Healthy Teeth Start with Mama's Mineral Base
Aug 23, 2025
Healthy teeth aren’t genetic… they’re mineral. Let’s talk about how Mama’s mineral base shapes her child’s dental health.
How do healthy teeth start with Mama's mineral base?
If mama already has cavity and mineral base issues, this is a big indicator that babe will too. The explanation here isn’t “genetics", it is because cavities are a communication of “not enough.” If mama doesn’t have enough, babe will not either.
When it comes to mineral loss, this is something that happens over time as the body gets exposed to more and more stress.
Remember, stress is identified in so many ways – AND the catch 22 when it comes to stress and minerals is that our mineral base is what governs our capacity for stress and stress hacks away at the mineral base.
Stress is any sort of trauma, accident, challenging season of life. Stress is exposure to environmental chemicals, metals, antibiotics and poor diet.
The body compensates the best it can in response to stress. After a while, the body loses its capacity to compensate – and so it adapts.
To illustrate, here is an example of mineral loss in an adult:
- The body’s sodium and potassium levels are first disrupted from stress load. They work in tandem with aldosterone and cortisol (which are adrenal hormones). Dysfunction in sodium and potassium also means dysfunction of the adrenals and kidneys.
- Once potassium goes, magnesium is next. After magnesium is boron.
- For proper utilization, calcium really needs potassium, magnesium, and boron. Boron is especially needed to keep calcium in the bone and magnesium in the cells.
- As these important calcium co-factors deplete, calcium begins to build up in the tissues.
- Once calcium builds up, we will see zinc loss and copper retention.
- Towards the end of this mineral loss progression is loss of vitamin D. This is the body's attempt to stop soft tissue calcification or to stop the excess calcium. Vitamin D raises calcium – but the body does not want to do that when it doesn't have the proper minerals to keep calcium IN THE BONE. This is a big reason why people have such chronically low vitamin D levels – even if they get a lot of sun and even if they supplement.
- This is often why you will see vitamin D supplementation as a solution for cavity healing – it is helpful, but is just a link in a chain of areas to address.
- Of course all along the adjustments the body is making to effectively adapt. We see a complete slowing down or burning out of the endocrine system and drainage pathways. HELLO, hypothyroid communication from our mamas AND communications of toxicity!
Now. When it comes to kiddos:
All of this applies. BUT. A baby and child are ALSO trying to grow.
One of the special functions of a baby or child’s physiology is their fast metabolism – this is a function of a human’s ability to grow. A fast metabolism requires abundant use of calcium and phosphorus – if a child does not have these nutrients coming in and if they have birth trauma, stress, and depleted mineral base and toxicities from mama – their body will steal minerals in order to grow as best as it can.
It's like having instructions to build a brick wall a certain height. And not enough bricks to meet the requirements.
You either build the wall as best you can with no holes – and have a short wall (calcium deficiency is also related to “failure to thrive” or slow growing). Or you build the wall as tall as it needs to be, but it will have holes every so often.
The holes are the cavities. And this is what we mean by “stealing state.”
Cavities are a communication of the body doing everything it can to adapt.
A faster metabolic state is also a function of a pregnant mama as well – again, here, a fast metabolism is conducive to growing. This is why a depleted mama is prone to cavities after and during pregnancy.
Does any part of this resonate with you? What has been your pregnancy story/ your child’s dental history/ your own dental journey?
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