The Mouth-Body Connection: How Oral Health Shapes Whole-Body Healing

Coming up on this episode of the Dr. Hyman Show. And there's a there's a lot of organisms that are in the mouth. In fact, the oral organisms, and we have hundreds of oral organisms, there's about a 45% concordance between the bacteria that we find in the mouth and the bacteria that we find in the digestive tract. And you can think of the whole body as being like a tube.

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