086: Dr. Roger Lucas - Diet Alone Can Prevent 100% Of Cavities | Is Lemon Water Bad For Your Teeth? | Stay Away From "Sticky" Foods
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2016
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
This week's guest is paediatric dentist and biochemist, Dr. Roger Lucas. He is leading the movement for a practical, diet-first approach to cavity prevention. Roger is the author of More Chocolate, No Cavities: How Diet Can Keep Your Kid Cavity-Free.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Diet alone can prevent 100% of cavities
- Carbs are the starting point of all cavities
- Dry fruit leads to more cavities over fresh
- Carbs convert to lactic acid which wears away your tooth enamel
- Although juice can be nutritious, it can also be problematic for your teeth
- Certain foods have an affinity to stick to your teeth
- It takes repeated exposure to turn your kids onto new foods
- Strategies to get your kids eating their veggies
- Sipping water after a carb heavy meal
- Are cavities reversible?
- Surprise cavities aka cavities between the teeth
- Do cavities in baby teeth matter?
- We need to stop blaming genetics for our poor oral health
- A number of foods that won't cause cavities
- Jesse needed 13 fillings from eating too much fruit
- Is lemon water bad for your teeth?
- Fluoride, pros vs. cons
- Vitamin D supplementation and sunlight both reduce cavities
- 2 reasons xylitol gum helps prevent cavities
- Preventing cavities with chocolate?!?
Related links:
Dr. Roger Lucas - More Chocolate, No Cavities: How Diet Can Keep Your Kid Cavity-Free (book)
Follow Dr. Roger Lucas on Facebook, and Twitter
Dr. Roger Lucas' Diet Based Tooth Snack Guide
Listen to Dr. Mark Hyman previously on TUHP (episode #084 & episode #074)
Christopher Bryson & Theo Colborn - The Fluoride Deception (book)
Stephen Covey - The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (book)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the 86 episode of the Ultimate Health Podcast. |
| 0:03.0 | Jesse Chappas here with Marnie. Hello and welcome to the 86 episode of the Ultimate Health Podcast. |
| 0:13.6 | Jesse Chappas here with Marnie Wasserman, |
| 0:15.8 | and we are here to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:18.5 | Today we have on the show Dr. Roger Lucas, |
| 0:21.2 | he's a pediatric dentist who wrote the book More Chocolate No Cavities, |
| 0:25.9 | How Diet Can Keep Your Kid Cavity Free. And this information isn't just for the kids out |
| 0:30.8 | there. It applies to all of us, and you're going to find out |
| 0:35.5 | that cavities, no matter what your genetics are, |
| 0:39.1 | are totally preventable. |
| 0:41.3 | We're going to get into the details of what we discussed on today's |
| 0:43.9 | show in a few minutes here, but first I want to share an iTunes review and this one |
| 0:49.3 | is by M. G. 223 from the USA, a five-star review titled New Favorite. I have learned so much |
| 0:57.2 | from listening to Dr. Jesse and Marnie. They do an amazing job of providing |
| 1:01.6 | information on a variety of health topics and I love the takeaway |
| 1:05.4 | segment at the end of each episode. |
| 1:08.0 | It can be overwhelming to change your daily routine, but I'm extremely impressed by my progress. |
| 1:13.0 | Thanks to Dr. Jesse and Marnie. |
| 1:15.0 | Well, thank you so much for the kind words, |
| 1:18.0 | and we appreciate each and every one of you guys |
| 1:21.0 | that has taken the time to leave us the rating and |
| 1:23.7 | review over in iTunes. It's super easy to do for those of you who haven't done so |
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