3: How to Improve Your Oral Health
The Wellness Mama Podcast
Katie Wells
4.7 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2014
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
I’ve written a lot about oral health and how it affects the health of the entire body. This episode is a replay from the Heal Thy Mouth World Summit where I had the privilege of speaking alongside top dental experts from around the world about how to improve your oral health.
Topics I Cover in this Episode
- Why I think oral health is so crucial
- The oral health problems I’ve personally struggled with
- The fascinating research between diet and oral health
- My favorite resources for improving oral health
- How I’m helping to ensure that my kids have strong teeth and (hopefully) won’t need braces
- What foods and supplements help support tooth and gum health
- Factors that harm teeth and gums
- Other factors that affect oral health: hormones, saliva quality, sleep, stress, etc.
Resources I Mention
- How to Remineralize Teeth Naturally
- Oral Affects the Health of the Whole Body
- How to Whiten Teeth Naturally (and Prevent Poisoning)
- Should I Take Supplements?
- Are You Low on Magnesium?
- Why I Drink Green Jello
- Supplements for Children
- Supplements for Pregnancy and Nursing
- Wellnesse Remineralizing Toothpaste
- Wellnesse Charcoal Toothpaste
- Wellnesse Peppermint Silk Floss
Recommended Books
- Cure Tooth Decay by Ramiel Nagel
- Oil Pulling Therapy by Dr. Bruce Fife
- Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Dr. Weston A. Price
- Deep Nutrition by Dr. Catherine Shanahan
Katie: Hi, I’m Katie from wellnessmama.com. Welcome to episode three of the Wellness Mama Podcast where I provide
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Katie from WellnessMama.com. |
| 0:18.8 | Welcome to Episode 3 of the Wellness Mama Podcast, where I provide simple answers for |
| 0:23.4 | healthier families. |
| 0:25.0 | This episode is the oral health episode, and our interesting fact today is that the |
| 0:30.0 | average human produces 25,000 quarts of saliva during their lifetime. |
| 0:35.2 | That's enough to fill two swimming pools. |
| 0:37.5 | And saliva is important for protecting tooth and mammal, which is the hardest part of the |
| 0:41.5 | human body. |
| 0:43.1 | Today's episode is actually an interview that I did several years ago as part of the Healthy |
| 0:47.7 | Mouth World Summit, along with dental experts from around the world. |
| 0:51.3 | I'm interviewed by Will Revak of oralwellness.com, and this is replayed with permission. |
| 0:56.7 | If you want to find out more about the Healthy Mouth World Summit, go to wellnessmama.com |
| 1:01.3 | forward slash go forward slash healthy mouth. |
| 1:04.8 | And here's the interview. |
| 1:05.9 | So let's just jump right into this. |
| 1:13.4 | How did you become interested in oral health to begin with? |
| 1:17.8 | It's been kind of a gradual process for me, actually. |
| 1:20.8 | As I switched to a more natural diet and lifestyle as part of my wellness journey, it came naturally, |
| 1:26.9 | but I also resisted it for a long time. |
| 1:29.4 | Since I'd always been under the impression that oral health was somewhat separate of nutrition |
| 1:33.2 | and it revolved mainly around brushing and flossing and care. |
| 1:37.9 | So as I started to read this information and see it in my own mouth, I was fascinated, |
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