How Oral Health Impacts Your Whole Body | Ep 206
Unlocking the Mind-Mouth-Body Connection with Sheree ✨🦷💡
In this enlightening episode, Melissa is joined by Sheree, who shares her inspiring health journey and highlights the often-overlooked link between oral health and overall wellness. From her own experiences with cancer to her family’s health challenges, Sheree realized how the mouth plays a pivotal role in the body’s balance. She introduces her OWNER framework (Oxygen, Water, Nutrition, Enough Sleep, and Respecting the body) as a guide for holistic health, explaining how imbalances in these areas often manifest as oral symptoms.
Sheree dives into the significance of nasal breathing, sharing how mouth breathing can reduce oxygen intake and disrupt sleep, hormones, and gut health. She also explores oral development in children, including tongue ties and the benefits of myofunctional therapy. With practical tools like the Myomunchy and an emphasis on mindset, self-awareness, and modeling positive habits, this episode is packed with actionable advice. Sheree leaves listeners with an empowering message: trust your instincts and take proactive steps for better health today!
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Episode Summary:
Importance of the mind-mouth-body connection @ 0:00
Melissa and Sheree discuss the often overlooked connection between oral health and overall wellness. Sheree shares how her own health journey, including cancer and family members' experiences, led her to recognize the critical role of the mouth in the body's balance and function.
The OWNER framework for holistic health @ 4:03
Sheree introduces her book "OWNER", which stands for Oxygen, Water, Nutrition, Enough sleep, and Respecting the body. She explains how each of these elements is interconnected and essential for optimal health, and how imbalances in any of these areas can manifest as symptoms in the mouth.
Breathing and the impact on health @ 8:05
Sheree emphasizes the importance of nasal breathing, noting that mouth breathing can reduce oxygen intake by 18% and lead to a cascade of other health issues. She discusses how improper breathing patterns can contribute to sleep problems, hormonal imbalances, and gut dysbiosis.
Mindset and self-awareness @ 21:29
Sheree emphasizes the importance of mindset, self-awareness, and positive self-talk, both for personal wellbeing and in modeling healthy behaviors for children. She shares her own experiences of learning to be more mindful of her thoughts and language.
Oral development and myofunctional therapy @ 28:53
Sheree provides insights on how oral development and function, including tongue ties and chewing habits, can impact a child's overall growth, behavior, and long-term health. She recommends using tools like the myomunchy to help promote proper oral development and function from an early age.
Recap and call to action @ 39:49
Sheree summarizes the key takeaways from the discussion, emphasizing the importance of listening to one's instincts and not waiting for a "wake-up call" to address health concerns. She provides information on how listeners can connect with her for further guidance and support.
About the Guest:
Sheree Wertz is a passionate advocate for holistic health specializing in the often-overlooked mind-mouth-body connection. With expertise in myofunctional therapy and oral health, she bridges the gap between traditional and integrative approaches to wellness. Sheree’s work focuses on how breathing, sleep, and oral habits impact craniofacial development, behavior, and lifelong health. With years of experience, she empowers parents and professionals with actionable strategies to optimize health and prevent chronic issues from infancy through adulthood. Sheree’s insights inspire meaningful transformations, helping others take ownership of their health and unlock their potential.
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Melissa is an Integrative Health Practitioner and a Board Designated Trainer of NLP, Time Line Therapy®, Hypnotherarpy, and NLP Results Coaching, helping people get to the root cause of their health issues and then get lasting results. Melissa neither diagnoses nor cures but helps bring your body back into balance by helping discover your “toxic load” and then removing the toxins. Melissa offers functional medicine lab testing that helps you “see inside” to know exactly what is going on, and then provides a personalized wellness protocol using natural herbs and supplements. Melissa’s business is 100% virtual – the lab tests are mailed directly to your home and she specializes in holding your hand and guiding the way to healing so that you don’t have to figure it all out on your own.
Melissa has launched Amplify Impact Academy, with business partner, Billie Aadmi and together they train other coaches, practitioners and counsellors in the 4 mind-body healing modalities mentioned above, giving them powerful tools to use with clients to get results with greater ease, speed and grace. These courses teach life skills and anyone can take them, if you wanto be a better leader, parent, partner, be empowered in your own life, these courses are for you!
Melissa is the winner of the 2024 Women in Podcasting Awards in the “inspiration & motivation” category and the 2021 & 2022 Quality Care Award by Business From The Heart and is also the recipient of the Alignable “Local Business Person of the Year “Award 2022, 2023 & 2024 for Whistler.
Melissa has been featured at a number of Health & Wellness Summits, such as the Health, Wealth & Wisdom Summit, The Power To Profit Summit, The Feel Fan-freaking-tas-tic Summit, the Aim Higher Summit and many more! She has also guested on over 90 different podcasts teaching people about the importance of prioritizing our health and how to get started.
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