Sprouting for Juicing

[SunshineMN]

I want to grow greens for juicing. For 25 years I drank diet soda, from the time it was released on the market until a couple years ago. Also I am disabled from a combination of things, mostly poor health plus a blood infection years ago that almost killed me. I have weak lungs and I am on supplemental oxygen, however my doctor thinks I could potentially not need it if I focused on my health. Of course his version of getting healthy and mine don't jive at all. LOL I really think what would help me is growing wheatgrass and other greens to juice. I know eventually raw would help, but I don't want it to take 4 or 5 years. The economy is getting scary and with all the government budget cuts, I don't feel safe. If the economy doesn't recover, I need to be healthier so I can do things like forage for wild food and grow a big garden. Besides, one late check from disability and I'd lose my place to live. It's too much stress! Not to mention the stress of trying to eat raw on an extremely limited budget.

I see people like Living and Mr. Raw growing and juicing trays of sprouts daily and I have some questions about how they do it. How do you keep a continual supply? How many trays of greens do you have growing at a time to keep this up? How often do you need to start new trays? What are your rotations in growing? I have a shelving unit big enough for quite a few nursery flats I'd like to use. I wonder if I need to find another unit to have enough room. I haven't bought the flats yet but I'd like to get enough to jump in with both feet. I already have lots of wheatgrass and rye seed (about 700 lbs), given to us by a family that was moving halfway across the US and didn't want to move it with them. I also plan on growing pea shoots, corn shoots, chia greens (if the price comes down this fall hopefully!), flax greens, sunflower greens, alfalfa greens, and any other beneficial greens I may find out about. I'd also like to try spinach since growing time isn't too long and I'm leery of buying bags of them in the store with the contamination problems I keep reading about. Maybe some green leaf lettuce as well just to have fresher living greens to eat instead of stuff that's been on the shelf in stores and watered or spritzed with awful tap water.

I know it will take me a little while to get the hang of it, but having more information will help me plan better. I'm really tired of being overweight and very limited physically. I've spent most of my life like this and I'm tired of not living! I feel raw is the only way things will get better for me. In the past 5 weeks or so I have lost 25 lbs by being mostly raw. Had a few slip ups due to stress. I'm hoping going with more live green juice will help me kick those bad food addictions as well.

[MysticTree]

Raw will definitely help you hugely. I'm usually a person who suggests jumping in wholeheartedly but since you seem to want to eat primarily green juices I think it might be better to ease into it more slowly. You could still go 100% raw overnight but to go even 50% green juices over night might be quite a shock to your system which you say is weak. Good luck and do let us know how you are doing.

[SunshineMN]

I'd say over the last 15 months or so I've been anywhere from 50% raw the majority of time up to 95% raw at times. I don't think 50% raw has helped a lot, though my blood work has definitely improved. I've also been able to lower the amount of oxygen I'm actually on, so it has helped. I just want it faster I guess. I want the mental clarity other people talk of. I want more energy. Stopping almost all my medications has also helped in the brain area and my joints aren't hurting as much either. I want living food! I'm not planning on giving up all veggies because I think they are important as well. And I think fruits are beneficial too. But if I were to supply more vitamins and minerals with live juices I wouldn't need as much of the more conventional foods, which I can't afford much of these days.

It will still take some time to get everything going as well. I'd just like a little more guidance from others already doing it since I don't really have the money to waste experimenting myself. ;)

[MysticTree]

the good thing about it is that it doesn't cost much to experiment. Start out with one crop that you get good at growing but grow just one small tray to start with to get to grips with the taste. If wheatgrass juice is too strong a flavour then add a little water to it. Pea shoots are yummy so maybe you'd like the juice of those better and you could start with them. You can get peas from the supermarket - just dried peas that most people use for cooking. They will sprout. Even better if you can find organic ones. When you discover that you love them then you can start buy in bulk like Mr Raw does. You don't even need an expensive juicer. A manual wheat grass juicer ($50 approx.) is fine and not difficult to turn the handle.

[robh]

First, yes! yes! yes! I have been wondering the same questions and actually started a thread like this a couple of times and then chickened out. I really want to know how Mr Raw and Living Food are doing this. The addition question that I would like to know is where they buy the seeds. They talk about quality issues. I would like to benefit from what they have learned about other vendors.

Second, SunshineMN I know you have participated in the 100% raw challenge and I've seen a lot of your posts. I had no idea your health conditions were so severe.

I personally feel that digestion hinders healing. I feel, therefore, that three things help to maximize healing on a raw food diet. 1.) eat the minimum amount of food required to survive 2.) consume foods in a form that ensures digestion in the shortest amount of time 3.) finally, consume foods with the highest density of nutrients.

Living on juiced sprouts and wheatgrass, therefore, sounds like a path that ensures a lot of healing.

I do have a word of caution, though. If you go this path, use nutrition tracking software to ensure that your healing protocol provides all the vitamins, minerals and other essential nutrients. For example, cronometer says that one needs to consume 11-12 oz (a cup and a half) of wheatgrass juice each day in order to get all of your B12. But, if you only drank wheatgrass juice, you wouldn't get any copper, iron, calcium, magnesium, magnesium, vitamin k or folate. Adding a cup or so of sprouted pea shoots would give you copper, iron, magnesium, magnesium, and folate, but you'd have very little calcium and you still wouldn't have any vitamin k. THAT is the type of research I would do if I were going down this path. Make sure you don't make yourself deficient in certain nutrients.

Anyway, I hope Mr Raw and Living Food find this thread because I'd really like to know the answers to the questions posted here.

[SunshineMN]

That's what I've been doing here Rob. I've been researching nutrition for the past couple years. That is what has led to my very strong feelings that I need to be juicing microgreens and wheatgrass to heal. As I said above, it's only part of it. I'm not giving up solid food completely. I know I need healthy fats, including raw coconut oil. I forgot to mention sesame greens as well. I'd like to have some days of just juice and other days of juicing and eating. Say 3 or 4 days a week of just juice and the rest eating and juicing. But I will decide that based on how I am feeling too. Since my income is very limited and in a couple weeks I will have a little extra money, I wanted to get all the trays purchased that I will need. I'm also hoping I'll have enough for a dehydrator. I know at times I get cravings for things like crackers or bread and having a healthy way of making them will keep me from eating the conventional.

I'm also very overweight. It started out because of stress in the home when I was a young teenager. My stepdad sexually harassed me for years, but never actually molested me (unless you call inappropriate groping molesting)... mostly because he was a very weak man and some of it due to luck on my part (getting away from him). He used to tell me I was worthless and no one would ever love me. I also took a lot of antibiotics between 3 and 10 so I'm sure my gut flora has been screwed up most of my life. After I got a very nasty blood infection (septicemia) it was almost impossible to lose weight between medications and lack of lung function and unhealthy eating. When you don't have the energy to even stand in front of the stove to cook, you don't tend to eat very healthy. Not to mention lots of ramen because it was so cheap...

I did Atkins for a while and lost quite a bit of weight, but I feel it helped lead me to heart failure and I just couldn't take eating all that meat anymore. Of course I gained the weight back because I never actually finished his protocol.

I completely agree with the 3 things you listed, which is why I'm at where I am in wanting to do the live green juices.

We have a manual wheatgrass juicer that works perfectly for all kinds of things. I plan on juicing some veggies in the mix also like carrots, cucumbers, celery, tomatoes. I use a great site to help figure out nutrition. http://nutritiondata.self.com/ I feel that my digestion system needs a break so my body can spend more time healing. I can't afford to buy tons of veggies and microgreens are more alive anyhow. As Mr. Raw says, the best nutrition comes from "teenage" plants that are freshly cut.

I feel *very* strongly this is what I need to do for myself, and for my SO, so we can have a long happy life together. If I don't make these changes now, I feel I won't be around for another 5 years and for the first time in my life, I actually want to be around in 5 years. Most of my life I have not wanted to live. It's a big mental change for me... and I am ready to keep things rolling!

PS. Forgot to add, I'm going to buy a perfect pickler and start pickling veggies too so I don't have to take probiotic pills. I have been using probiotic pills for a couple months but raw pickled veggies will be much better than the pills are. I'm also thinking about trying to make some water kefir.

PS2. Just thought of this too, actually I have a pretty good constitution in a way. 5 times I've had a 30% chance to live (according to my doctors) and I'm still here. It's big things that take me down, the blood infection, a ruptured appendix, heart failure, pneumonia and last year they said I had a pulmonary embolism. I seriously think they made a big mistake on the PE diagnosis there and it was just pneumonia again. I read an article a short time later that PE's are being way over-diagnosed because of some fancy new machine they are using and the doctors don't really understand the information yet. They tried to kill me with rat poison (cumadin) which made me bleed internally. They actually told my SO and family that I was not going to live. Hah! I fooled them... again.

[The Sproutarian (Mr Raw)]

I want to grow greens for juicing. For 25 years I drank diet soda, from the time it was released on the market until a couple years ago. Also I am disabled from a combination of things, mostly poor health plus a blood infection years ago that almost killed me. I have weak lungs and I am on supplemental oxygen, however my doctor thinks I could potentially not need it if I focused on my health. Of course his version of getting healthy and mine don't jive at all. LOL I really think what would help me is growing wheatgrass and other greens to juice. I know eventually raw would help, but I don't want it to take 4 or 5 years. The economy is getting scary and with all the government budget cuts, I don't feel safe. If the economy doesn't recover, I need to be healthier so I can do things like forage for wild food and grow a big garden.

Well, you have reached the most important point, you are sick of tired of being sick and tired and you are motivated on making positive changes, so now is the time to swoop and make it happen.

I see people like Living and Mr. Raw growing and juicing trays of sprouts daily and I have some questions about how they do it. How do you keep a continual supply?

That is the hardest thing when you start out. What you need to do is start out slow and buy just a few seeds in bulk...always in bulk because it's much cheaper and you will have good stock in case the seeds become scarce (seeds always become scarce in Oz, but through experience l have learned to stock up big). So maybe buy 25 kg of wheat, 5kg of alfalfa and 25 kg of peas so you have a decent supply to start with to make green juices every day in good effective amounts. When you get more money, try buying another seed in bulk and continue to do that throughout the year.

Then, think 1 - 2 weeks ahead and think of the healthy things you want to eat and start sprouting enough food to last everyday. You may not be living on sprouts at this point but you may want 500ml of green juice and a bowl of mung beans before your evening meal, so soak 5 tablespoons of mung, 3 tablespoons of alfalfa, 2 cups of peas, 1.5 cups of wheat and maybe 1.5 cups of sunflower seed...that will yield roughly 250 ml of grass juice and about 800 ml of green sprout juice [if using a top juicer and less if you use a convenional juicer]. So yeah...if you want green juice everyday, make sure you soak peas each day (2 cups), alfalfa each day etc. Some days you may not feel like a certain sprout, all that means is that you keep it for the next day and just soak less seeds that night. The key rule is, if you don't use a certain sprout that night like intended, don't soak anymore of that particular seed until you consume that sprout in the next day or two.

How many trays of greens do you have growing at a time to keep this up?

Sometimes l only grow 5 or 6 things over the week, other times l will grow 10 or more things over the week. lt is best to keep it simple when you start out. Just sprout 4 - 5 things one week and then sprout a different 4 or 5 things the next week or two, but always try to keep some sprouts the same for most days (5 days a week) like pea shoots, grasses and sunflower.

How often do you need to start new trays?

l plant new trays everyday because l have alot of green juice, but some people don't need to plant everyday when they start out. For you l would take it easy and just plant 2 - 3 sprouts on soil and do 2 - 3 jar sprouts until you start to feel the energy. Also have some kelp on most days and try juicing weeds when you can get them. Always have green juices on an empty stomach.

So maybe you could soak alfalfa seed each night and grow in a jar, and soak wheat every second night for a large tray of wheatgrass that will last 2 days, and soak beans or alfalfa each night so you can eat them before your main meal, and maybe you could really dig in and soak/grow sunflower greens each night so you have an amazingly potent green juice to really boost you. That is not too hard to do, just devote 30 minutes each day to start with and do it religiously each night and water all your sprouts without fail. When you start sprouting you MUST do it everyday to keep everything growing well, otherwise things die quickly.

What are your rotations in growing?

During winter my rotation is HUGE (always a bust time when sprouting outside during winter), but my warm weather rotation is almost nothing. l wouldn't worry about those details too much because you will feel your way with this.

I have a shelving unit big enough for quite a few nursery flats I'd like to use. I wonder if I need to find another unit to have enough room.

Shelves are always great because they save space by going upwards. Just plant enough for each day, and if you feel the need to build more shelves, do it! But as l have said...start out slow so you don't feel overwhelmed...things will fit nicely into place when the right time comes and not before. lt might take you over a year to get things just right, but just focus on growing a supply of sprouts each day until you get good at this.

I know it will take me a little while to get the hang of it, but having more information will help me plan better. I'm really tired of being overweight and very limited physically. I've spent most of my life like this and I'm tired of not living! I feel raw is the only way things will get better for me. In the past 5 weeks or so I have lost 25 lbs by being mostly raw. Had a few slip ups due to stress. I'm hoping going with more live green juice will help me kick those bad food addictions as well.

All your dreams can come true on this diet: more energy, far far less stress, bliss, great mental clarity.

The mental aspect of this diet is staggering. lt can get to the stage where thinking is a completely free flow of thoughts, and understanding and thinking and creativity becomes effortless. Normal people have to think hard because there is an effort involved, but my experiences (especially when doing this diet as a young man in the 90's) are that l could achieve anything mentally and everything was easy to grasp. l'm not so much a mental giant now, but l know what it can do. When l was at the peak of my raw foodism (virtually living on grass juice) l actually sat a special I.Q test that went for about four hours. Now l am no Einstein by any stretch of the imagination, but l sat the test within half the allocated time and scored one of the highest results they had seen. Now when l did the test...l didn't even think very much at all, l just knew the right answers...l was guided to it (note: before the test l fasted on water and herbs for 4 days). Funny things like that will happen to you and your mind will open up so much that it has the potential to become like a BIG machine. The sproutarian diet opens up our true potential and reveals the secrets of our true greatness while providing the body lots of energy and feel good times.

The amount of great music and songs that enter my head on this diet is incredible. l can see how worldclass artists and music people do so well...all this creativity comes to you like the wind blowing sheets in the air. And then comes the time when you vibrate at such a high level that you begin to sense other dimentions and the beings living in them. Most humans can't see these other beings living all around us because they have a low vibration and consciousness level, but when you eat foods high in electromagnetic fequency you can tune into lots of things. Yes...all this stuff opens your mind and starts to give you an understanding of how our so called reality is really just an illusion.

You could try to make rejuvalic and do an intesinal cleanse to speed things up abit.

lf you keep the motivation for doing this you will be o.k. You can become a completely different person eating the sproutarian diet...become the person you dream of being and much more. Everything that happens on this diet is GOOD.

[Living Food]

How many trays of greens do you have growing at a time to keep this up?

I have a few dozen trays of greens growing at any one time, but you won't need any near that many when you're just starting out. If you start trying to juice as much as Mr. Raw and I do right off the bat the results could be...unpleasant.

It also depends on what time of year it is (things grow far far slower in winter).

How often do you need to start new trays?

I start new trays every day, but again you won't have to do that at first.

Starting with wheatgrass + ryegrass is the obvious thing to do, because it's one of the best things you can juice and you have so much seed. Start by soaking about 1.5 cups of seed for a tray and plant a tray every 4 days, so you have about 2 oz of grass juice a day. 1 10 inch square tray planted with 1.5 cups of seed gives you about 8 oz of juice, depending on the juicer. Then try increasing the amount of grass juice you drink by, say, 1 oz a week for a month, then 2 oz a week after that. As you increase the amount of juice you drink you'll So after a month you're drinking 6 oz/day (3 in the morning and 3 at night), then after another week you're up to 8 oz/day. After that you might want to try, say, sunflower greens. Use 1.5 cups for a 10 inch square tray (like with wheatgrass), which will yield about 8 oz of juice. Drink 2 oz at first and increase by 2 oz/week until you are up to a full tray every day after a month. Then maybe you move on to pea shoots. And so on.

This is the slow method; I was impatient and eager and ended up going rather faster then that, but I did have a couple unfortunate incidents (throwing up), and that's even though I did a heavy cleansing program beforehand. Since you are in such bad health you can consider increasing the amount of juice faster then what I said above, but keep in mind that you are probably quite toxic and there may be uncomfortable reactions if you do that. It is also easier to get the hang of growing a lot of sprouts if you start out slower so you don't get overwhelmed. This is a very safe progression that should cause minimal discomfort from detox, but you do not need to feel limited to it if you are very eager to feel the benefits.

Ultimately, you want to get to the point where you are drinking at least 32 oz of green juices daily, and another 8 oz of grass juice on top of that. Once you reach that stage is when the amazing things really start to happen. If you stick with it I can tell you that you absolutely will get better, and then better, until you look back on your former life and feel like you were living in a fog and never truly alive. And once you're able to move around with no difficulty, learn how to identify common edible weeds and start juicing those too, and life gets even better. This lifestyle is amazing, it's beyond your wildest dreams and it is the answer to your dreams as well. There's nothing you can't do once you reach that point, you are literally too full of life energy for anything to get in your way. It's true that there's nothing you can't do if you put your mind to it...but then why do so many people fail at things? There minds are weak becuase there bodies are weak, and they can't sustain the amount of focus and willpower it takes to follow through with their goals. But on the sproutarian diet you just say, "I want to do _____", and you can. It's completely effortless, you might as well have a magic genie that answers your every wish. Everything is effortless on this diet, and life is amazing and far surpasses your wildest expectations.



Other suggestions for regaining your health even quicker


You might also want to do a cleansing program to make this go even faster, it sounds like you could really use it with your history.

Oxygen is very important for good health; almost everyone, even people with perfectly fine lungs, are deficient in oxygen because almost all of us have faulty breathing habits due to stress, bad posture and toxic overload. This makes me think that even supplemental oxygen might not be enough, and you might want to try hydrogen peroxide therapy as well; it is virtually impossible to be unhealthy if you have sufficient levels of oxygen in your blood (hence how you can tell very few people have enough oxygen). If you are interested you can read this book for free online, which tells you how do safely do it.

[The Sproutarian (Mr Raw)]

Starting with wheatgrass + ryegrass is the obvious thing to do,

l didn't have any ryegrass juice for a couple of days and didn't feel any different. But when l had it today my body really sung for joy, it made a noticable difference to my day. l see the grasses as the hard workers (the healers) and the other greens as the assistants (sunflower is the head assistant), but it is the grasses that really roll up their sleeves and get their hands dirty. As Brain Clement says; you can drink all the green sprout juices you want, but if your diet doesn't include the grasses then your diet will be so much poorer as a result...l agree!!! Then you do the sea vegetables as a top up, but always the green juices first and foremost. Kelp and algae might be more nutritious but it still isn't a fresh squeezed juice, so that special `juice factor' is lacking, so green juices are always first priority over algaes and kelp. l could start the day with lots of algaes and sea weeds (most nutritious foods on Earth), but l would do much better if l simply juiced fresh greens.

[The Sproutarian (Mr Raw)]

I have a few dozen trays of greens growing at any one time, but you won't need any near that many when you're just starting out. If you start trying to juice as much as Mr. Raw and I do right off the bat the results could be...unpleasant.

It also depends on what time of year it is (things grow far far slower in winter).



I start new trays every day, but again you won't have to do that at first.

Starting with wheatgrass + ryegrass is the obvious thing to do, because it's one of the best things you can juice and you have so much seed. Start by soaking about 1.5 cups of seed for a tray and plant a tray every 4 days, so you have about 2 oz of grass juice a day. 1 10 inch square tray planted with 1.5 cups of seed gives you about 8 oz of juice, depending on the juicer. Then try increasing the amount of grass juice you drink by, say, 1 oz a week for a month, then 2 oz a week after that. As you increase the amount of juice you drink you'll So after a month you're drinking 6 oz/day (3 in the morning and 3 at night), then after another week you're up to 8 oz/day. After that you might want to try, say, sunflower greens. Use 1.5 cups for a 10 inch square tray (like with wheatgrass), which will yield about 8 oz of juice. Drink 2 oz at first and increase by 2 oz/week until you are up to a full tray every day after a month. Then maybe you move on to pea shoots. And so on.

This is the slow method; I was impatient and eager and ended up going rather faster then that, but I did have a couple unfortunate incidents (throwing up), and that's even though I did a heavy cleansing program beforehand. Since you are in such bad health you can consider increasing the amount of juice faster then what I said above, but keep in mind that you are probably quite toxic and there may be uncomfortable reactions if you do that. It is also easier to get the hang of growing a lot of sprouts if you start out slower so you don't get overwhelmed. This is a very safe progression that should cause minimal discomfort from detox, but you do not need to feel limited to it if you are very eager to feel the benefits.

Ultimately, you want to get to the point where you are drinking at least 32 oz of green juices daily, and another 8 oz of grass juice on top of that. Once you reach that stage is when the amazing things really start to happen. If you stick with it I can tell you that you absolutely will get better, and then better, until you look back on your former life and feel like you were living in a fog and never truly alive. And once you're able to move around with no difficulty, learn how to identify common edible weeds and start juicing those too, and life gets even better. This lifestyle is amazing, it's beyond your wildest dreams and it is the answer to your dreams as well. There's nothing you can't do once you reach that point, you are literally too full of life energy for anything to get in your way. It's true that there's nothing you can't do if you put your mind to it...but then why do so many people fail at things? There minds are weak becuase there bodies are weak, and they can't sustain the amount of focus and willpower it takes to follow through with their goals. But on the sproutarian diet you just say, "I want to do _____", and you can. It's completely effortless, you might as well have a magic genie that answers your every wish. Everything is effortless on this diet, and life is amazing and far surpasses your wildest expectations.



Other suggestions for regaining your health even quicker


You might also want to do a cleansing program to make this go even faster, it sounds like you could really use it with your history.

Oxygen is very important for good health; almost everyone, even people with perfectly fine lungs, are deficient in oxygen because almost all of us have faulty breathing habits due to stress, bad posture and toxic overload. This makes me think that even supplemental oxygen might not be enough, and you might want to try hydrogen peroxide therapy as well; it is virtually impossible to be unhealthy if you have sufficient levels of oxygen in your blood (hence how you can tell very few people have enough oxygen). If you are interested you can read this book for free online, which tells you how do safely do it.

Good post.

[Living Food]

l didn't have any ryegrass juice for a couple of days and didn't feel any different. But when l had it today my body really sung for joy, it made a noticable difference to my day.

Yeah, I spent the last few days without any grass juice, and I didn't really notice a difference. Then I added it back and wow, it really did make a difference. That's why I drink 16 oz a day, it makes a huge difference to how I feel, even better then the other microgreens.

[SunshineMN]

I just want to make a quick thank you to both of you for all the information you have given here in this thread. I just got up and that's a lot of information to absorb this early. Hehe... I will have to read it a couple more times when I'm more awake to take it all in and make it useful to my brain. Speaking of brains, that's another reason I really want to juice. When I was younger I used to learn things very quickly and things were much easier to understand. I was also fairly creative. Over the years, as most people, new information became harder to remember and I feel a lot less smart than I used to. This also coincides with our food supply becoming worse and more chemicals being added to food. When I was young we ate a lot of veggies and fruits out of the garden. My mom never bought boxed food, besides cereals. In the 80's it seemed boxed foods exploded and ingredients on those boxes became harder to identify (more and more chemicals that we had no idea where they were coming from).

I miss how I used to feel. I don't think it was just a fact of getting older, I feel it was due to food supply and bad food choices on my part. I want my brain back too, not just my body!

I'm sure I'll have more questions when I'm more awake and have read this thread again.

[The Sproutarian (Mr Raw)]

I just want to make a quick thank you to both of you for all the information you have given here in this thread. I just got up and that's a lot of information to absorb this early. Hehe... I will have to read it a couple more times when I'm more awake to take it all in and make it useful to my brain. Speaking of brains, that's another reason I really want to juice. When I was younger I used to learn things very quickly and things were much easier to understand. I was also fairly creative. Over the years, as most people, new information became harder to remember and I feel a lot less smart than I used to.

l fully understand the loss of a powerful mind. When l was raw in the 90's l had an amazing mind and it was very close to being photographic, but these days on raw it is not near so good. Why? Because the toxins are still getting into me and dumbing me down. How? First there is the water supply (most people's showers are a big killer), but then there is the big daddy of dumbing people down....fillings in teeth.

All mercury and amalgam fillings are killing us, and here is the proof! See this video from 22:51 onwards...watch for about 15 minutes and your eyes should be opened forever!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvzDH...&feature=mv_sr

[MysticTree]

Do dentists still use amalgams? I had a filling yesterday (wow the injection made me feel wobbly) but it wasn't an amalgam. No idea what it was though. I hadn't been to a dentist for 12 years or more but a couple of teeth needed attention. One filling and one very broken back tooth which will need to come out at some point.

[The Sproutarian (Mr Raw)]

Do dentists still use amalgams?

most do.

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