Today on the root cause medicine podcast. What's in your mouth really impacts the rest of your body,

not just, oh, we're not only worried about cavities. Of course, we don't want cavities. What we're worried

about is why we're getting these cavities, what's causing these cavities, and that happens a lot

during pregnancy, but also how it's impacting, I'm going to stick to the pregnancy,

how it's impacting our baby. So when our biome is off, that's what we're passing on to our child.

So our children get their microbiomes from us. And also premature labor and lower birth weights

have been linked to severe gingivitis and peridontal disease.

Hello, hello. I'm your co-host for today, Dr. Carrie Jones, and I am beyond excited to have on

Dr. Lydia, who is an integrative dentist, who walks us through how to take care of your mouth,

your teeth, your oral care, from your teenage years, all the way through pregnancy

and postpartum, into perimenopause, postmenopause, and beyond. Because guess what? We have all

these hormonal shifts. It's going to change your gums. It's going to change the microbiome in your mouth.

It's going to change your tongue. It's going to change your teeth health.

And if you have been feeling dry mouth, grinding, tightness, inflammation, bleeding gums,

you need to listen up because she walked through how she would address you at each of these

stages through this whole podcast. In fact, she talks about one of the biggest

sources of chronic low-grade inflammation in the female body comes from the mouth. Remember,

every time you swallow, you're swallowing the bacteria from your mouth, down your stomach

and into your intestines. So if you have inflammation of your gums, if you have plaque buildup, if you have something going

on with your tongue and then you just keep swallowing all day long, it's going to go down

and cause a lot of GI symptoms too.

We get in a little bit about what type of toothpaste, what is oil pulling, how often should

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