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Breath Looksmaxxing Guide: How To Have GODLY Breath At All Times
by @enchanted_elixir
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- What Causes Bad Breath?
- How To Have Elite Smelling Breath
- Conclusion
Introduction
The inspiration for this first started off when I was with a three-month-old, and I had to feed, it. One thing I noted while doing so was after I gave it water after it was done eating baby food was that it had ZERO (and I mean ZERO) bad breath. This was a few years back and it has come back up into my head. In this guide, I will show you how to literally have GOD-TIER breath like an infant.This thread isn't necessarily about eliminating bad breath, it's on how to have AMAZING breath at all times!
Your average baby's mouth literally looks 100% clean, especially their tongue. It's super pink, devoid of any white. (Making your tongue as pink as possible is ideal, I will explain why below)
What Causes Bad Breath?
The fundamental cause of bad breath is BAD BACTERIA! Either in the mouth, stomach, or in your gut. Good bacteria do not produce bad breath, bad bacteria do. The main contributor to bad breath is leftover food inside your mouth! Babies lack teeth, so they can't trap anything foul-smelling in their teeth. Also, babies have a good gut and digestive health and they also are very hydrated (saliva kills bad breath), squashing all possibilities of getting bad breath. Babies only develop bad breath after they develop some teeth.Things that commonly cause bad breath are the following.
- Plaque, Gum Disease or Tartar. These are sticky white or yellow bacteria that form in your mouth (gums and teeth)
- White Tongue: Remnants of food, liquids, or anything on your tongue get collected here and cause bad breath
- Not Brushing Your Teeth, or brushing it incorrectly: Obvious.
- Poor Gut Health or Poor Digestion: Your microbiome is in horrible condition and even if your mouth smells fine, your breath won't since the smell of your gut or stomach will climb up your esophagus and will be noticeable to others. Another potential problem here could be that your stomach can not process your food properly, leaving the food there to rot, ferment, and will be smelled by the outside world.
- Dehydration: Saliva kills and suppresses bad breath. Poor bacteria can not get flushed out of your mouth without saliva and water, and neither can bad breath fighting bacteria do their job in dehydrated conditions. (Do Sub-Saharan Kids In Poverty Have Bad Breath?)
- Weird or Bad Diets: If you're eating unhealthy foods (unbalanced and bio-harming foods) or you're eating a diet that encourages ketosis, you will get bad breath as this hinders your body's ability to function properly to deal with the bacteria in your mouth.
- Smoking or Vaping: Degenerates your oral hygiene, not much else to explain here. This is common knowledge.
- Leftover food inside of the mouth, lack of flossing: You need to get rid of all foods in your mouth! Rinse your mouth when you're done eating, floss when you're done eating or going to bed, and make sure there are no foods in your mouth, even when there are no foods in your mouth, rinse your mouth with water or mouthwash to remove the micro foods in your mouth! This is so important as when leftover food stays in your mouth, it ROTS and FERMENTS!
How To Have Elite Smelling Breath
Here are guidelines on how to improve your breath! If you have any disease like gum disease, plaque, tartar, colon cancer, or any other mouth infection or bad-breath inducing disease, please consult with a dentist first before continuing! If you're on a strict budget, just stick to one and two, but three will help out tremendously!- The first step is to floss properly (get every crack, check your gums as well), brush your teeth (make sure all of your teeth are clean, everywhere, on the top, on the bottom, the behinds, etc.), and your tongue! (with the designated textured backside of your toothbrush, brush the white stuff (it causes bad breath) off your tongue with the best of your ability, even deep into your mouth as well or you can use a tongue scraper, it's better in my opinion.), and use cinnamon products! I say cinnamon specifically because mint is a weak anti-bacterial agent and it tends to mask bad breath instead of fixing the fundamental underlying problem. In summary, mint and bad breath are akin to AXE and body odor, while cinnamon and bad breath are akin to shower + deodorant and body odor. Even I can anecdotally confirm that this works. The first thing you'll want to do is use cinnamon toothpaste. This is the one I have been using as of late. Secondly, you'll want to get cinnamon mouthwash. I recommend leaving this in your mouth for at least thirty seconds to kill the remaining bacteria. Last but not least, the deal sealer, the mouth probiotics, and digestive enzymes! The probiotics will recruit tens of millions of bad breath fighting soldiers in the battle to kill all bad breath in your body and the digestive enzymes will make sure your stomach works at its peak to make sure your food is digested quickly so it doesn't rot and ferment in your stomach, relieves constipation both of which can cause bad breath, especially the first one. Use once a day. The additional thing I will add is to purchase cinnamon mints! This will eradicate any development of bad breath throughout the day, carry these with you, especially if you are going to eat, take these after you're done eating or brush your teeth if you are at home when you eat.
- Study #1 On Cinnamon - https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/food-for-thought/cinnamon-cleans-breath
- Study #2 On Cinnamon- https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/04/040401080031.htm
- Study #3 On Cinnamon: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/eos.12745 (Cinnamon essential oil was one of the best killers of bad breath, mogged peppermint.)
- The second thing to do is to stay hydrated! Dehydration causes bad breath as it hinders your ability to fight it off. Dehydration causes bad breath because when you're dehydrated your body doesn't produce enough saliva. Without saliva there to clean out debris, bacteria have the chance to grow and cause bad breath.
- Make sure you're replacing your toothbrush every two months, any longer and the bacteria built up on the bristles of your toothbrush will actually compound and can be causing you bad breath or sub-optimal breath!
- The final thing to do is to make sure your microbiome is in check, I recommend getting Viome supplements, as it is personalized (gut probiotics aren't one size fits all). This will ensure that there are no bad bacteria in your gut that will be smelled in your breath, no poop stuck in your intestines that people are smelling from your breath, and just general better health.
Conclusion
Don't have bad breath, it's a potent turnoff.
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