Lon Peckham DMD, FAAOSH, Dip ACLM
Wholistic Functional Dental Medicine Expert
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 [...]
Eighty-five percent of Americans have never heard of it, and yet even more (7 out of 8) have it to one degree or another. Ninety-nine percent of obese people have it. It affects about half of those over 60 but is most rapidly increasing among 20–30 year-olds. Millions are undiagnosed and [...]
According to a recent study, the antioxidants in green tea could be the key to preventing periodontal disease. Green tea is a popular beverage choice in Asian culture. It has been around for more than 4,000 years, and is becoming more popular in the United States. Ancient Chinese and Japanese medicine consider [...]
I was only 5 years old when I had my first surgery – tonsils and adenoids, plus “tubes” in my ears to help keep them from plugging up and getting infected again. The next time was when I was around 12 to remove teeth in preparation for 3 years of braces [...]
Is Poor Sleep Destroying Your Teeth? In case you haven’t heard, Sleep Medicine has become the new medical frontier with none other than Captain Kirk himself promoting sleep enhancing devices. And with good reason. Getting less than 7-9 hours of quality sleep is well documented to lead to cardiovascular disease, type [...]
And the essential test no one is doing. I was wrong. Remember in one of last summer’s newsletters I said that I believed that dental/oral infection was a significant “underlying factor” in COVID fatalities, but that we will never know because no one is looking. As it turns out, someone actually [...]
My personal physician is great. She’s a progressive forward thinker with a preventive approach to medicine that in my estimation places her in the top 1% of her profession. That said, we don’t always see eye-to-eye. In particular, right now we disagree on how reliable information coming out of the CDC [...]
What’s the Deal With Probiotics? You’ve probably been hearing a lot these days about probiotics and probiotic supplementation. But how many of us really know what they are, how to tell if you need to supplement, and if so, what supplement is best? Basically, a pro-biotic is a “good” helpful biotic [...]
I think it is pretty common knowledge that stress can cause a whole host of physical problems and diseases, upsetting our hormonal and neurologic balance, thereby initiating multiple pathologic cascades (including dental disease) many of which we are just beginning to understand. In fact, stress management is now considered to be [...]
