How to Improve Oral Health & Its Critical Role in Brain & Body Health
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Why is oral health important for overall well-being?
Welcome to the Huberman Lab Podcast, where we discuss science and science-based tools for everyday life. I'm Andrew Huberman, and I'm a professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford School of Medicine. Today, we are discussing oral health.
Now, when most people hear oral health, they immediately think tooth health and appearance and presumably fresh breath or lack of bad breath as well. And while, of course,
tooth and breath, freshness, whiteness, and health is a critical component of oral health.
Today you will learn that oral health, including the oral microbiome, the health of your palate, your tonsils, indeed the entire oral cavity is an extremely important component of general bodily health. So much so that today we are going to add a seventh pillar to the so-called six pillars of mental health, physical health, and performance. This is not a trivial step to add a seventh pillar to these six pillars. If some of you have been listeners of this podcast for a while, you may recall that the six pillars of mental health, physical health, and performance, that is the six things that everyone needs to invest specific protocols into each day are in no particular order, by the way, sleep, sunlight, and light exposure generally, which by extension also includes dark exposure, nutrition,
exercise, which we could also call movement, both cardiovascular exercise and resistance training, stress management and relationships and social engagement, including relationship to self. And today we are going to add oral health and microbiome health. And I suppose we could generally call this oral and gut health because as you
What protocols can strengthen your teeth and gums?
No, if you think about it, your mouth, your oral cavity and your gut are contiguous with one another. We are going to add oral and gut health as the seventh pillar of mental health, physical health and performance, because as you will learn today, there are so many aspects of oral health and daily protocols for oral health that extend to cardiovascular health, to metabolic health, and indeed to brain health and to staving off diseases in all of those bodily compartments. I cannot overemphasize enough how much oral health influences your general bodily health. So today you will learn about oral biology and health. We won't go too deep into the biology, but we will go deep enough into the biology that you will learn some incredible things such as your teeth have the ability to
literally fill back in cavities that have formed provided those cavities haven't gone too deep into the teeth layers yet you will learn that saliva while most people think of it as just spit is an incredible substance fluid that contains all sorts of interesting and important things that allow you to rebuild the strength of your teeth and indeed to support the health of your oral cavity and gut microbiome and body generally so saliva is super interesting and important. And today you're going to learn many, many protocols, including zero cost protocols, protocols that will actually save you money, as well as some low cost protocols to both restore, improve and maintain oral health. And in doing so, maintain and improve your overall bodily health.
Before we begin, I'd like to emphasize that this podcast is separate from my teaching and research roles at Stanford. It is, however, part of my desire and effort to bring zero cost to consumer information about science and science related tools to the general public. In keeping with that theme, I'd like to thank the sponsors of today's podcast. Today's episode is also brought to us by Waking Up. Waking Up is a meditation app that includes hundreds of meditation programs, mindfulness trainings, yoga nidra sessions, and NSDR, non-sleep-deep-rest protocols.
How do cavities form and what role does sugar play?
I started using the Waking Up app a few years ago because even though I've been doing regular meditation since my teens, and I started doing yoga nidra about a decade ago, My dad mentioned to me that he had found an app, turned out to be the Waking Up app, which could teach you meditations of different durations and that had a lot of different types of meditations to place the brain and body into different states and that he liked it very much.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why is oral health important for overall well-being?
0:00–1:51
2
What protocols can strengthen your teeth and gums?
1:51–3:57
3
How do cavities form and what role does sugar play?
3:57–6:51
4
What are the best practices for brushing and flossing?
6:51–8:27
5
How can nutrition affect oral health?
8:27–10:08
6
What are the dangers of mouth breathing?
10:08–13:33
7
How can xylitol help prevent cavities?
13:33–16:44
8
What is the relationship between oral health and brain health?
16:44–1:56:50
Speakers
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