After Watching This, You Will NEVER Use Mouth Wash Again! | Dr. Mindy Pelz

something we haven't talked about at all

on this channel and that's mouthwash and

there are so many reasons why we have to

have this discussion everything from the

microbiome of your gut to your hormonal

profile is affected by mouthwash so I

want to dive into the good the bad the

ugly and what your alternatives are so

let's dive in okay for starters I want

you I want to help you think this

through the first thing to think about

is that digestion starts in the mouth so

when we are upset because we're getting

bloated we're upset because we're

constipated we're not loving the way

that our digestive system is working the

first thing I want you to think about is

what is going on in the health of my

mouth so there are many ways we can look

at the health of the mouth but on this

video I really want to talk about the

bike bacterial profile in your mouth so

when you are chewing food each time you

chew there are there is a microbiome in

the mouth of that good bacteria that

help you break down that food and so

there are two things that you've got to

do to make sure the digestion in the

mouth works perfectly the first is you

got to take time to chew your food so

when we chew a couple one or two chews

we swallow and we go about our day uh

you're not getting proper breakdown of

that food and then what will happen is

if you don't digest the food in your

mouth it gets sent on to your stomach

and in your stomach if it's not

pre-digested by the mouth this is where

it can actually start to ferment so

those of you that have been struggling

with candida sugar Cravings alcohol

cravings those of you that are

struggling with with bloating maybe even

a little bit of sibo you've got to think

about pre-digesting your food and first

by chewing properly early and chewing

enough so that it all those enzymes in

your saliva all those good bacteria in

your mouth can actually start to break

that food down so it can move on to the

second place of digestion which is your

stomach with that in mind let's think

about this microbiome in our mouth so

there are literally bacteria in your

mouth that are helping you pre-digest

food so when we use anything

antibacterial whether it's toothpaste or

mouthwash what we're doing is we're

killing all those bacteria so even if

you chew a ton and you actually take

your time to chew your food if you don't

have the right bacteria in your mouth

it's not getting pre-digested there so

it's very much like what we've chatted

about on this channel a lot which is

we're not because of antibiotic use for

women because of years on birth control

use we don't have the right amount of

bacteria in our gut to break down the

food once it hits the small intestine

and large intestine so my biggest

complaint about antibacterial

mouthwashes is they kill the health of

your microbiome so that's that's the

number one thing I want you to know

about mouth bar second thing is that

mouthwash has a tendency to dry out your

mouth so I want you to think about this

for a moment why would your body have

saliva like what is the purpose of

saliva well one is to pre-digest your

food so in the saliva we've got those

microbes that are helping you break down

that food but the second purpose of your

microbiome is to add or of your mouth is

to re-mineralize your teeth so you need

mint plenty of minerals in your teeth to

keep your teeth strong so if you are

using chronically using mouthwash you're

drying out that saliva which is not only

affecting the microbes but it's

affecting the minerals that can get into

your teeth that's the second reason I'm

not a fan third reason I'm not a fan and

this is through my hormonal lens and

this is you know all of these are big

but this one for especially my women out

there are trying to balance your hormone

is that there's a lot of endocrine

disruptors in mouthwash the biggest one

the biggest endocrine disruptor is a

parabens so in conventional commercial

mouthwash there are toxins in it and

those toxins there's many of them the

one that irritates me the most are

parabens parabens we can find in a lot

of beauty products we can find in our

plastic water bottles and these parabens

go into receptor sites for estrogen and

your cells start thinking that it has

the proper amount of estrogen and

especially for my menopausal women when

we get these endocrine disruptors in the

cell when the this estrogen mimicres

clogging up these receptor sites now

your whole hormonal production goes off

and the challenge that we have with

mouthwashes most of you are using it

every day so it's not like you use it

every once in a while you're using it on

a regular basis so we're killing the

microbes that we need for pre-digestion

we are affecting the minerals that go

into our teeth and drying our mouth out

and we are creating massive amount of

endocrine disruptors that start to clog

up our estrogen progesterone

testosterone receptor sites slowing down

your body's production of those hormones

so think about this for a moment like

those of you that are craving sugar you

crave alcohol and you can't seem to get

over it maybe that's a fungus that's

living in that gut and if you're not

digesting food in your mouth it's going

down to the gut and the gut and it's

creating a fermentation in there and the

more fermentation in the gut the more

you're allowing that fungus to continue

to grow and the more that grows fungus

can grow the more it's going to give you

signals to eat more sugar let's talk

about what we can do for great breath

okay I gotta interrupt this video

because I have a free guide for you so

you can Master fasting it's called a

beginner's guide to a fasting lifestyle

and all you've got to do is click here

and you can jump right in so the first

and one that I really like that's very

natural and easy to do you don't do it

all the time but it's it's it's a great

one for just wiping the microbial sleep

slate clean in the mouth and allowing

the good bacteria to grow killing off

the bad bacteria that might be in the

mouth and that's coconut oil pulling you

literally take coconut oil and you put a

tablespoon in your mouth and you swish

it around like that and just swish it

around ideally 10 to 20 minutes and what

it will do is to kill the bad bacteria

but leave the good bacteria whereas the

mouthwash is killing all the bacteria in

your mouth so start oil pulling and

remember what is causing your bad breath

oftentimes is the bad bacteria so if you

oil pull on a regular basis now we start

to see that we are having the positive

effect of the good microbes and getting

rid of the bad so that would be my first

alternative second alternative that I

think is really important to think about

is what's going on with your gut if your

gut health is completely off then it's

going to actually come out through your

breath you're gonna if you're

chronically having bad breath needing

that mouthwash to fix your bad breath

you're it's you're just putting a

Band-Aid on a bigger problem and the

bigger problem is that you have

potentially gut dysbiosis going on

that's causing this smell to come out of

your mouth as gross as that is so what

do you need to do to fix your gut

dysbiosis there's a there's a lot of

things of course fasting I wrote about

this in the in fast like a girl there is

a gut reset fast in there highly

recommend that if you've got a chronic

issue with bad breath just throw some

24-hour fast at your at your body maybe

once a month maybe once a quarter to be

able to start to change the microbial

dynamics that are going on in your gut

so think about that and then I also talk

a lot in fast like a girl about the

three three peas polyphenol probiotic

and Prebiotic foods and how important

those are to really fuel the good

bacteria so the good bacteria can win

making sure that the bully bacteria the

bad bacteria in your gut goes away so if

bad breath as an issue start thinking

more about your gut health another

aspect of gut health that I really want

to emphasize is the power of bone broth

so bone broth has glycine in it and so

it's really healing to the inner lining

of your mucosal lining of your gut so I

if you have bad breath think about every

time you fast think about breaking it

with bone broth because that combination

is so powerful when you go into these

longer fast you go more towards like a

24-hour fast you're killing off the bad

bacteria and then you take a cup of bone

broth what you're doing is you're adding

the nutrients in there to start to

repair this inner lining of the of your

mucosal gut lining and if that inner

lining is good think of it as like a

foundation for those good microbes

inside your gut so it's a lifestyle

solution when you start to look at what

you can do to repair the gut so your

breath isn't bad so if you're having bad

breath it really is a time to look at

your gut microbiome so that would be one

of my hacks there and then of course the

last hack well there's a couple last

great hacks if you're like going into a

meeting and you're like okay well I

don't have time to fix my microbiome I

don't have time to oil pull and that's

where you can start to use some

essential oils now the challenge and

this is going to get really nuanced but

this is what I'm doing here on my

channel is really helping to teach you

is that when peppermint actual flavor of

peppermint is antimicrobial so even a

peppermint essential oil can change the

bacterial profile in your mouth so this

is a hack that actually my husband

taught me that his mom used to do and I

think this is one of the greatest hacks

because it's a Prebiotic in fact it's

the best Prebiotic out there and that is

fresh of just take a whole clove and

chew on on a clove you're gonna have

like a really fresh breath and it's a

Prebiotic so it's going to allow the

good microbes in your mouth to really

proliferate and it's something you can

put in your mouth right before you go

into a meeting before you go on a date

when you want that fresh breath and

you're not using peppermint as as a tool

as this is does have an antimicrobial

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