FFP 590 | Does Oral Health Impact Fertility? | Dr. Katie Lee
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🗓️ 5 September 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Discover how oral health impacts fertility in this groundbreaking conversation with functional dentist Dr. Katie Lee. Learn the surprising link between the oral microbiome, systemic inflammation, and reproductive health!
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| 0:00.0 | Teach fertility awareness to your clients and master the skill of advanced chart interpretation. |
| 0:08.1 | Learn to support your clients through their cycle irregularities and hormone imbalances with confidence. |
| 0:15.0 | Our fertility awareness mastery mentorship is now accepting applications for our next class in January, 26. |
| 0:22.4 | Head over to fertility friday.com slash fam live to apply today. |
| 0:27.8 | That's fertility friday.com slash f-a-m-m-l-I-V-E. |
| 0:33.2 | This is the Fertility Friday podcast, episode number 590. |
| 0:56.1 | We're about to dive into an interview that is going to completely change the way that you think about your mouth and your oral health and the potential link between oral health and fertility. |
| 1:02.3 | For the first time on the podcast, we are exploring this topic of oral health and fertility. |
| 1:09.5 | I am sharing my interview with Dr. Katie Lee, a functional dentist and author, and we go into some really interesting territory. Dr. Lee shares her incredible, |
| 1:14.7 | compelling story of what drew her into dentistry in the first place, and she also talks about |
| 1:21.1 | some very practical strategies that she implores in her dental clinic, namely regularly testing the mouth for various strains |
| 1:30.8 | of bacteria, some strains that are actually known to have negative impacts on male and female |
| 1:37.6 | infertility. And so I feel like with this interview, we're getting a totally different |
| 1:41.9 | perspective of our mouth as the window |
| 1:44.4 | into our microbiome because it's all connected. And so if we have certain bacterial infections in |
| 1:50.3 | the mouth, they actually are able to then go through our bloodstream and cause problems in other |
| 1:55.3 | areas. So you may be brushing a little bit more intently and flossing more frequently after today's episode. |
| 2:02.9 | So before we jump in, let me tell you a little bit more about Dr. Katie Lee. |
| 2:07.2 | She is a dentist, author, and founder of the Collective Health Society, an integrated dental |
| 2:13.0 | and medical center in Aurora, Colorado, focused on oral systematic help. She also leads the collective |
| 2:19.1 | education society training clinicians in this emerging field. A former partner in over 80 |
| 2:24.6 | dental practices, Dr. Lee is the author of Saved by the Mouth and serves as a clinical advisor |
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