front teeth, but he said i had a good set of teeth and i was lucky he guessed to be born that way. Also i havent been to the dentist since aroun 2002-2003.
M
Hello Merrilyn,
i went to a dentist around feb-mar or this year. It was a free “consoltaion” and he just basically looked around inside my mouth, scraped and poked some of the back teeth but i felt no pain. Though i know the brownish/yellowish parts he was trying to see were cavities or not. i came in mainly for complaints about my front teeth, but he said i had a good set of teeth and i was lucky he guessed to be born that way. Also i havent been to the dentist since aroun 2002-2003.
My question is this:
this diet is for cancer patients correct? What about someone like me who is healthy. Actually i am very healthy, i exercise 4-6 days a week, eat pretty well (i try not to eat meat and i eat lots of fruit and veg and try to stay away from bread and use a mix of beans and rice and frozen veg for main meals), and i also take supplements (centrum multivitamins, biosil, and calcium/magnesium/zinc mixed vitamin) I want to regrow some lost enamel, mostly on my front teeth because the fron two are starting to turn translucient. Not bad, i can see it happeneing on everyones teeth just like it looks on mine but mine is more aggressive. Prob from drinking soda for years. Can i regrow enamel for that purpose or will my body just regrow enamel to fill in holes left by cavities? I am assuming i can follow my current diet, but add no dairy. wheat, or sugar like You and your son did. Also add the carrots and celery too.
Should this work or am i just wasting my time trying to regrow that kind of enamel?
thanks
One more thing, i switched my toothpaste to glycerin free toothsoap a few weeks ago after i read that it would be harder if not impossible to regrow tooth enamel while the protective layer of glycerin is over your teeth from regular tooth pastes’
Hi Mike – Thanks for your comment. First of all – My son’s front tooth healed itself when he was a lad. Unfortunately for me, though, I had already had all my teeth PULLED OUT about ten years prior to this event. If I had known how healing could be achieved through diet and purifying foods, vitamins, minerals, and avoiding those harmful things which we all know about, then i would have kept those teeth for sure.
I really cannot advise you on whether you will be successful in repairing your teeth by following such a diet as Jacquie Davison did – i am not a dentist, and nor have I recovered my own tooth enamel. Also, there are many variables which could affect the success of such a diet, such as the volume of vegetable juices you were taking, whether these things were organic, how old you are, what sort of stress you were under, whether you could devote yourself full-time to recovery as jacqui did, and such-like. I would suggest that you go to see one of the naturopathic dentists who use therapeutic compounds on the teeth to help the enamel regrow. you could look online – There are some specialists who advertise the natural regeneration of tooth enamel through their therapeutics. You would be an ideal candidate for this sort of treatment, because your diet is already good and devoid of the foods which cause harm to the teeth. Have a look for the dentists in your area who might be able to help you with this kind of therapy.
Hope this is of some help.
Kind regards; Merrilyn
“Masticating these seeds is very good for the teeth, as the fiber content is a natural cleaning abrasive.”
Hi Merrilyn! Gotta ask about sesame seeds. Do you masticate soaked seeds or just dry ones?
Hi Paula – “Either, or.”…. those seeds will provide good cleaning fibre for your teeth. Soaking is often recommended for seeds and nuts, as it makes them easier to chew up, and you are supposed to get more nutrients out of the seed if you soak it first. Not always possible to soak your seeds or your nuts or almonds first – you might be traveling, and munching as you go along in your car. If your teeth are good, you will manage those dry seeds anyway. Dry seeds are easier to grind to a powder if you are using a blender – at least in my blender, anyway.
Regards, Merrilyn.
Hi Merrilyn,
First of all many thanks to you for your blog. It is so refreshing and encouraging.
I am very optimistic about it and very sure about the fact that nothing is impossible, if you have will power and faith to carry out certain things. I have some fillings and want them,get out of my body. It happened,before I could know what I was going through. Without a second thought, I started concentrating on your prescribed diet plan. I have already given up Wheat,Sugar and Dairy products for more than a month now. Though I have not achieved the goal of following up the full prescribed diet, but have it to certain extent and hopefully,will able to manage it completely. I am taking few kinds of seeds in boiled and raw forms. As I am from India, I am opting for corn attas (We Indians make ROTI) for rotis.Is it ok ? As I have given up wheat, I am going for this as an alternate (I think it doesn’t contain gluten). Can you suggest any kind of books regarding this ? Please give me more of your valuable tips. I am taking milk straight from the milk man’s shed and neither it is processed nor pasteurized. Is it ok ? or should I stop this.
Hope is life.
Thanks and Regards
Partha
Hello Partha – Thank you very much for your letter. Yes, faith is a great thing. Though, I have to say that I think you should see a professional nutritionist, such as an Ayurvedic specialist, who can advise you on your diet. Also, the traditional Indian diet is very healthy and has been used in itself, to cure people of serious illness. I only give what has worked for my family, and what others have written about, but these things may not work for everybody. People generally take what they want out of a dietary regime, and discard the rest: But those things which you omit to do might be the very things which are needed. Also, it is VERY easy to get deficiencies in certain vitamins and minerals, so you do need to see an experienced health practitioner to make sure that everything about your diet is good for you.
So – see that Ayurvedic practitioner, who will also be able to give you some herbs and other treatments to help as well.
Unless you have an allergy to milk, then milk straight from the cow-shed should be good, as long as the source is clean. I would ask “Has this farmer had his cows checked for TB?” There is always a small risk of TB in unpasteurized milk, which is why the practice of pasteurizing milk was begun. In New Zealand at the present time, TB would not be a worry for me, and I would happily drink unpasteurized milk if it came from a reliable source. However, I do not know about the situation in India: If TB is a problem there at all, then I would be wary of taking unpasteurized milk, unless I had my own cow which had been tested for TB. Just to be safe, I would use only pasteurized milk unless I was sure about the source.
Unless you have an allergy to gluten, I would not worry too much about the Roti – There are different ways to make this, and different flours too, I think – but you have to be careful you do not starve yourself – If you were to give up Roti, then you should eat plentiful amounts of rice, to make up for it. I would not give up eating Roti if I were you – as long as 80% of the diet was vegetable, meat,nuts and seeds, beans and peas. Most Indian people who have been brought up on diets such as this, with Roti, dahl, and lovely vegetable and meat curries, have EXCELLENT and BEAUTIFUL teeth – so I would say that the traditional Indian diet is a great way to keep healthy, and to keep your teeth healthy as well. Also – you have to be practical – Jacqui Davison’s dietincluded HUGE volumes of fresh vegetable juices, which translates into many kilos of vegetables used in a day. For most people these days, this would be difficult to do: For a start, unless you are growing your own food, then vegetables can be very expensive. The other thing is that you need a good juicer to process all those vegetables, and this is another expense for people.
I think a good balanced diet is best, such as the Indian one which includes dahl, Roti, and curried meats and plenty of vegetables. This kind of diet is the very best you can get. Just cutting out sugar and biscuits and cakes, and eating things like carrots, celery, nuts and seeds through the day, instead of those sugary treats, will go a long way to helping your teeth stay healthy.
Best Regards, Merrilyn.
2 quick questions I haven’t seen anyone else ask. First, what kind of drinks can you drink if you are going on this diet to repair teeth? Second, what is the dosage of castor oil?
Hi Brad – Good questions. First of all – I cannot give individual advice – you need to see a professional for advice. But to answer your questions: The best drinks would be carrot juice, wheat grass juice and other fresh organic vegetable juices. Herbal teas would be good. These drinks were all used by Jacqui Davison and other people who have recovered serious illness. Sugary drinks and carbonated drinks, and alcohol, would not be good. Tea and coffee, especially with milk, are not good. I am only reporting what other people have found to be effective, including one instance where my young son repaired tooth enamel through diet, one case where a woman followed my advice to the letter, with castor oil every second day. This caused her gum disease to disappear: She was going to have to have an operation to remove the teeth and get them scraped, etc, and put back – very costly and, as it turns out, was not necessary at all, because she DID cure herself through diet and cleansing. I draw on the experiences of people such as Jacqui Davison, who followed the Gerson diet as much as possible, recovered from cancer, and regrew new tooth enamel and a head of good hair.
Jacqui used 2 tablespoons of castor oil every second day, but this was taken to cure her of cancer, and was sustained for many months. She used fresh juices, I think, every hour, and these were made from organic vegetables. She used a huge quantity of juices, because she was not taking normal food, such as meats, or eating much cooked food for quite a while. One cooked item of Gerson’s was a large plate of porridge each morning, taken with a big raw grated apple. I used this myself, during a period of treating a breast lump. I added olive oil to the porridge.During this period, I took castor oil every second day as Gerson recommended, and continued this for around three months before reducing the dose.
I suggest you read the book by Max Gerson, and also Jacqui’s book, to give you an idea of how the diet worked.
My message is that, yes, diet can recover your tooth enamel, because people have done it. But to advocate certain methods and diets to people for the purpose of regrowing tooth enamel is an impossible and risky task: It is advisable to see a health practitioner about tackling a diet such as Jacqui’s, because it is very easy for people to get off on the wrong track, and become deficient in certain nutrients. This must be avoided, so I cannot give personal advice to anyone.
Might be worth reading Parma’s letter and my reply – Because macrobiotic diets have worked also to cure people of disease, as has Ayurvedic medicine, and traditional Indian food.
the main thing is to avoid sugar, wheat bread, and dairy products, although some people swear by dairy products. Gerson did not use dairy products, and nor did Walter Last, who cured many people in New Zealand of terminal illnesses.
The same diets which reverse disease such as cancer, will help you to regrow tooth enamel.
Unless you are under the guidance of a naturopath or similar, then I would not take castor oil every second day – Once a week would be reasonable for most people unless they are following the Gerson diet or something similar, which involves drinking copious amounts of vegetable and wheatgrass juices.
Thanks for your question – Hope this helps.
Regards, Merrilyn.
Dear Merrilyn,
I have never heard of commeal bread. I am a Russian woman living in the U.K and I am very keen on bread. My husband bakes his own bread of different wholemeal flowers including wheat but doesn’t use any sugar. Can I eat this bread while in other respect stick to your diet?
Thank you.
Elena.
Dear Elena – Wonder if there was a mis-spelling in one of my articles? the bread is cornmeal – I corrected your comment to read ‘cornmeal’ instead of ‘conneal’. I would say that your husband’s bread sounds great. If you do not have to follow a gluten free diet, well and good. There are many different diets which have proved to be beneficial for tooth growth – I did not use wheat at all, because we were sensitive to wheat, and so I used cornmeal bread instead. I will put up a recipe right away which your husband might like to try.
I think the main thing is to eat plenty of fruit and vegetables – especially raw celery and carrots to finish a meal with. These keep the mouth alkaline and clean the teeth beautifully. Celery has natural antiseptics in it, and these help to kill off bacteria in the mouth. Eating macrobiotic foods, or traditional Indian food, or this Western approach favoured by Gerson and others, are all good ways to improve the health of the teeth, as long as the accent is on alkaline foods. Bread is acid forming, so you shouldn’t eat too much of it. But a piece of nice homemade bread with salad and protein of some sort, finishing off with a stick of celery or some carrot, should be fine for maintaining the health of the teeth.
Will put up that recipe within the hour.
Regards, Merrilyn
Oops… sorry, Merrilyn, surely I meant “commeal” bread …..
Also I would appreciate your opinion on potatoes – if they are allowed on this diet.
I am fed up with “drill and fill” dentistry to my back teeth. This diet looks like a real thing, I am going to give it a go.
Many thanks and best regards,
Elena.
Hi Elena – Sorry, my computer jammed up – just got back on-line. We used potatoes – I found they were good, because my children did not have an allergic reaction to these – better than wheat in my opinion. Potatoes are not as acid-forming as wheat is. So – potatoes or rice or cornmeal bread formed the main carbohydrate dish, with big salad, and protein such as eggs, beef, chicken or fish. We did not go short on protein. But then Gerson did not use protein rich diet for his cancer people – instead, they had copious quantities of wheat grass juice and other vegetable juices, which would have supplied protein, and kept the blood alkaline, thus helping the teeth. Remember alfalfa sprouts – these are very alkaline and so are excellent for keeping the blood and saliva alkaline. And great for cleaning the teeth too. I would try to use alfalfa or mung bean sprouts every day – we did, when my children and I were on this diet.
Good luck. It is a lot of work. I do not know any adults who have actually regrown their tooth enamel through these diets, but there are books written by people who have. My own experience of watching my young son’s tooth heal itself over 9 months, is proof enough to me that a diet such as ours can be helpful to the growth of the teeth. Diet just does affect tooth enamel.
Another thing which Walter Last was keen on is prickly ash powder. You rub this on the fillings and sensitive areas of the mouth. This helps kill bacteria which eat away at the enamel. Walter said that it would help my teeth. Unfortunately, I was young and ignorant, and had my teeth pulled out at aged 27 before I gave his methods a chance.
Edie May is another person who grew new tooth enamel through following a specific diet.
Regards and good wishes,
Merrilyn
Hi Merrilyn!
7 weeks ago, I got cheated into a veneer procedure, I had just 1 mm gap in my front teeth but the guy but veneers on front six teeth, didn’t tell the whole procedure until my teeth were shaved. I was so stupid not to look up any information online. i am 22 and want to get rid of the veneers. I suffered immense pain, and still my teeth hurt which I guess that the roots are still alive. Do you think is there any chances of my teeth regrowing the enamel and getting thick if I follow the diet described in your blog??
Hi Dushyant, If the nerve is still in the tooth, then it is possible for the tooth enamel to regrow. But are you sure the nerves are still there, untouched? I thought veneers involved scraping out the nerve – ask your dentist about this. If the nerve is intact, then regrowth is possible. You have the advantage of being young, so your regrowth capacity should be strong. However, it is a long process to regrow the enamel, and it requires much effort. If you were to do everything which Jacqui Davison did to recover from her cancer, then you would most likely regrow new enamel. But it is actually difficult for most people to follow her programme to the letter. I used a modified diet for my children, which resulted in his tooth healing itself of a cavity in the second tooth. He was around 11 or 12 at the time.
Even if you were to adopt the modified diet and approach which I talk about under ‘Foods To Help Regrow Tooth Enamel’, you might not have 100% success. However, I believe that with these specific foods, and leaving out harmful foods, and especially chemical additives of any kind, then your teeth should improve. If the nerves were still there, then you would expect the fillings or veneers to fall out of the tooth as the tooth enamel regrows again. I would advise you to see a naturopath or dental practitioner who believes in these dietary and cleansing measures to regrow enamel. There is also the option of finding a dentist who uses the mineral ‘cocktail’ to help tooth enamel regrow.
Thanks for your comment. Hope this gives you something to go on.
Regards, Merrilyn
This is a great article for those able to adopt this lifestyle and diet. There is a simple over-the-counter method of healing teeth – using a specific sequence of mouth rinses that are inexpensive and not difficult to use. Products make with 100 percent xylitol ( birch sugar) are a necessary part of the program but together with the rinses WILL heal teeth and gums. I love and agree with this diet advice – but not everyone can do cleanses and stick to a diet. My Complete Mouth Care System is another ( very easy) option
Dr.Ellie
Hi Ellie – Correct – not many people are able to adopt these dietary measures. The point is that diet really does affect tooth regeneration. The teeth are a living part of the body, and there is much you can do to prevent tooth decay, as well as to heal cavities and gum disease, even if you do not manage to properly follow Jacqui Davison’s health plan, which reversed her cancer.
I like the sound of your mineral treatment, although one should be cautious in case there are added chemicals such as preservatives, which could be harmful to the liver. Applying minerals to the teeth is something that anyone can do, although I still maintain that high fibre – greens and fruit – plenty of protein in whatever form – and eliminating the worst things for the teeth , that is: – no wheat flour (no bread), no dairy, no sugar and defrinitely no chemical additives such as preservatives colourings or flavourings. This basically means preparing your vegetable, fruit, protein and rice or corn meals fresh, with no processed food. Even without the stringent measures such as enema cleansing, which Jacqui did, teeth benefit from a programme such as this. I found this out for sure, as one of my children regrew the tooth enamel on a new front tooth whilst we were following a diet such as mine above, which I was using to counteract eczema which resulted from 245T-Dieldrin poisoning.
If you find out anything more about the product you mention, then let us know. Many readers will be interested in the treatment you mention. Many people could benefit.
Hi Nils – You need to see a nutritionist or a naturopath urgently, because I think you may be starving yourself. This is in reply to the email which you sent me which has not come up on my blog. Do not attempt to tackle any diet on your own. If you do not see a nutritionist or naturopath, or similar health professional, then you should discontinue with your diet and go back to eating the food you ate before.
Reply to your earlier comment which appears on this blog: Thanks for your comment. I think the reply I gave to Ellie just before yours, would explain these things. Read her comment too, about the minerals which some chemists apparently sell (in America? – I don’t think we have these things available to us here in New Zealand yet) The ideal thing, I believe, would be to use these liquid minerals, as well as using a diet such as the one I described briefly in my reply to Ellie. That is assuming that there is nothing harmful in these bought mineral preparations. People should check to make sure that there is nothing harmful in them – I would be suspicious of a product which had strange sounding chemicals in it. Strange chemicals often cause cancer and other disease.
Regards, and thanks,
Merrilyn.
Hi Nils – Great to get your comment on regrowing teeth. But my advice is for you is to see a naturopath for guidance on a diet – don’t want you getting the wrong idea and starving yourself. I received an email from you after writing this reply which alarmed me – you are not eating any protein by the sounds of it – or rice – and are not eating enough food full stop. The way to regrow and protect tooth enamel is simple really. But you need to eat plenty of the right foods for the enamel to grow. Basically, you eliminate the bad things and eat large salads, with plenty of protein and rice or cornmeal. But you certainly do not starve yourself.
Good for people to hear that you heard these stories of tooth regrow from America so that people don’t think I just invented this idea. Jacqui Davison’s book was one I read years ago. She is American, and people were interested in her cancer recovery through diet and detoxification – so the regrowth of teeth idea was promoted through her book, because she experienced this. But yes – I did have one tooth heal itself on one of my children – same as Jacqui really, because I was treating eczema and found the foods which caused the trouble – left the problem foods out – and the tooth healed after 9 months of following my diet. NOTE THAT WE ATE PLENTY OF FOOD, AND A GOOD VARIETY OF IT.
But it is difficult for some people to follow, as Ellie above mentions. I would look into those minerals which she recommends. If you can find them, these would be very good so long as they do not contain any foreign and toxic chemicals. Menawhile, try to do the simple diet of eating rice instead of any wheat or bread – Basically follow a gluten free diet, but as well, do not use ANY SUGAR – NO DAIRY – NO foods which have food additives of any kind. No processed food. Just protein – meat, nuts, fish, seeds, avocado, coconut – plenty of green vegetables cooked and raw – fruit – - rice, cornmeal and any other gluten free grains. You do not take so much of the rice or grain, but take more vegetables, fruit and protein instead. And always finish a meal with either a raw carrot or a raw stick of celery. This is what my children had after each meal – we would sometimes have desserts using dates or similar for sweetening, but we always had that celery or carrot to clean their teeth. This cleans the teeth but also makes the mouth very alkaline, which helps to keep bacteria at bay.
It is quite a simple diet really, and you can eat as much of any of these foods as you like. I found that I never put on weight whilst following this diet, no matter how much I ate.
Hope this helps. It should help if not cure the problem – my son was young when he was on this diet – Young people are still growing and so have a strong capacity for regrowth of teeth. When you get older this power for the body to heal itself becomes weaker. So older people may not have the same success that we did with just the modified diet of mine – Jacqui’s diet was very hard to do, with wheat grass juice freshly pressed almost every hour, and other vegetable juices taken on the hour throughout the day. She also used enemas and castor oil every second day to clean out toxic waste from her liver and intestines.
Thanks for your comment.
Regards, Merrilynn.
Hi Nils – Better stop that diet and eat what you were eating before. If what you say you are eating is your diet for the day, then you are not eating enough. You will get sick if you continue, and your teeth will all fall out instead of healing themselves. So – Go to see a naturopath for help and some dietary advice..
Regards, Merrilyn.