Today I am going to cover the vitamins and minerals necessary for healing cavities naturally with nutrition. In my previous post, I laid out a dietary plan of How to Get Rid of Cavities at Home Naturally.
The most important step for healing cavities naturally is switching to a nutrient dense diet. I previously talked about which foods to eat and which foods to avoid. Now we will dive into the suggested daily intake of important vitamins and minerals. This information is based upon Ramiel Nagel’s book Cure Tooth Decay: Heal and Prevent Cavities with Nutrition.
If you are interested in healing the cavities in your teeth naturally at home, I recommend starting by reading his informative book.
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As the basis of my teeth healing journey, I am striving to get the necessary vitamins and minerals from foods in my diet. Let’s take a look at the teeth healing fat soluble vitamins and crucial minerals. Many of us are deficient in these vitamins and minerals, without being aware of the damage those deficiencies are causing. We may have thought we were eating a healthy diet, but developing holes in our teeth tells us otherwise.
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DAILY VITAMIN AND MINERAL INTAKE GOALS
To cure and prevent cavities, each day we should try to obtain the following vitamins and minerals from the foods we eat:
Vitamin A: 4,000-20,000 IU (6,000 IU is recommended in the book)
Vitamin D: 1,000-4,000 IU (2,500 IU is recommended in the book)
Vitamin E: 15-19 mg
Vitamin K2: (daily intake not specified)
Calcium: 1-1.5 grams
Phosphorus: 2 grams
Vitamin C: 75-90 mg (not more than 2,000 mg)
*It is important to get these vitamins and minerals from food, not synthetic vitamins!
If you have active tooth decay, you are most likely deficient in Vitamins A and D.
FAT SOLUBLE VITAMINS (A, D, E AND K) FROM FOOD
The following foods make good staples in a teeth healing diet, since they are high in fat soluble vitamins A and D:
Beef liver (1 ounce = 10,000 IU Vitamin A, 8.5 IU Vitamin D)
Anchor grass-fed butter (1 tablespoon = 350 IU Vitamin A, 8 IU Vitamin D)
Pastured chicken eggs (3 eggs = 660 IU Vitamin A, 180 IU Vitamin D)
Duck eggs (1 egg = 472 IU Vitamin A, 540 IU Vitamin D)
Oysters (3.5 ounces of oyster meat = 642 IU Vitamin D)
Pork Lard (1 tablespoon = 140-400 IU Vitamin D)
Salmon (3.5 ounces = 360 IU Vitamin D)
Canned sardines (3.5 ounces = 270 IU Vitamin D)
You can find even more Vitamin A and D rich foods listed in Cure Tooth Decay.
VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY
The fat soluble vitamin that my diet is most likely deficient in is Vitamin A. I have only eaten liver a couple times. Before going Paleo, I barely ate any butter for about 10 years. And these days I hardly eat seafood with the innards, such as oysters or clams.
The main source of Vitamin A in my diet is eggs, with occasional salmon or canned sardines. But I would need to eat about ten times my daily intake of those foods to come within the recommend range of 4,000-20,000 IU of Vitamin A daily.
Liver is the most concentrated source of fat-soluble Vitamin A.
TAKING COD LIVER OIL FOR VITAMIN A
The easiest option for increasing my fat soluble vitamin intake would be to take Green Pasture BLUE ICE™ Royal Butter Oil / Fermented Cod Liver Oil Blend, which provides a balanced ratio of Vitamins A, D, E, and K2.
I like the idea of taking capsules rather than liquid. I once attempted to take Green Pasture coconut oil infused with Blue Ice Fermented Cod Liver Oil and Skate Liver Oil and the texture was so awful that I almost gave up all together on healing my cavities naturally with nutrition.
The book makes the FCLO and butter oil blend sound like a magic bullet, since you can get A, D, E, and K2 all at once. And we’re always looking for some easy fix, whether it be a nutritional shake or a pill…
But there will be no magical FCLO and butter oil blend for me. The main reason I am not going to rely on Green Pasture supplements is that the shipping is way too expensive to Thailand. There has also been debate lately regarding fermented cod liver oil vs. cod liver oil that has not been fermented. It is interesting to view this controversy in light of the history of cod liver oil processing over the years.
I will address my nutritional need for Vitamin A by eating approximately one ounce of grass-fed beef liver per day, and I’m just going to have to get used to it!
I will also start eating duck eggs, which are richer in fat soluble vitamins A and D than chicken eggs and have bigger yolks. This photo shows two bright orange duck egg yolks and two pale yellow chicken egg yolks. You can tell by the color alone that the duck eggs are more nutritious.