Recommended Products
These are the products I recommend to my patients and family, and also use myself. All meet my rigorous safety and testing standards. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Enjoy!
Vitamin K2 and the Calcium Paradox
Take all the calcium you want, it won’t go to bones and teeth without Vitamin K2 on board. The modern diet is deficient in K2, but ancestral diets were not. Learn how K2 prevents osteoporosis and even the need for braces.
Heal Your Oral Microbiome
If I could make one change to the dental school curriculum, it would be adding this book. The author is a world-renowned oral microbiome researcher. A must-read for dentists, hygienists, and patients.
Read my full review here.
Teeth
Page-turner that I could not put down. A wake up call that should be read by every dentist, dental/hygiene student, physician, legislator in the US about the inequalities and flaws in the oral health system that affect us all.
Food: What the Heck Should I Cook?
I’ve gone through many cookbooks, since I love to cook. These are some of the most gourmet-tasting I’ve found. Excellent cookbook to have in the kitchen for a food is medicine approach to nourishing the oral microbiome!
Food Fix
How to Save Our Health, Our Economy, Our Communities, and Our Planet–One Bite at a Time
An indispensable guide to food, our most powerful tool to reverse the global epidemic of chronic disease, heal the environment, reform politics, and revive economies, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Mark Hyman, MD.
Jaws — The Story of a Hidden Epidemic
Our jaws are getting smaller and our teeth crooked and crowded, creating not only aesthetic challenges but also difficulties with breathing. Modern orthodontics has persuaded us that braces and oral devices can correct these problems. While teeth can certainly be straightened, what about the underlying causes of this rapid shift in oral evolution and the health risks posed by obstructed airways?
The Breathing Cure
This book will guide you through techniques that embody the key to healthy breathing and healthy living. McKeown’s goal is to enable you to take responsibility for your own health, to prevent and significantly reduce a number of common ailments, to help you realize your potential and to offer simple, scientifically-based ways to change your breathing habits. On a day-to-day basis, you will experience an increase in energy and concentration, an enhanced ability to deal with stress and a better quality of life.
The Dental Diet
Grounded in new understandings of the importance of the oral microbiome to overall health. Great primer for how to optimize oral health and well-being.
Eat, Sleep, Breathe Oral Health: Why your mouth matters
This is a must-read for BOTH dental practitioners who are new to the field of dental sleep medicine AND anyone who believes they or someone in their family has a sleep breathing issue. This is a science-based and layperson-friendly book that is a comprehensive overview of airway health.
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
If you’re interested in understanding the vital importance of sleep and how to improve your sleep quality, I highly recommend reading Why We Sleep by Dr. Matthew Walker. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the science behind sleep and its effects on our physical and mental well-being.
The Ultimate Guide To Red Light Therapy
This book dives deep into the science behind red/near-infrared light therapy to help you fight inflammation and speed up wound healing (critical for dental health and overall health as well.) Also great info in here about how to improve hormonal health and increase your energy levels.
The Big Fat Surprise
One of my favorites! My copy is full of underlines and I refer to it often. It’s also a page turner that reads almost like a detective story–pretty nice for a health book! The simple story is how the food industry influenced Harvard researchers to demonize fat–but it’s also so much more than that story, too. It’s about how the incompetence of physicians, researchers, pharmaceutical companies all all impact our health, and what to do about it.
The South Asian Health Solution: A Culturally Tailored Guide to Lose Fat, Increase Energy and Avoid Disease
Not just for south asians. it’s one of the best books on diabetes and insulin resistance. Dr. Sinha is one of the more gifted physicians I know by how he explains diabetes (and all that is associated with this modern epidemic) to the reader. The book contains practical take aways and reading it can save your life.
Breathe, Sleep, Thrive
If you are a parent or guardian looking to unlock your child’s full potential, this is a must-read. Written by Dr Shereen Lim, a leading expert in dental sleep medicine, this book will provide you with the knowledge and tools to understand airway health and how it can impact your child’s development, sleep quality, learning, behavior, and future health.
Breath
A fascinating, life-saving read. No matter how you eat or how much you exercise, none of it matters if you’re not breathing properly. Don’t miss the author’s NPR interview or my interview with James on his YouTube channel.
Drop Acid: The Surprising New Science of Uric Acid
Written by Dr. Pearlmutter, this book’s ahead of the curve and scientifically accurate. The book alerts us to the surprisingly dire effects of uric acid, and presents us with a clear path to bringing this key metabolic parameter under control. After having read this book, I check my uric acid levels at home regularly. It’s time we fully appreciate this source of inflammation, especially if you are prone to or currently have periodontal disease!
Metabolical: The Lure and the Lies of Processed Food, Nutrition, and Modern Medicine
It was so wonderful to read the perspective of a well known physician and endocrinologist as he reveals the truth about the “system” and that understands the implications of its dysfunction that we practitioners exist (and thrive) in, and we all, as patients, eventually have to confront. The truth from an insider.
Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar–Your Brain’s Silent Killers
Essential read for brain health written by one of my favorite health influencers. Oh, and he’s a neurologist that “runs” 10-20 years ahead of most of his colleagues. Stay ahead of current thinking on brain health. Turns out it’s mostly within your control a grasp.
Paleo Principles
The big book on Paleo. If you are thinking you are ready for a paleo diet, start here with a comprehensive and up to date codec of paleo principles that is easy to read and is a pillar health reference.Practioners should read this book to be proficient paleo educators to their patients and followers.
How Doctors Think
Cognitive bias exists every where, but when you confront it at your healthcare visit, it can have life altering consequences. Learning how your doctor thinks (more importantly is trained to think) can help you navigate this serious and commonly overlooked aspect of health care. Take control of your healthcare destiny and don’t be led down the wrong path by your well intentioned doctor (or dentist).
Why We Get Sick: The Hidden Epidemic at the Root of Most Chronic Disease–and How to Fight It
If you’re looking to take charge of your health, this is a great place to start. This book reveals the evidence linking many major diseases, including cancer, diabetes, and Alzheimer’s disease, to a common root cause—insulin resistance—and provides an easy-to-follow plan to reverse and prevent it. It will help you understand the oral-systemic connection better and give you practical advice on how to lead a healthier life.