Dr. Ben Javid

We're all working hard.

We're all doing something we're working on.

And without our health, you know, it's not worth much, right?

And sometimes now we have, you know, people that are looking for their health through bi-hacking and detoxing and having, you know, these –

these systems of health and longevity and vitality, you know, again, you know, the Gary Breckers of the world and all these people, and they're starting to see, okay, we have to look at the mouth, you know, because, uh, we can do all the liver detox you want.

It can do all the heavy metal detox, but if you have a constant stream of toxicity still coming in your body, you're only going to go so far.

Hmm.

The analogy I give is imagine you're in a room and there's a pipe broken, water's coming in, and you want to clean it up.

So you start putting towels in the ground, you keep toweling, but all the water still keeps coming.

Until you shut off that valve, you're not going to get very far.

So if you're trying to get healthier and you constantly have a source of toxicity coming into your body, you're not going to get very far.

Same as nutrition, right?

If you're eating toxic foods...

You're not going to get healthy, but the same is true for your mouth.

Well, poor dental health is the same as poor overall health.

Same, same thing, same food, same everything, right?

So I would say there's a few main foods that you probably have heard from maybe other guests that you should not have that are important for overall health and for oral health, same things.

So number one, obviously, and not in order of priority, would be obviously wheat and gluten.

It's inflammatory, causes a lot of dysregulation throughout the whole body.

Sugar, obviously, not all kinds of sugar, but processed sugar.