A Fluoride Foe: Tamarind
Most of us are exposed to some amount of fluoride, even if we take steps to ensure that our toothpaste and home water supply is fluoride-free. Any food or drink processed with fluoridated water will contain some of the stuff. Fortunately, there are holistic ways to...
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Tooth Sensitivity: Some Causes & Solutions
Do your teeth hurt when you eat or drink something cold or sweet or hot or sour? How about when they’re exposed to air? Tooth sensitivity is a pretty common problem – though how common has been a matter of debate. A new review of 65 papers involving 77 studies and...
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Finding Dental Solutions to the Root Cause of Systemic Dysfunction
We’ve been hearing a lot lately from folks who have seen the new documentary Root Cause and are wondering about their own root canal teeth or sharing what happened to their health after root canal treatment. Many are learning about biological dentistry for the...
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What About Sugar Alternatives?
According to a recent Ipsos survey, 70% of Americans say they’re somewhat or very concerned about how much sugar they eat. Yet limiting sugar can be challenging. For one, the stuff is everywhere in the food supply. In fact, nearly two-thirds of all packaged food...
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Mercury Amalgam “Silver” Fillings & Pregnancy Outcomes
A couple years back, the European Union took a huge step toward the ultimate phase-out of mercury amalgam in dentistry: banning its use in kids, pregnant women, and breastfeeding mothers. And just in case anyone needs more proof that this was the right thing to do,...
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Before We Get Any Further into 2019, One Last Look Back at the Tooth/Body Blog in 2018
There’s much we look forward to in this new year – not the least of which is this blog’s 10 year anniversary, hard as it is to believe. Yet in just a few weeks, the Tooth/Body Blog will be a decade old – a decade through which we’ve covered everything from dental...
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Holiday Stressing You Out? How to Survive with Your Teeth Intact
Feeling a little stressed this holiday season, or are you as relaxed as you can be? If it’s the latter, count yourself lucky – and in the minority. According to a Healthline survey, most of us experience this as a stressful time of year. That includes 65% of...
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Holiday Baking Without Table Sugar? Try These Recipes
It’s hard to imagine the holidays without baked goods. Besides, as we’ve noted before, biologically, we’re hardwired to love sweets. Yet both sugars and the highly refined flours used in your typical baked treats spell trouble for teeth, not to mention the rest of...
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Another Reason to Dump the Mouthwash for Healthier Alternatives? – The Mouthwash, Nitric Oxide, Diabetes Link
If you’re using a conventional over-the-counter mouthwash on a regular basis, you could be raising your risk of diabetes – or so research suggests. Consider, for instance, the 2017 study in the journal Nitric Oxide. For it, researchers tracked health data from 1206...
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The Mounting Evidence Against Fluoridation: 5 New Studies
If you buy the idea that fluoride prevents cavities – hint: it doesn’t really – fluoridation can seem like a common sense solution: You simply drink fluoride-treated water, and your count your teeth as protected, right? Wrong. Research has shown that any benefit...
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