If you’ve got gum disease - and about half of all adult Americans (and 70% of seniors) do - one of the very best things you can do to get it under control is to improve your diet. That means swapping out the sugars and other refined carbs for a more nutrient-dense,...
Chlorhexidine is a powerful antimicrobial rinse that a periodontist or oral surgeon might prescribe to control infection. It’s effective stuff, to be sure. But it has its drawbacks. For one it’s notorious for staining teeth and can also affect your sense of taste,...
Earlier this year, a French fashion magazine suggested that lip piercings might just be “the next go-to jewelry trend for an event or daily life.” (Allure, for one, begged to differ.) Of course, oral piercings are hardly new. The most recent data we could find says...
Since emerging in the 1970s and 80s, holistic and biological dentistry have led the way in acknowledging that conditions in the mouth can affect overall health, and vice versa, both physically and energetically. In fact, one of the towering figures in biological...
If you’ve got gum disease, one of the simplest things you can do to reverse it is just to change your diet. Research has shown that replacing sugars and other refined carbs with nutrient-dense plants and proteins can significantly improve gum health, even if your oral...
Turmeric has long been used in Ayurvedic and Traditional Chinese Medicine. It’s a great antioxidant, after all, helpful for reducing inflammation. Yet that’s just one of the many ways it’s been used to support healing. But the spice has antimicrobial properties, as...
As a healthy mouth depends on a healthy body - and vice versa - everything you do to keep your body healthy, strong, and resilient also supports your oral health. There really is no separating the two. Even so, there are some nutrients that have come to be strongly...
Healthy teeth require healthy gums and bone to support them. Periodontal (gum) disease puts all three at risk. But that’s hardly the only reason to stay diligent about healthy eating, good home hygiene, regular dental appointments, and the rest. Gum disease also...
Think about what you can do to lower your risk of developing cancer. Things like healthy eating, exercise, and limiting exposure to EMFs and environmental toxins probably come to mind. And those are all helpful, to be sure. But many folks don’t realize that...
Cannabis – the family of plants that includes marijuana – has been used medicinally for thousands of years, yet only recently have we seen surging interest in how it may support healing. It’s a trend that got a big boost from the 2018 Farm Bill, which created a legal...