Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

The Surprising Connection Between Oral and Gut Health | Gut Health Q&A

19 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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Short excerpt from a Gut Health Q&A video by Aaron Hartman, MD highlighting that oral health influences gut and systemic health. He notes literature suggesting antiseptic mouthwash (e.g., Listerine) can change oral bacteria and may be associated with increased incidence of heart disease and higher blood pressure, and mentions the specialty of biologic dentists who focus on these links.

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Oral health, such as for gut health, which affects systemic health. So, for example, if you wash your mouth with Listerine or there's now literature that that actually changes the bacteria in your mouth and is associated with increased incidence of heart disease and blood pressure. So it's really interesting how things we think are helpful for our mouth actually, or for breath. Our breath can actually be bad for our gut. There's a whole field of medicine, biologic dentists, which are dentists who specialize in this whole field. So it's a big deal. And yes, it's a part of gut health and systemic health.