The mouth is your body’s front door—and yet, we’ve been taught to think of it as something to scrub, drill, fill. But what if your mouth isn’t something to fix but rather a universe that is crowded, chatty, and astonishingly alive?
Right now, billions of microbes are living on your teeth, gums, tongue, and in your saliva. They are working, fighting, cooperating, sending signals, shaping inflammation, influencing digestion, and helping determine whether your body moves toward resilience or disease.
In Spit, board-certified dentist and oral microbiome pioneer Dr. Staci Whitman pulls readers into this wildly underexplored universe and presents the new science and surprising links between the microbial menagerie on your tongue, teeth, and tonsils to dementia, fertility, diabetes, heart disease and cancer.
Spit is the answer.
