Recipe Brief for Immunity: Toothbrushing 🪥🦷
Do you know what I was never taught when I was younger? No, it wasn’t that I SHOULD brush my teeth; it was WHY I should brush them.
I’m going to take the next 10 days to catch up on some offline stuff, which means my posts will be more brief. Still, I’ll try to keep up with my shares of recipes for home, life, and kitchen. Though, like tonight’s, they will be a bit more brief.
So, I have to share something I had to learn the hard way: Good oral hygiene supports overall health and helps reduce strain on your immune system. Did you know that? I didn’t know that. And, when I asked the dentist about it, she kinda knew, but it wasn’t even taught as a primary reason for mouth care in dental school. Have a pretty smile; keep your teeth white; fight bacteria that make cavities. But you never hear that protecting against bacteria in the mouth also protects against bacteria that harms your immune system.
Because we’re coming into flu season, I just wanted to share how this worked for me. I have fewer days of sickness both from not catching stuff and from a shorter time under the weather when I have gotten something. I’ve talked to others with the same experience, and they have also seen a difference since increasing their dedication to oral hygiene. I even found an article about the how and why of it by the makers of G•U•M® products at… https://www.sunstargum.com/us-en/oral-health/the-importance-of-oral-health-for-a-strong-immune-system.html with very good points. It’s a 5-minute read with info you just don’t hear every day.
And doggone if this didn’t get longer than I planned. 😬 But if someone learns a simple way to catch fewer colds this winter, I’ll be very happy to have passed the info along. Now, go brush your teeth. Lol 😁 (Especially if you ate any of those sweet peanut butter burritos from yesterday’s post.)
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