Update 2012: I now use a berkey water filter to remove the fluoride from our city water. I have a Travel Berkey with 2 charcoal and 2 fluoride filters. See them here. Some research we did in regard to fluoride, which we choose not to use with our family either topically (in tooth paste) or …
Oil Pulling to relieve chronic conditions and whiten teeth
In looking up natural remedies for keratosis pilaris for a friend I saw the subject of oil pulling come up. Curious, I googled around and found that it’s the kind of holistic treatment that I like- minimal possibility of side effects, inexpensive, not time consuming. What is oil pulling? It’s essentially swishing oil around in your …
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Holistic Dentistry: Root Canals, Oral Allergy Syndrome, and Tooth Soap
Looking back to this spring when I started looking into remineralizing teeth and holistic dentistry, I started using tooth soap, and actually took the step of getting my root-canalled tooth pulled back in September. I know it’s not something to be taken lightly to have a root canal pulled out because of future health concerns, …
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Fall Reading- Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, Eat Fat Lose Fat
A friend told me that if you request books that the library ‘needs’ through their website, they actually usually get them. So as I see books come up related to real food or other things I’m interested in, I request them. So that’s what I’ve been doing lately, reading real books rather than blogs. If …
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Tooth Soap Update
I bought the kids tooth brushes at the health food store, since I was determined to find ones that didn’t have a character on them, and everywhere else had characters on them. Sorry, don’t want Dora in my bathroom ;) I’ve been using tooth soap (researched and wrote about it here, other dental posts here) …
Tooth Soap- How Does It Stack Up?
I brushed off the idea of tooth soap when I first heard about it. I was still thinking that there isn’t much that can be done for teeth. As I’m looking more in depth into dental problems, I do think it might be worth looking into. First off, I checked the ingredients (source). It’s basically …
Remineralization Toothpastes
I’m still looking into holistic dentistry, and in doing that I’ve come across remineralization toothpastes. My friend, Jess, recommended Dr Collin’s ‘Restore’ Fluoride free toothpaste. Though she’s very knowledgeable about lots of things, I know that before doing anything at all, recommended by anyone, I need to research it myself. So I set off to …
Holistic dental health
When I first got Nourishing Traditions I had to unlearn a lot of what I had just learned a few years prior in pre-nursing school (mainly nutrition and physiology). The main myths that I had believed were 1. A calories is a calorie. To lose weight output must be more than input. (it’s a lot …