The truth about gum disease and Alzheimer's, with Dr Victoria Sampson
The Liz Earle Wellbeing Show
Liz Earle
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
How much attention do you pay to your oral health? Functional dentist Dr Victoria Sampson joins Liz on this episode to reveal why changing how we care for our teeth and gums can have a huge impact on our long-term health.
Victoria and Liz discuss the chronic health conditions that gum disease increases the risk of - including Alzheimer’s, cancers, and diabetes - and the key signs of a poor oral microbiome.
They also cover how menopause impacts the mouth, simple daily strategies that can improve your oral health (including how to floss properly!), and whether we should avoid fluoride in our dental care products.
Links mentioned in the episode:
- Food for the Brain
- Dr Victoria Sampson's Instagram
- SuperTeeth Prebiotic Soft Floss - save 15% through our link
- Oral B IO electric toothbrush
- BioMin toothpaste
- A Better Second Half by Liz Earle
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| 0:00.0 | Alzheimer's is a multifactorial disease and definitely poor oral health is a strong factor to getting Alzheimer's, as well as all of the other, you know, your nutrition, your sleep, your all of those types of things. |
| 0:15.2 | And I think I would argue that a lot of these factors, for example, if you have a genetic mutation, that's not something |
| 0:21.0 | you can change. But with oral health, that is something that you can very much change. |
| 0:27.4 | Now, Victoria Sampson is a functional dentist. She says your body's health begins in your mouth. |
| 0:34.7 | This is the Lizelle Well-Being Show, the podcast, helping us all have a better second |
| 0:39.3 | half. I'm Liz Earle and my mission is to find ways for all of us to thrive in our later life |
| 0:45.2 | by investing in our health and our well-being today. Now all this month, I think you probably know, |
| 0:51.2 | we've been thinking about spring cleaning our wellness routines, |
| 0:55.0 | making some fresh starts with our health habits. So today, well, it's time to rethink how we look |
| 1:01.2 | after our teeth and our gums. Sounds quite simple, doesn't it? And it's something that we do |
| 1:06.1 | habitually every day without too much thought. But it's a small habit that could have a huge impact on |
| 1:13.1 | our long-term health. Well, Victoria Sampson is a functional dentist and researcher, known for |
| 1:19.5 | her work in developing saliva advisory diagnostics and microbiome testing. And I'm sure the gut |
| 1:25.9 | microbiome will come up in this conversation, but that's |
| 1:28.7 | not the one that we're predominantly going to be talking about today. No, we're going to be talking |
| 1:33.0 | about the oral microbiome. Did you even know it existed, I wonder? Well, Victoria's aim is to help |
| 1:39.1 | us achieve full body health by focusing on the health of our mouths. Why could this approach prove to be |
| 1:46.6 | so revolutionary for our health care? Well, at the moment, patients with gum disease have a |
| 1:52.4 | 25% increased risk of heart disease, are three times more likely to suffer from diabetes |
| 1:58.8 | and have a whopping 70% increased risk of Alzheimer's. Delve into something dark and fiery with a bordered dark chocolate ginger biscuit. |
| 2:21.4 | Get swept up in something sweet and zesty with lemon drizzle melts. |
| 2:26.1 | Unwind with something buttery smooth with Viennese whorls. |
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