Hey guys.
Dr. Axe here, Doctor of Functional Medicine and founder of DrAxe.com.
In today's video I'm going to share with you the six steps you need to follow in order
to cure bad breath.
Obviously, nobody likes bad breath, but the bigger thing is it's typically an underlying
sign that there's something not going right in your body, and that tends to be a bacterial
imbalance or lack of detoxification.
So if things tend to sit in your system or if there's an imbalance of good probiotics
and bacteria and microbes in your body to bad, those are typically what are actually
causing some of your issues.
So to start I'm going to go over the six things that you need to do.
The number one thing you need to do in order to overcome bad breath is get more probiotics
in your diet.
Consume more probiotic rich foods, especially things like grass-fed yogurt and kefir, and
take a quality probiotic supplement.
For many of you guys you want to double-down and take a double dose of probiotics a day.
But probiotics, without a doubt, can help kill off yeast and bad bacteria and those
sort of microbes that can be causing bad breath.
So again, probiotics are crucial.
The next thing you want to do, number two, is use peppermint essential oil.
Peppermint oil gives that lasting fresh breath taste, has a pleasant odor, and also has certain
types of compounds in it that actually can help kill off bad bacteria in your body.
So again, peppermint oil.
What I like to do is actually I make a homemade toothpaste, mixing probiotics, coconut oil,
peppermint oil, and a little bit of baking soda.
You can make a homemade toothpaste that way that actually gives you some great tasting
breath.
You can even add just a drop of peppermint oil to your water a few times a day, and it
can be used in that way.
The third thing you want to do to eliminate bad breath is use some baking soda.
In fact, after a meal you can just put in a pinch of baking soda.
Now you typically want to do this between meals, not during meals, but a little bit
of baking soda as well can help eliminate bad breath.
The reason is baking soda is very alkaline, and other ways to alkalize your body and help
improve your breath is by drinking more green juices.
Now you don't want to do juices that have fruit because those will actually make your
breath worse.
But doing green juices, especially wheat grass juice, things that are high in chlorophyll,
like kale and parsley and cilantro, a lot of those leafy greens, cucumber and celery,
those can help eliminate bad breath, which brings me to my next one.
Parsley.
In fact, parsley is known for helping eliminate the odor from garlic.
So if you have too much garlic or something or too much vinegar and your breath smells
like that, parsley has been shown to help neutralize odor.
Part of the reasons is it is one of the highest herbs and vegetables in chlorophyll, if not
the highest.
So again, using parsley.
You can just chew on some parsley after a meal or add it to a salad or juice it.
Those are great ways to add parsley into your diet.
And then last, but not least, drink more water with lemon or lemon essential oil.
You know water really helps keep things moving in your systems, helps flushing things out.
So again I recommend take your body weight in water, ounces of water.
So if you weigh 150 pounds, you want to be drinking 75 ounces of water a day.
Make sure you're getting plenty of water.
Again, I add either a little bit of lemon juice or a drop or two of lemon essential
oil, which can help continue to clear out candida and some of those things out of your
system that can be causing bad breath.
So those are the six things you do want to do.
I want to mention this finally.
The things that can really cause bad breath is consuming too much sugar.
That plain and simple is one of the biggest things that will cause bad breath.
So again, reducing your sugar intake, loading up more on healing foods like vegetables will
also help.
If you do that, you're going to see great results.
Hey, if you want to find some natural, do-it-yourself recipes using things like peppermint oil,
I have a couple of recipes for homemade toothpaste and homemade mouthwash if you search on DrAxe.com.
Just go to DrAxe.com and search toothpaste or homemade toothpaste and search mouthwash,
and you'll find it in our DIY recipe section.
I know that if you use those products and follow these six steps, you're going to see
great improvements in your breath.
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