Bad Tooth Update

It's been about a month since I began (almost) daily oil pulling in the mornings. I usually oil pull as soon as I wake up for 15-20 minutes. Then I wait 20 minutes and have 1-2 tsps apple cider vinegar in a glass of water. I then wait another 20 minutes and have my morning shake, filled with protein, fruit, and or leafy greens.

I have not had any pain in my bad tooth or the surrounding area, besides one day after I ate a little piece of chocolate. I have been clean eating (with a couple exceptions). And I have been taking a whole food multivitamin every morning along with a fermented cod liver oil supplement morning and night. I have been feeling much better - more energy and less bloated. I am not sure how it is all affecting my bad tooth, but I think the absence of the constant pain I had been feeling proves that I'm doing something right. I have also been drinking a cup or two daily of raw milk, but currently I am out.   :(  I may get the most organic whole milk I can find in the mean time.

Hopefully in a few more weeks I will have a more definitive perspective on the bad tooth remedy. I have seen countless "we've done it" stories and I trust in the power of nutrition to heal the body.

Bad Tooth part 2

I am trying to heal a bad tooth. So in addition to oil pulling, I am clean eating. Basically, I am trying to eat as many foods 'whole' as I can. Vegetables and fruits are especially important. But, contrary to popular belief, so is fat. This past week I stumbled across a website that helps you find local raw milk. It is called the Real Milk Finder. So on Saturday, I drove to the nearest farm and picked up my REAL raw milk. There is a good 3 inches of cream on the top of it. I haven't tried it yet, but I think I'll put it in my breakfast smoothie today.
Another important factor in my tooth healing experiment is taking a multivitamin. The recommended daily serving is 4 vitamins. I am taking one a day just as a booster, in case I am not getting all that I need. I take only whole food vitamins- which means the vitamins and minerals are coming from food, not from a factory. Currently I am taking Garden of Life brand, Vitamin Code.


Follow how it's going with my update.

BAD tooth :(

So I have a bad tooth. It has always bothered me. There is a slight gap between it and the next tooth. I always get food stuck in there, especially chicken and pork. When I used to floss, it would get caught on something and always rip. Ugh, the struggle of a bad tooth. Well about 4 months ago I was eating a egg and cheese croissant. That's relatively soft, right? I guess not soft enough because all of a sudden, crunch! I bit on something hard - a piece of my tooth! How could a chunk of tooth just fall out? At the time I chocked it up to being a filling that was old and had just fallen out, but now I'm wondering if it was an actual piece of tooth.

Anyway, I finally got an appointment at my dentist. (That is another annoying story) He does a couple x-rays and tells me, "You need a root canal. Now."

Oh. My. Gosh. A root canal? So I made the appointment right away.
But then I started doing research. Wait, root canals are bad? Toxic? I cancelled that appointment and began to oil pull.

It's been 10 days since I began oil pulling. I am no longer feeling pain in my bad tooth. After oil pulling my teeth feel so clean. And my bad tooth feels nice and solid.