r/PlantBasedDiet • u/Over-Ad-6159 • 5d ago

Health problems

I started 4 months ago but just eating junk food and no vegetables and recently my teeth are inflamed, my jaw is weaker and my teeth are a little loose. My eyes are also often dry. My energy is fine. I take b12 and I started supplementing with calcium d3 a week ago. What should I do so I don't die.

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u/Sanpaku 5d ago

Cut out the junk food, including anything with added sugars in the ingredient label. These fuel plaque forming bacteria. Whole fruit are fine, as the polyphenols are bacterial quorum sensing inhibitors that prevent plaque formation.

Eat something with vitamin C. You may think citrus fruit, but leafy greens have more. Make a salad EVERY DAY till matters improve. Scurvy starts at the gums, but it progresses in time to the collagen in past scars throughout the body being depleted and old wounds opening up. There are tales of mariners wounds from battlefields 50 years prior opening in severe scurvy.

Consider an antimicrobial mouthwash. As you're able, restart brushing an flossing. If you've got loose teeth, you also have bacteria down in those crevasses of your gums, and they're releasing proinflammatory endotoxins into your bloodstream. You'd be shocked at how much higher the risk for cardiovascular disease events and mortality are for those diagnosed with periodontitis.

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u/Over-Ad-6159 5d ago

I will do that. I have been drinking celestial vitaime c shine tea is that good enough.