In this episode, Dr Flass sits down with Dr Reed Thompson DDS, pediatric dentist and owner of Kalispell Kidds Dentistry.

If you have kids and are interested in getting some "inside information" about their oral health from a pediatric dentist, this episode is for you!

They discuss the importance of promoting good oral health and oral development in young children by proper early feeding and being mindful of the oral microbiome. The links between oral and gut microbiome and overall health is reviewed. They look at what good oral hygiene looks like for difference ages- brushing, flossing, types of toothpaste etc.

Dr Thompson and Dr Flass are both proponents of the "First Thousand Days" concept of pediatric health, and how optimizing a child's environment and diet from conception to age 3 really shapes their health for the rest of their life!

This episode really demonstrates that there is no health without good oral health.

Kalispell Kidds Pediatric Dental Office

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In this episode, we welcome a guest to the show, Jennifer Kingan who is a Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) and owner of Healthy Beginnings Pediatric Therapy. Healthy Beginnings is based in Kalispell, MT and has offices in Columbia Falls and Eureka and offers Speech, Occupational and Physical Therapy for kids.

We discuss what each of these areas of pediatric therapy offer and who might benefit from their services. Jennifer and Dr Flass have shared a number of patients over the years, and we discuss the crucial role for SLP in infants and children with feeding difficulties, as well as those with speech and sensory integration difficulties. We discuss the importance of catching feeding issues early, and how important it is for parents to seek help if they feel something isn't right with their child's eating pattern.

For parents who are curious about the potential benefits of pediatric therapy services, what is available, and what type of patients they serve, this episode is worth a listen.

For more information about the clinic, visit Healthy Beginnings at https://mtbeginnings.com/

For all things food related, check out Dr Flass' book on pediatric nutrition "Feeding Our Children" available on Amazon.

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Brittany and Tom do an overview of how Functional Medicine looks at thyroid function and dysfunction. We look at upstream and downstream impacts on thyroid function and how it affects our health.

Optimal thyroid function is important for our health, but often the problem is not with the thyroid gland itself, but other areas that are impacting the thyroid's ability to function.

Rather than just going straight to thyroid medication or a glandular supplement, a provider really needs to look at what could be affecting thyroid function- including nutritional deficiencies, toxic exposures, disturbances in the gut microbiome and leaky gut, autoimmune processes, as well as problems with the Six Pillars, especially sleep and stress!

This is meant to be an initial review to get people thinking about thyroid in a more functional holistic way.

#thyroid, #functionalmedicine, #hashimotos, #hypothyroid

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