How Oral Health Impacts Total Well-Being with Dr. Felix Liao
Could Your Mouth Be the Missing Link to Better Health?
Most people think of oral health as simply taking care of their teeth—brushing, flossing, and visiting the dentist. But what if your mouth held the key to improving your sleep, energy, and overall health? In the first episode of The CIH Path to Wellness Podcast, Dr. Andrew Wong sits down with Dr. Felix Liao, a pioneer in biological dentistry, to explore the fascinating link between oral structure and whole-body wellness.
Meet Dr. Felix Liao
Dr. Felix Liao is a leading expert in biological dentistry and the mind-mouth-body connection. As the founder of the Whole Health Dental Center, he has spent over 30 years pioneering a holistic approach to oral health. Dr. Liao is the bestselling author of Six-Foot Tiger, Three-Foot Cage and Licensed to Thrive, where he explores how Impaired Mouth Syndrome can impact total wellness. His work bridges the gap between dentistry and medicine, helping patients achieve better health through oral structure and airway optimization.
Key Takeaways from the Episode
- The Mouth-Body Connection: Your mouth isn’t just about teeth—it plays a crucial role in breathing, circulation, posture, and overall health.
- What Is Impaired Mouth Syndrome? Dr. Liao explains how restricted airways and misaligned jaws can lead to sleep issues, fatigue, and chronic health conditions.
- Signs to Watch For: Teeth grinding, jaw tension, sleep apnea, and poor posture may all be linked to oral health.
- Beyond Dental Checkups: Even with straight, white teeth, you could have structural mouth impairments affecting your wellness.
- A Holistic Approach to Oral Health: Functional dentistry bridges the gap between medical and dental care, treating root causes instead of symptoms.
- Practical Tips: Dr. Liao shares simple ways to assess your own oral health, plus diet and breathing strategies to improve function.
- The Future of Healthcare: Why oral health should be a key focus in integrative medicine and how it can transform overall well-being.
Key Timestamps for Quick Access
- [02:15] – Introduction to Dr. Felix Liao and the mouth-body connection
- [07:45] – What is Impaired Mouth Syndrome and its impact on health
- [14:30] – Signs and symptoms of structural mouth impairments
- [22:10] – The role of airway health in energy and sleep
- [30:00] – Practical self-checks and at-home assessments
- [38:45] – How functional dentistry bridges the gap in healthcare
- [45:00] – Final thoughts and key takeaways from Dr. Liao
Practical Steps for Better Oral Health
- Daily Habits: Practice proper tongue posture, nasal breathing, and mindful chewing to support airway function.
- Nutrition Matters: Incorporate nutrient-dense foods that support jaw development and oral structure.
- Assess Yourself: Check for signs of Impaired Mouth Syndrome using the tips shared by Dr. Liao.
- Work with an Expert: Seek out an airway-focused or biological dentist to address underlying issues.
Listen Now and Take Control of Your Health
Dr. Liao’s insights offer a powerful new perspective on whole-body health—starting from the mouth. If you’ve been experiencing fatigue, poor sleep, or chronic health concerns, your oral health may be the missing link.
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Full Episode Transcript
Below is the full transcript of the episode with Dr. Felix Liao. Please note that this transcript has been edited for clarity and readability.
Andrew Wong (00:53)
Dr. Felix, thank you so much for being on the Path to Wellness podcast. So happy to have you here today.
Felix Liao (00:58)
Delighted. Thank you for having me.
Andrew Wong (01:01)
So Dr. Felix, you are a leading expert in mouth health, and today we’re really talking about unlocking whole health and wellness through the mouth-body connection. How does oral health really impact overall wellness? And you’re an expert in this field, so we’re really, really excited to take a deep dive today into oral health, the concept of impaired mouth syndrome, and its impact on health. What inspired you, first of all, to
focus on the mind, body, and mouth connection in your work.
Felix Liao (01:35)
Yeah, so thank you for this opportunity.
Okay, so thank you for this opportunity. Oral health is a whole lot more than just teeth and gums. All right, so we’re used to going to dentists and have the hygienist and the dentist tell us about dental checkups. But the mouth is a whole lot more than teeth and gums. So the difference between the mouth and teeth and gums is huge. And that difference has been missing in healthcare. So I have seen a lot of patients who’s got a long string of good medical checkups, a long string of dental checkups, and yet they’re still miserable. And they have straight white teeth and they feel terrible. Okay. So that’s what I’m talking about.
Don’t get me wrong, clean gums and healthy sound natural teeth is the beginning. Okay, it’s foundational. But we can build from there and use sound natural teeth to solve this problem called impaired mouth syndrome. So the best way to describe impaired mouth syndrome is to think of a mouth as an accordion. An accordion can expand in three dimensions.
So when you open your mouth, look into a bathroom mirror and look at their tongue space between your upper and lower jaw. Your lower jaw should be wide enough for your tongue to fit inside your lower back teeth. So when you open your mouth, the tongue should fit inside. If your tongue sits on top of your lower back teeth, you have an impaired mouth.
Felix Liao (03:16)
If you see tooth prints on the sides of your tongue, you got an impairment. You have tongue cut, you got an impairment. You have TMJ, you got an impairment. You grind your teeth. Those are all signs of impairment. Okay? And also on the facial feature, we see that. So in the impairment, you should think of it as a, like a polio of the head. Okay? So when you have polio, you walk funny, right? Well, when you have polio of your,facial skeleton, your head is gonna function funny, like off balance, right? So it’s a major disruptor that is not on the healthcare map. And so we’re happy that Dr. Wong has seen fit to bring this to everyone’s attention.
So did I answer your question?
Andrew Wong (04:08)
Thank you. Yes. Yes. So just to recap and just to make sure that, you know, myself and the listeners understand. So impaired mouth is where there’s not enough space in the mouth for health. Okay.
Felix Liao (04:20)
Yes.So I wrote a book called Six Foot Tiger, Three Foot Cage. And the tiger represents a tongue. And obviously the cage represents the two jaws that are underdeveloped during your growth year so that your tongue is shut down your throat because there’s not enough room in
Andrew Wong (04:38)
So not enough room in the mouth, impaired mouth syndrome. How common is this syndrome?
Felix Liao (04:43)
Oh, so the more educated the doctor and the dentist is, the more prevalent it becomes. So in my practice, it’s 100 % because all those patients end up in my office. The doctors that I have trained, I have surveyed them and I said, well, what percentage of your patients, my 30s have clicking jaw joints and they have had neck, shoulder, back pain. And the answer is over 95%. Okay.
Medical problems have dental issues which never gets connected on the consequences and dental patients have medical issues, same thing. And so you have a large, up to 95 % of patients who are like orphans between the medical world.
Andrew Wong (05:31)
You might even say that, you know, with the connection between the mind and body being the breath, the connection between medical health and dental health being the mouth.
Felix Liao (05:39)
Well said. is so the anatomists, anatomy professors in medical school and dental school say that the mouth is considered a visceral cranium. So the cranium is where the home of the brain is, right? And the viscera is where your gut is, right? And guess what? The mouth is the bridge between the brain and the gut. That makes perfect sense, right? That’s how the body’s structurally organized.
So it’s not just food, it’s not just drink, okay? It’s also air and sleep and structure against gravity.
Andrew Wong (06:16)
95 % seems pretty high, Dr. Felix. Can you explain and teach us, you just taught us what is impaired mouth syndrome. What actually causes impaired mouth syndrome? You know, we’re always about root cause and.
Felix Liao (06:29)
No, I totally get it that, so whatever number you want to put it, it’s fine. You want to call it 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, it’s all fine because it depends on what your eyes are trying to see, okay? So I’m saying that at the elite level of dentists who are trained in Paramount syndrome, they see it in 95%, okay? So if you ask the general nurse what percentage of their patients grind their teeth,
Most of them would say 50 to 60%. The higher the percentage, the better the diagnostic eye, if you will. All right, so let me just name some of the leading symptoms that came from a structural impairment that comes from living with having a six-foot tiger in your three-foot cage. So dentally, you would have teeth grinding, jaw clicking, you have persistent dental sensitivity, gum recessions, you would have one dental trouble after another, broken tooth, broken nose, implants, failed implants. It gets really expensive, okay? Now, on the medical side, you have obviously sleep apnea. You get hypoxia-related symptoms, right? So, what’s sleep apnea? Airway obstruction. You have a truck that their way, you have low oxygen supply to the body. Now from there, a whole host of problems happens, right? From high blood pressure to small intestine overgrowth issues, to leaky gut, to stuffy nose, to ENT problems, to depression, anxiety, brain fog, and the inability to come back once you get sick. So once…
You know, you get hit with something you’re down for the count and you don’t ever quite.
So that’s the medical side. Seasonal affective disorders. I’ve treated that and I’ve gotten people off entire anxiety medications and antidepressants because now they can sleep, now they can breathe without interrupting their sleep. So mentally irritability, unexplained hostility, I mean every medical office and then our office have seen that from their patients, Moodyness, this is not mental but PMS, even erectile dysfunction, they’re all related to this. So the mouse influence to the whole body is global, it’s not just local, it’s not just teeth and gums, okay? The mouse is the major energy supplier to all the vital organs.
The hearts and the brains are fed by what? Energy from the mouth. Yeah. So that’s why this is so global. And then you understand how all these medical, dental, and mental symptoms can stem from the mouth. You can see why that number is 95%. Also, you look to see, you know, one of the manifestations of an undeveloped mouth is this. How many people have had crowded teeth or braces or teeth pulled for braces and space is closed, right? So that’s why this percentage is as high as I-Nation. But even if you lower that by 30%, it’s still a huge problem. And it’s missing on the healthcare map because any medical center and every medical center is missing the department.
Andrew Wong (10:09)
There needs to be a DOM, yes, Department of the Mouth. Thank you.
Felix Liao (10:13)
You got it. Yeah, there needs to be a department of them.
Andrew Wong (10:16)
Department of Medicine, Department of the Mouth. Dr. Felix, so if patient came to you and was like, well, you know, okay, I think I have impaired mouth, I have some fatigue, I have some sleep apnea, I have some dental issues, you know, things like that. But what was the root cause of why people get impaired mouth syndrome? Why do people…
Felix Liao (10:18)
Yeah. Good thinking. Yeah, okay. Very good thinking. All right, so, unfortunately, there was a history of division between medicine and dentistry. All right, so, teeth and mouth don’t exist in medical doctors. I wouldn’t say mine, but they did practice, okay? And dentists, they’re programmed to just look at teeth with tunnel vision.
Silo mentalities came from here. so until you have a doctor like Dr. Wong who can see mind, body, mouth, and airway and chi and gravity, okay, this is gonna be a problem. So the origin is in the medical doctor and the dentist training, the division between medicine and dentistry. Number two, agricultural practices that led to processed food, fast food, and convenience foods. We don’t chew like the way we’re meant to chew. It’s like you got two legs and you’re couch potato. What do think that’s gonna happen to your structure? And so if you don’t chew, then your jaw’s gonna shrink and your face’s gonna shrivel and your airway’s gonna…and then you eat the wrong stuff and you get obesity, your tongue swells and now you have a six foot tiger. Okay.
So, and the other part is that when children are growing up, because the mouth does not exist in medical school.
No one is looking at the mouth. No one is looking at how the face grows. Everybody just accepts, when Junior has quality, there’s the order not to straighten the teeth. And that is not nearly good enough as a goalpost in terms of health. It’s okay for smile and social media appearances, but for internal health, for foundational health.
So did I answer that question?
Andrew Wong (12:24)
Yes, I’m curious about your recommendations given the modern agriculture, ultra-processed foods. What kind of diet or nutrition, I know you have this in probably all of your books, certainly the License to Thrive book, what kind of nutrition do you recommend for whole mouth and whole body health?
Felix Liao (12:42)
Yes, thank you. Very important, you are what you eat in addition to how your body aligns with gravity and how your airway lines up with your jaws and your head. So in terms of the diet, will answer you more specifically. I am all about whole food diet, fresh homemade cooking.
So I recommend Dr. Stephen Lin’s Dental Diet Book. It’s a modern version of Dr. Weston A. Price’s monumental book called Nutrition and Physical Degeneration. Dr. Lin’s book is a modern version of that. And Dr. Weston A. Price’s work was so crucial that Sally A. Fallon Juan wrote a book called Nourishing Traditions, wonderful book. And in there she talked about bone broth and fish stock, and that’s the best from the animal kingdom. I recommend bone building diet. That’s mentioned in my license to thrive book, which is bone broth plus green smoothies. Green smoothies is the best from the planking.
Okay, so the presence of minerals from the bone broth and gelatin as a precursor for collagen. And you combine that with bioflavonoids from the plant, from the green smoothies. Now the body has the ingredients it needs to make bone and a heoleaky gut. and reduce stuffy nose, and now the airway is open. Now the physiology starts to come back online. This is how you get back to health. Roostly and open airway. And we regrow the jaw with a new kind of expanders called epigenetic appliances. Epigenetics means something really profound. It means it’s not the doctors doing things to you.
So I know that in your practice, Dr. Andrew, you coach your patients on what they need to do for their own health. Well, as a contrast in orthodontics, those of you who have had that done, or if you’ve had cavity fixed, you know it’s a doctor performing the procedure. Epigenetics is very different. Epigenetics is the patient doing what? oral behavior and oral environment can do to influence gene expression. So epi means on top. on of genes. Okay, so there are factors that we can do to influence gene expression.
So for example, if I was a couch potato and I got the message from Dr. Wong that, hey, I need to do something, exercise and eat right, and I start doing that, I can turn from a couch potato into a what? A swimmer’s body type or a power lifter or a figure skater or a dancer’s figure, right? So the body can respond to what we do with classical form and function. in epigenetics, which is study of how two things influence gene expression, behavior and So I apply that to the mouth and now we’re able to grow the jaws. So you have scrunched face, crowded teeth. Regardless of age, we can regrow your jaws using the epigenetic.
Andrew Wong (16:14)
That’s exciting, it’s regenerative medicine.
Felix Liao (16:16)
It’s really exciting and it’s regenerative not according to the doctor but according to the genes that you inherited from your parents. And every one of us is genetically programmed to have a jaw that’s wide enough for all the teeth to take their proper place, meaning line up straight. And when that happens, you do not have a six-foot tiger in a three-foot cage. You have a six-foot home for a six-foot comb.
Everybody lives happily ever after.
Andrew Wong (16:46)
Exactly. And your work really does sound like it aligns with the broader goals of integrative functional biological medicine because the mouth is really, like you said, connecting.
Felix Liao (16:53)
yes, yes. And the mouth has to work for the rest of the body to work. If you think about it, I can see your wheels turning. If you think about it, we all come into this world with a cry and a feeding and then asleep, right? The cry inflates the lungs to start breathing, process outside mommy’s tummy and a feeding obviously, you know, starts to feed the baby to grow and you sleep in order to convert the food into energy and energy is what power grows as newborns, right? You repeat the cycle of feeding and sleeping and feeding and sleeping. We grow from the mouth. So the mouth is to humans what roots are to plants. All right. We literally are an upside down plant and our roots is up here, not down there. And so the mouth role as a chief energy supplier to rest the body never changes through our life. And now you’re no longer stuck in a three foot cage. That’s what’s exciting about it with epigenetics.
Andrew Wong (18:04)
Would you say, because we always like to say here at Capital Integrated Health, to be the CEO of your own health, but maybe the mouth is the CEO of the body, the chief energy organizer. Operating, chief energy operator, yes.
Felix Liao (18:15)
operating officer. Yeah, yeah.
So, so very interesting that epigenetics is study of two things, right? The mouth behavior and mouth environment, right? What’s, let’s talk about the mouth as a, as a admission office between the outer environment, okay, the macro world where your supermarket, your farms, and Mother Earth comes inside you, right?
And so your internal environment is where your health comes from. So in Chinese language, I’m from Taiwan and every school kid knows this folk proverb, disease enters by mouth, disasters also exit by mouth. How many words do you wish you hadn’t spoken, right? You wish you could get back, right? So the mouth really largely determines your quality of life and largely determines your health. So it’s because it’s the admission office between the outer environment and the inner.
Andrew Wong (19:16)
And just to piggyback on that, functional medicine approach, right, having the gut being the center of where to start with health and of course the mouth is the first part of the gut.
Felix Liao (19:17)
yes, but functional medicine starts with what you do with your mouth.
That’s where the initiative, the proactive part is. Because after that, the gut can only react to what the mouth has swallowed.
Andrew Wong (19:43)
Yes, Dr. Felix, I know you mentioned how important and critical and essential sleep is to both oral health, oral health, but also overall wellness. What are your general recommendations for, for sleep? And then I have a second question, which is how do you treat someone that comes in with sleep apnea?
Felix Liao (20:01)
Sure. Okay. So sleep essentially is a Yin-Yang function. So yang in Chinese medicine is day. It’s activity. What’s yin? Night, rest, regeneration, recharge. So sleep, even though when you look at somebody who is sleeping, is very peaceful on the surface, the body is actually very busy under the surface. The cleaning crew is out what we call regenerative or parasympathetic functions are really in full blast. Okay. And all of that depends on energy. Now, is the energy that you use during the day to go and do things, get things done and get from here to there is now diverted to restoring the wear and tear that the body get imposed on during the day. So, the repair crew is out in force while you’re sleeping. And this repair depends on one thing, which is uninterrupted oxygen supply. And when your airways choke, your body is going to have to do something not only to drop all the cleaning and maintenance functions that it normally should do. Now it’s fighting for its…
We were struggling to stay alive because when you have a choked airway, because you start out with a narrow jaw and narrow airway. When you’re sleeping, your whole body relaxes and the mouth is a bunch of muscles framing around a pair of jaws. And those muscles relax. And in deep sleep, it becomes somewhat nearly paralyzed and now the tongue falls into the throat like the airway.
So you need to start out with a wide open airway and then it will close down some, then the body is designed to get past that deep sleep where we have partial paralysis. And that’s when really the recharge function takes place and the heart gets a little rest there. So you need deep sleep in order to be ready for the yang activities for the next day. during the yin, hours from 1030 on to about 730 in the morning is when your sleep hygiene needs to be in order and your body needs to be at rest because growth hormones are released during the hours of darkness. And the hours of darkness is when you need to be sleeping, not surfing the internet or answering your social media posts.
So did I answer your question?
Andrew Wong (22:43)
Yes, actually as you were talking, thank you, it made me think about even people that don’t have sleep apnea but they chronic insomnia. And I wonder if they have an impaired airway as the actual route-
Felix Liao (22:52)
Yes, absolutely. Your body knows that it’s going to confront death, so why would I want to go to sleep? Yeah, yeah.
Andrew Wong (23:00)
Safety, survival, we all need oxygen. If we have an impaired airway, we’re not getting oxygen, we won’t feel safe, then we can’t sleep. Got it.
Felix Liao (23:07)
Yeah. And there many people wake up tired. Maybe they have sore jaws and headaches. That’s all because there are all crime scene investigation clues that says, you know, you have obstructed their way and your body struggled through the night. Yeah, you made it to the morning, but you paid a price last night. And this goes on for the day.
Andrew Wong (23:28)
CSI mouth episode. And you’re someone that goes in that crime scene and fixes it or corrects the mouth, right?
Felix Liao (23:37)
Yes, we pick up on all these clues. We pick up on these clues in the history, in the in-person physical evaluations, and we look at their head and neck posture. We look at how they stand against gravity. We have a grid, sort of like my background in the office. Lest the flowers and you stand in front of the grid and we know how your posture lines up against gravity. Because you know if you don’t have the right structure to resist the pull of gravity, which is a downward force that never stops pulling us toward the grave. That’s why it’s called gravity. This force, it can only be resisted if you have a structure that’s level and square. And if you look at someone who is not level and square,
You’re gonna be tired, you’re have pain, you’re gonna be exhausted, and you’re exhausted for a long time, you’re gonna have fatigue and depression. Yeah. I believe your postural alignment is a prerequisite for good sleep and wide open airway. So we never just treat a narrow airway and jaws would crowded teeth with just an appliance. We always work integratively with physicians and other healthcare professionals to start with a mouth but lined up head, jaw, and spine. Okay, if you feel you have that autonomic nervous system, your autopilot that, you know, manages a cleaning crews at night, it’s not gonna be working.
It’s gonna get in stress signals from your body, major joints all the time.
Andrew Wong (25:30)
Yeah. Yeah. Like the plane is not flying right. It’s tilted. it’s going to pass. Yeah. Yeah. Dr. Felix, can you share an example of a patient transformation that you’ve seen in your practice? I know you’ve been practicing for many years, have a lot of experience. Is there a case to me that stands out in terms of just like, you know, especially for our listeners, how would this kind of treating impaired mouth syndrome, improving oral health in this really more holistic way really improve someone’s health?
Felix Liao (26:09)
Okay, so I can tell you that very typically the head, neck, and shoulder back pain, 80 to 100 % of it goes away routinely. Routinely, okay? So the mouth contribution to whole body health is really surprisingly huge. So when your dental midlines are off, when you look in the bathroom there, when your dental midlines are off, you’re gonna have some pain.
Most of that in the absence of car accidents or sports injuries is going to be coming from Yama. The most extreme examples I have seen, there two. One is a Seasonal Affective Disorder, young lady. Both mom and the daughter have this condition and for which they’re on medication. And the young lady was sent to me for evaluation and I did my workout and I figured out what we needed to do here. This is after braces. She has straight teeth. And so after we treated this for about two years. Her face developed into a much fuller face and her airway grew and very early on, like six months in, she started getting her medication backed off. And one year later, she was completely off with Wellbutrin and Lexi Pro. 100 % off, okay? So, asleep is a way to get off a lot ofElective medications that you know, you can it’s not in severe cases. You don’t have to rely on medication and another even more extreme case is when I had young lady who reached out to me from the other half of the world Perth, That’s like the San Francisco United States in Australia. And she said, you know, I read your book, Six Foot Tiger and Three Foot Cage and I wonder if you can help me because my pain is so bad here that I want to kill myself several times. It was the height of the pandemic, so her coming to the United States or me going to Australia to see her is not even remotely possible. So I recruited her local dentist who happens to know a little bit about, know enough about orthodontics that he could be helpful.
And so long story short, we pull her back from the brink of suicide because one, we took away her pain. So the jaw position and the bad bite can really produce a lot of pain in the head, neck and shoulders and low back even. So that’s taken away and now she can sleep better. And then we gradually grew epigenetically her jaw. She had had four teeth taken out for braces about 25 years earlier and she’d been miserable ever since. And so now we grew her to the point where she’s resuming a normal life. Yeah. So, and there are all kinds of people whose, you know, hip pain went away, their depression, their anxiety, brain fog got better. erectile dysfunction, return to normal. Life becomes good after their mouth gets fixed.
Andrew Wong (29:43)
Yeah, to get more oxygen. Yeah, I feel like everyone has brain fog, you know, that that’s something where Are there any simple steps dr. Felix that that listeners can take today that are didn’t listen to this here To improve their mouth body connection What kind of practical tips would you would you say maybe kind of related to that? I’ll just add on to that
Andrew Wong (30:03)
Is there any way that, you know, would they be able ask their doctor, hey, do I have impaired mouth syndrome? You know, how would they even know? can there’s something they can do at home to figure out, hey, do I have, do I have this condition?
Felix Liao (30:14)
Yeah, okay, so very good question. Do I have this condition? We have a self-survey. It’s called impaired mouth syndrome score. It basically takes an inventory of your physical, mental, and medical and dental conditions. And we’ll be able to connect the dots for each patient. and that form is available on my website, Whole Health Dental Center and the other thing you can do is find an integrative health physician like Dr. Wong who will coach you on the mind-body-mouth connections because you need a medical director for your overall health. we, so I’m an airway mouth doctor or AMD for short, and I work with physicians like Dr. Wong to improve overall health through diet, alignment, breathing, circulation, digestion, energy, and sleep. So the mouth actually participates in all those conditions and what you can do is listen to Dr. Wong’s advice and influence your whole body health through mouth behavior as much as you can. That means diet, sleep,sleep hygiene, start to wind down around nine or 10 o’clock, so you’re asleep by 11. And you sleep until seven in the morning. That is the optimal body clock cycle. In Western medicine, it’s called circadian rhythm. And definitely exercise appropriately according to your condition. Eat a bone building diet because you know, osteoporosis, right? American women take more calcium supplements than the rest of the world. We have more osteoporosis than anybody else, right? Go figure. Well, the body draws calcium out of bones and teeth as a reservoir for calcium when it’s acidic. So do things that you’re not acidic. And how do you do that? Make sure you can breathe, right?
So respiratory acidosis, what physicians deal with in ER and ICU all the time, right? And eat a bone building diet, which is rich in minerals and bioflavonoids. And those are electron donors that will balance out the acid doses. So your body doesn’t have to pull calcium out of your bones and your teeth. So, and get yourself evaluated whether or not you are living with a straw for an airway instead of a Mississippi River. Right? Because why struggle? I mean, you don’t want to go through life driving a car that’s like a lemon. All right. So if you have impairment syndrome, it’s exactly like going through life driving a lemon for a car. You try everything else you can as a good driver, but your car sputters because you have a choked airway here as a result of underdeveloped jaws or having teeth pulled for braces.
Andrew Wong (33:32)
So you want to go from a lemon car to a Lamborghini, something like that.
Felix Liao (33:36)
Well, you know, you’ll be surprised as soon as the body gets some oxygen, it can sleep well. Now you can start.
Andrew Wong (33:45)
It’s such a missing piece, especially when you’re just saying about making the connection between, you we know about oral health and heart health, brain health, but you know, bone health with that acidosis.
Felix Liao (33:56)
Yeah, it’s huge. And also just the oxygen so that your body feels good and you don’t have to do stress eating to compensate for feeling terrible. You know, like you need to reach for dark chocolate, coffee with sugar and cream, your donuts, your grapes, your raisins, your whatever that you need to do the so-called power through. If you had a good night’s sleep, you don’t need to power through anything. Your tank will be full when you’re it’ll be enough to carry you through that.
Andrew Wong (34:27)
those carb cravings, those quick snacks, it sounds like what you’re saying, Dr. Felix, those are your body’s cries for energy that you should have gotten from a good night’s sleep from that open airway.
Felix Liao (34:38)
You bet. And instead of sleeping with your maintenance crews doing their things naturally, physiologically, your body’s, you know, fighting cold blue, cold blue. Cold blue is what hospital does when it pulls out the crash car because the patient is turning blue, right? Your body is resuscitating itself with teeth grinding. How can you rest and recharge? And I’ve seen so many patients who come to me and said, I wake up when I ask them, how many times do you wake up a week feeling refreshed? Zero. Well, how long has it been this way? I can’t remember. It’s been so long. So this is a, you you’re running on fumes. No matter what supplement you take, it’s not going to be enough.
Andrew Wong (35:29)
And Dr. Felix, you see patients from all around the world. It sounds like you can see people locally here, but also nationally, internationally, you could see people because you can work with their local dentist if someone’s listening to this that’s not in the DMV area. Got it.
Felix Liao (35:35)
Yes. That’s right, that’s right.
I had a patient from Tasmania and we, you I saw her in a dentist office who was licensed locally in Honolulu. I can do that flying everywhere, but we can, you know, as patients are individual case requires, trained dentists and become a local provider.
Andrew Wong (36:07)
So thank you Dr. Felix for coming on today. We really appreciate you really making that connection for us between mouth health, medical health, dental health, really whole body health. Definitely want to learn more about your work and resources. If you could just share with the audience here some of the websites or other resources you have on the media or elsewhere.
Felix Liao (36:24)
sure. So for your patients who are looking for airway mouth doctors, are dentists who has additional training and added skill set to regrow your jaws, to fix your teeth grinding and choke their way. The website is called holisticmouthsolutions.com.
So it’s the mouth is holistic by nature because it mediates alignment, breathing circulation, like you’re saying, energy and sleep. So that’s why it’s called HolisticMouthSolutions.com. So there the dentist could get information on what an AMD does and what the training involves. For laypeople, I recommend two mini books. They are 90 pages on purpose, and there are about 70 slides in each book. One is for adults. It’s called, Relaunch Your Vitality. It’s an easy read, and you can familiarize yourself with both the science and the clinical outcome of this epigenetic.
By the way, I love my job because all the women come back looking more beautiful. All the guys are just happier, okay? SSo the next second book is, I would recommend, it’s called Your Child’s Best Face. So with epigenetics, we now have an option to be proactive so that you don’t have to wait until your kid has crowded teeth before you send them off with braces. you can actually be growing your child’s face as Dr. Mom under the guidance and supervision of your airway mouth doctor. And this is how we get ahead of all the problems we talked about earlier in this segment, right? All the symptoms is the result of this mouth being structurally impaired. So when we see the mouth, we need to kind of translate our thinking in our heads from oral health to mouth structure as a lemon or as a Lamborghini. You want that to be really powerful and it could race on demand or it could cruise based on what your daily work schedule and life demand is. So you want your body to be responsive.
So the response, ableness, disability is largely driven or limited by how your mouth and your airway is.
So both of those can be influenced in your child’s children’s case proactively. So that’s why I recommend your child’s best face. And for adults who are suffering those symptoms and wonder where is the key to get me out of the prison of suffering I’m in, well, you can read, relaunch your vitality. They’re both available.
Andrew Wong (39:17)
Thank you, Dr. Felix, for coming on today. So holistic mouth solutions dot com and also whole health dental center dot com right here at Falls Church, but also around the world. The mouth is your driver of it sounds like the mouth is the driver of your epigenetic destiny. Yes.
Felix Liao (39:38)
Yes, absolutely. And you now have an option. You don’t have to be a sitting duck.
Andrew Wong (39:52)
You can be proactive, not reactive with your health. We’re so glad you’re here. Looking forward to connecting more with you, both on Zoom, but also in person and to continue to work to build our community’s health and healthy mouths as well.
Felix Liao (39:55)
Yes. So if I can add one parting word, that would be in doctors like Dr. Andrew Wong here who are into integrative medicine, you have a treasure. They’re so far ahead of their fellow medical school classmates in their forward thinking, in their holistic mindset. It’s rare, it’s refreshing, and like I said, it’s a treasure.
Andrew Wong (40:34)
Thank you, Dr. Felix. You are a powerful inspiration that I think we all aspire to be like you too. You’re very balanced, you’re very humble, and you’re such an achiever, but also a pioneer and a teacher. So we really appreciate you and we’re grateful for you.
Felix Liao (40:50)
Thank you. Like I said, I love my job because all the women come back looking more beautiful and all the children, they have gorgeous faces.
Andrew Wong (40:58)
everyone gets a smile on their face. Well, and it’s a true inner smile and a true inner body.
Felix Liao (41:03)
Right, it’s not a cosmetic
Andrew Wong (41:05)
its whole body. So thank you so much again for coming on. We’ll talk to you again soon.
Felix Liao (41:11)
Thank you so much. Enjoyed it.
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