Microglia and Brain Health: Functional Medicine Insights
Your brain has its own immune system, and the cells running it are called microglia. What you eat, how you sleep, and whether you move determines if they protect or destroy.
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Dentist Check Your Brain, Doctor Check Your Gums: Silent Inflammation
Your dentist and your doctor are operating in silos — and the gap between them could be affecting your brain health.
Oral-Brain Protection Toolkit: Research-Backed Steps
The practical, research-backed toolkit for protecting your brain through oral health — from probiotics to water flossers to what your dentist isn’t telling you.
Oral Bacteria Sabotage Your Gut-Brain Connection
New research reveals how oral bacteria hijack your gut’s tryptophan metabolism through the kynurenine pathway — and it changes everything about the gut-brain connection.
Oral Bacteria and Brain Health: How Your Mouth Affects Cognition
The bacteria in your mouth may be influencing your brain health — here’s the science behind the oral-brain connection.
Oral Bacteria Reach Your Brain: The Quiet Inflammation Link
Your mouth harbors bacteria that can reach your brain through your bloodstream, a cranial nerve, and your gut — here’s how the oral-gut-brain axis actually works.
5 Ways Oral Bacteria Signal Your Brain
New research maps exactly how bacteria in your mouth reach your brain and contribute to cognitive decline — and the connection is more direct than anyone thought.
Mouth-Brain Connection: How Oral Health Affects Cognition
New research reveals your oral health may predict cognitive decline — through pathways most doctors and dentists never discuss.
Oral-Gut-Brain Axis: How Mouth Bacteria Affect Brain Health
Your mouth is the starting point of a pathway that reaches your brain — and most people have no idea it exists.