Gut Health - Good-Gums

What Summer Vegetable Balances the Gut AND Strengthens Your Teeth & Gums?

by Good Gums | Aug 31, 2020Aug 31, 2020 | Gut Health, Healing Power of Nature, Teeth strengthening foods

Asparagus! Asparagus is a scrumptious summer vegetable that provides amazing benefits for your gut and teeth and gums. Why? Because it’s an excellent source of inulin – a prebiotic fiber that helps you digest probiotics. We talk a lot about the importance of probiotics in...

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Avocados: Your Teeth and Gums’ Favorite Fruit!

by Good Gums | Jul 31, 2020Jul 31, 2020 | Gut Health, Natural Ingredients, Vitamins and Minerals

An Avocado a Day keeps the dENTIST away Since we’re celebrating National Avocado Day today, we thought we’d give a big shout out to this fabulous fruit and let you know just how good they are for you AND your teeth and gums! These days,...

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3 Reasons To Eat Fermented Foods

by Good Gums | Feb 26, 2020Feb 26, 2020 | Gut Health

It’s become pretty “cool” to eat fermented foods. From spicy kimchi to tangy sauerkraut, and fizzy kombucha to creamy kefir, these fermented foods have become something of a food fad. And it’s not just the taste that makes these fermented delights so appealing. Their rise...

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Lacking This Nutrient Could Be Causing Your Gum Disease!

by Good Gums | Feb 19, 2019Jun 14, 2019 | Gut Health, Healing Disease

In the 1930s, a Canadian dentist named Weston A. Price was involved in one of the hottest topics among dentists at that time: trying to discover why oral health was declining so rapidly among the population. The deterioration of his patients’ oral health and his...

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It’s Not Just What You Eat, It’s HOW You Eat!

by Good Gums | Jan 27, 2019Jun 14, 2019 | Gut Health, Healthy Practise

Hands up! Who’s guilty of mindlessly gobbling down food while checking their Facebook news feed or emails? Yep. Us too! As a nation, we’ve developed unhealthy habits when it comes to eating. Many of us gulp down our food in order to get on with something...

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How to make kefir

by Good Gums | Oct 30, 2018Jun 14, 2019 | Gut Health

Milk kefir is super easy to make and is what we believe to be the most potent source of probiotic! Probiotics, as we’ve said before, are absolutely essential for balancing out your digestive system, strengthening your immune system and keeping disease at bay. During the...

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How your gut health and oral health are related

by Good Gums | Oct 30, 2018Jun 14, 2019 | Gut Health

Did you know that a lot of problems in the mouth are caused by problems in the gut? Oral microbiome and gut microbiome are in constant communication with each other. This is why our oral health can be a good way of monitoring the health...

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Heal your gut, heal your life!

by Good Gums | Oct 30, 2018Jun 14, 2019 | Gut Health

There is so much more going on within our bodies than what we can perceive with the naked eye. Right now, on the backs of our hands, our cells are growing, multiplying, morphing and splitting over and over again, yet we cannot see. Similarly, there...

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