Welcome to the Just Ingredients podcast. I'm Kar-Linn, and here we talk all things nourishing to the mind, body, and soul.

This is a place where you can find just good ingredients to life.

Welcome back to the show, everyone.

Today we have a guest on who you know and love because she is the dentist that I

create the tooth powder and mouthwash with.

As you all know, it's Dr. Michelle Jorgensen.

She is an author, speaker, teacher, biologic, and holistic

dentist, and health and wellness provider. After her own healing journey, Dr. Michelle has been

discovering ways to improve her families and her own health in all facets of life, finding

answers in the kitchen, in the garden, and at home. She has found what it takes to live well in today's world.

And now with living well with Dr. Michelle, she is sharing these ways of living with you.

So thank you, Michelle, for being here today.

Thank you so much.

I just always love talking with you.

You're so inspirational.

And it's just we always have

good conversations. We always do. I love when you're on the podcast and you're a wealth of knowledge.

So I'm excited to hear about the new things that you're coming out with. So but before we talk about

that, I love your story and I love why you have changed your practice and what you do. And so will you just tell my listeners a little bit about that story and your background? Yep, for sure. So I am a general dentist and was trained traditionally. You know, my father's a dentist. I have actually three brothers that are also in dentistry. And I just, I love dentistry. I'm kind of a geek, you know, so I like to study. I like to learn more. I like to do all of that. And I just thought I would do that forever. My father is actually still practicing in his 70s. Oh, wow. So I just thought that that's what I would do too. And I would just keep practicing forever.

But about 12 years in, I started getting really sick.

And I didn't know what it was.

And my symptoms were, at first, things that you think everybody has.

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