Blog | Dr. Danenberg | Nutritional Periodontist

Nutrition
is at the core of
everything your body
does for you.

From health to sickness,
from energy to lethargy,
from happiness to depression –
the necessary nutrients your cells
receive or do not receive affect
everything about you. If only one cell
in your body is deprived, it slowly affects
the rest of you.

What Skeletons Can Teach Us

In Gum Disease, Gut Health, Optimum Nutrition, Oral Hygiene | No comment

I remember going to the Smithsonian Institute in Washington DC as a child. My favorite exhibits were the dinosaurs. I was in awe with the age of these beasts. Skeletons told a fascinating story to me as a child. Today, skeletons still tell the…

21 July 2014

Anyone Can Do Almost Anything For 30 Days

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Think about it. Thirty days out of one’s life is literally a drop in the bucket – just 0.11% of an average person’s lifespan. So, I am going to suggest a 30-day challenge that might be life changing. First, consider what you could learn in…

11 July 2014

Gum Health and Ancestral Foods – An Investigative Study

In Gum Disease, Optimum Nutrition | 1 Comment

There has never been a published study in the scientific literature that I could find that tested the effects of nutrient-dense foods on gum disease. So, I designed a clinical trial in my offices that is halfway completed. Here is what I am doing: …

02 July 2014

What Is This Thing Called “Functional Medicine”?

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Many of us have come to know that much of medicine today is concerned with treating the symptoms of disease. Thousands of names have been created to label these disease entities along with their symptoms. And thousands of medicines have been developed to treat their…

15 June 2014

How should you clean your teeth?
Let me count the ways!

In Gum Disease, My Personal Thoughts, Oral Hygiene | No comment

Alvin H. Danenberg, DDS • Nutritional Periodontist June 15, 2014 When I was a kid going to the dentist, my dentist always told me I had to brush harder. What did that mean? When my family moved to another city, my new…

07 June 2014

What Would Happen If….?

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Imagine an animal in the wild – a cute, cuddly little thing. And let’s say this animal was living 200,000 years ago. In order for this animal to survive and thrive, it needed to chew its food to get the necessary nutrients into its body….

04 June 2014

Does This Ever Happen To You?

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Does this ever happen to you? You go to a professional website thinking you will find helpful information, but you only find sales material? When I go online searching for medical websites, I hope to find useful information that is unbiased and non-commercial. Unfortunately, my…

29 May 2014

You can stop gum disease

In Gum Disease, Gut Health, Laser Treatment, Optimum Nutrition | No comment

This is a mighty big statement that requires an explanation. First, think about this question: If there were a species whose only means of getting nutrition was by chewing food, and if this species had rampant tooth and gum disease causing the loss of…

12 April 2014

Nutrition is at the Core of Gum Health

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Alvin H. Danenberg, DDS o Nutritional Periodontist April 12, 2014 Possibly, you may have never had a dentist or even a medical doctor talk with you about nutrition, as I will on our first appointment. Nutrition is at the core of everything your…