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Unveiling the Secrets of Ancestral Dental Health: Diet, Lifestyle and Beyond

Defiant Health Radio with Dr. William Davis

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The Effects of Wheat and Grains on the Oral Microbiome

The oral microbiome, that is the microbes living in the mouth, when we first start to consume grains, change the composition of the oral microbiome. That favoring proliferation of species such as streptococcus mutans that cause tooth decay. The conversion from a hunter-gatherer lifestyle of eating organs and meats,. fish and shellfish, occasional fruit and roots that they dig up, changed the mouth microbiome to favor tooth decay. If we revert back to our diet that we're adapted to, we would be just like wolves and bears and other creatures have no tooth decay or virtually no tooth decay.

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