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.

Gut Health

08 May 2015

Our Kids Deserve a Healthy Mouth

In Gut Health, Optimum Nutrition, Oral Hygiene, PALEO Lifestyle | No comment

Our kids have tooth decay NOT because they’re deficient in fluoride. Our kids have bleeding gums NOT because they don’t brush and floss twice a day. The primary reasons our kids have tooth decay and gum disease are because their nutrition is deficient;…

30 March 2015

What’s Up With Gums, Gut, and Paleo?

In Gum Disease, Gut Health | No comment

The soft tissues in your mouth are an extension of your gastrointestinal tract. Your mouth is like the first tee in a golf game; like the coming attractions before the movie starts in the theater; like the entrance to Disney World. It’s where it all…

12 September 2014

My Gums are Bleeding and Sore

In Gum Disease, Gut Health | No comment

About a year ago I was asked to evaluate a patient who had bleeding gums, which was not responding to daily, good oral hygiene and had not responded to a deep cleaning by the hygienist in his dentist’s office. This was a 71-year old…

11 August 2014

Have Respect for What is Right

In Gut Health, My Personal Thoughts | No comment

When you think about things changing over time, you might compare how things are today related to a time in the past. For example, a gallon of gasoline today costs about $3.35, but a gallon of gas when I started driving in Baltimore in the…

31 July 2014

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…

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…