The Dental Diet: The Surprising Link between Your Teeth, Real Food, and Life-Changing Natural Health

This is the best book I’ve read on nutrition, in general, and dental health in particular! I simply couldn’t stop reading til I finished it. Not only does make so much sense, it’s doable. And it explains why much of the medical advice typically given has been wrong and has led to poorer health. In looking for info on bone health I found this, and now I know that better dental health will lead to better gut health which will lead to better bone health, and better health overall. I already started today!

This a great and fun read. Dr Lin, DDS, presents a comprehensive approach to healthcare, with an emphasis on our dental care . He presents a blueprint for good teeth care explaining why everything is related to our health and teeth. His explanations are clear and concise, listing which vitamins to take, a nutrition plan to follow with good recipes, and some great anecdotal stories about his journey into health. I especially liked his story about his Chinese grandmother who inspired him on a path of good health at an early age. Another good story is about the time he took off from being a Dentist to back pack in Europe where he came upon a book by Dr Price, a pioneer in Vitamin K, which Dr Lin believes is one of the greatest discoveries in preventative modern dentistry. I hope that you enjoy this book as much as I have.

As a dentist, I never once dreamed that there would a dental diet book, let alone that I would ever read a dental book! But I was thoroughly engaged in this, and have to thank Steven Lin for providing the impetus to dig deeper. I've read a half dozen more books on related topics of diet and our physiologic responses to different foods, and it has been eye opening! I'm shocked I ever learned any of this in school. Not finding myself in particularly poor health, but rather in perfect oral health, I didn't need to try his "dental diet" to cure any problems or disease that I had, but I tried it anyway. In fact, my wife tried it with me (bless her soul). Our results were kind of underwhelming, but understand that we weren't starting from a position of sensitive teeth, high caries risk, or any other condition of oral disease. I modified his diet to include intermittent fasting (so I removed breakfast from his meal plans) (we also switched some meals around, but always stayed consistent with his restrictions). While I didn't get an drastic results, I did feel, overall and on a system-wide scale, better. What do I mean by that? I felt more agile, nimble, a bit younger, and whole foods were both enjoyable and filling. As a result of this, I lost about 20 pounds on his diet. Much of that is the result of removing sugar, snacking, and a constant barrage of food throughout the day. I hadn't gone into this with that expectation, but in the two months since finished his diet, I've lost an additional 5 pounds and been stable, have maintained a similar diet plan/philosophy, and continue to feel well and enjoy whole foods. More important to me than the diet in this book was what I learned and how I applied it to my lifestyle. Knowledge is power. Do I recommend the book? Yes, in short, but it may not be for everyone. As for the health topics, I think there are better books that I've read. This just happened to be my gateway. If the claims in the book about improving oral health are true, then I think this book is indispensable to my field and every patient, but I'm lacking both access to sufficient research studies and personal experience of seeing this in action to assert confidently that it will work. For now, it's a tool in my arsenal, and I would love to hear of success (and even failure) stories from trying what this book teaches.

Very informative, just haven't had the time to follow it myself.

When I was a practicing orthodontist (retired last summer) I was acutely aware of what is necessary for the health of the mouth and how that relates to the overall health of our body. Once we realize that food becomes the cells of our bodies, the foods we put into our mouths directly influence our state of health. Bad food will eventually catch up with you. Our body perpetually tries to heal us, but it can only do so if it has the correct fuel. Dr. Steven Lin's great new book is the solution we have all been looking for. That is, how to protect our mouths and our bodies at the same time. In addition, if adopted early enough in life, these protocols could possibly influence facial growth and development of children, giving them stronger teeth and possibly greater arch dimensions for the developing dentition. Each year at Christmas I always gave gifts to referring dentists as a way of thanking them for their referrals. I would try to give them something that would have meaning for them, instead of a perishable item they would eat and then not remember. Dr. Lin's book would be the perfect gift for all orthodontists and other specialists to give to their referring dentists for Christmas, and in turn, for dentists to recommend to their patients. Or, maybe don't wait for Christmas. Do it now! Way to go, Steven. J. Michael Steffen, DDS, MS

Thank you, Doctor Lin for educating me understand my teeth. I had the best teeth of the world before my second child was born when I was 32, even though I did little to clean them - one or two times brush and no floss each day. I felt wrong about my teeth when the baby was four month. I could not see dentist because of the stressful situation until the baby was one year old. All too late. I lost 5 teeth and the rest are all wiggling. Since that I spend tremendous time and energy to keep my teeth clean, but my teeth just getting only down. (They say gum disease is like diabetes - no cure.) The only explanation about gum disease is bacteria, so just keep teeth clean. But my clean teeth were in trouble with gum disease all the time. Thank God for this book guiding me to nutrition. My teeth stopped getting worse. I am very confident I will keep all my teeth and implants in the rest of my life. I do not think my gum disease was because of bacteria. It is more reasonable to explain it as the shortage of nutrition in stressful situation. Thank you very much, Dr. Lin. Some people gave this book one star saying they did not find anything new in this book. It is not fair to Dr. Lin - he was not a frontline researcher, but an educator as a dentist to explain our dental problem with the found knowledge. Dr. Lin did a wonderful job writing this job.

This book is good for someone who is completely unfamiliar with fat based, low-carb and low sugar diets. I don’t recommend this book for those who already have basic knoweledge on healthy eating. This book really had no information that isn’t already pretty well known and accesable online. The dental diet is similar to keto and paleo diets so if you are already familiar with these diets you won’t really find anything new here. I found it was very repetitive after a while. The Dental Diet can essentailly be broken down into three parts. It begins with a history of healthy ancestoral diets and compares that to todays food culture, next it gets into explaining how our health (primarily our dental health) depends on what we eat, and the last third of the book is a breakdown of 40-day recipees on the dental diet. Overall Dr. Lin provides good general information healthwise but nothing new or exciting.

It's an easy to read, easy to follow (what is basically a Paleo) diet, with lots of references to how it relates to teeth. Referencing the work of Westin A Price, Dr. Stephen Park, and Dr. Mike Mew and the Orthotropics movement. I don't think this will help me, at 44, with only 24 teeth (having had extractions for braces and wisdom teeth out) and now starting to suffer from bleeding gums and teeth sensitivity... there was no advice for mouth rinses (salt?) or bacterial types and how to fix them if there're out of whack (xylotol?) how to brush, or if to floss... jaw surgery or palatial widening for adults? (which I would have expected from a book on these issues. So yeah, this is just a diet... But I hope it can help parents make informed decisions about extractions and braces and reaise the long term implications for breathing. I basically feel like I was butchered by my dentist at 12 years old, having perfectly good teeth pulled (because I wasn't breast fed and had overcrowding). I've been searching the Orthotropic world for years for techniques such as the tongue up on the roof of the mouth technique, and have been paleo for 6 years, so I didnt really learn anything new from this book... but I really hope it will help others who may be new to these ideas, to not butcher their kids in the sane way I was (in the name of orthodontic dentistry!)

La información del libro reafirmo lo que vengo estudiando, y me encantó que traiga recetas

I bought these 4 books recently: 1.Cure Tooth Decay: Heal And Prevent Cavities With Nutrition 2.Holistic Dental Care: The Complete Guide to Healthy Teeth and Gums 3. The Dental Diet: The Surprising Link between Your Teeth, Real Food, and Life-Changing Natural Health 4. Cure Gum Disease Naturally: Heal and Prevent Periodontal Disease and Gingivitis with Whole Foods They're all good books in their own way. You actually just need one of books as they're all quite similar. What I learned is you need fat soluble vitamins like K2, D3, A and calcium/magnesium. Protein is beneficial while too many carbohydrates/starches/fruits might hinder the healing process. All authors promote an animal-based diet while Ramiel Nagel calls the vegetarian diet as inferior while I personally have no judgment. All authors suggest to avoid refined grains and processed sugars. I personally enjoyed Holistic Dental Care a tad more due to its simplicity. All of these books will change the way you think, eat, act and essentially live. It was important for me to buy multiple books on the same topic so I can get a broader view on the serious matter at hand; doctors, dentists, and fashionable diets are not here to love and care for you. This will take you down to the dragon's lair as you explore health. Skin health Hair health Nail health Mouth health Mental health Emotional health Digestive health Organ health Spiritual health Planetary health Cosmic health In fact, health is just right under our nose and inside our mouths. Becareful what you put inside your gate/orifice/mouth and becareful what comes out of it with curses/words/oaths/jinxes/hexes. You always have a choice to eat or to fast, to take or to give and to die or to thrive. Poison can be packaged into the most delightful, enticing, sweet and creamy dessert. Resist the temptations. It will pass. Don't feed the parasites/cravings. Be strong and be a warrior of health. You will heal. I will heal. We will heal.

Informative and useful info. Able to put into practice. Easily digestible chapters. Amazing to learn about how the gut affects the teeth. I feel this book has helped boost our familles understanding of dental hygiene and how diet affects our teeth. Would recommend.

Excellent livre sur l'alimentation. Qu'est-ce qui, dans notre alimentation, provoque les problèmes dans notre bouche et par la suite dans tout le corps. Très bien expliqué de A à Z. Tout est très clair et cela nous donne les moyens d'améliorer notre santé. Critique de l'alimentation industrielle très justifiée et documentée. Conseillé à tout le monde, surtout aux médecins, diététiciens et tous ceux qui veulent améliorer leur santé en commençant par les dents, la bouche et tout le corps.

A great read and great insight into what we put in our mouths and how the preparation of food makes such a difference to our health and teeth. Already have put some good practices in place around food preparation and what to feed my kids and family as a whole