Greetings.
Eric Bakker, New Zealand naturopath.
Thanks for checking out my video.
I often get asked from people from time to time.
"Eric, what are some good antifungal mouthwash products?
My tongue's white.
I've got Candida of the mouth.
I got bad breath or stuff like this.
How can I really up the oral health?
I want to get it better.
What should I be using?"
First, let's look at what you should not be not using.
It's a bad idea using these alcoholic mouthwashes like Listerine and crap like that.
If you hear the word "Listerine", I don't know if you've got that in America or other
countries.
Listerine is a mouthwash what's very commonly available in Australia and New Zealand.
In fact, Dr. Lister was probably the first guy who understood the effects of killing
bacteria.
If we go back a few hundred years, Lister was a guy who actually promoted pumping a
compound into surgical rooms to stop the spread of what they call "contagion".
They didn't really know about bacteria back them, but they knew that if they could spray
stuff in the air, they could kill stuff that was causing sickness with people.
Lister is a very important person in the development of the way that we work today and have our
knowledge of bacteria.
Alcoholic mouthwashes are not really good.
Nor is chewing gum.
It's a real back habit for you, your breath and your oral health.
Most gums today contain crappy sugars like high fructose corn syrup anyway.
They're junk.
Also be careful with pharmaceutical products because many contain drugs in them that have
got anti-fungal and anti-microbial properties, but they destroy the oral beneficial bacteria
health.
There are many, many bacteria in your mouth.
In fact, the two most toxic places in your body are the mouth and the rectum because
they both contain tons of bacteria.
If you think about it, there's stuff going in your mouth all day, so it's important to
rinse your mouth with fresh water when you've eaten and maybe brush your teeth.
Keeping an eye on your teeth.
It's even more important to eat a good, fresh natural healthy diet with fruits and vegetables
and good proteins and avoiding stuff that I saw a lot of people eat when I was in Los
Angeles, like donuts and cola drinks and crap like that.
If you're going to keep putting crap in your mouth, what's your breath going to smell like?
Crap.
Exactly.
Fresh foods.
Fresh breath.
Crap foods.
Crap breath.
Is it common sense?
What you should naturally to freshen up the breath, to keep that clean?
There are many, many different things you can take.
But if you're looking at an anti-fungal approach for the mouth, oil pulling is a good start
each morning.
One to two tablespoons of a good coconut oil, a really good quality coconut oil.
You can get fermented oils and you can get virgin oils and all sorts of different coconut
oils.
Putting a couple of tablespoons in your mouth before breakfast and swishing that around
10 or 15 times and then spitting it out in the trash can.
That's a good way because you're going to help to pull a lot of bacteria and fungal
spores and crap from the mouth into the oil, which you're going to eliminate.
Doing that every day for about a week or two, you'll notice the tongue will start cleaning
up and your breath will start becoming a bit sweater.
Apple cider vinegar mixed with a bit of baking soda is another good one because it creates
quite a big pH shift in the mouth, which really upsets fungi and bacteria.
They don't like that much.
Rinsing the mouth with about a good one to two tablespoons of cider vinegar, a good quality
one like Bragg's, for example, and then add about a quarter of a teaspoon of baking soda
with it.
Mix it in.
That's bicarbonate soda.
Mix it together.
Swish it around.
So you've got a good killing ability and pH shifting ability there that's really going
to help.
What about getting a half a glass of water, say about four ounces, and put two drops of
tea tree oil in there.
Swish that around the mouth.
Swish it around the mouth.
Spit that out.
That's what you can do before bed after you've done your teeth.
Oil pulling in the morning.
Tea tree oil in the night time before bed.
Excellent idea.
You can also try brushing your teeth.
Put a little bit of sea salt or baking soda on a toothbrush instead of using those fluoride
toothpastes that everyone uses.
It's going to go even further.
The other thing, which I'm just about to do today in springtime, is plant a lot of fresh
herbs like basil, oregano.
I grow lots of spearmint and peppermint.
These things really freshen up the breath naturally and they've got anti-microbial properties
about them and they smell and taste great.
But remember, it's eating a good food is the foundation for good oral health.
What did we say at the beginning of the video?
Eat crap.
Look like crap.
Smell like crap.
Up to you.
Thanks for tuning in.