Oral health is a critical pillar of overall health impacting brain and body health, vitality, energy, focus, and sleep quality.

“oral health is not just about having clean straight white teeth and fresh breath it's not just about that all of those things are great to have but oral health is about all of that and it's also about reducing cardiovascular disease it's about reducing irritable bowel syndrome yes I know that we haven't done an episode about this yet but I get oh so many requests to do episodes about irritable bowel syndrome and other colitis type uh you know boweling gut issues that people have and it's so clear that oral health and promoting oral health has been linked to promoting positive gut health as well maybe even reducing and possibly eliminating some of the symptoms of irritable bowel disease because again the mouth and the gut are contiguous with one another they're related and a lot of the bacteria that can cause things like gut issues are making their way into the body not directly through the gut but through the oral cavity because of the richness of blood flow to that region so again today we've talked about a lot of different protocols ranging from cost saving to zero cost to low cost to let's just be frank higher cost products and protocols such as water picks Etc the point of today's discussion was essentially three-fold first of all to really Tamp down in our minds the importance of oral health not just tooth Health but oral health on the whole because of its relationship to brain and body Health on the whole so much so that I'm placing it right up there next to the other six pillars of sleep nutrition MO movement stress modulation relationships and light as the seventh pillar of critical to attend to on a daily basis in order to promote our mental health physical health and performance”