Nutrition and Dental Health Connections and Suggestions
Kevin: That’s a neat way to prepare it. Weston Price was a dentist so let’s talk about teeth. And let’s talk about what happens when people’s teeth start to decay. Can you rebuild those and what do you think some of the reasons why their teeth were so good, the cultures who were eating a non-Western diet?
Sally: Well their teeth were normal. I don’t even like to use the word “good”; they’re the way teeth are supposed to be. They were normal. A key nutrient here is vitamin K. Now Dr. Price didn’t know what this vitamin was, he called it activator X, but we have now identified it pretty firmly as vitamin K and we know that people who have a lot of vitamin K in their saliva don’t get cavities. And vitamin K is absolutely necessary for putting calcium in the teeth and bones, calcium and phosphorus. You need vitamin K for that, more than just for healthy blood. We now realize you need vitamin K for healthy teeth and bones.