by Cass Nelson-Dooley, M.S. | Oct 1, 2019 | Uncategorized
I was just a few weeks pregnant when I got an assignment to write a medical paper on detoxification. I found myself pounding away at the keyboard about the 700 new chemicals introduced into the American market each year. I wrote that 200 chemicals were found in the...
by Cass Nelson-Dooley, M.S. | Aug 30, 2019 | Uncategorized
Diabetes is a timely topic for me, as my husband was diagnosed with diabetes last summer and my closest childhood friend developed gestational diabetes earlier this year. What is the world coming to? Indeed, our country is having an epidemic of high blood sugar, to...
by Cass Nelson-Dooley, M.S. | Jul 24, 2019 | Blog, Uncategorized
Updated July 27, 2021 The evidence for a microbial origin of Alzheimer’s disease is stacking up, particularly since the Alzheimer’s biomarker beta-amyloid was recognized as an antimicrobial peptide1 and a common oral pathogen was described as a “central driver of...
by Cass Nelson-Dooley, M.S. | Jun 18, 2019 | Uncategorized
Until now, the gut microbiome has gotten the lion’s share of the headlines. But the oral microbiome is equally impressive. Amazingly, the oral microbiome influences health or disease in many other systems of the body, not just the gut. The oral microbiome is the next...
by Cass Nelson-Dooley, M.S. | Nov 14, 2018 | Uncategorized
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...
by Cass Nelson-Dooley, M.S. | May 2, 2016 | Uncategorized
Updated June 16, 2021 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 connected...