Cavities

Your tooth is decaying. Slowly, often unnoticed, something is eating through the hardest substance your body has — the tooth enamel. What begins as a tiny dark spot becomes a hollow, a pain, a loss of substance. Dentistry explains the process through bacteria, acids, sugar, and inadequate hygiene. And on the biochemical level, that is correct. But the question BodySignal asks goes deeper: Why does the very structure that lets you bite into the world decay? Why do you lose substance precisely where you ought to be grasping, chewing, asserting yourself?

Cavities are not simply a hole in the tooth, but decay — a process in which something is dissolved from within that should be solid and load-bearing. And that is exactly the signal: something in your inner foundation is in the process of dissolving. Not because you are defective — but because you are not nourishing your own foundation.