Welcome to the Doctor Burg, Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast.

Now, your host, the man taking your health to a whole new level.

Doctor Eric Burg.

Did you realize that cavities are the second most common disease worldwide?

The number one disease is the common cold.

But cavities come in number two.

What is a cavity?

Well, the root word for cavity means whole.

There's a whole and your tooth.

You're getting dental decay.

In other words, the bone is dissolving and it's breaking down to the point where there's a whole in it.

Now, what's unique about the teeth is that they're supposed to be indestructible.

And you don't have cells that are constantly being replaced on this enamel, this outside of this tooth right here.

They know this from looking at fossils.

Certain skulls, the teeth are usually still there.

And they're very indestructible.

But there's one thing that will destroy them.

And that is a certain type of bacteria.

An isolated streptococcus mutants as being the main bacteria that apparently is causing these little holes.

And you have a lot of a friendly bacteria that are living in your mouth.

As you consume sugar and other carbohydrates that can ferment, what happens is the population of this bacteria starts going higher and higher and higher.

Until it hits a certain tipping point where it's now dominating.

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