Weston Price found that the western diet led to maloclussions

But is it still important if you can just fix it with these biomechanics?

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A number of folks have talked about Weston Price in various comments.

And I find this an interesting and a bit complex topic. Because yes I think diet plays an important role in the initial corruption of the teeth and dental arches, but there are also other factors involved.

I actually read his book back around 2016 and was really into his stuff for close to two years. It heavily influenced what we fed my son who was 2-3 years old at the time.

When we first moved to Boston in 2017 I remember making hour-long drives on the weekend to purchase unpasteurized milk. Later on I stopped all of that and basically dismissed all ideas of Weston Price from having any influence on me or my family.

So I wanted to lay out the framework for how I think about all of this in a post.

Who is Weston Price?

Weston Price was a dentist and researcher from the early 1900s who traveled the world studying the dental and physical characteristics of various traditional cultures.

He spent years visiting isolated communities across the globe, from the Swiss Alps to the Pacific Islands, documenting their dietary habits and physical development.

His work was groundbreaking because he systematically compared populations that maintained their traditional diets with those that had adopted modern "Western" foods.

What made Price unique was his scientific approach to documenting these differences, taking thousands of photographs and detailed measurements of dental arches, facial structures, and overall health indicators.

His findings were published in his seminal work "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration" in 1939.

What did he find out?

Price discovered that populations eating their traditional diets had remarkably better dental and physical development compared to those who had adopted Western foods. In traditional communities, he consistently found:

• Wide dental arches with plenty of room for all teeth

• Nearly perfect natural teeth alignment without crowding

• Excellent facial development with strong jaw structures

• Very low rates of dental decay

• Better overall physical health and resistance to disease

When these same populations began eating processed foods, white flour, and sugar, Price documented a rapid decline in dental and physical development within just one generation.

Children born to parents who had switched to Western diets showed narrower faces, crowded teeth, and increased dental decay.

Is this the reason why teeth and the skull/skeleton collapse?

While Price's work identified an important trigger for the initial decline in dental development, for me its just one piece of a larger puzzle as to why the dental arches get corrupted to begin with.

The Western diet likely helped trigger the downward spiral, but I also think mothers with compensated spines twist their children while still in the womb.

As this was something that the osteopath, Jim Jecman, had told me a fair bit about back in 2018 and it generally sounded pretty legit.

He’d worked on newborns for decades and could tell what compensation the mother had by feeling the baby’s skull as well as predict what malocclusion the child was likely to have later in life.

Also I think there are other factors like the environment the child is raised. Is the air more condusive to mouthbreathing? etc.

It’s honestly still a bit of a black box to me as to which factors play the largest role, but it is not a black box that i put much effort to solve. Because i don’t think you need to. And now i’ll explain why.

adding composite to the teeth of a child at around two years probably ensures perfect development

Just fix the problem with biomechanics later

So in my experience these biomechanics work regardless of what diet you eat. I’m eating whatever I want for the last 3+ years and improving daily despite a lot of this food being pretty unhealthy.

I’ve tested a bit of eating healthier and i felt zero benefit/impact from it. I had the same energy, mood and immune system regardless of whether i ate crap or i ate healthy. As long as I was wearing a rubber mouthguard to sleep and doing my stretches.

So if you can just fix things later using these simple biomechanics than this to me pretty much nullifies the need to solve the problem of why it happens in the first place.

Regardless of why the child was born with an impending maloclussion… just put composite on his teeth and it will fix. Done.

It’s kind of like trying to understand all of the complexities of how a car works. I don’t need to know. I don’t care about knowing. Because i know that if it breaks I take it to a mechanic. Done.

Closing thoughts

Weston Price made an invaluable contribution by documenting how the Western diet triggered widespread dental and physical decline.

The corruption to the teeth as a result caused the biomechanical collapse that I talk about. It was visible in the skulls and spines of the people he documented back then.

Plus it led to much higher rates of diseases like tuberculosis, ie. the decline of the immune system as I also talk about.

So essentially we were saying very similar things… when the dental arches misdevelop, the skull/spine/health of the person go with it.

And he was over 100+ years before me.

However, in my view these biomechanics basically nullify most of the importance of what he found.

So what if the western diet encourages malocclusions? I personally no longer care.

Because you can anyway just put composite on your child’s teeth and have him wear a mouthguard later and i’m pretty sure it will all fix. You can also do the same to yourself.

Sorry Weston…. I still think you were brilliant for your time. But i have a feeling your work will be nearly irrelevant in a couple decades as the world digests how this stuff works.

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