How Oral Bacteria Impact Your Health with Brian Maurer
The Root Cause Medicine Podcast
Kate Kresge
4.8 • 581 Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode of The Root Cause Medicine Podcast, Brian Maurer, Co-Founder of Bristle Health, joins Dr. Kate Kresge to dive into the Rupa Health and Bristle Health partnership to change the game in oral microbiome testing. You’ll hear us discuss: 1. How Bristle Health is transforming oral microbiome testing 2. How oral bacteria impact your whole body 3. Why brushing and flossing isn't enough to beat cavities 4. The link between oral health and autoimmune diseases Over seven years, Brian played a key role in driving the adoption of genomics at companies like Illumina, focusing on expanding their reach into new and emerging markets. At Twist Bioscience, he managed the growth of their genomic sequencing business in Northern California. Passionate about healthcare innovation, Brian is dedicated to leveraging cutting-edge technology to improve patient outcomes. Order tests through Rupa Health, the BEST place to order functional medicine lab tests from 30+ labs - https://www.rupahealth.com/reference-guide
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the root cause medicine podcast. |
| 0:03.3 | Generally, we won't see colonization from oral bacteria in the gut in a healthy patient. |
| 0:08.9 | And as you mentioned, we have a whole lot of defenses, and that's the reason why. |
| 0:12.0 | We have physical, chemical, immunological barriers that prevent that. |
| 0:15.8 | What's interesting, though, is when we see patients who have inflammation or are on certain medications, that can actually make the gut |
| 0:23.6 | more permeable to these hundreds of trillions of bacteria that we're swallowing every day. |
| 0:28.7 | And so that's when we can actually start to see some of that relationship or start to see |
| 0:33.0 | some of that similarity, which can be a red flag. So when we are seeing a lot of similarity between the gut |
| 0:38.5 | and the oral cavity, that can point to something that we might want to investigate deeper. |
| 0:42.8 | Well, hello there. I'm your co-host for today, Dr. Kate Kresge, and we've got an amazing interview |
| 0:47.4 | with Brian Marr, the co-founder of Bristle Health. We're going to talk all about the oral microbiome |
| 0:52.6 | and how you can measure it and why you |
| 0:54.9 | should. Did you know, for instance, that your oral microbiome might determine how you actually |
| 0:59.5 | respond to things like brushing, flossing, what type of mouthwash you use, and determine if you |
| 1:03.9 | could benefit from things like xylitol or certain strains of probiotics? I think we've all heard |
| 1:08.9 | that the oral microbiome is related to cardiovascular disease, but did you actually know that certain strains of bacteriaics. I think we've all heard that the oral microbiome is related to cardiovascular |
| 1:10.9 | disease, but did you actually know that certain strains of bacteria are actually directly related |
| 1:15.8 | to hypertension? You're going to learn so much more. Before we get started, though, I want to talk to you |
| 1:20.7 | about something that comes up pretty often on this podcast, and that, of course, is lab testing. |
| 1:25.7 | You see, testing is one essential way to understand the root cause of an illness. |
| 1:30.2 | If you're an integrative or functional medicine practitioner, chances are you're placing a ton of orders with a ton of different labs. |
| 1:37.5 | The Root Cause Medicine podcast is created by Rupa Health. |
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