Oral Health and Overall Health – Reliable, easy-to-understand health insights and wellness guidance to support a healthier, more balanced life.
Oral Health and Overall Health explores the strong connection between oral health and the overall functioning of the body. This category highlights how conditions in the mouth such as gum disease, infections, and inflammation can influence or be influenced by systemic diseases like diabetes, heart disease, respiratory conditions, and autoimmune disorders.
It provides evidence-based insights into how maintaining good oral hygiene contributes to better whole-body health, and how underlying medical conditions can impact dental health outcomes.
You learn about the bidirectional relationship between oral and systemic diseases, risk factors that link them, preventive strategies, and the importance of integrated care between medical and dental professionals.
Whether you’re managing a chronic illness or aiming to improve overall wellness, this category helps you understand why oral health is a key part of full-body health and long-term disease prevention.
One common worry among new mothers is that they do not produce enough milk; however, there are foods that boost breast milk, and they are Nigerian foods. These foods help to increase the amount of prolactin and oxytocin – the hormones that influence breast milk production in the female body. [ninja_tables id=”44594″] Breast milk is …
Ehuru is a plant popular for its seed, used as nutmeg in many African dishes and for medicinal purposes, mostly related to the stomach; which has raised concern about the relationship between ehuru and pregnancy. Also, the fact that it is used, in traditional medicine, to improve male reproductive function, and directly influences pregnancy, makes …
[ninja_tables id=”44404″] Here in Nigeria, living with HIV/AIDS is more saddening than in the western world; which is why there are Heart to Heart Centers in Abuja and every state of the federation, to help people living with HIV/AIDS get the right information and moral support. Heart to heart Centers are in different states of …
Many wild plants possess medical and health benefits and one of such is Phyllanthus amarus, locally called Eyin Olobe in the Southwestern part of Nigeria. It is also called Ngwu by the Igbos, Mache Dagooyo by the Hausas, and Oyomokeso Amanke Edem in Efik. It is commonly used to relieve pain and inflammation in traditional …
Combo drink is an effective and affordable means of treating fertility and infection issues that may plague an individual or couple. Fertility is important in a union that wishes to produce children; however, there is a high possibility that conception will hardly take place if there is an infection issue in the man or woman. …