Robert Whitfield MD explains how oral health shapes your gut microbiome and skin. A patient had black material under the gum line suggesting mold or infection, which can increase gut burden and trigger skin problems downstream.
Is that an accurate sort of, like, indication for someone that has anything wrong with their skin that they could look to their gut health to be the first stop?
Kelly Blodgett is a biologic dentist, and I had him on my show, and we talked about this, and it's very true. Like, someone who has problems orally is a real tell to everything else going on. You know, when we have patients and I had a patient recently tell me they went to. To the dentist and they were removing black material from under their gum line.
Yikes.
Black material.
That's mold.
Yeah, I only equate that.
Not a pepper flake.
So I was like, that is not good. You know, those are, to your point, oral health. And he would say it especially, like, when you have somebody who's having oral health issues and they've actually. The new coach who took over football club Barcelona made all of his patients get an oral exam by a dentist for this reason. Because your gut health is the beginning. The. The beginning of the gut is your mouth. You're, you know, constantly bringing bacteria downstream to that. You're going to burden the gut.
But even, even. Even another step further on the outside would be the skin itself, because, like, you hear some people talk about too, that they have, you know, horrible breakouts and they cut out dairy, and it makes a massive difference with their.
