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Originally Posted by Teresa Ford  I am watching this thread with interest. I worry about my Yorkies teeth ...Surely there are things out there that would help keep their teeth healthy.
I would love some something that really worked. |
Me, too.
Now, I am
no expert, lol, but...
my understanding, from looking into such things for many, many years, first for humans, is that the tarter and plaque buildup on teeth is at least partly because we eat mostly 'dead' food...food that has been 'processed' in such a way that it lacks the enzymes for its own digestion (it does not 'rot' in other words...which also gives it a looooong, profitable shelf life), and our bodies must manufacture the enzymes to digest it, if possible...which the body may not be able to do at that particular moment anyway...'food combinations' and pancreatic involvement, etc.
These foods "take from" the body rather than "give to" the body...think 'photons' and 'electrons' and 'free radicals' and etc...and since our saliva often lacks the 'right' stuff to break down these foods, some particles may remain on the teeth, and calcification, etc. occurs because our bodies must 'neutralize' the pH since (dare I say?) all processed, pre-packaged 'food' is 'acidic in the body'...then it is 'stored' for later disposal or maybe just 'sticks' to surfaces...as I understand it both in the mouth and the rest of the body.
Now, please understand that I am being seriously overly simplistic with this description...but hopefully you can see what I mean in 'general' terms.
Fresh organic fruits, vegetables, raw milk, etc., do (hopefully always) contain these important to digestion things...but sometimes, since it can be hard to get everything fresh, raw, and organic...or consume them that way...they may contribute to tarter and/or plaque as well, particularly with other factors involved. These are some reasons some people take "digestive enzymes" in pill, etc., form.
Oh, and I went looking into this because, among other reasons, dentistry is a relatively "new" thing in human kind, and while there have undoubtedly been tooth problems in our species...probably occasionally since the first human appeared on this planet...however that happened...
...but they didn't have fluoridated tooth pastes, fluoridated water, etc. back then (I don't think...lol). But, so many skulls 'we' (archeologists, etc.) find still have all or most of their teeth intact, making it
look like
they must have had/done something different than us. Also, since wild animals do not suffer the same ills as domesticated animals, I figured there was a connection...a similarity...between eating in the wild and natural world, and eating in the drive thru lane.
I am a weird thinker, huh...lmao...and I just wanted
to know if possible!
