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Challenge #5: Oil Pulling

I started oil pulling back in 2016. It was an effort to attempt to fix my very poor oral health, let me tell you what I learned!

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Alexa Schirm
Mar 09, 2025
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I started oil pulling back in 2016. It was an effort to attempt to fix my very poor oral health.

I had previously spent thousands upon thousands of dollars trying to “fix” my teeth — If you’ve been here, you know the agony.

At the time, most fingers pointed to a bad diet as the root of tooth decay. I wanted to believe it but never did;

  1. At the time, I was…

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