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Throughout the years, dental health has often been characterized as a reflection of our overall health, where bad oral health results from issues with other parts of our body. But what if we flipped the paradigm? What if we thought about dental health as the foundation for our physical health as a whole?Dr. Steven Lin, an experienced dentist and the world's first dental nutritionist, has analyzed our ancestral traditions, epigenetics, gut health, and the microbiome in order to develop food-based principles for a literal top-down holistic health approach. Merging dental and nutritional science, Dr. Lin lays out the dietary program that can help ensure you won't need dental fillings or cholesterol medications - and give you the resources to raise kids who develop naturally straight teeth. With our mouth as the gatekeeper of our gut, keeping our oral microbiome balanced will create a healthy body through a healthy mouth.Dr. Lin arms you with a 40-day meal plan, complete with the Dental Diet food pyramid, exercises for the mouth, recipes, and cooking techniques to help you easily and successfully implement his techniques into your everyday life. The tools to improve overall wellness levels and reverse disease are closer than we think - in our markets, in our pantries, and, most frequently, in our mouths - if not just a well-chosen bite or two away.
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Dr Steven Lin is a board-registered dentist, writer, and TEDx speaker with work published in The Sydney Morning Herald and The British Dental Journal. He has also written for MindBodyGreen and About.com.Trained at USYD with a background in biomedical science, he is a passionate whole-health advocate, focusing on the link between nutrition and dental health. His mission is to prevent dental diseases instead of treating them.Steven's journey began when, as a practicing dentist, he realized that today, we live with crippling oral disease. Whether it's cavities, bleeding gums, crooked teeth or wisdom teeth impaction, there's no doubt our modern mouths are very sick.Our current dental care is excellent at fixing these problems. However, it is failing to prevent oral disease. Steven soon became frustrated with the lack of answers for WHY dental diseases occur.When he discovered a book written by a dentist from the 1930s, he was inspired. The author, a pioneer in dental nutrition, seemed to have those answers.Today, Steven Lin focusses on helping his patients prevent dental disease and so avoid treatment. He looks for the root cause of disease, believing that the mouth-body connection is the best way to monitor our health.He is also convinced that our diet is the cause of the problems in our mouth, from crooked, rotten teeth to inflamed gums. The oral-systemic link means our mouths affect our body and our bodies affect our mouths.Healing Your Teeth Naturally Can Heal Your Entire BodyWhy have we never eaten a diet designed for healthy teeth? Nutrition and dental health go hand in hand. Steven can help you to finds the foods that will strengthen your teeth - and make you healthier overall.Steven's program helps his patients solve the cause of dental disease. It merges dental nutrition, breathing, airways, functional orthodontics and sleep health. Today the oral-systemic link is clearer than ever. And it's helping the next generation of children to avoid braces naturally.Dr. Lin's Dental Nutrition course is PACE accredited (AGD Council) for continuing education. He has trained healthcare professionals in Australia and UK. He also teaches general health practitioners about the mouth-body connection.In January 2018, his book The Dental Diet will be released in the US, UK, Australia, Spain, Latin America, Germany, Switzerland, and Australia. The Dental Diet is a journey of ancestral medicine, the human microbiome, and epigenetics. It explains the foods for healthy teeth based on dental disease being caused by the modern diet.
