Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Gut Health 101-1 | Hidden Dangers in Your Mouth_ Oral Microbiome Linked to Cancer

10 Feb 2025 · 0 min

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Aaron Hartman, MD explains how bacteria in your mouth can trigger systemic inflammation linked to pancreatic and gastric cancer. Doctors often check the gut and stress levels but miss oral infections as the source. Treating the mouth can lower hsCRP, a marker of immune-driven inflammation.

There's bugs that have been isolated associated with pancreatic and gastric cancers from the oral microbiome. If someone has a chronic elevation in their hscrp, there's immune mediated activation and inflammation. Where's that coming from? And you're looking at their gut and you're managing their stress and you're ruling out chronic infections. And then all of a sudden, you shine a light in your mouth and you're like, oh, that's where it is, right? And you do something about that and that solves the problem. It's pretty amazing how important it is.