Your Teeth and Your Health

Many secrets about life are revealed in the teeth. The teeth show us what our mothers ate, especially during the nine months they carried us. The teeth also tell us much about our relationship with our mothers and about our upbringing. They tell us the diet of our ancestors, and the foods we should eat to maintain health and direction in life. Finally, the teeth have an important and interesting relationship with the spine.
Let's begin at the beginning when sperm and egg meet and form a living foetus. Two become one. But the evidence of the two cells remains everywhere in our bodies as the duality of life. One aspect of that duality is the formation of teeth and vertebrae. Teeth and vertebrae are two sets of small bones, one set smaller than the other, but still very much alike.

Individual Development

There are thirty two teeth and thirty two vertebrae. During gestation, one set of smaller bones moves upward to the mouth to form the teeth; the other moves downward to form the spine. The relationship between the teeth and the vertebrae continues throughout life. Our ability to chew, for example, depends on the straightness of the spine. If the spine becomes crooked or impaired in some way, chewing is impaired; we may develop an underbite or overbite. The jaw can become imbalanced to one side or the other, so that one side of the mouth bites before the other does. It can be very painful to chew at all if there is a misalignment of the spine. Tension in the back is often expressed by gritting the teeth or clenching the jaw; the jaw often tries to release the tension that accumulates in the spine.

All of our teeth, including our adult teeth, are formed during gestation. They are all present within the upper gums when we are born. Teeth are made of calcium and other minerals. Like the rest of our constitution, their strength depends on our mother's diet. We will have teeth no matter what our mothers ate, but the strength of those teeth depends on the availability of calcium, phosphorus, magnesium and other nutrients in our mother's diet. What the mother eats reveals a great deal about her attitude toward pregnancy and her child. If the mother eats a lot of fruit and sugar and drinks a lot of alcohol or takes drugs, the child's teeth will be weak. Often this type of diet during pregnancy reveals a mother in conflict over her pregnancy. She seeks to escape her reality by using these foods and other substances. Crooked teeth in a child are a sign of some type of difficulty for the mother during pregnancy. The energies that governed the straight descent of the teeth were not stable but in conflict, causing the teeth themselves to be in conflict with one another. Buck teeth reveal that the mother consumed a lot of salad and raw vegetables, fruit, fruit juices and sugar during the pregnancy. Teeth that jut forward are caused by such expansive foods. Teeth that slant back, like those of a shark, reveal an diet during pregnancy rich in red meat, eggs, chicken and salt. Good, strong teeth during childhood and adulthood reveal a functional family that was conscious of the need to take care of the child, including his or her teeth. The family ate a healthy diet rich in fresh vegetables. Vegetables, of course, are the source of many vitamins and minerals essential to healthy teeth. Teeth that are weak or suffer cavities reveal that the mother's diet during pregnancy lacked minerals, weakening her own condition. Later development of cavities indicates a family that did not pay much attention to dental hygiene and early dietary patterns. Refined foods, especially sugars, cause the mouth to become rich in acid, which causes tooth decay. Acid-rich blood is a host for many viruses and colds, causing poor health in children.

A child will, of course, affect his/her own teeth by the way he/she eats. If a child's training is good and dietary habits sound, his/her teeth will develop well. If, however, a child is in conflict or suffers a painful childhood, he/she will be attracted to more foods that will help him/her to escape consciousness and that will encourage a fantasy existence. Such substances as sugar, carbonated soft drinks, excess fruit, fruit juices and refined flour products facilitate the creation of a fantasy world to compensate for difficulties and pain in the immediate environment.

Human Evolution

Teeth reveal many secrets of human evolution. Palaeontologists study fossilised teeth to learn the diets of our forebears. Let's see what we can learn about our evolution and the diet it has designed for us.
We possess thirty two teeth, which can be broken down as follows: four canine or sharp, pointed teeth: eight incisors or front teeth: twenty molars and premolars.

Canine teeth are used for tearing meat. If you look into the mouth of a lion or tiger, animals whose principal food is meat, you will see a mouthful of canine teeth. The same is true for dogs and cats. These animals also have very short digestive tracts. Their teeth and read more