Sleep is yet another essential part of maintaining good oral and systemic health – 7 to 9 hours nightly, according to the National Sleep Foundation. Unfortunately, for many of us, sleep quality is lacking. Only 30% report it being “excellent” or “very good;” 35%...
Getting Mercury Out of Your Teeth – and Dentistry
Back in the early days of the automotive industry, when Henry Ford was revolutionizing the mass production of cars, he once insisted that “any customer can have a car painted in any color that he wants so long as it is black.” For more than a century, something...
Foundations of Good Oral-Systemic Health: Healthy Eating, Part 2
, we looked at some basics of healthy eating, such as enjoying a wide variety of veg and fruit. There are a few reasons for this, including care of the environment. (Breeding animals for food uses far more resources than growing crops.) But they’re also your best...
Foundations of Good Oral-Systemic Health: Healthy Eating
Combine good nutrition with regular exercise, and you get what the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee presented last month as “a nearly universal prescription for better health.” Exercise we talked about last time, but what about diet? What exactly...
Foundations of Good Oral-Systemic Health: Exercise
Our bodies are built to move. Yet more of us than ever live sedentary lives. In fact, the most recent data shows that more than one quarter of the US population – 28%, to be exact – is completely sedentary. They participate in no fitness-oriented recreational...
Foundations of Good Oral-Systemic Health: Water
When you think about what your body is made of, you probably think of things like skin, bone, your brain, your blood – big, solid stuff. But truth be told, we’re made much more of stuff that you can’t see, at least not with the naked eye. For...
Natural Dentist Part 5 – homeopathic remedies
Holistic dentistry is beyond just caring for your mouth. Holistic by definition is "relating to or concerned with complete systems rather than with individual parts". When you are shopping for your perfect holistic dentist ask them for other ways to treat...
The Power of Ozone for Healthy Smiles
When you hear the term “ozone,” you might think of the layer up in our atmosphere that protects us from the sun’s ultraviolet rays – the one we managed to put a hole in some decades ago. Or maybe you think of pollution, since low level ozone is the main component of...
Natural Dentist – Part 4 – Fillings Used
We've reached Part 4 in our 5 part series of "What is a Natural Dentist?" Natural, Holistic dentists have a strong ethical believe in removing all Amalgam Fillings in the most fundamentally safe way possible. So then what do they use to replace them...
Ancient Remedies for Modern Health: Oil Pulling
Previously, we mentioned oil pulling as a great technique for amping up your home hygiene. This ancient Ayurvedic practice has seen a huge revival lately, and frankly, we couldn’t be happier. Oil pulling essentially involves swishing oil around in your mouth for 15 to...
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