Will Fluoridation Finally End in the US?
Hopes are high that an upcoming federal trial in San Francisco will finally spell the end of fluoridation nationwide. This is the case we told you about before, in which the Fluoride Action Network (FAN) has teamed up with several other plaintiffs in what may be a...
Is Your Baby’s Food Too Sweet?
If you’re buying commercially prepared baby food, the answer is probably yes. A team of researchers from Penn State and the University of Colorado recently surveyed a range of baby foods claiming to be “loaded with dark green vegetables.” Those claims, they found,...
How We’re Safely Providing Dental Care in the Age of COVID-19
Dental care isn’t separate from healthcare but an important specialty within it, for oral health and systemic health are totally intertwined. You can’t have one without the other. Holistic, biological dentists understand this perhaps better than anyone. Yet in the...
Breastfeeding & Your Baby’s Oral Health
There are lots of benefits to breastfeeding, not least of which are delivering antibodies that help your baby fight off viruses and bacteria, and a lower risk of conditions like asthma, allergies, and ear infections. Breastfeeding is also crucial for your child’s...
Garden with Kids & Harvest the Benefits
With spring long since sprung and summer pretty much here, most folks are well into gardening season. If you haven’t already begun, it’s not too late to start, especially considering that the value of growing your own veggies goes well beyond grocery store savings,...
The Link Between Gum Disease, Lung Disease, & Death
Science continues to link gum disease to many systemic health problems, including heart disease, stroke, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, and cancer. Scientists have highlighted its relationship with respiratory diseases, as well, including asthma, COPD, and...
Blue Light, Cravings, & Your Oral Health
It's no surprise that internet use has spiked dramatically since COVID-19 lockdowns went into effect around the world. Time spent watching streamed content has more than doubled, and data traffic is up even more than that. And why not? Screen time can be a...
Vitamin D vs. Chronic Inflammation
A paper just published in the journal Nutrients suggests that vitamin D may be a good option for reducing risk of COVID-19. Through several mechanisms, vitamin D can reduce risk of infections. Those mechanisms include inducing cathelicidins and defensins that can...
CBD & Other Cannabinoids for Healthy Teeth & Gums? New Research Suggests So
There’s a good reason why health news these days can seem like all coronavirus all the time: We need to know how to stay safe during this pandemic and want to know what progress is being made to flatten the curve and develop effective treatments. Yet in the...
Sugar Rots Your Teeth, but Might Also Take a Bite From Your Life
No sooner had we blogged about sugar’s tendency to displace other nutrients in your diet, we ran across some other recent research suggesting that sugar may shorten your lifespan in more ways than you think. Of course, sugar is a major contributor to tooth decay....
Food for Your Brain, Some Relief from Stress
With so many of us having to stay put right now, lots of folks are stepping up online to help families with the challenges of homeschooling. But who says you have to be a kid to benefit from learning a new thing or two or five? Lifelong learning can mean more...
“Politically Charged Science,” Glyphosate Edition
Back in January, the EPA repeated their claim that glyphosate, the most widely used herbicide in the US, isn’t a carcinogen and poses no threat to human health. Of course they did. But like the California jury that awarded $2 billion to a couple who claimed...
Simple Math: Adding Sugar May Mean Subtracting Minerals & Vitamins
How much sugar is too much sugar? A research team in Sweden recently tried to find out. Their results were just published in the journal Nutrition & Metabolism. Nearly two decades of data from nearly 14,000 total participants was collected from a pair of...
Another Reason Why Ceramic Dental Implants Are the Better Option for Replacing Lost Teeth
Unlike kids hoping for a visit from the Tooth Fairy, adults don’t get too excited about losing a tooth. But at least implants offer a replacement option that’s the closest thing possible to a natural tooth - particularly the all-ceramic implants we place in our...
More Bad News for Fluoride: A News & Research Roundup
It’s been over three years since the IAOMT, Food & Water Watch, the American Academy of Environmental Medicine, and other concerned groups sued after the EPA denied its citizen petition requesting the end of fluoridation. Despite more than 60 studies showing...
New Research on the Rheumatoid Arthritis & Gum Disease Relationship
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is the most common form of autoimmune arthritis, affecting more than 1.3 million Americans, mostly women. That there’s a link between RA and gum disease has been known for over a century. Both are chronic diseases of inflammation, and both...
Nothing Routine About Radiation
Radiation is literally everywhere. A good amount of it is actually natural radiation, like that found in soil and rocks, cosmic rays from space, and even within your own body. But nearly half of human exposure to radiation is for dental or medical reasons, like...
Serious New Science on Soybean Oil
Since the early 1900s, consumption of soybean oil has increased more than 1000-fold, despite research raising one red flag after another about the potential negative effects of this highly processed product on human health. Soybean oil - often labeled as vegetable...
The Huge Healthcare Cost of Undiagnosed Sleep Apnea
Sleep apnea affects roughly 22 million Americans, making it as common as type 2 diabetes. But unlike diabetes, it’s a whole lot easier to ignore despite the impact it can have on your physical and mental health - not to mention your relationships, your job, and...
Whole Fat Leads to Less Fat
While cow’s milk doesn’t have to be a part of a healthy diet, in North America it generally is, especially for kids. “Just make it reduced-fat,” the purveyors of conventional wisdom say, concerned about overweight and obesity. But a new review and meta-analysis of...