Proper nutrition is beneficial for your body, teeth, and gums. It can help you to protect your oral health.
Calcium helps harden your enamel and strengthen your jawbone. Milk and yogurt contain calcium that your body can absorb, including salmon and sardines.
citrus fruits are rich in Vitamin C, potatoes, and leafy greens. Vitamin A helps keep mucous membranes healthy, prevents dry mouth and helps your mouth heal quickly for strong gums and teeth. In addition to all the above, fruits, vegetables, and fish load up on egg yolks and liver talk to our dentists about your oral health and the role supplements can play. We can give you more detailed advice about the nutrients that would serve you best and how to fit your accessory into a routine. Vitamin D helps the body absorb calcium while boosting bone mineral density. The vitamin can be found in fatty fish, canned tuna and portobello mushrooms, foods and drinks that have been fortified with vitamin D, such as milk, orange juice, and cereal potassium improve bone mineral density and works with magnesium to prevent blood from becoming too acidic which can leach calcium from your bones and teeth bananas are sources of potassium lima beans tomatoes potatoes avocados and prunes phosphorus supports calcium in building strong bones and teeth rich sources of the mineral include fish soy beans lentils and pumpkin seeds. Think of this vitamin as a shield. It helps block substances that break down bone. Leafy greens such as kale and spinach can help you increase your vitamin K. Parsley broccoli, and Brussels sprouts vitamin thief strengthens your gums and the soft tissue in your mouth, protects against gingivitis, the early stage of gum disease and prevents your teeth from loosening.
The Most Important Vitamin for Oral Health
“What supplement or vitamin can we take that would help me improve oral health?”
And that’s an easy answer for us, but it may come as a surprise to you and many. It’s a Vitamin K2. It’s not a diet. It’s not calcium. It’s not fluoride.
We could have the best diet possible, but if you don’t have Vitamin K2 on board, you will not have strong teeth and bones.
Also, your children will not develop fully to their full genetic potential in terms of facial growth. And that has implications later with sleep apnea, facial asymmetry, crowding, and wisdom teeth that need to be pulled out.
So, if it’s not present in the bloodstream, some proteins help distribute calcium throughout the body so that if they don’t see K2, they will not do their job. So again, you can have that optimal diet, take a calcium supplement, and put calcium into parts of your body that you don’t really want to have calcium in, like the walls of your arteries.
MK7 is probably the more important of the two versions of Vitamin K2.
Although, we take MK4 as well, just in case. They change their thoughts on that. So, Vitamin K2 is produced by the gut.
If your gut microbiome is in an optimal state, you’re producing this on your own We’re designed to do that.
But, unfortunately, with the Western diet, that’s not happening as often as we would like. Also, our diet has strayed away from a Paleo diet.
And the Paleo diet, organ meats, fermented bean curd, and butter.
You know, all those things that we’ve been told not to eat because of saturated fat. So, our Vitamin K2 stores have been low in the recent past. Again, we would recommend supplementing even for your children. This will help prevent cavities. It’ll help avoid crowding the teeth due to a small jaw growth.
You know, lower forward facial development issues, And so, it’s a big one. We mean, for the money and time you spend supplementing and eating the proper diet, Vitamin K2 is probably the most significant contributor to oral health that we can think of at this time.
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Someone had a question related to the grinding of the teeth at night. Could it be a vitamin deficiency?
And the answer is yes. It could be that supplement deficiency is vitamin D. now, what is the association between the grinding of the teeth bruxism(teeth grinding) and vitamin D?
There are so many sleep disorders, including sleep apnea and different types of insomnia, including cramps in your feet at night, that are related to low levels of D. It could also mean that you’re deficient in Calcium or magnesium. If you’re going to take Calcium, make sure you don’t take too much. If you take too much, it can create the same symptoms as a calcium deficiency. Taking a small amount of calcium or getting calcium from food might be a good idea.
Vitamin D deficiency is also associated with anxiety. If you’re trying to sleep at night with a vitamin D deficiency, the stress alone can cause you to grind your teeth.
A simple solution to find out if this is the cause of your problem is to take about 10 000 IU of vitamin D3 at dinner time and ensure that dinner includes a little cheese. Hence, you get your calcium and then see if you observe any improvements with grinding the teeth.
The tricky thing about this is to know if you are grinding your teeth less because you’re usually sleeping, and you don’t even know you’re grinding your teeth. You’re going to have to figure that one out. Some good data show that vitamin D deficiency is associated with bruxism.
Importance of Vitamin D for Your Teeth
Vitamin D is probably an essential supplement. It’s not even a
vitamin. It’s a hormone, and it does so many things; it regulates calcium it
works also with vitamins k2 because vitamin D increases the calcium in the blood by 20 times guess what you need vitamin k2 you take that calcium that’s in the blood or in the joints or in soft tissues and drive it into the bone and the teeth so vitamins k2 is very very important in teeth as well butter’s gonna might have too much cholesterol and clog your arteries but guess what butter is loaded with k2 and that’s really what we need and it could be why some of our patients had pretty much cavities in every single tooth in their head but a vitamin D deficiency also relates to low back pain so if you have lower back pain or any pain in the body or any type of inflammation take some vitamin D it really really works we would recommend 20,000 our patients use per day and make sure you add with that 200 micrograms of k2 okay so the ratio is for every 10,000 IU’s of d3 you need 100 micrograms of k2 that’s the ratios and also vitamin D is essential in your immune system it’s an immune modulator nearly every autoimmune condition is deficient in vitamin D vitamin D deficiencies can set you up for getting viral infections bacterial infections definitely the flu and also loss of bone osteopenia osteoporosis you need D3 and k2 together so in summary we wanted just to emphasize the importance of vitamin D and how it works and number two identify these three things that could occur if you have children it’s a vitamin D deficiency and if you have these issues right now and you’re older it could mean that you were deficient as a child and you could still be deficient now. Thanks for reading this article. Make sure to check out our other articles on our website.
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