User:Caston/BlogEntry: 2010 May 16 14:26:44 UTC

In recent weeks I have been putting consideration and action into the the problem of bad breath. It is quite clear to me now that I had an issue with my breath that I was not aware of. I had done everything else e.g. getting a scale and clean, using an ionic toothbrush and starting to floss but I still had the problem of bad breath. To make matters worse I was not aware of the how my breath smelt to others. I had been looking it up on the internet and I discovered that the way to test how your breath smells is actually to lick your forearm and wait about 60 seconds. After that smell the area that you licked and that is what your breath smells like. Well I tried it one morning and it smelled pretty awful.

How I was alerted to the smell of my breath was that I was out a shop with a girl by name of Tara. She suggested we go to a healthfood store because she was looking for something for her skin. When going into the healthfood store she told me that my breath stank and asked me if I had brushed my teeth. I had of course been brushing my teeth in fact I was using the sola dey eco ionic toothbrush and was flossing regularly. The problem was not what was on my teeth but what was on my tongue.

I asked the lady at the health food store was she recommended and she said chlorophyll. This had been suggested to me a while ago by another lady as something I could take to improve my body odor. She was also recommending inner health plus probiotics but I wasn't sure about this. I also wasn't sure which one of us she was recommending them to. Perhaps she thought we were a couple.

I didn't buy the inner health plus there and then but after thinking about and reading up on the internet about the problem more over the next couple of days I decided to get some protein dissolving enzymes based on the theory that the hydrogen sulfide was produced by bacteria that live off proteins in the mouth and on the tongue. I also read that pro-bioitics would help a lot but I was more gung-ho to get the protein dissolving enzymes. I went to a another healthfood store this time one local to me and I spoke to a lady that worked there. I told her I was looking for something to get rid of bad breath and was considering either protein dissolving enzymes or pro biotics. She recommended the inner health plus to me and some broad spectrum digestive enzymes. I bought both. I'm really glad now I bought the inner health plus because when I got home I emptied some into a glass of water and gargled with the water then spat it out.

It didn't take long for my breath to improve quite a lot and my tongue to turn a much healthier pink color. The digestive enzymes were interesting because I accidentally tried using the digestive enzymes once to gargle with and they smelt disgusting. I thought at first it was the probiotics and they had gone off. It was only then I realised I had the wrong capsule.

I will now include a link to an old Listerine commercial. The funny thing is that the listerine does not actually kill the bacteria responsible for bad breath or if it does it easily repopulates. Fight fire with fire kill bacteria with an army of another bacteria.