The following Mark's Daily Apple article was written by Mark Sisson,

and is narrated by Tina Lehman.

Why GROC didn't have to floss, but you do?

Today's article is a guest post by Dr. Mark Berhena,

the number one best-selling author of the Eighthours Sleep Paradox.

As an authority on dental health,

he's also on a mission to help shift the conversation about sleep

from quantity to quality as the foundation for primal living.

As a member of the American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine, Dr. Berhanna blogs about the

mouth-body connection on his website, Askthedentist.com.

Today, he addresses some of the most pressing topics surrounding oral health from

ancestral health perspective,

which, if you think about it, can be summed up with the following question. If Grock didn't floss

his teeth, why should I? Especially when I'm living a primal lifestyle. Here we go. What happens in your

mouth affects the rest of your body, which is why your oral health is an essential part of primal living.

There's no bypassing the mouth, and if you don't take care of what's inside it, you could have more to worry about than just cavities and fillings.

Today, our mouths can be a source of many problems that ail us, like poor sleep quality and poor microbiome health.

But even more seriously, studies have shown the bad bacteria in the mouth can contribute to

cardiovascular disease, dementia, preterm labor, pancreatic cancer, diabetes, and more.

Poor oral health has effects downstream in the body, and poor systemic health in the

rest of the body can show up in the mouth. It's a two-way street. Obviously, Grock was not aware of this,

but he didn't have to worry about his mouth-body connection. Why? His diet matched his biology.

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