The Mouth Of The Matter

Fitness expert Kunal Sharma explains the importance of cultivating oral health for sound gut health.

- Kunal Sharma

It might sound unbelievable but oral health is the most important part of our body health. When we eat, we usually do not care about how much time we are supposed to spend chewing our morsels. We generally always eat in a rush and barely chew our food. This does not give enough time for the bacteria to break down the food in our mouth. The whole process of digestion gets disrupted at the start itself.

DETERIORATING CONDITIONS

Our children’s oral health is getting worse by the day and there are a number of reasons for this. The first reason is that we do not feed them nutrient dense food. Secondly, we do not inculcate in them the habit of brushing and flossing right from childhood. I am a witness to the health and weight loss patterns of thousands of my clients. I have found that 90% of people do not floss and that’s where the whole process of deterioration of the teeth and gums starts. Our dental health does not give us decay signs easily and is a culmination of years of deterioration, which causes bleeding gums or tooth decay or cavities. Right now in our society, 99% people have an oral hygiene problem. However, our hygiene habits are largely limited to how we look and what kind of soap and perfume we use on a daily basis!

IMPROPER DEVELOPMENT

Our crooked teeth are not a product of our genes but, in fact, depend on what we are feeding our jaws and how we function.