Mary Cristine on Instagram: "Globally, we now know that 92% of chronic inflammatory diseases have a detectable oral–systemic link. But almost no one talks about it. Why? Because until 2022–2024, oral microbiome sequencing wasn’t commercially accessible. Now, with next-gen sequencing, we understand that: The oral microbiome is the second most diverse microbiome after the gut — more than 700 species. It is the first line of immune programming, influencing everything downstream: gut, lymph, hormone