How Spit Can Save the Day: Patti Milligan on the Secrets of Saliva
In this episode of Health Gig, Doro and Tricia welcome Patti Milligan, a clinical dietitian, to explore the often-overlooked role of saliva in digestion and overall health. Saliva not only aids in food breakdown but also reflects the state of our nervous system, stress levels, and emotional resilience. Patti discusses factors that can impact saliva production and highlights the importance of understanding the connection between nutrition and saliva health.
She offers practical strategies for managing saliva production, educating listeners on saliva’s potential as a non-invasive health marker. Her work demonstrates how targeted dietary changes and techniques can support saliva flow and overall health. She introduces a travel supplement kit designed to counteract the effects of jet lag and stress, showing how saliva research can lead to transformative outcomes across diverse groups. Ultimately, Patti’s insights suggest that optimizing saliva production can enhance both physical health and emotional resilience.
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“Your Saliva is Talking to You. Listen!” TedTalk - https://youtu.be/Ysipr1lDyuU?feature=shared
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qUOTES:
“There are foods that can naturally stimulate saliva flow, like citrus foods. Squeezing lemon or lime in water before a meal will help aid in saliva production.” –Patti Milligan
“We are uncovering that saliva can be used as a non-invasive way to measure health markers instead of drawing blood.” –Patti Milligan
“Our saliva plays a key role in our rest, digestion, sleep, and rejuvenation.” –Patti Milligan
Show Notes:
Patti Milligan, a clinical dietician, discusses the often-overlooked importance of saliva in nutrition and health. Her work emphasizes the connection between nutrition and saliva health, and she explains how saliva production is affected by various factors, including travel and stress, and highlights its role in digestion and overall well-being. Patti shares a compelling success story of a child with a failure to thrive diagnosis who improved significantly through dietary changes that increased saliva production.
Patti provides an explanation of the intricate relationship between saliva, the nervous system, and overall health, and supplies techniques for managing saliva production during travel, highlighting her travel supplement kit. Patti proposes that real-life applications of saliva research can change lives, offering insights into practical applications of this knowledge in various populations, including busy professionals, children in crisis, and the elderly.
Takeaways
Saliva, which is linked to the body's ability to recover and rejuvenate, plays a crucial role in digestion and overall health.
Travel can significantly reduce saliva production by 40%.
Certain foods can stimulate saliva production, aiding in digestion.
Saliva production is hardwired in the brain and linked to our nervous system, therefore stress impacts saliva flow, affecting our ability to digest food.
Breathing techniques can enhance saliva production.
Understanding saliva can improve care for the elderly.
First responders can benefit from saliva awareness in their work.
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