Fact or Myth: Coconut Oil Prevents Tooth DecayDanica Collins | 0 Comments
This is a FACT.

Here’s one more reason to love coconut oil! Coconut oil prevents tooth decay and cavities. Your mouth is a breeding ground for bacteria, but coconut oil prevents tooth decay by zapping these cavity-causing bacteria with its antibacterial and antimicrobial properties.

Researchers from the Athlone Institute of Technology in Ireland found that coconut oil eradicated stains of bacteria known to cause tooth decay, particularly Streptococcus. Researchers added enzymes to render the coconut oil in a semi-digested state. The semi-digested coconut oil stopped the spread of bacteria in the mouth. The coconut oil also destroyed the Candida albicans yeast that causes thrush, a nasty mouth infection.

What’s so exciting about this research is that it offers a viable alternative to fluoride. Coconut oil is natural, safe, and side effect free, unlike fluoride, which is used in virtually all commercial toothpaste brands. Fluoride is touted as a cavity-fighting agent, but no legitimate study has ever been able to confirm that fluoride fights or prevents tooth decay when ingested. On the contrary, fluoride—which is also added to our water supply—has been shown to be harmful to health.

Coconut Oil’s Antibiotic Powers

Coconut oil is a natural antibiotic that protects against bacterial infections and treats:

• Throat infections
• Ulcers
• Gum disease

The lauric fatty acids in coconut oil protect against infections from parasites, fungi, viruses, yeast, and bacteria.

Studies have also shown that coconut oil is an anti-cancer agent that may help inhibit the growth and spread of cancer cells by strengthening the immune system.

Can Coconut Oil Cure All?

Maybe not “all” but coconut oil certainly helps heal a lot! It protects heart health, raises energy levels, promotes an efficient metabolism, improves digestion, and enhances your immune system. You can start benefiting from coconut oil today by making it your cooking oil of choice. It’s the perfect oil to cook with because it doesn’t oxidize when exposed to light or high temperatures.

For oral conditions like tooth decay, start “oil pulling” with coconut oil. Swish a tablespoon of coconut oil around in your mouth for 10-20 minutes. The oil “pulls” bacteria from your mouth. Spit the oil (and the accompanying bacteria) out of your mouth after 10-20 minutes. To find out more about the benefits of oil pulling, click here.

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This article, written from experience, is good and there is an even greater Solution. I also have suffered traumatic incidents and found that the world's solutions and God's Solution are quite different. All things do work together for good for those who love God, but while in the midst of a crisis, loss, death, disease or trauma, the problem seems so big that we cannot see the forest for the trees. The only Solution is the Holy Spirit who is not only the Fire of God and the Spirit of God, but the firefighter and the rebuilder!!!! The Holy Spirit not only comforts like no other, strengthens and gives you resilience, but also gives the post-traumatic growth or regeneration! Call on the Holy Spirit in the midst of suffering, pain, emotional distress, soul wounding, or loss, and the Comforter, beyond all human understanding, will comfort, counsel, guide, lead, heal, wash, cleanse, clear, purify, refine, make white, give safety, return trust, build your relationship with God, form Christ in you, and regenerate you and set you on your true life's path! Holy Spirit will give you beauty for ashes and joy for tears! You can Trust this!!!!! Amen. So be it! Let there be Light!

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I wasn’t really expecting painful things to happen to me. Trauma can be an isolating experience. It's only through relationship that we can be most fully healed. I knew that pain was a part of life, but — thanks in part to a peculiar blend of “God-has-a-plan” Southern roots, a suburban “Midwestern nice” upbringing, and a higher education in New England stoicism — I managed to skate by for quite some time without having to acknowledge it.

After a handful of traumas in the last five years, things look different now. Trauma upends everything we took for granted, including things we didn’t know we took for granted. And many of these realities I wish I’d known when I first encountered them. So, while the work of life and healing continues, here are ten things I’ve learned about trauma along the way:

1. Trauma permanently changes us.

This is the big, scary truth about trauma: there is no such thing as “getting over it.” The five stages of grief model marks universal stages in learning to accept loss, but the reality is in fact much bigger: a major life disruption leaves a new normal in its wake. There is no “back to the old me.” You are different now, full stop.

This is not a wholly negative thing. Healing from trauma can also mean finding new strength and joy. The goal of healing is not a papering-over of changes in an effort to preserve or present things as normal. It is to acknowledge and wear your new life — warts, wisdom, and all — with courage.

2.  Presence is always better than distance.

There is a curious illusion that in times of crisis people “need space.” I don’t know where this assumption originated, but in my experience it is almost always false. Trauma is a disfiguring, lonely time even when surrounded in love; to suffer through trauma alone is unbearable. Do not assume others are reaching out, showing up, or covering all the bases.

It is a much lighter burden to say, “Thanks for your love, but please go away,” than to say, “I was hurting and no one cared for me.” If someone says they need space, respect that. Otherwise, err on the side of presence.

3.  Healing is seasonal, not linear.

It is true that healing happens with time. But in the recovery wilderness, emotional healing looks less like a line and more like a wobbly figure-8. It’s perfectly common to get stuck in one stage for months, only to jump to another end entirely … only to find yourself back in the same old mud again next year.

Recovery lasts a long, long time. Expect seasons.

4.  Surviving trauma takes “firefighters” and “builders.” Very few people are both.

This is a tough one. In times of crisis, we want our family, partner, or dearest friends to be everything for us. But surviving trauma requires at least two types of people: the crisis team — those friends who can drop everything and jump into the fray by your side, and the reconstruction crew — those whose calm, steady care will help nudge you out the door into regaining your footing in the world. In my experience, it is extremely rare for any individual to be both a firefighter and a builder. This is one reason why trauma is a lonely experience. Even if you share suffering with others, no one else will be able to fully walk the road with you the whole way.

A hard lesson of trauma is learning to forgive and love your partner, best friend, or family even when they fail at one of these roles. Conversely, one of the deepest joys is finding both kinds of companions beside you on the journey.

5.  Grieving is social, and so is healing.

For as private a pain as trauma is, for all the healing that time and self-work will bring, we are wired for contact. Just as relationships can hurt us most deeply, it is only through relationship that we can be most fully healed.

It’s not easy to know what this looks like — can I trust casual acquaintances with my hurt? If my family is the source of trauma, can they also be the source of healing? How long until this friend walks away? Does communal prayer help or trivialize?

Seeking out shelter in one another requires tremendous courage, but it is a matter of life or paralysis. One way to start is to practice giving shelter to others.

6.  Do not offer platitudes or comparisons. Do not, do not, do not.

“I’m so sorry you lost your son, we lost our dog last year … ” “At least it’s not as bad as … ” “You’ll be stronger when this is over.” “God works in all things for good!”

When a loved one is suffering, we want to comfort them. We offer assurances like the ones above when we don’t know what else to say. But from the inside, these often sting as clueless, careless, or just plain false.

Trauma is terrible. What we need in the aftermath is a friend who can swallow her own discomfort and fear, sit beside us, and just let it be terrible for a while.

7.  Allow those suffering to tell their own stories.

Of course, someone who has suffered trauma may say, “This made me stronger,” or “I’m lucky it’s only (x) and not (z).” That is their prerogative. There is an enormous gulf between having someone else thrust his unsolicited or misapplied silver linings onto you, and discovering hope for one’s self. The story may ultimately sound very much like “God works in all things for good,” but there will be a galaxy of disfigurement and longing and disorientation in that confession. Give the person struggling through trauma the dignity of discovering and owning for himself where, and if, hope endures.

8.  Love shows up in unexpected ways.

This is a mystifying pattern after trauma, particularly for those in broad community: some near-strangers reach out, some close friends fumble to express care. It’s natural for us to weight expressions of love differently: a Hallmark card, while unsatisfying if received from a dear friend, can be deeply touching coming from an old acquaintance.

Ultimately every gesture of love, regardless of the sender, becomes a step along the way to healing. If there are beatitudes for trauma, I’d say the first is, “Blessed are those who give love to anyone in times of hurt, regardless of how recently they’ve talked or awkwardly reconnected or visited cross-country or ignored each other on the metro.” It may not look like what you’d request or expect, but there will be days when surprise love will be the sweetest.

9.  Whatever doesn’t kill you …

In 2011, after a publically humiliating year, comedian Conan O’Brien gave students at Dartmouth College the following warning:

"Nietzsche famously said, 'Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.' … What he failed to stress is that it almost kills you.”Odd things show up after a serious loss and creep into every corner of life: insatiable anxiety in places that used to bring you joy, detachment or frustration towards your closest companions, a deep distrust of love or presence or vulnerability.

There will be days when you feel like a quivering, cowardly shell of yourself, when despair yawns as a terrible chasm, when fear paralyzes any chance for pleasure. This is just a fight that has to be won, over and over and over again.

10.  … Doesn’t kill you.

Living through trauma may teach you resilience. It may help sustain you and others in times of crisis down the road. It may prompt humility. It may make for deeper seasons of joy. It may even make you stronger.

It also may not.

In the end, the hope of life after trauma is simply that you have life after trauma. The days, in their weird and varied richness, go on. So will you. 

Catherine Woodiwiss is Associate Web Editor at Sojourners. Find her on Twitter @chwoodiwiss.This piece originally appeared in Catapult magazine's January issue, Ten Things.

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