THE PALEO DIET
When researchers go back and study the mouth of the caveman they are have been able to determine several things. First of all they can still remove tartar from his teeth and analyze it. He had very little and very different tartar than we do. They can even tell what kind of germs lived in his mouth.
And guess what? Basically caveman had no decay and no gum disease. That has always intrigued me and I just couldn’t believe it because caveman had no toothbrush, no toothpaste and no dentist. How can he live for 90 years and have no decay or gum disease. As we are all finding out these days.
THE MOUTH IS THE WINDOW TO YOUR HEALTH
and many conditions or diseases are linked in some way to the mouth and the bacteria that live there. What is the difference between the bacteria of caveman and the bacteria of modern man? I believe this is where all of our problems began.
Caveman had a lot of the same bacteria we have minus most of the bad bacteria that we have. In other words, he had a lot of the good harmless bacteria and very little of bad disease causing bacteria. So there has been lots of research as to why this is and it’s that 4 letter word again-DIET. Caveman had no sugar, no dairy and no grains. His everyday routine was HUNT, FISH, GATHER OR PLUCK and most of his liquid was water.
There is some research that he allowed some fruits and vegetables to ferment and that he drank that liquid when available. Somewhere along the way he started to learn to farm. There are estimates that this was about 10,000 years ago depending upon climate and location. As soon as this started to happen we began to see decay, gum disease, heart disease, diabetes and cancer.
In my research there are multiple tribal groups around the world today that live and eat like caveman and their health mimics Caveman. If they leave their tribe and join modern society, in a very short period of time they start to have modern diseases. AMAZING.
WHAT WOULD A CAVE MAN EAT?
In today’s world we call it the CAVEMEN DIET or the PALEO DIET. The Paleo diet is a nutritional lifestyle that focuses on eating only foods that are unprocessed, high in nutrients and that would have been available to humans in the Paleolithic times. This is before farming, agriculture, domestication of animals and food processing. Essentially, humans cannot digest and use for energy many modern foods-for example grains (bread and crackers), dairy (milk).
So basically the diet consists of a protein like grass-fed/finished (not fattened up in a feed lot with hormones and antibiotics) beef, wild caught fish or seafood (not farm raised), free range (not raised in a cage), chicken, eggs, hogs, lamb etc., minimally processed fats (such as avocados, coconut oil, olive oil, macadamia oil), nuts, seeds, organic (no pesticides, preservatives, additives etc.) non starchy fruits and vegetables (avocado, greens, celery, cucumber, squash and asparagus).
SUMMARY-As you can see, THE MOUTH IS THE WINDOW TO YOUR HEALTH! In my opinion, over the next few years we will see many more connections between the bad germs that cause gum disease and many other systemic diseases or conditions. The paleo diet does not feed these bacteria and therefore your chance of getting gum
disease is greatly diminished. Also by not feeding the bad bacteria then many other parts of your body will improve and be healthier. DON’T FEED THE BAD BUGS, FLOSS & BRUSH!
