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RE: Can I whiten my teeth naturally without damaging them?
Yes - coconut oil works well if you oil pull (swill it) for about 5 mins a day.
BUT - here is the real issue - all tooth health is dependent on eating quality animal products - so being vegan and poor teeth go hand in hand.
I've heard this, yet I have plenty of vegan friends with great teeth so I guess it doesn't always mean this. A few people have mentioned the Weston A. Price book to me on Steemit. I may have to actually read it one of these days!
Let's see how the coconut oil works... and a bit more vegan lifestyle research. I would like to try and avoid the meat if I can :)
This one is always controversial - I have several vegan friends on Steemit who say the same thing - but we sell supplements and joke that half our customers are ex vegans with bad teeth! (except we are not actually joking)
http://www.naturefoods.co.nz/coconut-products/coconut-oil/zenian-coconut-oil-philippines
http://www.naturefoods.co.nz/nutra-organics-bone-broth-herb-garlic
The best explanation we have is that teeth heath is dependent on the animal products eaten by the parents, and by the child for their first 5-10 years.
But starting with a depleted nutrient store a vegan diet will destroy a person's teeth in 1- 15 years (longest time before problems starting we have heard of)
So any vegan without a history of eating some animal food is unlikely to maintain good teeth for more than a decade