Lon Peckham DMD, FAAOSH, Dip ACLM
Wholistic Functional Dental Medicine Expert
The Most Commonly Missed Oral and Systemic Health Factor When talking about and implementing a healthy lifestyle, diet and exercise always jump to the head of the line. Next in line many start concerning themselves with environmental pollutants and food supply toxins. While fresh air, fresh water, and clean nutritious food [...]
Peace on Earth, Good Will Toward Men Take a look at the Cross of Health in the top left corner of this page. Do you see Christmas there? Look close. It’s right there, the bottom anchor arm; Love and Peace. It’s there in that spot because science has proven that [...]
Don’t you just love it when your opinions get vindicated! Recently the Journal of Periodontology carried an article reporting on a study that looked into the possibility of a link between diet, specifically a Mediterranean diet, exercise, and periodontal disease.* As all our patients know, periodontal disease has been the major [...]
Oral-Systemic health is a term to showcase the rising and increasingly important research-based links, or connections, between oral health and whole-body health. Research has shown countless health issues caused by poor oral health. Oral-systemic health is connected to - Cardiovascular disease Alzheimer's disease Diabetes High-risk pregnancy Cancer Obstructive sleep apnea Obesity [...]
It is now well established that heart attacks (as well as other circulatory diseases like strokes and high blood pressure) are almost entirely lifestyle based. That even if you have the “heart attack gene”, with a properly informed lifestyle you can turn it off (that is the science of epigenetics). The [...]
The foods found most protective against oral cancer include raw and green/leafy vegetables, tomatoes, citrus, and carrots. Citrus fruits are acidic, though. Fine; less oral cancer. But, what about the health of the teeth themselves? Might eating lots of sour fruit eat away at our enamel? Well, early case reports that [...]
OK, let’s be real. This virus is not going to just up and disappear, and civilization will not survive if we continue to “isolate” as we are. Even if a miracle drug or vaccine gets invented, it won’t be soon enough, who knows what the side effects are going to [...]
“Doc, I think it’s time for dentures. Everyone in my family has them. Mom got hers when she was 18 and dad when he was 25. My brother and sister both got theirs in their 30s. Now I’m 45 and tired of throwing good money after bad!” It’s a story [...]
In his book “Love and Survival”, Dr. Dean Ornish chronicles how he discovered that, more important than diet, more important than exercise, more important than temperance, more important than any other life style habit, is the presence of genuine loving relationships in your life. When you stop and think about [...]
