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41. Dr. Mark Burhenne: Functional Dentistry & Optimizing the Oral Microbiome

Ancient Health Podcast

Ancient Health Podcast

Alternative Health, Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Functional Dentist Dr. Mark Burhenne joins the show today to share his expertise on the oral microbiome and its impact on inflammation and immunity. Dr. Burhenne explains how he started his career in functional dentistry and where we’ve gone wrong in the past with oral care. Plus, tune into learn about the diet and top nutrients Dr. Burhenne recommends to ensure a healthy oral microbiome.

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0:00.0

Hey everybody Dr. Josh

0:07.0

Dr. Josh Axe here.

0:09.0

Welcome to the podcast.

0:11.0

This week we have Dr. Brijena on with us he is a dentist and an

0:15.2

expert in the oral micro biome and you guys all know that I've said for years that

0:20.8

the health of our microbiomes you know and typically I'm referring to our

0:24.8

gut is such a big deal you know Hippocrates said all health begins in the gut and

0:30.0

connecting this microbiome but also, we're talking about the

0:34.2

oro biome today, dental health and how that affects the health of your entire body.

0:40.3

I want to welcome Dr. Mark here to the show Dr Mark glad to have you on.

0:45.8

Thanks Dr. Rex, very glad to be here.

0:48.0

Well great, I know we're going to talk about a lot today.

0:50.0

We talked about the microbiome.

0:51.3

I want to talk about sleep a little bit. I want to talk about brain health. I want to talk about

0:52.8

sleep a little bit. I want to talk about your brain health. I want to talk

0:54.9

about how your oral health connects to your heart health, how to beat

0:59.3

cavities. But I want to dive in and hear from you you practice more I'll call holistic dentistry to a degree I mean looking at not just hey you know we need to use fluoride or I'd love to hear your thoughts on that

1:13.2

but I think the bigger thing is what role diet plays what caused you to start to

1:17.8

lean into more of this functional medicine dentistry or holistic dentistry.

1:23.7

Right.

1:24.7

I use the term functional dentistry now.

1:27.5

Holistics fine.

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