Published today after 2years of work behind the scenes by us at WHN/DELPHI Executive team : Our Global Expert DELPHI Consensus document on Long Covid. 179 Experts from 28 countries around the Globe Participated. Please share. Happy Easter! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Dear #MedBlueSky Black and white EITHER/OR debates limit us. Nuanced AND/BOTH debates provide answers. Let's not oversimplify the human body. It is too complicated to be understood in terms of binary EITHER/OR stances. The nuance of AND/BOTH is the way forward. Thanks

If in Dec 2020 you had told me it would take until April 2021 to get my #COVID research published, I’d have been disappointed. It has now been published (April 2025), 4 years later. bit.ly/4j6fIpx 👇 Here's my epic COVID-19 failure story … Long thread 1/25

Only for doctors who might be interested in biological mechanisms of cardiovascular risk… But it can’t be important coz it’s about the mouth. And we all know the mouth is not really a part of the body, right? #OralMicrobiome #EnteroSalivaryNOPathway www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/...

Only of interest to anyone with a mouth and a brain they care about ... 👇👇👇 Oral Microbiome and Alzheimer’s Disease Wan and Fan 2023 pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10609607/

A Question to Which the Answer is Yes #QTWTAIY Industry have been flogging products sugarier than Coke to of infants. We lifted the lid on this scandal in 2022. 👇  https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/mar/15/ultra-processed-babies-are-toddler-snacks-one-of-the-great-food-scandals-of-our-time

🥣 Did you know only 3% of breakfast cereals and 5% of yogurts marketed to children are low in sugar? We'd like retailers to reformulate products and stop marketing unhealthy food to children. Read more: bit.ly/3PR0Gal #BrokenPlate #HFSS

It is not possible to understand #Alzheimer’s disease without understanding the involvement of #OralMicrobiome pathogens. Not only is Alzheimer’s a disease, it is a microbial ecosystem. #PGingivalis #OralBacterialTranslocation #OuterMembraneVesicles #Lactoferrin #Neuroinflammation #IronMetabolism

Some Sunday listening for you. In this BBC Radio 4 programme I talk about the importance of oral health for the health of your body. Presented by @carolinesteel.bsky.social and featuring her visit to Salisbury Hospital 👇👇👇 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m00283bm

I’m on Radio 4 NOW learning about how the bacteria in our mouths affect our overall health. There are links between our mouth health and diabetes and Alzheimer’s 🤯 With @drgrahamlj.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Today is the 4th anniversary of the first publication of the oro-vasculo-pulmonary route hypothesis of spread of #SARS2 to the lungs from the mouth via the bloodstream in people with #COVID. First published informally here - radiologymasterclass.co.uk/tutorials/co... 1/4

What's bad about the lack of funding into dentistry is that the message of @eddiecrouch.bsky.social is being ignored. Here he tells us how oral health is linked with general health. Dental/oral health is not an add-on extra to your health, it is a foundation of your health. Oral disease kills!

'Time to put your money where your mouth is' For anyone working in the field of health inequalities, this report from @Economist.com(@EconomistImpact) is a must. 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇 bit.ly/3WLjc7Z Thread of highlights ... 1/14

Today we’re in Westminster, showing MPs how many teeth are extracted from children in their communities. It's the result of a toxic food environment, an access crisis, and a long-term failure to grasp the nettle on prevention. Our children deserve better.

Interesting

🚨1/5. Some findings from the 2024 National GP Patient Survey: ⚠️ 4.6% of people have #LongCovid ⚠️ In addition, 9.4% were not sure if they have Long Covid ⚠️ And 1.2% preferred not to say (Question asked of 692,751 patients) #CovidIsNotOver Link⬇️

Are there any other radiologists out there working on disease prevention? If so, please get in contact. (I don’t mean screening for disease, I mean stopping disease from happening.)

This is what I said about the lung disease of #COVID-19 in 2020. 2020! They gave me 10 minutes (for which I was grateful) And now… Now, I stand by every word. COVID-19 lung disease was not pneumonia! This knowledge should have changed everything, but didn’t. youtu.be/2jROYLwUK20

4k words added to a chapter on #T2DM written today (will need editing). Simplified summary - diabetes is all about oral biology/health. #GumDisease #Periodontitis #Pgingivalis #InsulinResitance #SystemicInflammation #OralBacteriaBloodstreamTranslocation #InsulinReceptorDamage #Epigenetics

All with #Diabetes (DM) or caring for people with DM need to understand this diagram. It explains the processes by which #OralDysbiosis (responsible for gum disease) causes DM. (DM also worsens #GumDisease) #ViciousCircle Link to paper👇 bit.ly/4g9bwni

Porphyromonas gingivalis is the most pathological microorganism known to humanity. Prove me wrong… #OralDysbiosis #PeriodontalDisease #Atherosclerosis #InsulinResistance #AutoimmuneDisease #Alzheimers #GutDysbiosis #PregnancyComplications #Cancers

Here's my take on #COVID-19 (the disease not the pandemic). It's not what you think it is ... A thread 👇 1/23

‘Gingipain from Porphyromonas gingivalis causes insulin resistance by degrading insulin receptors through direct proteolytic effects’ Translation: Toxic enzymes produced by gum disease bacteria cause type 2 diabetes www.nature.com/articles/s41...

For our failure to understand the importance of oral health and a healthy oral microbiome in determining our whole body health, future generations will pity us and the dark ages in which we live. #OralHealth #OralMicrobiome #CVD #Diabetes #Alzheimers #Rheumatoid #Cancer #IBD

Important discussion on oral health in children with @JamesTGallagher @BBCRadio4 The next step is to understand the links between poor #oralhealth and development of systemic diseases. Caring for the mouth = caring for the body. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

All people living with diabetes should be offered free access to dental/gum care. Here’s a link to #NHS (UK) commissioning standard for dental care for people with diabetes. 👇 www.england.nhs.uk/publication/... The summary acknowledges the benefit to diabetes control. #WorldDiabetesDay

Okay, so that’s good, people are happy to follow me. Here’s more… Poor oral health (and the biological processes which cause it) cause the following … #Alzheimers #CardiovascularDisease #Type2Diabetes #RheumatoidArthritis #InflammatoryBowelDisease

Here's the thing ... Oral health is soooooo much more important than you could ever have thought possible. (I do not care who you are, you are underestimating the importance of oral biology and pathology for your overall body health)