561: What Your Patient’s Gut Health is Telling You - Dr. Uche Odiatu - a podcast by ACT Dental

What Your Patient’s Gut Health is Telling You

Episode #561 with Dr. Uche Odiatu

There is more to gut health than probiotics, and it all starts in the mouth. Today, Kirk Behrendt brings back one of ACT’s favorite fitness gurus, Dr. Uche Odiatu, to talk about one of his favorite subjects: gut health. He passionately shares his knowledge about the microbiome, advice for engaging team members, and ways to talk to patients about this very important topic. A healthy mouth leads to a healthy gut! To learn how dentists and hygienists can help patients with whole-body health, listen to Episode 561 of The Best Practices Show! 

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Links Mentioned in This Episode:

Viome: https://www.viome.com

Main Takeaways:

Change your diet for better gut health.

Acknowledge the role of gut health on mental health.

Understand how antibiotic prescriptions affect gut health.

Learn how to engage your patients in gut health conversations.

Involve and empower your team so they learn more about gut health.

Quotes:

“If you want to be current, you've got to know about the microbiome because your patients are reading about it every night.” (3:49—3:54)

“The average Joe thinks, ‘Oh, I take a probiotic.’ There's much more to gut health than taking a probiotic, just like there's more to health than popping a vitamin pill.” (4:31—4:39)

“Gut health is elusive. It’s amorphous. You've got to think of how these gut florae became a part of us. When we’re born, basically, the womb is very sterile. When the baby comes through the birth canal, that's the first introduction to the microbiome, or the mother’s microbiome. However, if you were born by C-section, which is about one out of three kids, one out of three patients born now, they get more of a skin microbiome. They get more staph bacteria than lactobacillus and bifido. It takes about seven years for a C-section delivered baby to catch up to a vaginally delivered baby.” (4:40—5:18)

“Back 40 years ago, only one in 25 kids were born by C-section. Now, it’s one in three. So, when you talk about one in three, you're thinking about 30% of patients that are born without good, diverse, stable biome. And they do suffer from it. The Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology has shown how they're more likely to have asthma, more likely to have metabolic syndrome,...

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