S5E16 Mouth Breathing, What Your Dentist Isn’t Telling You & The Truth About Fluoride | Dr. Staci Whitman
What's The Juice
Olivia Amitrano
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2024
⏱️ 111 minutes
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Summary
When was the last time you did a radical 180 about a long held belief? Today I’m sitting down with a brilliant dentist who was once picketing in the streets for water fluoridation — yet was courageous enough to change her mind and speak out once she dug into the data once and for all. Meet Dr. Staci Whitman, a board-certified dentist who takes a whole-body, holistic and functional approach to oral health. In this episode, Staci unpacks the surprising factors that contribute to the decline of our oral health including mouth breathing, hormones, and gut dysbiosis. She explains why these underlying root causes are ignored by conventional dentistry and exactly what we need to be asking about and advocating for at our dentist appointments.
HERE’S THE JUICE:
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Functional vs. conventional dentistry and the importance of both
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Why dental professionals haven't introduced oral microbiome testing as a baseline for all patients
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How hormone imbalance is leading to an increase in cavities in women and the signs to look for in prevention
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What LPS is and how it contributes to pathogenic bacteria overgrowth
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The fact that we aren’t taught about healthy bacteria and are encouraged to wipe out all our bacteria with products like Listerine
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Why dentists are sometimes the first people to diagnose Crohn's disease and how your oral health can inform gut health
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What a cavity is and how it forms
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When we may be able to repair cavities without requiring fillings
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Why mouth breathing is so detrimental to our oral health and how to retrain yourself into healthy breathing habits
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Resources and recommendations for the products and services we should be talking to our dentist about to be proactive about our oral health
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the show. Today's guest is Dr. Stacey Whitman and she is a functional |
| 0:11.2 | dentist as well as an airway specialist which is kind of rare and |
| 0:16.4 | functional dentistry and also really special because I think we're starting to see |
| 0:21.7 | that many of our oral issues and recurring cavities and |
| 0:27.2 | oral microbiome issues are directly related to actually the way that our jaws |
| 0:31.8 | are developing or not developing properly, which makes a lot of sense |
| 0:36.1 | with our mineral depleted soil and diets. All of this to say, Dr. Stacy Whitman has an incredible educational background and |
| 0:44.3 | incredible multifaceted skill set and is really able to give us this holistic |
| 0:49.2 | picture of what makes or breaks your oral health and how to prevent things like cavities and root canals and keep your mouth in really good shape for many, many years since these are the only teeth we got. |
| 1:02.0 | We're going to talk about a lot of different topics today and |
| 1:04.8 | bop around because she's a really fun personality and she's going to share her |
| 1:09.7 | fluoride journey with us because she was once picketing in the streets for water |
| 1:15.1 | fluoridation until she had a professor in dental school who walked in the room |
| 1:20.1 | one day flabbergasted after just listening to a fluoride debate and |
| 1:23.7 | hearing some more of the science that's not always popularized in the modern |
| 1:28.2 | educational curriculum in dental schools and he walked in again flabbergasted |
| 1:32.4 | totally mind-blown with what he had just |
| 1:34.8 | learned and encouraged his students that day to look deeper and listen to this |
| 1:39.5 | debate that he had just heard and her mind was forever changed on fluoride. |
| 1:44.6 | And she switched over to nanohhydroxi appetite, |
| 1:46.8 | which I'm sure is an ingredient that a lot of you |
| 1:48.8 | are seeing in holistic or natural toothpaste nowadays, |
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