I had the pleasure of an in person interview with Ed Harrold at the Inaugural FACE Conference in Washington DC this year. FACE is an organization that helps bring health care providers together and teach the screening of airway disorders, and Ed was there to motivate the group and teach us how to better take care of ourselves so that we can continue to help others.
This is a great interview packed with tips on how to help stall aging, deal with stress, help our children’s health, get the most out of a workout and for our healthcare workers, tips on wearing a mask and having a clean nasal passage.
He explains how you can control your breath to conserve energy both physically and mentally.
Physically, when we control our breath, we can control our heart rate which then helps control blood pressure. Emotionally, when blood pressure is controlled, the brain can turn down the fear centers and turn up the learning centers
When the brain senses relaxation it helps to burn fat and save glucose. He helps us learn how to get more out of a workout with less time and less energy used.
Ed shares what happens to the body when someone mouth breathes during exercise. Pure mouth breathing burns sugars, taxes the immune system and your body has to work hard to get rid of the excess acid and bacteria that gets stirred up from over oxygenation during exercise (I didn’t even know that was a thing before this, but WOW)!!
Nose breathing during exercise will help strengthen the diaphragm which helps with good posture and amplifies the vagus nerve get most out of rest and digest.
He encourages us to use nasal breathing and exercise to help remove toxins and help with gut toxicity. He explains that exercise is inflammation reduction, but when you breathe too fast and too hard, your body increases inflammation. Taking in less than 12 breaths per minute helps keeps the body in fat burning mode
We talk about what type of workout is best and how to prepare for it not only with working out, but also with everyday life.
He shares about how to move through stress without becoming stressful and how to not get bogged down with things.
He shares how to transition from mouth breathing to nose breathing with things like breath retention in cycles which helps you shorten the amount of time it takes to recover normal breathing patterns.
I share my challenge with nasal breathing while cycling and the frustration of learning what to do with all of that extra fluid. Ed explains what toxins are being released from my body during that process and encourages me to keep going through training!
For professionals that wear masks, Ed shares some tips his tips for having a clear nasal passage.
Towards the end of the interview we jump back into nasal breathing at work and how it helps not only become happy and fulfilled, but also more in tune with emotional intelligence.
We talk about how how to help calm before a dental appointment (practice this at home multiple times before visiting the office)
Towards the end of the interview we talk about how to help children through this type of breathing and how to help children. His book “Life With Breath: Iq + Eq = New You” is filled with tips and tricks to help calm and center our children and enjoy more family time together.
I wished this interview could have gone on forever, Ed has amazing insight, I hope we are able to get him on the podcast again soon!
Links discussed in the podcast
Ed’s Book Life With Breath: Iq + Eq = New You
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http://www.xlear.com/xlear-sinus-care/xylitol-products/adults/natural-netipot/
Julia Worrell is a Nurse whose personal experience has changed the way she looks at someone’s health and how it relates to what the body needs to do in order to stay healthy, pain-free and working properly.
Her journey through developing an underbite as a child that led jaw surgery which led to a cascade of health problems including snoring, weight gain and the inability to concentrate, put her on a personal quest to find answers for what she was struggling with.
Being an ER nurse she sees many patients in crisis, and it's seeing these patients which have caused her to deeply understand the medical issues that someone deals with when the breath is brought into the body through the mouth vs the nose.
No longer is this a cosmetic issue (mouth breathers faces grow long and narrow vs round and symmetrical), this is a life-saving quest for Julia as she now spends much of her day bringing professionals together to learn the importance of proper breathing?
Did you know that nose breathing supplies oxygen to specific nerves, and mouth breathing supplies different ones? You’ll have to listen in as she breaks down why it is so important to breathe through the nose, what happens when someone doesn't mouth breathe, and what parents of children can look for to determine if they are mouth breathing and early intervention by closing the lips and not using sippy cups and bottles.
Julia spends quite a bit of time introducing us to different doctors who teach on this topic and answers questions that parents can use to help determine if the person they are seeing is someone who is at the forefront of this branch of medicine that is changing and saving lives not by medication but by intervention!
This is an episode you won't want to miss if you have a mouth or take care of someone that does!! Trust me.
Mouth breathing leads to many of the diseases that baby boomers are dealing with. If we want to help our generation and our children’s generation we need to look at this piece of the puzzle seriously.
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Dani is like most moms I speak with. Someone who cares deeply for her children’s well-being, and feeling like a failure because her child has cavities that she cannot seem to control.
To make matters worse, she’s not getting any additional help from her dental office when she visits for her kids twice a year cleaning and exam!
“Just brush and floss and get fluoride treatments” were what she was instructed to do…but the problem is, she was ALREADY doing that. MULTIPLE times a day!
Dani shares her story of what it was like to take her son to the dentist for many years only to be told that he had multiple cavities that needed sedation each time. Her dentist wasn’t a scam artist doing a lot of unnecessary treatment, her son legitimately had multiple cavities at each visit regardless of how much she brushed, flossed and used fluoride.
Listen in as Dani shares how we met (it wasn’t in a dental office!), and what she went through to help stop her son from getting any more cavities and needing any new dental work…not only did this work for her son, but for herself too!
It was working with Dani and her family many years ago that really helped open my eyes to the life-changing possibilities that oral health coaching can do for other people’s families! I knew what it did for mine, but working with her helped me see the grand scale of what I could help be part of.
4 years later her family is STILL healthy and going strong without any new cavities and gum issues. 4 years later, I have hundreds of families who I have helped coach into better dental visits and healthier mouths! I’m glad to know Dani is not a “supermom” – just a mom who decided to take matters into her own hands and take responsibility for the health of her children’s teeth!
When I question if all this hard work of finding people and explaining what I can do with them is worth it for me (I’m human and fall into entrepreneurial ruts), I think of life-changing stories like hers and it helps me push on.
Trust me, it would be much easier to be a hygienist in an office “cleaning teeth”, but I’ve found that oral health doesn’t happen for most people in a dental office, instead it’s through a process like our Oral Health Coaching Program where people get the help they need in small doses that allow them to make the changes they need to do in order to stop the infection process continuing over and over again.
Chances are you are already brushing, why not let me show you how to brush in a way with tools that work better and products you can use so that YOU get the results you want!
Small changes make big differences, and it’s likely you just need to be coached through a series of small changes so you get the results you are hoping for!
Dentistry is needed when prevention fails. Prevention happens at home with the products, tools and techniques that you use, yet likely haven’t been taught how to use them effectively. After seeing thousands of mouths and helping to heal them, I’ve come to this conclusion many times, and have seem many mouths heal over the years.
Intrigued? Book me for a complimentary – no obligation call, and let’s see what we can do together!
I’d be honored if you allowed me to help you like I’ve helped Dani and her family.
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Elijah and I meet up at for this interview at CDA (California Dental Association) annual conference. He catches us up on current affairs, and what behind the scenes looks like for him. He’s focusing on multiple businesses, but plans to focus primarily on Smiles at Sea soon.
Cancun July 7-9 Fri-Sun (fri pm classes, sat am classes) this will focus on “rising stars”. (Discount code in links below)
Elijah has gathered a new-found focus, we talk about the intention for that and how he is really looking at how he can mentor more people and raise them up and help get them to their next level.
Although Elijah doesn’t have a coach or a mentor - he has many mentors, but no one that he calls his “personal coach”. As a high schooler, he was a motivational speaker to kids – now he has found that he gets the same feeling working with his peers and keeps him going!
We talk about the bugs eye view vs. the bird’s eye view and how dental hygiene is a layered profession, that can bury you if you are at the bottom layer (think of a lasagna). Elijah’s partner calls him a pathological dreamer but he’d rather be an optimist than a pessimist because an optimist is 5x more successful than a realist.
He recaps his last CE cruise “Dentistry Meets Nursing” and says it was the best Smiles at Sea so far, however after the cruise he realizes that dentistry is much more interested in the overall health integration into medicine than nursing is. Comments on his ads from nurses were of frustration because mainly oral health topics were being offered. Even on the cruise they showed disinterest in obtaining the information on how mouth health changes the dynamics of overall health.
We talk keto diet and personal training, how he feels, why he’s getting fit and spending time with his family.
Help as many people as you can while you are in the rat race, focus on helping people as you go. Mentor and when you fall talk about what caused you to fail and what you are doing different.
Links to topics discussed:
www.SmilesatSea.com Coupon code HMHL gets you $50 off any trip you choose.
The Jamaica Mission Elijah discusses (http://jamaicaoutreach.org/)
Xylitol is one of the things I talk about with anyone who will listen! It has so many uses and misconceptions.
People question the name and often confuse it with artificial sweeteners so they disregard it. But it isn’t a chemical artificial sweetener at all, it is a sugar that is found in birch trees and corn cobs...it also happens to be something that our body creates naturally, and supplementing with it in the mouth helps stop cavities SIGNIFICANTLY!
The magic of xylitol is best realized when you understand WHY it works, and to best explain that I brought in Shirley Gutkowski.
Shirley has been at the forefront of mouth transformations with xylitol, and she gets to the point instead of wasting your time with fluff! Whether you are a consumer looking for better outcomes at home or a dental provider, this episode is packed full of gems, and shouldn’t be missed!
Have a listen and enjoy, and thanks Shirley!
The bacteria streptococcus mutans is the one of the most significant bacteria in creating a cavity. Its purpose is to mainly pump out a sticky film that allows other bacteria to enter and create bigger problems (listen to the podcast for a detained breakdown). Not only is strep responsible for cavities and gum disease, but throat, ear and sinus infections as well. Xylitol works directly on the strep bacteria – starving it and not allowing it to create the sticky film. Without the sticky film, the cavities cannot happen. Thanks Shirley for all your knowledge and insights, we value you so much!
Shirley is an envelope pusher and clinical agitator. After nearly 20 years of chairside dental hygiene practice in SSC, small group and large group practice she retired her scalers and became a full-time writer and speaker. Her topic in the past: caries management beyond floss and fluoride introducing practitioners to xylitol and biofilm management. Today her passion is reignited with the study of orofacial myofunctional therapy and its role in absolute health. She owns and operates Primal Air OMT and Breathing Retraining. By spotting the earliest signs of orofacial myofunctional disorders she coaches parents in simple exercises for their child (close their mouth) to providing full service myofunctional techniques to widen the palate offering space for the tongue to maintain the arch space and improve sinus volume.
CAREERfusion is a collaborative effort she works on with her mentor Beth Thompson. CAREERfusion brings together opportunities for corporate partners and clinicians. Motivates everyone to be their best and puts them into an environment that stimulates positive actions for each person. It also is extremely self-directed so everyone leaves with something different, different goals, different paths to explore and individualized ways to achieve their desires. To learn more about how to implement xylitol and how to help stop the progression of gum disease and cavities visit Oral Health Coaching
Today’s episode has Angie Stone with us again, but this time it’s on location at CAREERfusion 2017 in Daytona Beach, FL!
I wanted to capture the moment of CAREERfusion, because as an out of the box thinking hygienist, I’ve been told for many years by many peers that “I just needed to be there”. It took me years to, and thanks to the DebbieZ Pay It Forward Fund, I was chosen this year as a scholarship recipient!
Angie and I spend time talking about what has helped her outside of the box career, where HyLife Oral Health Alliance is going, and what prompted her to write “Dying From Dirty Teeth” (Amazon Best Seller).
She believes CAREERfusion is unique because nowhere else will you find the people who have the ability to help move you in the direction you that you are built for. It also can propel your career in ways you’d never imagine. It’s like a specialized tribe for dental hygienists!
We get into the importance of pivoting when needed and investing in yourself
Career Fusion – Angie’s message to hygienists thinking about it is "Do It"
Shirley Gutkowski and Primal Air
DebbieZ and the National Cancer Network
and explains how hygienists can get involved with her company and mission. As a HyLife Oral Care Specialist, hygienists can see residents for brushing and in between the teeth cleaning (this is not dental hygiene)
With hygienists acting as caregivers and the care team administering xylitol not only is oral health improved, but life span and quality of life can be greatly enhanced! 30% of pneumonia is aspiration pneumonia. When mouth bacteria build up, it can be inhaled during coughing and choking. When that bacteria hits the lungs, we’ve got issues!
Having an Oral Care Specialist on your team helps increase the value of life, impact the quality of life and enhance the client experience! Do it for the resident, the resident’s family and the care team!
Angie appeared in a previous podcast all about xylitol – listen here
Angie would love it if you:
Liked the HyLife Oral Health Alliance Facebook page
To learn more about HOHA, or to get involved as a hygienist, click here
Today I brought in my friend Dr. Bilal Saib, DDS (Pronounced Bill-Al) aka Dr. B to talk about what a “night guard” does, why a good fitting guard is so important, what to expect in the impression and placement process and what to look for in a dentist who is recommending one, when you decide it’s time to invest it’s important to know what can happen in the mouth if someone decides to wear a “night guard” (both good and bad).
Thankfully Dr. B walks us though the differences.
Protecting your teeth from the strong forces of grinding may be important if you are trying to avoid teeth that break, crack, become sensitive, prematurely yellow or gums that recede. Also, much of the pain and destruction in the muscles of the head, neck and jaw joints can change when wearing a properly fitted guard, but can be worse if the guard isn’t properly fitted to your mouth, and adjusted as the muscles relax and begin to change.
Dr. B and I spend a lot of time talking about this!
As a travelling hygienist, I’ve had the opportunity to work in hundreds of offices, which means I’ve seen thousands of people that have night guards, yet they don’t wear them due to discomfort or even feeling like it makes them grind more. Fortunately, I’ve also worked in offices where I have seen correctly fitting guards change people’s lives and provide comfort from pain and destruction of the mouth.
That’s what drew me to Dr. B. He’s one of those dentists who “get it”, and I am so thankful that he sat down today to give us some insight about why not all night guards are created equally.
The ones I’ve seen work most often are like the ones Dr. B provides his patients and advocates for.
These guards are meticulously created and adjusted for the patient as their muscles relax, and their bite changes. They often are more expensive, but by the end of today’s episode I hope you will have a better understanding as to why, and you’ll be wanting to seek out a dentist that thinks this way too for yourself.
When Dr. B isn’t being interviewed for podcasts, he’s busy interviewing people for his own podcast “The Passionate Dentist”, or changing lives and smiles in his dental practice Chapel Hill Advanced Dentistry in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Guards are called by many names. Occlusal guard, night guard, mouth guard for teeth grinding, dental guard, nocturnal bite plate and bite splint are the most common terms used. There are many different reasons that someone may be needing a guard, but the bottom line is you want to make sure that the person performing the service is someone that is looking at all the pieces to the puzzle of why you need one.
Thanks Dr. B for your insight, we appreciate you!
You can learn more about Dr. Bilal Saib at:
Jasmin Haley RDH on Investing in Yourself, Avoiding “Imposterism” and CAREERfusion.
Jasmin and I got the chance to sit down at CAREERfusion the first week of January. We were both first-time attendees, and at the end of the third day, we took a few moments to reflect on the experience we were in the middle of.
She opens up about how she has been able to be vulnerable here, and the validation she felt from this meeting.
Jasmin is a hygienist carving her own path as a speaker, blogger, and podcaster. She is adjunct faculty in a hygiene program, and like many, she is temping part time.
She schools me on Brick vs. The Brick, which I completely failed!
She shares her takeaways from CAREERfusion
We reflect on 2016 RDH Under One Roof’s Keynote speaker Colette Carlson’s talk about “making an ask out of yourself”
Jasmin gives her thoughts about the importance of healthy patients and how oral health coaching is an amazing adjunct for patients in the dental office who are trying to control cavities and gum disease.
How getting people to change is difficult, and as a public health instructor “the health belief model” requires that people believe they are at risk for disease and how that often doesn’t happen in a traditional appointment
We talk about the book “The Power of Habit” and habit loops vs keystone habits and how that relates to patient care and behavioral change.
Links:
Drug addiction crisis and the dental professional with Edie Gibson
Think beyond the prophy
I really enjoyed sitting down with Jasmin, and I look forward to what 2017 holds for her!!
Dr Jon Engel DDS is not only an amazing dentist, he’s also a five time CAREERFusion attendee!
Today he sits down and tells us why he comes to CAREERFusion, and what he takes back to his team and patients.
Dr. Engel is unlike any dentist I’ve ever met; he cares deeply for his patients, but he’s also in tune with his emotions. And, in a perfect world he’d put himself out of business by preventing cavities if it were up to him.
Naturally, I picked his brain about the prevention he lives and breathes, and he’s kind enough to give the listeners some great insight about pH control, and how xylitol attacks the mouth bacteria responsible for cavities.
He opens up about how in the past he used to take it personally when his patients didn’t accept his treatment recommendations, but how he now holds space for people and comes from the place of serving the patient vs. treating them.
Trust is a major factor in any relationship. Have you ever experienced working with a dentist or hygienist that focuses on helping you get healthy (even if that means telling you things you may not want to hear) all while building your trust, because you can see in their eyes that they want the absolute best for your health?
Have you ever had dental work done so that when you are finished you want to climb to the top of a mountain and shout out everyone about it (or post it to all of your social media accounts)?
Believe it or not, some people have had positive life changing experiences in a dental office. Dr. Jonathan Abenaim of Jonathan Dental Spa talks with us today about the importance of finding the right team to trust when it comes to your dental needs and oral health concerns.
In an age where we are constantly feeling rushed, it’s refreshing to hear from a health care provider that prides himself and his team member’s stance on taking the time to build trust with the patients he sees. He shares what drives him to create a successful practice, and why he feels called to help other dentists treat people the way that he does.
If you’ve visited a dentist where you didn’t get the best vibe, or if you’ve worked in an office that you don’t love, then this podcast is for you! As we close out this year, let’s make it a point to work with professionals we trust moving forward, and let’s identify some key factors to consider before jumping in with treatment (or a job) you’ll be disappointed in.
You deserve to have a dental provider that you feel has your best interest in mind, and that only happens when someone takes the time to get to know you, not just treat you.
And, if you’re willing to give 100% to making your patients experience an amazing one, you too deserve to work with a team like this!
Dr Jonathans’ commitment to trust and good dentistry has propelled him into writing a book about creating an amazing team…and if you’re not the dental field, it’s still full of great insight on how to follow your “true north”, and do what’s right by yourself and others.
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