Many diseases and health problems that we – contemporary humans – consider to be largely unavoidable, such as acne vulgaris, a skin disorder that afflicts more than 90% of the adolescent population in some westernized countries, and malocclusion, a very common condition nowadays that is characterized by a misalignment of the upper and lower jaw, […]
Oral disorders
The Oral Disaster: How Carbohydrates Have Turned the Human Mouth Into a War Zone
In my recent article entitled 10 Reasons Why Grains Shouldn’t Be at the Bottom of the Food Pyramid I pointed out that the introduction of large quantities of cereal grains into the human diet with the Agricultural Revolution steered the human oral microbiome onto a new evolutionary path. From the perspective of Homo sapiens, this […]