Running: A FEVER

RAF378: Dental Health Part 9 – Whole Body Health

The dental area is not a stand-alone system. It interacts with the other systems in the body. Dental problems are so closely tied to disorders in other parts of the body that sometimes your dentist may be the first to notice the problem because dental conditions can lead to other diseases in the body. Read…

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RAF377: Dental Health Part 8 – Action – Planning

Hopefully you can see that this series aligns with my philosophy of becoming an expert at your own health. You’ll need to tap into that philosophy to build your health plan. Some of the answers you’ll know from experience. For example, you have dry mouth or take some medications that can cause it. However, you…

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RAF376: Dental Health Part 7 – Action – Protection

This is episode 7 in our 10-part series on dental health. We’ve already talked about dry mouth, diet, biofilm, genetics, and pH. The objective is not to preach about sweets, brushing, and flossing but to find the causes of dental health problems, understanding that many of these problems are not our fault at all and…

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RAF375: Dental Health Part 6 – pH

We’ve gotten to the 6th installment of this series all about healthy and unhealthy teeth. Our focus is not on the brushing, flossing, and avoiding sweets that you’ve heard about all your life. It’s about finding the causes of tooth decay. With this knowledge, we can better understand how to move forward and improve the…

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RAF374: Dental Health Part 5 – Genetics

It’s the 5th in our series of 10 episodes specifically about dental health. We’re trying to find out how to obtain and maintain oral health by learning the causes of various dental problems and addressing the causes with a plan of treatment, hygiene, and changes in behavior. Read the full post at http://RunningAFEVER.com/374 Image by…

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RAF373: Dental Health Part 4 – Biofilm

It’s #4 in our series on taking care of your teeth. The difference from what you may have heard before is that we are exploring the why and how of the problems that happen in the mouth. With that knowledge, I think we can understand the link between the causes and the solutions to provide…

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RAF372: Dental Health Part 3 – Diet

This episode will be focused on diet. How does our diet affect our teeth and mouth positively and/or negatively? What can we do to improve this aspect of our health by eating differently? And what foods exactly are good and bad for us when it comes to the dental area? I hope to answer these…

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RAF371: Dental Health Part 2 – Dry Mouth

It’s the 2nd in our series of 10 episodes about Dental Health. The series explores the why and how of dental issues and then how to take action to correct and prevent them. This time we’re talking about dry mouth. What causes it? Why is it a problem and not just an uncomfortable condition? What…

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RAF370: Dental Health Part 1 – Introduction

Today we are starting a new series on dental health. Why is dental health important? Does it really fit within the bounds of fitness, diet, and medicine? Well, yes! We’re going to talk about fitness. We’re going to talk about how what you eat and when you eat can impact your dental health. And at…

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RAF369: End of the Yo-yo String

So, it’s the 84th and final episode in our series “Shattering the Yo-yo”. Last episode, we took a look back at the last episode of 2018, number  111 which was actually published on January 2nd of 2019. But I suppose it was so close I decided to put it in review. Read the full post…

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