Full Transcript How Teeth Remineralize 0:00 Can your teeth actually heal themselves? 0:04 Well, your teeth can't regrow, but they can remineralize. 0:09 And the science behind this is increasing every single day. 0:13 And it's actually more interesting than people are talking about. 0:17 So everything that I tell you today, every claim I make is documented by research. 0:22 You can find all of that in the notes at the bottom. 0:25 Make sure to check that out if you're interested. 0:27 And by the end of today's video, I'm going to give you a four part formula to actually heal your teeth. 0:34 To start with, we have to talk about what's happening when you start to get a cavity. 0:39 It's all about the acid, and that is step number one is managing the acid. 0:45 Why acid? 0:46 Well, when our mouths get to a pH of 5.5 or lower, what happens is that minerals in our teeth are actually pulled out into the saliva.
What Causes Cavities: Acid and Sugar 0:58 This is just what happens when something acidic touches something that has minerals involved. 1:03 I often joke that this is the old science fair experiment where you'd pour Coke on top of a battery terminal or something that has a lot of mineral buildup 1:12 and it eats it away. 1:13 It dissolves it. 1:14 The same thing happens in our mouths. 1:17 So where does the acid come from that literally dissolves the minerals in our teeth? 1:23 Two places. 1:24 Number one, from our diet. 1:26 So if we're actually eating a lot of acidic foods, this might be soda or energy drinks or things that are really acidic even in the foods that we eat like 1:37 pineapple and tomatoes and lemon juice is a big one that people don't think about. 1:42 All of these are very acidic. 1:44 When that acid touches the tooth, it literally pulls minerals out and dissolves them. 1:50 Now, our teeth themselves are made of 96% minerals, and the minerals called hydroxyapatite. 1:57 It's just a bunch of minerals stuck together, primarily calcium and phosphate. 2:02 The other 3% is water and some other organic materials, but 96% is minerals. 2:09 So when that acid contacts the tooth, It pulls the mineral out and that mineral goes into the saliva. 2:14 That's source number one. 2:16 The second source is when you eat sugary foods. 2:20 That's actually the favorite food of bacteria that live in your mouth. 2:24 Now when the bacteria eat that sugary food, they actually excrete acid. 2:29 So it's not the sugar that leads to the cavity. 2:32 It's the bacteria eating the sugar that leads to the cavity. 2:35 So again, it's all about acid. 2:39 So acid control is so crucial for actually healing a tooth. 2:44 We're going to get into that in a minute. 2:47 Step number two, we need to manage that saliva. 2:50 So remember I talked about when the acid dissolves the minerals, the minerals go into the saliva.
Letting Saliva Restore Minerals 2:55 Down the hatch they go, they are then used somewhere else in the body. 2:59 Well, if your body has enough minerals, there's this constant ebb and flow in the mouth. 3:06 You eat something, pH drops, and this happens automatically. 3:10 So every single time you eat, the pH is going to get more acidic in your mouth. 3:16 pH drops, minerals are pulled out into the saliva. 3:20 If there's enough minerals to be had in the body itself, saliva will bring more minerals back and will neutralize the pH and re-mineralize the tooth. 3:31 This is literally going on all day long, every single day. 3:36 So when we think about this, there are two things that can help. 3:39 Number one is we have to reduce the number of times that that acid drops. 3:44 So this means reducing the number of times that we're putting something in our mouth. 3:48 It takes our saliva a half an hour to an hour. 3:51 to bring that pH back up, to get rid of the acid, to bring the minerals back. 3:57 So you have to give your mouth time to recover. 4:00 This is where the healing part comes in. 4:02 Enamel looks like a matrix. 4:05 It has holes. 4:06 When the minerals are pulled out, it leaves a hole. 4:08 Well, the saliva can bring something that will fill that hole back up again. 4:12 But if it's never the right pH, if it's always acidic because you're constantly sipping on something or you're constantly popping something into snack, 4:21 your saliva never has a chance to do its job of bringing the minerals back. 4:27 So there's simple little things you can do like instead of a snack at about 930 in the morning, drinking a glass of water instead. 4:35 Just that one step alone could be the difference between you being able to heal a beginning cavity or not. 4:43 How long are you giving your mouth in between meals and sips to be able to recover? 4:48 That's one way we can control the saliva is giving it a chance to do the job. 4:53 The second thing we can do is to make sure that that saliva actually has the minerals that are needed to be able to re-mineralize the tooth. 5:01 What are these minerals? 5:02 Largely calcium and phosphate. 5:04 But here is the missing piece that a lot of people don't understand. 5:08 Those minerals don't necessarily just go where they're supposed to go. 5:12 Vitamin D3 is a traffic director, particularly for calcium in the body. 5:17 So if you have enough vitamin D3, it will say, okay, go and be available to help remineralize the tooth. 5:25 Vitamin K2 then tells it either to go into hard tissues or into soft tissues.
D3, K2, and Mineral Support 5:31 Now, what is the difference between this? 5:33 The hard tissues are teeth and bones. 5:35 That's where we want the minerals. 5:37 The soft tissues are things like your kidneys, heard of kidney stones, gallbladder, heard of gallstones, your arteries, heard of calcifying arteries or 5:46 plaque in the arteries. 5:47 We don't want minerals there. 5:49 So you have to use vitamin K2 in addition to the vitamin D3 to tell the minerals where you need them to go. 5:56 So what do I tell people all the time? 5:59 Minimize the snacking, make sure your mouth has time to recover, and add vitamin D3, K2, and a mineral supplement that contains calcium and phosphate. 6:12 This is so crucial because it's just a matter of how many minerals are going in, how many minerals are going out, and are you getting more in than out. 6:22 That's what we call demineralization. 6:25 So we're not actually healing a tooth. 6:26 We're remineralizing or putting minerals back into those holes. 6:31 Now, this is the difference between fluoride and hydroxyapatite. 6:36 Now, hydroxyapatite is one of the greatest preventive inventions of really this century of my lifetime. 6:44 Hydroxyapatite, remember, is the marrow your teeth are made of. 6:48 So when you are brushing and using a hydroxyapatite-containing product, you're just putting minerals back in where they came from. 6:56 What does fluoride do? 6:57 Fluoride actually changes the mineral structure. 7:00 It turns hydroxyapatite into fluorapatite. 7:04 Fluorapatite is actually harder and more resistant to acid attack. 7:08 This sounds awesome, right? 7:10 You can't dissolve it as easily. 7:12 Well, it's not actually healing anything. 7:14 It's just making what's there a little harder, but it's not putting back what was lost. 7:20 Do you see the difference?
Hydroxyapatite vs Fluoride 7:22 There's so much research that shows that hydroxyapatite can reverse the beginning signs of tooth decay because the beginning signs of tooth decay are empty 7:33 enamel crystals, holes where those minerals were pulled out of. 7:36 We have to put them back. 7:37 not just harden what's left behind. 7:39 So this is how you actually do re-mineralize your tooth. 7:44 You're not regrowing it. 7:45 You're hardening it and re-filling it, if that makes sense. 7:50 So this is strategy number two. 7:52 Strategy number three is control the biofilm. 7:55 What does that mean? 7:57 Well, what this means is bacteria, remember, eat sugar, create acid. 8:03 They're going to repopulate in your mouth about every two to three hours. 8:06 So you're going to brush them off and they're going to be back again this evening. 8:10 So it's so important that you continually keep the teeth clean. 8:16 It's actually less important which bacteria are there. 8:20 There's not really good bacteria, bad bacteria. 8:23 There are ones that like sugar more than others. 8:25 It's more important that you just get them all off. 8:28 So this is the reason that we tell you brush your teeth, floss your teeth. 8:32 It's going to help with cavities because it does help to remove the bacteria that may be excreting some of that acid that are dissolving minerals out. 8:42 So this is step number three. 8:43 So, so far we have control the acid, right? 8:46 A little bit less snacking if possible and watch what you're putting in your mouth. 8:50 The acid content of it supports your saliva. 8:53 So make sure that you're giving your saliva enough time to do its job in between meals and that that saliva has minerals to spare. 9:01 Number three, control those bacteria. 9:04 Make sure you're getting it off every single day and keeping it nice and clean.
Controlling Biofilm and Daily Cleaning 9:08 All right, we're here to step number four. 9:11 This is all about just being conscious with what you're eating. 9:15 Remember, we want to minimize the number of times that we're eating, we want to really reduce the acid content in those foods if possible, 9:24 and we want to make sure that those foods are full of minerals, right? 9:28 Minerals are the key. 9:30 So let's put this all together into a complete format and complete program for you. 9:36 You're not rebuilding a tooth. 9:37 You're not actually putting something there that wasn't there in the beginning. 9:41 What you are doing is realizing that when a cavity starts to form, it's because minerals were pulled out and left a hole behind. 9:48 The bacteria are then able to crawl in. 9:51 They eat more sugar. 9:52 They excrete more acid. 9:54 More minerals are pulled out and the hole gets deeper and bigger. 9:57 What might this look like? 9:58 Well, this might be a white spot. 10:00 You might see a white spot that's kind of matte, not very glossy or shiny. 10:04 That's what a beginning cavity looks like. 10:06 You might actually feel some sensitivity. 10:08 So you're drinking something cold and, yeah, I can feel that. 10:12 These are all signs that a cavity is starting. 10:15 When you were in that phase, you were able to add minerals back into those holes and actually fill them up again. 10:23 So again, we're not adding what wasn't there. 10:25 We're just replacing what was lost. 10:27 Can you see the difference here? 10:29 You're going to be able to tell the difference. 10:31 You're going to see those white spots change.
Diet, Early Cavity Signs, and Takeaways 10:34 They're going to get glossy again. 10:35 You're going to feel a lot less cold sensitivity. 10:38 I remember a woman told me that she literally had to microwave her fruit to be able to eat it because even fruit was just so sensitive to her teeth until 10:46 she filled them up with hydroxyapatite. 10:49 Then no longer no more issues like this. 10:52 So control that acid, take care of the saliva, and control that biofil. 10:58 Make sure you're keeping the bacteria off. 11:00 Add a lot of minerals through supplementation if necessary, for sure through your diet. 11:05 And you can have healthy teeth for life because it is possible to keep your teeth healthy. 11:12 Research agrees with me and proves what I'm telling you is true today. 11:17 This information is out there. 11:19 It's so fascinating. 11:20 And really today is the day to live because we have so much information available, but also so many products available to make healthy teeth for life a 11:31 real possibility for you. 11:32 Keep subscribing, keep checking in here because this is the kind of information I want you to know. 11:37 I want to translate the science that's happening today into real actionable things you can do every single day at home to keep your teeth and you well.
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