The underlying and underpinning mechanisms are pretty much all the same across the board.

So if you help the obesity, you're going to help the periodontal disease and you're also going to help the type 2 diabetes.

If you look at type 2 diabetes and periodontal disease the underlying mechanisms are almost the same.

So if I have a type 2 diabetic that comes into clinic, we have to understand what's happening

in his mouth because you've got this

bi-directional relationships between disease processes. If you deal with one

you'll help the other. If you don't deal with one it'll accelerate the other.

Pete Williams is the founder of Functional

Medical he's back to tell us even more about why we need to be tackling the root causes of our ill health,

not just the symptoms. I'm Liz Earl and this is the Lizil Well-being show,

the podcast that helps us all have a better second half, thanks to my mission to find ways for all of us to thrive in later life by investing in our health and our well-being today.

Well, have you already listened to last week's episode with

Pete we started to get a really good understanding of what functional medicine

is that's the treatment of the whole body looking at what makes us well and what keeps us well, not just

how to fix a particular symptom.

But all Pete's incredible knowledge honestly just gave me even more questions.

I was scribbling things down in my notebook throughout our conversation,

so I asked Pete if he wouldn't mind coming back and doing an even deeper dive into some of the areas

we just managed to scratch the surface of before. So today then,

oral health, reducing inflammation, exercise tracking and lots, lots more. At Azda, we're dropping thousands of prices in store and online, like Pampers Baby Dry

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