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I'm going to talk about bad breath today.
Something that we don't really want to talk about.
Some of us have had bad breath in the past.
Some may have it right now.
I just had an interesting case today from the UK, a 53-year-old lady.
I'm not going to mention this woman's name or details.
She's a long-term Candida sufferer and her breath's quite bad, so she's very embarrassed.
She's actually working in a public service job, and she's very embarrassed about her
breath.
Her husband died quite a few years ago now in a car accident, which gave her quite a
lot of stress and grief.
She's had her gall bladder out.
Doctor's advice, basically, was just to use mouth rinses, ridiculous advice.
Sugar is a problem.
Loves sugar.
Craves sugar.
It's a problem.
She loves sugar.
She loves sweets.
She loves candy, chocolate, and those sorts of things.
Can go three days without a bowel motion.
Interesting case.
What I found with this lady, I'm going to call her Julie.
Julie's her name, but that's not her real name.
The advice I gave Julie, basically, was to understand the relationship between the cravings,
the desires, the snacking, and the bad breath.
Using mouth rinses and mouthwashes is just a crazy idea.
You're only masking the problem.
It's only a band-aid.
You're not really going to get a long-term result with bad breath.
Like a lot of people, Julie was only brushing her teeth once per day, so I told her to go
and buy three or four toothbrushes, soft ones.
I've been using a nice toothbrush lately with some colloidal silver in this toothbrush.
It's a really nice one, and I usually buy six toothbrushes at the same time.
And every four to six weeks, I throw the toothbrush out.
They are only a couple of dollars.
It's not really worth hanging onto a crappy old toothbrush.
I use a tea tree oil toothpaste.
You can also get a propolis toothpaste with propolis in it.
I like to brush at least three times a day, but I also brush the gums.
Now, in Julie's case, we spent a bit of time talking about this, so I'm going to outline
good oral health when it comes to bad breath.
A lot of people only really brush the teeth.
They don't focus enough time on brushing the tongue or the gums.
Try to understand that your tooth is a bit like a tree.
The white part you can see is the trunk of the tree coming out of the ground.
The gum is really the soil where the tree is going into and the roots.
Because the roots of the tree trunk grow in.
In the case of the upper teeth here, we've got the teeth growing into the maxillary sinus.
The maxillary sinus is in here, and the floor of that sinus cavity is where some of the
roots of these teeth are basically touching up close to.
With a tree, if you really want to have a healthy tree, it's got to have a lot of nutrition
and a lot of water, a lot of sunlight, so a tree needs taken care of until it's big
and strong.
But with the teeth, people only seem to spend their time interested in the white part of
the teeth; they don't look at the gum health too much.
When you get older like me in your 50s, it's easy for teeth to become quite soft, porous,
loose, wiggly, dead teeth, diseased teeth.
And, of course, if this is going to happen, the tooth is going to fall out and you're
going to get gaps.
You're going to get all sorts of problems with chewing, with your bite.
It's not a good idea, so you need to look after your teeth.
And by looking after your teeth, you're looking after the oral health, the oral cavity.
This is going to help, also, digestion a lot downstream.
This is quite a clever thing for you to do.
Good teeth mean good chewing capability, breaking food down to proper small material size, which
will mean the stomach has an easier job of breaking food down.
Which also means that you're going to get good digestion, absorption, and excretion
of the food wastes.
But it also means you're going to break the food down properly to give the small intestine
and the large intestine the right particle size to build beneficial bacteria up.
Something a lot of people don't think of.
Poor oral health leads to poor digestive health.
Poor oral health also leads to bad bacterial health upstream and downstream.
In Julie's case, I said that within three months, her breath could be really nice again,
just by adopting a good oral cleansing regime.
Tea tree oil toothpaste, gentle brushing with a soft brush, spend a good five to ten minutes
in the morning, gently massaging all the gums, the teeth with the brush, the tongue, inside
all around the teeth.
After she's done that, understand that the diet plays quite a big role.
Making the right kind of food choices has a very big role in the oral health as well.
Eating chocolates and sweets is going to put a lot of sugar into the oral cavity, and that's
going to allow bacteria like streptococcus mutans, for example, is a bacteria that really
allows proliferation of plaque.
With your fingernail, scrape it along the top of the teeth where they meet the gum and
see if you've got any white plaque on there.
If you have, you know you're not looking after your teeth properly.
It's a little bit like with a tree.
I was taught by a nurseryman when I put a new citrus tree in the ground, don't put soil
too high or bunch it around this gentle because you'll get collar rot.
And collar rot in a tree is going to mean that that tree is going to get sick and die.
Collar rot in the mouth is really like having the bacteria around the top of the teeth,
where you're going to get these bacteria responsible for dental caries or holes.
Cleaning that plaque off regularly is quite a clever idea.
Nice sweet smelling breath comes from good bacterial health in the mouth.
Second point I want to raise apart from the brushing regularly and also when you've eaten
food, rinse your mouth and spit it out, is oil pulling.
Oil pulling is a very clever thing for you to do in the morning.
So when you get up in the morning, before you do anything else, now, some people say
rinse your mouth, but I think it's probably better that you don't rinse your mouth.
Is you get one tablespoon of a good coconut oil and put that in your mouth and swish it
all around the teeth, around the tongue, everywhere for about a good four or five minutes.
When you finish that, spit it out in the bathroom or in the waste paper basket.
Just get rid of it.
Don't swallow it because that oil is going to suck up a lot of bugs, little yeast spores,
bits and pieces of bacteria.
They're going to suck up into that oil, and you're going to spit that out and get rid
of it out of the body.
By doing that oil pulling every single morning and the good oral cleansing regime and by
making the right kind of diet change, eating fresh vegetables, fresh leafy green vegetables,
lean proteins, plenty of fresh water, you're going to have sweet smelling breath in no
time.
Think about those points.
I think they should point you in the right direction when it comes to improving your
breath.
Because it's really nice to be around people that have got good oral hygiene.
It makes a big difference in your life.
I hope this video has given you some good insights into how you can improve your life.
Thanks for tuning in.