Becoming Superhuman

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Randomized controlled trials have studied oil pulling and compared it directly with mouthwash, and the findings go beyond what you’ll hear at a typical dental checkup.

I’m a dentist with over 15 years of clinical experience, and I wanted to put these two approaches head-to-head using what the studies show. Your mouth is an ecosystem. Over 700 species of bacteria live in a healthy mouth, and that balance is what keeps gingivitis, plaque, and periodontal issues from taking hold.

A systematic review in the International Journal of Dental Hygiene looked at 25 studies and more than 1,100 people, comparing oil pulling with prescription mouthwash. Oil pulling improved gum health and helped balance the bacteria in participants’ mouths.

Chlorhexidine keeps working for hours after you spit it out, and that long-acting effect is exactly why it can reshape your oral microbiome over time. Oil pulling works through a completely different mechanism, and understanding that difference changes how you think about daily oral care.

Saliva, nitric oxide production, blood flow to the gums, the first step of digestion. All of these are shaped by what you choose to rinse with.

If you’ve been reaching for mouthwash on autopilot, this one is for you. Stick around for how oil pulling fits into whole-body dentistry, plus where to learn proper technique.

You'll Learn:

[0:00] Introduction

[1:50] Over 700 bacterial species in a healthy mouth

[3:22] How oil pulling differs from killing everything[5:22] Physically removing bacteria versus chemically killing them

[7:30] The nitric oxide pathway that feeds blood flow

[8:37] Reasons to choose oil pulling over regular mouthwash

[9:56] The downsides of chlorhexidine and alcohol in mouthwash

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Resources Mentioned:

The Effect of Oil Pulling in Comparison with Chlorhexidine and Other Mouthwash Interventions in Promoting Oral Health: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Jong, F. et al. | Article

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Gum recession isn’t just about your teeth, it’s also about what’s on your plate (and in your cup).

I’m a dentist with over 15 years of experience, and I look at the mouth from a whole-body perspective, which includes what you eat. Receding gums show up as longer-looking teeth, black triangles between them, and sensitive exposed roots that are more likely to develop cavities.

There are three types of foods that research has linked to healthier gums. One is a drink that showed measurable improvements in periodontal health in a study of over 940 people, with only one cup a day. Another one is tied to a nutrient that people with periodontal disease show lower levels of in their blood. Your body needs it to build the tissue that holds your teeth in place. The third food works on the bone underneath the gums. When that bone shrinks, the gums follow.

If you’ve been dealing with recession and want to actually feed your mouth differently, start here.

You'll Learn:

[0:00] Introduction

[1:44] How green tea catechins balance the oral microbiome

[3:15] One cup a day improved periodontal health in over 940 people

[4:08] Vitamin C builds the collagen that holds your teeth in place

[6:10] Fermented foods deliver vitamin K2 to direct calcium into bone

[7:11] Start feeding the tissues inside your mouth

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Check out my video where I go even more in-depth on tips to heal your gums below:

The 4 REAL Reasons Behind Gum Recession & How to Fix It - Holistic Dentist Explains | Podcast

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Her first birth left her with PTSD. Her second healed it.

Alison Ritchie is a birth keeper, folk herbalist, and educator who has walked with women through pregnancy and postpartum for 17 years. Her work sits at the intersection of ancestral wisdom and modern circadian biology.

Her first birth was traumatic, and it became the catalyst for this work. Her second, at home in the water, was the redemption that fueled it. Years later, attending births around the clock, she hit her own wall: unexplained weight gain, visible aging in the mirror, and depletion so severe she had to step away.

That collapse is what taught her what most pregnancy advice misses. Mothers are generations deep in depletion, and it's showing up in their bodies and their babies'.

Alison teaches that intuition stops being vague the more you stop routing every hit through your head. She wants women out of intellectualizing and back into their senses, because a clear yes and a clear no live in the body, not the brain.

She is blunt about the inputs that actually matter. Blue blockers after sundown, phones out of the bedroom, glyphosate off your plate, and skin, kidneys, lungs, and colon kept open, because pregnancy is build mode, not detox mode.

Underneath is her harder claim: for so many of us, the real fear is how powerful we already are.

You'll Learn:

[0:00] Introduction

[1:14] A traumatic birth became the catalyst for her life's work

[6:29] Generations of depletion showing up in mothers and babies

[8:53] Living in the head versus feeling consciousness all over the body

[16:33] The heart as an organ of perception, not just a pump

[20:06] Empowered birth comes down to having a say, not the setting

[26:45] Basics for preparing the body before pregnancy

[34:24] Inside her women-only nature retreats

[41:28] Women are not little men running on a 24-hour clock

[52:43] The news as theater and the war for consciousness

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Resources Mentioned:

HeartMath Institute | Website

Of Marrow and Mother, Alison's Online Community and Training Program | Website

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Did you know your teeth release an electric charge?

I want to walk you through something I have spent 15 years in dentistry piecing together: drawing on whole-body healing and ancient medicine to explain what teeth are.

Enamel and dentin are made from hydroxyapatite, a mineral arranged in a crystal lattice. When you bite down, that lattice produces charge through what’s called the piezoelectric effect. The voltage is comparable to what a nerve cell generates, and it flows outward into the ligament, bone, saliva, and beyond.

Traditional Chinese medicine mapped each of your 32 adult teeth to specific organs through meridian channels. A US medical doctor has spent years measuring what happens to that flow when a tooth is damaged, and what returns when it is properly restored. The pattern is consistent.

A cavity is not only a hole. It is a break in the crystal structure that disrupts the charge itself, which is why the weakness spreads. Chronic stress and anxiety do something similar from the other direction, reducing your ability to generate and hold that charge.

Diet, hydroxyapatite-based products, real chewing, and a regulated nervous system are what keep the system intact. Listen up to find out why.

You'll Learn:

[0:00] Introduction

[2:05] Hydroxyapatite and why enamel is the hardest tissue

[4:10] Tooth voltage rivals the charge inside a neuron

[6:00] How Chinese medicine maps each tooth to an organ

[7:37] Anxiety and fatigue can weaken your teeth's resilience

[9:18] Using hydroxyapatite toothpaste to repair weakened areas

[10:57] The importance of chewing each bite ten to fifteen times

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A healthy mouth carries over 700 types of bacteria, including Streptococcus mutans, the same organism blamed for cavities.

With over 15 years of clinical experience as a dentist and years of research into whole-body healing, I've come to see the mouth as the gateway into the temple of the body, and what happens inside it reflects far more than what you ate last week.

Here's the part that doesn't add up. Koch's postulates say an organism that causes disease shouldn't be present in healthy people. So why are Streptococcus mutans living happily in people who have no decay at all?

Most people also eat some form of carbohydrate every day, even from natural sources like fruit, and plenty of them never develop a single cavity. The bacteria plus sugar story doesn't hold.

This gap is what pushed me toward an emerging field called psychoneuroodontology, or PNO. It looks at the psychological, emotional, and even spiritual patterns showing up in each of your 32 adult teeth, and the patterns dentists around the world are noticing are hard to ignore.

Your front teeth carry one kind of story. Your back teeth carry another. Once you see the mapping, the way you think about your dental checkup starts to shift.

You'll Learn:

[0:00] Introduction

[1:45] Koch's postulates and the flaw in germ theory

[3:24] Psychoneuroodontology and the emotional roots of dental disease

[5:15] Family and cultural conflict mirrored in the back teeth

[7:23] Connecting life stress to the dental issues you developed

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During his psychiatry residency at Duke, Andy's journal club analysed every antidepressant trial ever submitted to the FDA and concluded the drugs performed no better than sugar pills.

My guest today is Dr. Andy Kaufman, a former psychiatrist turned holistic health researcher who left conventional medicine after realising the system he trained in wasn't designed to help people heal. His background gives him something rare in the natural wellness space: the ability to read the actual research and tell you when it holds up and when it doesn't.

That Duke moment is where the story really starts. The pooled data included the unpublished trials the drug companies had buried, and it showed what everyone in the room could see plainly on paper, but nobody in the clinic was allowed to act on.

From there we get into the harder questions. Why one foot in each world tends to produce the worst outcomes. What the placebo effect actually is once you understand it's your own healing capacity. How trauma stored in the body sabotages diets, protocols, and detoxes before they have a chance to work.

Andy also asks me what really matters for dental health, and the answer opens up meridians, emotional storage in teeth, and Simon Yu's work.

If natural healing has felt too vague or too fringe to trust, this conversation gives it a spine.

You'll Learn:

[0:00] Introduction

[5:03] The antidepressant paper that changed how he reads research

[12:20] N=1 still matters against statistical power

[21:26] Building a healing protocol grounded in real evidence

[28:02] Trauma sits behind most physical illness he sees

[45:03] Wading into both medical worlds leads to poor outcomes

[53:17] Dental school teaches almost nothing about nutrition

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Resources Mentioned:

Bringing Your Shadow Out of the Dark by Robert Augustus Masters, PhD | Book

Robert Augustus Masters | Website

Rupert Sheldrake | Website

Dr. Simon Yu, MD | Website

The Flexner Report | Wikipedia

Mace Energy Method | Website

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Almost everyone gets told the same thing at some point: your wisdom teeth need to come out. I was told the same thing at 20, and before I knew it, I was booked in for surgery and four teeth lighter.

After 15 years practicing dentistry and studying alternative and ancient healing, I've come to see wisdom teeth very differently than what I was taught in school. This episode is a breakdown of why those third molars might actually be doing more for your body than anyone told you.

Your teeth share embryonic origins with your brain, spinal cord, and nerves. That's not a metaphor, and it's the foundation of a framework called psychoneuroodontology that most dentists never learn about. Traditional Chinese medicine ties each wisdom tooth to specific organs through measurable electrical channels, and there's real research showing what happens to that current when a tooth is removed.

A study of over 34,000 people who had their wisdom teeth extracted reported jaw and TMJ issues afterward that they didn't have before. That number should give anyone pause before treating this as a routine procedure.

If your dentist has recommended extraction, there are three specific questions worth asking first, and I walk through each one.

You'll Learn:

[0:00] Introduction

[1:46] Teeth develop from the same tissue as the brain and nerves

[3:22] Wisdom teeth are built to stay anchored by hooked roots

[6:03] How electroacupuncture measures energy flow through a tooth

[7:38] Removing wisdom teeth reshapes the jaw and shifts posture

[9:16] The 34,000-person study on jaw problems after extraction

[11:03] Three questions to ask before agreeing to removal

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I recently appeared on Kelly Brogan's podcast, and one of the questions was along the lines of: "Do we really need to remove wisdom teeth?" This was my answer. 

Kelly Brogan, MD, holistic psychiatrist and New York Times bestselling author, sits with me to challenge the standard recommendation to remove wisdom teeth the moment they cause discomfort. Generations of processed soft food diets have shrunk our jaws and narrowed our faces, but extraction isn't the only answer.

The tongue is the body's most underrated skeletal scaffold. Positioned correctly against the hard palate, it drives jaw development, facial symmetry, and may even influence your breathing and swallowing. Tongue strengthening, deliberate chewing, and loosening jaw tension and facial fascia can reshape bone over time. Chewing each bite 15 times is a simple, powerful place to start.



Removing wisdom teeth unnecessarily may do more harm than good, and the consequences could reach as far as long-term heart health.

You’ll Learn:

[00:00] Introduction

[01:07] Mentioning pain to your dentist almost always leads to the same recommendation, and it may be worth questioning

[01:39] Humans have skeletally devolved over generations, and there's evidence to prove it

[02:24] How the tongue scaffolds the entire face, shaping jaw development, facial symmetry, and cheekbone structure

[04:16] The simple chewing habit that rebuilds jaw musculature, and the exact number of chews to aim for

[05:01] How releasing jaw tension creates more room for teeth, and may eliminate the need for dental appliances

[05:45] A constricted skeletal system is a modern epidemic, and reversing it starts with recognizing what convenience culture has cost us

[06:43] The connection between unnecessary wisdom tooth extraction and future heart disease risk

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Resources Mentioned:

Holistic Dentist Reveals Hidden Truths About Cavities with Dr. Nirvani Umadat on Reclamation Radio | YouTube

Find more from Dr. Kelly Brogan on her Website, Instagram, and YouTube.

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A root canal isn’t where the problem starts; it’s where the damage finally shows up. 

Most people don’t realize how much is happening inside a tooth before anything feels obviously wrong. Inside every tooth is living tissue that keeps it nourished, responsive, and connected to the rest of your body. Blood flow, nerve function, and lymphatic drainage all contribute to maintaining a healthy tooth, and when that system is disrupted through tooth trauma or cavities, the internal environment begins to shift.

As circulation declines, the tissue can begin to break down, which is why I see tooth sensitivity show up as pressure, temperature, or biting discomfort. That progression can eventually create space for bacteria to enter, leading to a dental infection that often presents with pain, swelling, or heightened sensitivity.

Seeing this progression changes how I think about root canal procedures, and what they’re intended to address within the broader context of oral and dental health.

You’ll Learn:

[00:00] Introduction

[00:22] The real reason root canals create confusion and fear

[01:05] The living system inside your tooth and how it connects to the rest of your body

[01:55] The moment damage disrupts blood flow and starts the internal breakdown

[02:50] Early warning signs like sensitivity that point to deeper changes

[03:35] When bacteria enter the tooth and infection begins to take hold

[05:10] Why some damaged teeth don’t become infected and what changes instead

[07:10] What a dead tooth actually means as living tissue breaks down

[09:05] Why some teeth darken instead of becoming infected, and what that signals

[10:20] How understanding this full timeline changes how treatment decisions are approached

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Your saliva does more for your teeth than any toothpaste on the market, but only if you stop diluting it.

Most people snack and sip drinks throughout the day. That means your saliva doesn’t get the time it needs to do its work. Normally, it regulates your mouth's pH, supports your oral microbiome, and deposits minerals into your teeth. But it needs time to actually do that.

When you give your mouth a break after eating, saliva can flow and deposit minerals back into your enamel.

Today I’m sharing four of the most effective biohacks for your mouth and your smile. I also mention foods that support both your mouth and your gut. Things like leafy greens, fermented foods like sauerkraut or kimchi, and even cheese, can help strengthen your enamel.



You don’t need expensive products or devices. You just need simple techniques and consistency.

You’ll Learn:

[00:00] Introduction

[01:02] Why constant snacking and even sipping water can block your mouth’s natural repair system

[01:48] What happens when you give saliva space to remineralize your teeth

[02:18] The connection between gut health and oral health

[02:46] Foods that actively strengthen enamel and shift the environment inside your mouth after you eat

[03:15] How simple choices like green tea and berries can increase saliva and reduce acidity

[04:10] The natural saliva peak most people miss

[04:52] How timing your eating habits can amplify your body’s built-in ability to heal your teeth

[05:18] Why tension in your jaw and neck can physically restrict saliva flow

[06:05] How a simple five-minute fascial massage can improve circulation, symmetry, and oral health at the same time

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