Bad breath?¶

Ever feel like no matter what you do you always have bad breath?

You need to get down to the root cause of the bad breath and fix that in order to eliminate your bad breath. Here are some things that could be causing bad breath.

• Decay ― Any decay in your teeth is going to smell horrible; so, if you've been to the dentist recently and they say you need a filling, get that fixed ASAP.
• Bacteria on your tongue ― Take a look in the mirror, if your tongue is white or yellow, you need to grab a tongue scraper and remove that bacteria from your tongue. You don't want to use your toothbrush because all that does is smush the bacteria further down into your taste buds. My absolute favorite tongue scraper is the Breath RX scraper. You bend the handles in a U shape and use the serrated edge (don't worry, it won't cut you) to sweep off the bacteria. You should definitely try it after drinking coffee!
• Dairy products ― Dairy is well known to cause bad breath. Cheese does this to me especially. Think twice about what you are ordering on that first date.
• Dry mouth ― If you suffer from dry mouth you could chew Xylichew gum to help stimulate saliva flow and this will help with creating a moist environment in your mouth, keeping that pH at a more balanced level. If your mouth is always in a state of low pH, it creates a great environment for acid loving bacteria.
• Gastrointestinal ― Gut issues can also cause bad breath¹. In some people the balance of good and bad bacteria in the gut is off; dental probiotics may help reduce bad breath by reducing the growth of harmful bacteria in your mouth and encouraging the growth of good bacteria. A recent study² showed that people who took dental probiotics noticed a reduction in bad breath after just one week of taking them.
• Periodontitis ― Typically this causes the worst bad breath. Gum disease is caused by a cocktail of foul smelling chemicals secreted by bad bacteria in your mouth. A person with periodontal disease will have breath that smells either like peanut butter (weird, I know), or, I kid you not, dog poop.