The Link Between Poor Oral Health and Chronic Pain in Women - AI Podcast
Dr. Joseph Mercola - Take Control of Your Health
Briana Mercola
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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- Women with chronic migraines and body-wide pain were far more likely to have poor oral health, with over half falling into the lowest oral health categories in a new study
- Specific oral bacteria, including Mycoplasma salivarium and Gardnerella vaginalis, were significantly more common in women who reported frequent migraines and widespread pain
- Harmful oral microbes don't stay in your mouth; once gum tissue is inflamed, these bacteria enter your bloodstream, disrupt the immune system, and trigger systemic pain
- A less diverse oral microbiome was found in women with migraines and gut pain, making it easier for pain-triggering bacteria to dominate and inflame nerve pathways
- Inflammatory chemicals produced by oral bacteria — like calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) — are directly involved in migraine and fibromyalgia, showing how poor oral hygiene can set off whole-body pain responses
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Dr. Mercola's Cellular Wisdom. Stay informed with quick, easy-to-listen |
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| 0:15.1 | Hello and welcome to Dr. Mercola's Cellular Wisdom. I'm Ethan Foster, and today we're |
| 0:20.5 | exploring how the health |
| 0:21.6 | of your mouth can influence migraines, gut discomfort, and widespread body pain in women. |
| 0:27.6 | Thanks, Ethan. I'm Alara Sky, here to unpack the latest findings showing that poor |
| 0:32.6 | oral hygiene isn't just about cavities. It may set off systemic inflammation that sensitizes the nervous system |
| 0:38.9 | and amplifies pain signals. The catalyst for today's discussion is a recent study of 158 non-smoking |
| 0:46.4 | New Zealand women. Researchers linked lower self-reported oral health scores with markedly higher |
| 0:52.1 | rates of chronic migraine and overall body pain intensity. |
| 0:56.3 | More than half of the participants who suffered frequent migraines fell into the two poorest |
| 1:00.9 | oral health categories. They were 60% likelyer to report moderate to severe bodywide pain |
| 1:06.8 | and 49% likelyer to experience migraines regularly. Let's clarify why the mouth matters. |
| 1:12.6 | Once gum tissue becomes inflamed, |
| 1:14.6 | pathogenic microbes and their toxins can cross into the bloodstream, |
| 1:18.6 | travel to distant tissues, and disrupt immune balance, |
| 1:22.6 | fueling inflammatory chemicals that heighten pain perception. |
| 1:26.6 | The study pinpointed several bacterial culprits. |
| 1:30.4 | Mycoplasma salivarium and gardenerlla vaginalis were significantly overrepresented in women with |
| 1:35.9 | chronic migrains. |
| 1:37.9 | Other offenders, parvimonas micro, solobacterium moreae, dialyster pneumocintes, and |
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