Your oral microbiome is key to your overall health and wellness. Health begins in your mouth.

Janice King is co-founder and CEO of TRI-OLOGY, a breakthrough oral health product focused on strengthening oral health for overall systemic health. Fort the past twenty years, she’s been researcher in the area of oral health and the oral-systemic connection, a formulator with three U.S. patents, and co-founder of NOWsystem, Inc. Janice and her co-founder, Dale Winetroub, opened the first non-dental mouth care center in the United States, where they’ve studied the effect oral hygiene products, medicine, stress, age, health status and lifestyle have on oral health. Currently, with a grant from the National Science Foundation, Janice and Dale are currently researching how family members of individuals diagnosed with age-related Alzheimer’s Disease feel about the disease and what they are doing to reduce their risk factors.

Ideas covered in this episode:

* How Janice became an expert on the mouth microbiome * The gums are an important gateway to overall health * Poor oral hygiene habits do not necessarily equate to gum disease* The actual cause of gum disease* The importance of saliva for systemic health* What heals the gums when the body can’t do it on its own* The problem of chronic inflammation in the gums* The connection between Alzheimer’s, Cardiac disease, Rheumatoid Arthritis, and gum disease* Balancing the P.Gingivalis bacteria population* You can have a mouth full of plaque and still have healthy gums* Qi Gong Saliva training exercise* Whole plant extracts and essential oils to help balance the oral microbiome* Oral bacteria are shared throughout your family* Janice’s definition of foxy* Final piece of advice on how to best care for your gums