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meet the people behind Good Gums - Lynwood's story
Good-Gums® - Lynwood Murray, Jr
Lynwood was born in Massachusetts in 1950, the youngest of three children. His parents, Lynwood Sr. and Anna, met and married in Hawaii in the  service during World War II. Lynwood Sr., practiced general dentistry for 44 years in the blue collar town of Taunton. Anna, who was a registered nurse and Lynwood Sr.'s dental assistant, recounts that Dr. Murray would service his patients, many of them Portuguese immigrants from the Azores, whether they had money or not.
Lynwood attended Princeton University and Boston College obtaining a BA in biology. For the 16 years prior to working on Good-Gums, he worked in the used college textbook industry as a sales manager, operations manager, and inventory manager.
Over the years he began experimenting with alternative medicine trying to solve occasional, personal health issues. He regularly began seeing a chiropractor, an acupuncturist, and a DO who uses kinesiology and homeopathy. Although not opposed at all to western medicine, he began to see that one should use all the resources available to you when confronted with illness or disease.
During one of his "checkups" with his DO, Dr. Kirby Hotchner, Lynwood complained that his dentist wanted him to go to a periodontist. His experience with a periodontist several years earlier left him feeling periodontal surgery was very painful, very expensive, and had not worked for him. Kirby's response was, "Before you do that, call this woman, Isabelle, in Sarasota", which he did. Isabelle explained that she had developed her formula for help with her own mouth. After using it for a year or so and really liking it, Lynwood and his business partner, John Chisholm, met with Isabelle and made a proposition to produce and market the powder. That is how the project was launched.
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