When you think about the medical professionals who are most important for helping patients deal with improving cardiovascular health–cardiologists, dietitians, family physicians, internists, naturopaths, and endocrinologists–it’s all pretty obvious. But what about a dentist? That’s right, a dentist! What if he could identify a common culprit in heart health that could very well be missed by all of those other experts. Well today we have a podcast guest who identifies himself as a holistic dentist who is concerned with the interconnection between the health of your mouth and the health of your heart.
In Episode 364 of “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show with Jimmy Moore,” we hear from Wheaton, IL-based dentist Dr. Kevin Boehm, DDS, from Wheaton Family Dentistry who shares about the relationship between the health of your gums and cardiovascular health. Listen to Dr. Boehm share why gum health and heart health are connected, why holistic dentistry is uniquely qualified to identify this connection, how fossilized bacteria from the mouth is a problem for your health, how the bacteria gets from the mouth to the heart, the specific bacteria that leads to gum disease and then into the blood vessels, the role of diet in this process, supplements that help improve gum health, the questionability of statin drugs, the studies supporting the connection between gum disease and cardiovascular health, why the old guard doesn’t support the connection as much as the new doctors/dentists, the influence of the great Dr. Weston A. Price, the role sugar and gluten play in overall health, tips for preventing gum disease and thus vascular health, the growth of the holistic dentistry profession, and the kind of health professionals who are on ChicagoHealers.com. It’s good to know there are dentists like Dr. Boehm who are looking at mouth health and how it impacts the rest of the body.
There are three ways you can listen to Episode 364:
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3. Download the MP3 file of Episode 364 [35:12m]:
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How’d you like what you heard from Dr. Kevin Boehm? Tell us your thoughts about his argument supporting a connection between gum health and heart health in the show notes section of Episode 364. Check out his Chicago area practice Wheaton Family Dentistry and read his column on the connection between gum disease and heart health for more information on what you heard about in today’s podcast. Coming up next week, we’ve got a big one for you on Monday. That’s when we’ll hear from the amazing Dr. Ron Rosedale, a contemporary of Drs. Mike & Mary Dan Eades who has been doing sensational work in support of carbohydrate-restriction for patients around the world for many years and he will be with us for an entire hour sharing all about the various nuances of his brand of low-carb living that focuses on the role leptin plays in health. He’s also signed up to be one of the guest speakers on The 4th Annual Low-Carb Cruise to Jamaica coming May 1-6, 2011. Then on Thursday we’ll hear from Michael Nova, a musician and filmmaker who went through a series of extremely serious health problems that were all turned around through the use of dietary changes. His story is quite compelling, so you don’t want to miss it! THANK YOU again for your support of “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show” and I’m thrilled to have you be a part of it week after week. Tell your friends and family to listen!
