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: the relationship between your dental health, your hormones, and the symptoms nobody's been able to explain.

Dr. Jess is a functional medicine physician who made a decision that most doctors would never consider. She surrendered her California medical license rather than practice medicine in a way that violated her values. What followed was two years of uncertainty, a fresh start in Florida, and ultimately a thriving virtual practice where she now works alongside a team of physicians trained in her methodology. Her story is one of the most honest accounts of what it actually costs to stand by your clinical integrity, and what's possible on the other side of that choice.

This conversation covers a lot of ground, but it keeps coming back to one central idea: the body is a connected system, and when you treat it in pieces, you miss the picture.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Why Dr. Jess checks for silently infected root canals on every mystery patient intake, and what she's found hiding behind symptoms like infertility, lupus, and unexplained autoimmunity
• How each tooth sits on a meridian connected to an organ system, and why dental health belongs in every functional medicine workup
• Why nervous system regulation has to come before any detox protocol, and what happens when practitioners skip that step
• What Dr. Jess's daily non-negotiables are, and the simple sweating practice she says is one of the most underrated detox tools available to anyone

Dr. Katie brings her own lens to this conversation too. As a biological dentist who came to wellness dentistry through her own mercury toxicity, she knows firsthand how the mouth can quietly drive systemic illness in ways that take years to surface. Hearing a functional medicine physician validate that experience, and describe biological dentistry as one of the tools she relies on most for her hardest cases, is the kind of cross-disciplinary conversation that doesn't happen often enough.

If you've been told your labs look fine while your body says otherwise, this episode is worth your full attention.

Connect with Dr. Jessica Peatross, MD
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📱 @dr.jess.md
📅 Book a discovery call: drjess.health/wellness-plus-book

Ready to go deeper with Dr. Katie?
Join her free patient webinar and learn how whole-body dentistry could be the missing piece in your health journey.
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