Health begins in the mouth: An interview with functional dentist Debbie Ozment, DDS
02/07/23 • 41 min
In this episode of Defiant Health, functional dentist Dr. Debbie Ozment shares her unique wisdom and experience in managing the oral microbiome with some surprising observations. Did you know that:
- Risk for colon cancer can begin with oral health and a specific microbial species?
- Bleeding gums are a red flag for health problems outside the mouth?
- Cognitive decline and dementia may also get their start in the oral microbiome?
- The key to oral health is to disrupt the biofilm of teeth?
- Most mouthwashes, because they indiscriminately eradicate microbes, good and bad, are known to raise blood pressure?
Dr. Ozment is an advocate of combining oral microbe assessment with gastrointestinal microbe assessment to establish important connections.
More about Dr. Ozment:
TED Talk: The Forgotten Orifice
Vitality Made Simple podcast on Apple Podcasts
Website: DrDebbieOzment.com
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Paleovalley is offering 20% off all products for the entire month of February, 2023!
Get your Paleovalley discount on fermented grass-fed beef sticks, Bone Broth Collagen, and low-carb snack bars here.
And, in anticipation of Valentine's Day, they have created
Red Velvet Superfood Bars and Chocolate Bone Broth Protein!
They are currently also offering a 12% discount that continues for life for their Wild Pastures grass-fed, grass-finished beef and pastured chicken and pork! Go here for more information.
*Dr. Davis and his organization are financially compensated for supporting Paleovalley and their products.
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More about my new book, Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight:
https://www.wheatbellyblog.com/super-gut/
For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs:
Books:
Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight
Books:
Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight
In this episode of Defiant Health, functional dentist Dr. Debbie Ozment shares her unique wisdom and experience in managing the oral microbiome with some surprising observations. Did you know that:
- Risk for colon cancer can begin with oral health and a specific microbial species?
- Bleeding gums are a red flag for health problems outside the mouth?
- Cognitive decline and dementia may also get their start in the oral microbiome?
- The key to oral health is to disrupt the biofilm of teeth?
- Most mouthwashes, because they indiscriminately eradicate microbes, good and bad, are known to raise blood pressure?
Dr. Ozment is an advocate of combining oral microbe assessment with gastrointestinal microbe assessment to establish important connections.
More about Dr. Ozment:
TED Talk: The Forgotten Orifice
Vitality Made Simple podcast on Apple Podcasts
Website: DrDebbieOzment.com
________________________________________________________________________________________
Paleovalley is offering 20% off all products for the entire month of February, 2023!
Get your Paleovalley discount on fermented grass-fed beef sticks, Bone Broth Collagen, and low-carb snack bars here.
And, in anticipation of Valentine's Day, they have created
Red Velvet Superfood Bars and Chocolate Bone Broth Protein!
They are currently also offering a 12% discount that continues for life for their Wild Pastures grass-fed, grass-finished beef and pastured chicken and pork! Go here for more information.
*Dr. Davis and his organization are financially compensated for supporting Paleovalley and their products.
________________________________________________________________________________________________
More about my new book, Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight:
https://www.wheatbellyblog.com/super-gut/
For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs:
Books:
Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight
Books:
Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight
Previous Episode
Is your skin aging faster than it should?
In this episode of Defiant Health, I ask the question: Is your skin aging faster than it should? If you are engaging in conventional ideas about diet, it probably is. But there are indeed strategies you can adopt that slow or even reverse signs of skin aging.
Those of you who are concerned about skin health and appearance likely engage in applying products externally, products such as retinol or hyaluronic acid serums for smoother, moister skin. But wouldn’t it be better to view skin as the outward reflection of internal health? Because it is. If you are inflamed, it will show on the skin. If you have liver or kidney problems, it will show on the skin. Wouldn’t it therefore be better to address internal health first? Or do both: obtain healthier skin that reflects better internal health complemented by your topical efforts. Because, after all, applying products topically does not make you or your skin healthier; it just generates an outward change in appearance.
Many of you following my conversations are making yogurt (not really yogurt, of course, nothing like the products sold in stores) making yogurt with Lactobacillus reuteri, a microbe lost by nearly all modern people. Many of you have reported wonderful skin effects, as well as other health benefits such as increased strength, deeper sleep, increased libido, increased sense of well-being. Many report increased skin moisture sufficient to reduce or do away with moisturizing creams, and reduction of fine wrinkles.
So this got me thinking about the power of replacing other factors lacking or absent from modern life that might influence skin health and appearance. So, in this episode of Defiant Health, let’s talk about other factors lacking in modern life that you can replace for improved skin health. This was also my motivation for creating the Gut to Glow product that I personally formulated that I will tell you more about.
Dr. Davis is a co-founder and principal in Realize Therapeutics Corp. that sells the Gut to Glow product.
L reuteri yogurt recipe:
https://drdavisinfinitehealth.com/201...
The L reuteri yogurt recipe and many other recipes that you can use to replace lost microbes can be found in my new book, Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight available through Amazon and other book retailers:
https://www.amazon.com/Super-Gut
Books:
Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight
Next Episode
Why cutting calories is dangerous
In this episode of Defiant Health, let’s talk about why cutting calories in your diet to lose weight is a really bad idea, a practice that yields substantial health problems and even reduces, even eliminates, your ability to lose weight in the future. All the forms that this can take—-reduced portion size, using smaller plates or bowls, pushing the plate away, even pharmaceuticals and bariatric procedures, i.e., all forms of reducing calorie intake, result in significant health problems. It can result in long-term increased risk for frailty, osteoporosis, falls and fractures, and impairs your ability to lose weight again in future, not to mention people who cut calories almost always regain the weight they initially lost.
So let’s discuss why cutting calories is not just an ineffective strategy for weight loss, but can actually be dangerous, and how you can lose weight, if that is among your goals, but not experience any of these adverse health problems.
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Get your Paleovalley discount on fermented grass-fed beef sticks, Bone Broth Collagen, and low-carb snack bars here.
They are currently also offering a 12% discount that continues for life for their Wild Pastures grass-fed, grass-finished beef and pastured chicken and pork! Go here for more information.
*Dr. Davis and his organization are financially compensated for supporting Paleovalley and their products.
_____________________________________________________________________________________________
More about my new book, Super Gut: A Four-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight:
https://www.wheatbellyblog.com/super-gut/
For more information on Dr. Davis’ programs:
Books:
Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight
Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox
Books:
Super Gut: The 4-Week Plan to Reprogram Your Microbiome, Restore Health, and Lose Weight
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