Wellness Dentistry: Oral Health for Longevity with Dr. Katie To

It started with a photo on a Facebook group. Not even her own patient, just someone's mouth that looked exactly like the mouths Dr. Tammy Holliday saw every single day in her chair. Episode overview: Dr. Katie sits down with her longtime friend and fellow biological dentist, Dr. Tammy Holiday of Holiday Dental Wellness in the Seattle area, for a conversation that moves from Tammy's own h...

A patient came in wearing Invisalign trays that hadn't been changed in months. Something felt off in her mouth. When Dr. Saba finally got her into the chair, she found a fungal infection growing on the tray itself. One rinse with ozone water and the patient felt relief she'd never felt from anything over the counter. That's the moment Dr. Saba knew there was more to dentistry than w...

Most parents already know they should be drinking more water, getting outside, and taking better care of themselves. Knowing that and actually doing it are two very different things, and that gap is exactly where this conversation lives. Dr. Katie sits down with Dr. Liz Garcia, a dentist and mom of three who took over her father's practice, Arbor Falls Dental and Wellness in Jackson, Michigan...

You're wearing a ring or a watch that tracks your heart rate variability, and you have no idea what the number actually means. Most people don't. They just know a higher score feels like winning and a lower one feels like something went wrong. Dr. Katie sat down with Salim, known online as That HRV Guy, live from the new space at the Center for Wellness Dentistry, and the conversation we...

Most people assume that if you're a professional athlete, your health is already dialed in. Cold plunges, red light therapy, personalized nutrition, elite sleep tracking. But there's one thing almost nobody on the team was looking at, and it turns out it might matter more than anyone realized. Dr. Chad Kasperowski has been the team dentist for the Washington Commanders for 17 seasons. He...

Dr. Katie recorded this one live at the Beyond Biohacking Conference, and she almost didn't get through her own introduction without gushing. She'd just spent three days in Scottsdale with her guest before this conversation even happened, and it showed. Sports chiropractor Dr. Sean Drake works with elite athletes and high performing executives, the kind of clients who fly across the coun...

At 24, Dr. Linty was told she had a 30% chance of surviving. A priest came to give her last rites. She said not today, and meant it. Episode overview: Dr. Linty is tell the story underneath everything she does in practice. What started as a childhood full of unexplained illness turned into a malaria diagnosis that spiraled into acute respiratory distress syndrome at 24 years old. The doctors ran o...

Dr. Jennifer Wu thought she was doing everything right. She was working out, training for half marathons, eating what she thought was a healthy diet, and going to her yearly wellness exams like clockwork. Then, in her third trimester, she walked out of an appointment with a preeclampsia diagnosis and blood pressure so high she was put on bed rest immediately. The delivery went fine. The blood pres...

Two of the most costly words you can say might just be "I forgot." That's what memory expert Jim Kwik tells Dr. Katie To in this episode, and once you hear why, you won't think about your brain the same way again. Jim Kwik has spent 14 years speaking at biohacking conferences around the world, and in this conversation with Dr. Katie, he lays out exactly what he teaches on stage...

For years, activated charcoal has been the default recommendation for anyone going through amalgam removal or heavy metal detox. It works, but it doesn't discriminate. It pulls out the good with the bad, leaving people dehydrated and depleted of the electrolytes their body actually needs. Dr. Katie's practice ran on activated charcoal for decades, until she found a cleaner way. Episode o...

Most dentists design their office once and live with it for years, without ever asking why certain rooms feel tense, why patients seem anxious the second they sit down, or why the team feels drained by 3pm even on a normal day. In this episode, Dr. Katie To sits down with Julia Kappler, CEO of Kappler Group and fourth-generation leader of an 80-year family design and millwork company, live at the...

Most patients leave the dental chair after amalgam removal and expect to feel better quickly. What they don't expect is two months of flu-like symptoms, fatigue, and a body that seems to be working harder than it did before the fillings came out. Nobody prepared them for that, and in most cases, nobody warned them it was coming. This episode is that conversation. Dr. Katie sits down with Dr....

What if the symptoms you've been chasing for years, the weight gain, the sleepless nights, the hormonal chaos, the autoimmune flares, were connected to something sitting quietly in your mouth? That's exactly the kind of question Dr. Jessica Peatross, MD built her entire practice around. And in this episode, she and Dr. Katie go deep on the thread that conventional medicine keeps dropping...

Keto Flex releases July 21st, 2026!   Go to: ketokamp.com/metabolic-freedom What if the fatigue, the stubborn weight, the brain fog, and the chronic inflammation you've been told are just "part of getting older" are actually one problem with one root cause?  That's what metabolic expert and bestselling author Ben Azadi has spent 18 years proving, and in this episode, he sat dow...

Most people in the biohacking world are doing everything right. They're tracking their labs, testing their sleep, optimizing their supplements, and building morning routines that would make most people's heads spin. And yet something keeps not landing the way it should. The energy isn't quite there. The inflammation markers won't budge. The cognitive clarity they're chasin...

Want to understand how your mouth is connected to your brain, your sleep, and your long-term health? This conversation is a good place to start. Register for Dr. Katie's free patient webinar: drkatieto.center/register Most parents do everything they can. No sugar, no dairy, organic snacks. And still, something feels off. Their child snores. Their tonsils are enlarged. Nobody at the pediatric...

Want to understand how your mouth is connected to your brain, your sleep, and your long-term health? This conversation is a good place to start. Register for Dr. Katie's free patient webinar: drkatieto.center/register What This Episode Is About Dr. Beena John started asking hard questions about Alzheimer's because her mother had it. What she found kept leading her back to the mouth, to m...

Ready to go deeper into your own wellness journey?  Join Dr. Katie's free weekly webinar at https://go.drkatieto.center/register Nine years ago, Lewis Olvera drove from Austin to Houston to film a charity smile makeover. He didn't ask to be paid. He just knew that what Dr. Katie was doing for that young father, a man in pain, afraid he couldn't work, afraid for his kids, was somethi...

Maybe you've watched someone you love slowly disappear, still physically present but no longer recognizing your face. For Dr. Beena John, that person was her mother, a sharp, health-conscious nurse who spent decades caring for others, and whose Alzheimer's diagnosis changed everything about how Dr. Beena practices dentistry. This conversation is about grief, yes, but more than that it&ap...

Have you ever felt like something was deeply wrong in your body, gone to doctor after doctor, and been told everything looks fine? That gap between "your labs are normal" and actually feeling well is exactly what this conversation is about. Dr. Katie sits down with her best friend and fellow clinician, Dr. Vi Ho, a biological endodontist who spent eight years fighting a mystery illness b...

If you've ever been told you need a dental implant and felt like the decision was already made for you, this conversation is going to change how you think about that moment. The truth is, not all implants are the same, not all patients are the same, and the best dental providers know the difference. Dr. Katie sits down with biological periodontist Dr. Rosalie Gulla for a conversation that is...

Most of us were taught that healing happens at the chair. Get the procedure, go home, recover. But if you've ever had a patient who did everything right and still didn't heal the way you expected, you already know there's more to the story. This conversation with Dr. Thomas Levy changed the way I think about what's actually happening beneath the surface, and why our patients ne...

🔗 Learn more at thewellnessdentist.com There is a moment, if you are honest with yourself, when you realize that success on paper and fulfillment in your body are two completely different things. Dr. Anthony Vu knows that moment well. He built a thriving seven-figure dental practice, had every marker of achievement, and still found himself sitting in a nice restaurant feeling hollow. This episode...

🔗 Learn more at thewellnessdentist.com Most people don't connect a failing dental bridge to memory loss, mast cell activation, or a potassium level so low their heart nearly stopped. But that's exactly what happened to Amy Wine a patient of Dr. Katie. In this episode of Wellness Dentistry: Oral Health for Longevity , Dr. Katie sits down with Amy Wine, licensed marriage and family therap...

🔗  Learn more at thewellnessdentist.com   Ready to experience dentistry that sees the whole you, not just your teeth? Explore holistic dental care, learn about the oral-body connection, and take your first step toward whole-body wellness. What if your dentist wasn't just looking at your teeth, but at your entire life? In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Brandon Prior, a startup practice own...