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Naturally Detox Every Day with These Foods and Supplements
Cadmium in ground flaxseed. Mercury in tuna higher than once thought. Polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in Teflon pans and floss. Everywhere we look there is another new toxic exposure. While the outlook may seem grim, the liver is well-equipped to get rid of waste...
Your Child’s Oral Microbiome: A Key to Lifelong Good Health
A child’s oral microbiome starts before birth. That’s why the mother’s oral microbiome is critical to the health of her child. Children need a healthy microbiological start because the microbiome is like a tiny garden that, growing slowly within them, will serve them...
Oral Bacteria and Gut Bacteria: A Functional Dentistry Case Study of the Oral-Gut Connection
Mouth bacteria could be a critical clue to figuring out gut infections. The oral microbiome with 20 billion bacteria and 770 species pales in comparison to its cousin, the gut microbiome with 100 trillion microbes. Still, the interconnections of these two sites...
Gargling with Salt Water, Iodine, Peroxide, or Essential Oils- Which is Best for the Oral Microbiome?
Updated September 24, 2024 This blog has been wildly popular. So, I’ve made some improvements, as well as added a section, “Which is better: salt water rinse or hydrogen peroxide”? Whether you are trying to address infections that cause sore throat or maintain...
This Innocent Mistake Cost My Friend His Life
I walked into my freshman gym class the weekend before Halloween and learned that my classmate, a 16-year-old Japanese exchange student, had been killed for knocking on someone’s door. Yoshihiro Hattori, the class entertainment, was no more. It was 1992 in Baton...
Stop Diarrhea, Abdominal Pain, and Crohn’s Disease Inflammation with an Integrative and Functional Medicine Approach: A Case Study
Inflammatory bowel disease doesn’t have to be a life sentence. It doesn’t mean you have to spend your life on immune-suppressing medications or eventually have a part of your colon or GI tract removed. Ulcerative colitis or Crohn’s disease can be put into remission-...
Stomach Ulcer and Bad Breath? This Infamous Mouth Bacteria Can Explain Why You Have Both
If you have stomach pain, gastritis (inflammation of the stomach), or ulcers, you may be one of every two people who have the bacteria Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) living in their gut. H. pylori is a notorious bacterium that can cause a lot of damage in...
Best Toothpaste Ingredients for the Oral Microbiome
What makes a good toothpaste? We put toothpaste in our mouths every day, but what is in there? Is it safe? Does it really improve our oral health? It may be surprising that not everything found in traditional toothpastes are safe for our mouths. Some toothpaste...
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.
