Here’s a Secret:

A Tree in New Zealand Has Protected Generations

Māori healers knew. Science confirmed.

Totarol™ is the most powerful natural oral defender you’ve never heard of.

The Tōtara tree

The tōtara tree can live for more than 1,000 years.

Standing tall through the generations, it was one of the most valued trees in Aotearoa (New Zealand). It didn’t just resist decay…

It refused it. Even long after falling, its heartwood stayed strong…protected by a powerful resin deep within. This wasn’t luck. It was an evolutionary defense. The tōtara made its own medicine. A resin that shielded the tree from microbes, fungi, and time itself.

Modern science calls it Totarol™.

But for the Māori, it was more than chemistry.

It was a sacred tree. It was life.
It was the Guardian Spirit Tree.

The Tree That Shaped a People

For the Māori, the tōtara wasn’t just a tree. It was a way of life. They carved their waka (boats) from its trunk to cross oceans. They built their homes and sacred houses from its wood. They shaped tools, etched ancestral stories, and passed down its gifts from hand to hand. And when someone was sick...They turned to it once more for healing…

The Tree That Healed

When ground into powder or steeped in oil, it was used for treating wounds, cleansing infections, and providing internal benefits when infused into a tea. It didn’t burn. It didn’t harm. It simply defended. To them, tōtara was more than a remedy. It was a Protector, to be approached with reverence and gratitude. A sacred tree still offering its strength long after it fell. They did not know that science would one day prove: The heartwood held medicine, Totarol™.

The Tree That Changes Oral Care

Totarol™ isn’t just a powerful oral health bioactive. It’s a legacy, one that began in the heartwood of a sacred tree, the beginnings of proud native people, and now lives on today in MoreGood Gum™. We are a Native-owned company. Shawnee by blood, Cherokee by citizenship. We believe in carrying Indigenous knowledge forward with respect, integrity, and care. The Totarol™in our gum is harvested only from naturally felled tōtara trees and reclaimed wood, never from living trees. We work with partners who honor the land and the Māori people who have safeguarded this wisdom for generations. This is more than an oral care product. It’s a way to bring healing forward, from forest to formula, and offer it to all people. That’s what "MoreGood" means.

Maori Proverb

“He aha te mea nui o te ao?"

"He tāngata, he tāngata, he tāngata.”

Transalation

What is the most important thing in the world?

It is people, it is people, it is people.

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