A short YouTube talk by Dr. Sanda Moldovan introducing personalized lifestyle medicine with emphasis on personalized dentistry and nutrition. She explains tailoring treatments to individual needs, detecting nutritional deficiencies via oral exam and blood tests (Spectracel), assessing amino acids, vitamin D, magnesium, antioxidant status, and recommends customized supplements plus gut detoxification programs to improve nutrient absorption and long-term health.
Hi, I'm Dr. Sandha, welcome to my YouTube channel. I wanted to spend some time to talk a little bit about personalized lifestyle medicine. Although I'm a periodontist and nutritionist, I do personalized dentistry and personalized nutrition in my office. Because, let's face it, not all of us are the same. So the same treatment should not be given to everyone out there. We customize our treatments based on your needs and your nutritional needs. Because somebody who's 20 years old doesn't have the same nutritional needs as somebody who's 80 years old or even somebody who's 6 years old. So a lot of people walk into my office and we look at their teeth and we can see nutritional deficiencies in their mouth, on their gums, on the tongue, and we make certain recommendations. But for us to really specifically know what is actually going on inside of their body, on how they process their foods is through testing their blood or testing their urine. But I like the blood testing because we have this micronutrient deficiency test and we can tell a lot of things like what are the amino acids in your body, how your body absorbs those, if the vitamin D level is enough, if the magnesium levels enough, and also what is your antioxidant spectrum? Antioxidants are important for us today because we have a lot of free radicals which are causing a lot of oxidative stress on our cells. And our body doesn't really produce antioxidants, so we need them from the outside. If your oxidant level is really high and you're producing a lot of free radicals and you don't have enough antioxidants, then chronic diseases set in like cancer, inflammatory condition, joint problems, and so on. So the antioxidant level is really important for us. And with a simple blood test, we can actually tell if you need to up your level of antioxidants and protect you long term to give you that healthy lifestyle that you're looking for. So this test is called Spectracel and it really takes a couple of weeks for us to get it back from the lab, but it gives us a wealth of information and then we can customize what kind of nutritional supplements we recommend to you because not everyone should be taking the same nutritional supplements. And it really also depends on, on the absorption factor. So having a healthy gut, healthy digestive system is really important for the absorption of these nutrients. Therefore, I do recommend detoxification, one week or two week program to help clean, keep clean our intestinal tract. That is very important.
