Cavities! The Cause-- (ML Was Right, first in series...)

I just read this incredible book called "Cure Tooth Decay" by Ramiel Nagel and he summarizes some research in there that proves ML's theory about it being b/c of lack of minerals, the elusive "factor X" and also, get this-- blood sugar. It is not caused_ by bacteria on the teeth. Also, if you read the reviews on Amazon for this book, several people have testimonials, some whom were able to avoid root canals. This is an excerpt of a (not yet edited) book review I did.

"Dentists aren’t known for being very outside-the-box in their thinking. The ones that are, are quickly written off as quacks. This is unfortunate, and as a result dentistry has yet to move into the 20th century despite the work of a handful of progressive dentists that have sought to find the true cause of dental caries. The most famous progressive was Weston A. Price D.D.S., whose classic, monumental survey of caries and indigenous cultures, “Nutrition and Physical Degeneration” provided compelling evidence that tooth decay is a nutritional problem rather than an exogenous one. Price, who was then the head of research at the American Dental Association, pioneered a protocol that was 90-95% effective in preventing and even reversing tooth decay. And why hasn’t the public learned about it? Most likely because it was too academic a book for a general audience, and also because it would spell out the end of dentistry as we know it. His research and experience provides the framework for Nagel’s book, who expertly summarizes the findings, providing photos and the protocol, that was originally sprinkled throughout the 800 pages of Price’s work. Dr. Price found that among indigenous cultures, those who ate the local diet high in fat-soluble vitamins and minerals, especially phosphorus, from highly mineralized soil, had, for example in the case of the native Aborigines a zero per cent rate of tooth decay. In contrast, the modernized Aborigines living on reservations and eating processed and demineralized foods, had a 70.9 per cent rate of caries.

Nagel convincingly challenges the widely-accepted notion of exogenous bacteria attacking the teeth as a cause of caries, citing that decay is a natural process of life. In a healthy individual, he writes, the existing tooth cells would be replaced by newer, healthier cells as part of the natural cycle of decay and renewal. There are many different types of decay and contributing factors, with diet playing the biggest role in determining the kinds of biochemical changes that promote tooth decay. Toxins, stress, and glandular imbalances due to poor nutrition wreak havoc on our hormonal and immune systems leaving us susceptible to disease. We learn of the work of Melvin Page, D.D.S. and anthropologist Leon Abrams, who have concluded that a 25 per cent imbalance in body chemistry causes the teeth to decay. Their work spanning 30 years and 40,000 blood tests has uncovered that the biochemical cause of caries and gum disease is symptomatic of a disturbance between the ratios of calcium and phosphorous in the blood. Any time the ratios deviate from a certain level or ratio, “minerals are withdrawn from the dentin and bone, resulting in tooth decay.” In order to be immune to cavities, the body must be provided high levels of dietary phosphorus along with other minerals and vitamins in the right proportions, and the blood sugar levels must be in chemical balance. The longer the blood sugar levels are unstable, the more the phosphorus/calcium ratios are disrupted, providing the ideal conditions for rapid mineral depletion of the teeth and bones."
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