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Dr. Mark Burhenne is a functional dentist, best selling author, and TedX speaker. At the core of his years of learning, practicing functional dentistry, and teaching is that the state of our oral microbiome directly affects our overall health. Known by his patients (and much of the internet) as Dr. B, Mark is also extremely caring, kind, and refreshingly optimistic about how our everyday actions can reclaim our health. The Relationship Between the Mouth & Immune System The topic on everyone’s minds lately is immune health. What is the relationship between the mouth and the immune system? The immune system is very active in the mouth. It turns out that one of the great risk factors in COVID-19 infection rate (and even fatality) is oral health. The mouth has its own biome, just like the gut has its own biome. The mouth has a variety of micro-environments that host different bacterial populations: the tongue, the hard palate, the teeth, the area around the tooth surfaces, above the gums, and below the gums. There’s a lot of permeability in the mouth. Oral pathogens are involved in almost every chronic disease. The mouth is the only place in the body that a biofilm exists by design. The oral microbiome is a unique system that is integral to your health, yet it has been largely ignored by the medical community for years. How we breathe (nasal breathing as opposed to mouth breathing) has an effect on the immune system. What happens in the mouth happens in the body. Taking Care of Our Oral Microbiome Health When it comes to taking care of our oral microbiome health, which practices and products are necessary? Many of our readers live a low-waste lifestyle and want to know what’s essential so they’re not creating waste. I applaud them, and I try and do the same. There’s a lot of waste in the oral health category. Think about all the floss, toothbrushes, and tubes of toothpaste in our landfills. I’m sure a bunch of that stuff is floating in the Pacific Ocean as well, and it doesn’t break down. The good news is that a lot of the smaller companies are providing better solutions. I use a recycled toothbrush handle and replace the head because I really like the toothbrush. There are also wooden-handled toothbrushes so you can avoid plastic. You can also find biodegradable floss, made from silk. Bite tablets come in a recyclable glass jar. It contains hydroxyapatite, which is a safe alternative to fluoride, and it doesn’t contain emulsifiers. The toothpaste I generally recommend is by Boka. However, toothpaste is only 10% of the equation. If you had a perfect diet and weren’t mouth-breathing, you could get away without using toothpaste. And forget mouthwash. You don’t need it, so that saves one product and one container from the landfill. Most modern diseases, which were nearly unknown to our paleolithic ancestors, are the result of a “mismatch” between the environments we evolved in for the last two-million years (Homo habilis) and the new environments we have created for ourselves and live in now. This is the premise Harvard evolutionary biologist Dan Lieberman puts forth in his book, The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, And Disease. In other words, our bodies are matched to the environment we’ve had for most of our evolutionary history — not to the environment which we just recently created for ourselves. Natural selection has not been able to keep up with the rate of human innovations like farming, sugar, and processed foods. The recent changes in our lifestyle create a “mismatch” for the mouth, which evolved under vastly different environments than what our mouths are exposed to these days. Our mouths evolved to be chewing tough meats and fibrous vegetables. Sugar-laden fruit was a rare and special treat for our paleolithic ancestors. Now, our diets are filled with heavily processed foods that take hardly any energy to chew — smoothies, coffees, and sodas high in sugar, white bread, and crackers to name just a few. Mouthwash: Necessary or Harmful? Can you clarify about mouthwash… It isn’t necessary? Or it’s harmful? There are a lot of chemicals (alcohol, detergents, pesticides) in mouthwash. In dental school I was told that the mouth is a dirty place and you have to disinfect it. But it’s actually a place that needs to be nourished. There are good and bad bacteria in your mouth, and as long as the population ratio is commensal, you’re fine. Even natural mouthwashes with essential oils are bactericidal. One health influencer burned his mouth on a homeopathic mouthwash and lost his voice. One study found that if you use too much mouthwash, it actually elevates your blood pressure. It kills off a bacterium that produces nitric oxide. Again, this super organism – the combination of human bacteria and other nonhuman bacteria and viruses and E cells, fungi – is present in your mouth for a reason just like it is in the gut. Using mouthwash every day is like using an antibiotic on your gut every day. Fluoride in Toothpaste Fluoride is in commercial toothpastes, and it’s in our water. Drinking fluoride treated water has been shown to lower IQ. What is your professional opinion on the safety of fluoride? Fluoride is a byproduct of the phosphate fertilizer industry. They take this product which they would have to pay to get rid of because it is a toxin when it comes out of the smokestack, and filter it. Then they truck it to a municipal water supply and sell it, and then it goes into the water. When we raised our three daughters, my wife and I went to distilled water right away. They didn’t get fluoride supplements, and they don’t have any cavities. Your at