Monday Feb 24, 2020
022-Protecting Our Public Health with Sharity Ludwig
On this week’s Protecting our Public Health Podcast Sharity is joined by fellow Dental Podcast Network host, Katy Cameron who co-hosts Reflection Health Podcast. Katy and Sharity discuss Children's Dental Health, highlighting nutritional aspects of Oral Health.
Episode Highlights:
- Katy’s professional background
- Key Nutrition for Pregnant Women
- Animal sourced Vitamin A
- Liver - the one stop shop
- Folate vs. Folic Acid
- Batch Cooking
Quotes:
“ Vitamin A and Folate are crucial for fetal development”
“What we can see that with this deficiency we start to see things like tongue ties and neural tube defects”
“We are talking about two differrent types of vitamin A here”
“I am always known as the liver girl”
“We can find basically everything we need in the liver alone”
“Work with your local farmers and ranchers”
“Vitamin D and K2 are super important for how the jaw and teeth develop”
“Folate deficiency is linked with several birth defects including oral facial development, cleft lip and palate and tongue ties”
“Folic acid is not the real form of folate, our body doest recognize it, and in fact it blocks the folate receptor sites”
Links:
A Tale of Two Hygienists episode 169:
Sharitys Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/sharetherdhlove/
National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center Website:
The Dental Podcast Network Channel One homepage: http://dentalpodcastnetworkchannelone.otcpn.libsynpro.com/
The Dental Podcast Network Channel Two homepage:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dental-podcast-networks-channel-two/id1478530429