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Autoimmune Diseases Can be Cured: How to Get to the Bottom of the Problem
Autoimmune conditions are the conventional practitioner’s burden and the integrative and functional medicine practitioner’s gift. I say this because conventional medicine effectively addresses the symptoms, but has little to offer in the way of reversing autoimmune...
The Mouth, the Oral Microbiome, and Systemic Inflammation
Introduction While both professions deal with health, dentistry and medicine have diverged such that dentists alone handle oral health while the mouth is often an afterthought for the primary care provider. Yet the mouth is intimately...
The Mouth: A Mirror of Health or Disease
The gastrointestinal microbiome is getting so much attention these days, but what about the mouth and pharynx? Doesn’t it all start there? In fact a number of conditions have to be just right to prevent dysbiosis of the mouth: saliva flow, pH, low-sugar diet,...
The Oral Microbiome Interview
The oral microbiome is an important part of the gut microbiome and tending to its balance should be a routine part of any good “gut protocol.” Indeed, dysbiosis of the oral microbiome (and a leaky oral mucosa) might be key underlying imbalances in pathogenesis of...
Leaky Gut and Joint Pain
When it comes to joint pain, why aren’t more doctors talking about leaky gut and food sensitivities? Joint pain and arthritis can be crippling conditions. If you have arthritis, certainly you have been told there is no cure and the disease must be managed with...
Cass Nelson-Dooley, MS, is a researcher, author, educator, and laboratory consultant. She studied medicinal plants in the rain forests of Panama as a Fulbright Scholar and then launched a career in science and natural medicine. Early on, she studied ethnobotany, ethnopharmacology, and drug discovery at the University of Georgia and AptoTec, Inc. She joined innovators at Metametrix Clinical Laboratory as a medical education consultant helping clinicians use integrative and functional laboratory results in clinical practice. She owns Health First Consulting, LLC, a medical communications company with the mission to improve human health using the written word. Ms. Nelson-Dooley is an oral microbiome expert and author of Heal Your Oral Microbiome. She was a contributing author in Laboratory Evaluations for Integrative and Functional Medicine and Case Studies in Integrative and Functional Medicine. She has published case studies, book chapters, and journal articles about the oral microbiome, natural medicine, nutrition, laboratory testing, obesity, and osteoporosis.
