23/10/2021
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My life has been shaped by following the story that teeth tell us.
We rarely consider just how amazing our teeth are. They break food without themselves being broken, up to millions of times over the course of a lifetime; and they do it built from the very same raw materials as the foods they are breaking.
But left in your jawbone, will be the oldest footprint of your life left on planet earth. From the soil, we dig up the most ancient trace of our ancestors.
What do they tell us? Human teeth are not supposed to grow crooked.
Human teeth are in a state like no other before.
Do you have impacted wisdom teeth? Are your lower front teeth crooked or out of line? Do your uppers jut out over your lowers?.
It’s as if our teeth are too big to fit properly in our jaws, and there isn’t enough room in the back or front for them all. It just doesn’t make sense that such an otherwise well-designed system would be so ill-fitting.
So why don’t our teeth fit properly in the jaw? The short answer is not that our teeth are too large, but that our jaws are too small to fit them in.
In 2004 a Harvard study looked at hyraxes fed soft, cooked foods and tough, raw foods. Higher chewing strains resulted in more growth in the bone that anchors the teeth. He showed that the ultimate length of a jaw depends on the stress put on it during chewing.
Dental anthropologist Robert Corruccini has documented it in urban vs rural populations in humans, what we eat changes our jaw.
So is it just chewing pressure? Or have our diets changed in other ways?
The loss of fat-soluble vitamins from animal organs has been centrepiece of the human diet for all of our history.
These nutrients including vitamin D, and its co-factor vitamin K2, cause our bodies to absorb calcium, and place it into bones and teeth.
Fat soluble vitamins come from animal products such as organ meats, grass raised dairy, and eggs for example.
Our society needs to get back to traditional foods that help grow strong skeletal bones and teeth.
We need a healthcare system that identifies and redirects correct human dental development.
It’s how we heal our future.
Do you agree?