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Six Ways to Better Breath

Please note: This bad breath and public speaking information and comments have not been evaluated by the FDA. I would love for them to evaluate my comments. It might make it possible to help others with the problem.

But since they haven’t, my comments cannot be construed as a cure, treatment, or diagnosis for any disease. You need to go to a doc or dentist to get a diagnosis and recommendation of how to treat that diagnosis.

What do bad breath and public speaking have in common? If you’re a professional public speaker you will have to get up close and personal at some point in your career. Your breath becomes a part of your essential equipment.

If you are affected by bad breath then your essential equipment and possibly your health are at risk. The most basic care for that mouth, brushing your teeth alone, may not care for the problem.

Six possible solutions are discussed here. The sixth and last is special as it is something unlike anything else on the market.

At the bottom of the page you will find the sixth solution to the problem facing many public speakers related to the most essential tool of our trade.

Up to 90 % of all bad breath is believed to originate from the mouth. It can vary during the day depending on the dryness of the mouth, the foods eaten, smoking and drinking alcohol.

Chronic bad breath can affect by some estimates up to 25 % of the population. It can affect our personal, social, and professional relationships.

It can lead to embarrassment, stress, and decreased self esteem. The cause is in many cases the result of the metabolic activity of some types of oral bacteria as they process proteins in the mouth.

Dentures, dental work, food impaction, and abscesses can be among the causes of bad breath or halitosis.

The worse offender is the tongue. The odors are the result of anaerobic breakdown of proteins into individual amino acids. It is interesting to note that the breakdown of cysteine produces hydrogen sulfide. This is important as we will come back to this one. Actually this is an integral part of the better breath cure.

There is still controversy over the contribution of periodontal disease toward bad breath.

Other causes of bad breath may be attributed to nasal infections, tonsils, rarely some diseases and conditions.Because of the prevalence of mistaken self diagnosis, if you have bad breath or halitosis, it would be prudent to get checked out medically to rule out disease.

Some could include liver failure, bronchial infections, kidney infections and renal failure, metabolic dysfunction and diabetes mellitus. Most likely there would be other symptoms also involved.

Self Diagnosis of Bad Breath

Literature suggests you can scrape the back of the tongue with a plastic spoon and to smell the drying residue. A spouse, or close friend willing to smell and tell is the best way to find out.

There are tests available but the human nose often knows best.

Professional diagnosis

Dental offices and specialized commercial breath clinics can diagnose and treat bad breath. They typically use laboratory methods for diagnosis of bad breath.

Six Ways to Better Breath Self Care, Prevention and Treatments

Eat Right
Eat the right kind of breakfast. Rough foods clean the tongue. Avoid foods like garlic, onions, meats, fish, and cheeses before giving a speech. Also avoid alcohol and smoking prior to delivery. They are not only improper means of stress management, they are not the best either.

Clean the Tongue

Clean the tongue with a tongue scraper or tongue brush. It needs to be gentle.

Increase Salivation Naturally

Increase salivation by chewing sugarless gum. Saliva has antibacterial properties so the more you create the more you suppress the bacterial growth. Also the more you mechanically get rid of the causes of bad breath.

Home remedies include fennel seeds, cinnamon sticks, mastic gum and fresh parsley.

Choose Mouth Wash Carefully

Although gargling can reduce morning breath, it comes with a bad side effect. Studies have shown that mouthwashes containing alcohol dry out the mucous membranes in the mouth. Dry them out and you have less saliva. Less saliva and you have a dry mouth which in turn promotes bad breath.

Hydrogen peroxide is a common home remedy type of mouth wash. It can be dangerous if incorrectly mixed. Some holistic treatments include so called pharmaceutical grade hydrogen peroxide and only a small number of drops are to be consumed in a glass of water.

Be warned that mistaken dosing and mixes can cause internal bleeding, it can destroy beneficial bacteria and is an irritant to both the eyes, lungs and mucous membranes.

Mouthwashes include both chemical and natural types with varying benefits and risks. Some even include oils that have been found to be effective.

Maintain Proper Hydration

Maintain body hydration by drinking several glasses of water a day. To get a bonus effect, a squeeze of raw lemon juice will aid the body to work toward the alkalotic side of homeostasis and promote optimal health.

Oral Hygiene

Maintaining proper oral hygiene. Brushing and flossing is basic care to eliminate bad breath. If it is not convenient to brush first thing in the morning, an apple at bed side or at hand can work as an instant breath freshener.

Here is the best news. There is a new toothpaste on the market that has an ingredient that is listed in the Physicians Desk Reference. It is patented for several things including cancer prophylaxis.

It encourages gum health which in turn will decrease the risk of bad breath. If you have bleeding gums, it has been noted by users that it decreases and even eliminates that problem.

It is a whey protein isolate that is one of the precursors of Glutathione. Remember the cysteine talked about earlier. Well, Cysteine is toxic to the body so the body goes into attack and destroy mode when it is present. When two molecules of cysteine are bonded together you have cystine which is the precursor of Glutathione.

Your mucous membranes such as those in your mouth easily absorb medications and some nutrients. Think of how nitro pills are given to heart attack victims, under the tongue. Cystine works in the same way when it comes to building glutathione.

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Well, this is absorbed every time you brush your teeth with it. This may prove to be the next best recommended halitosis cure.

Want to Learn More About the Tooth Paste and why I think it is so special? (Note...final price may be discounted. You can find out how much just before you submit your order.)

If you get the toothpaste, consider the Cherry Concentrate and or the Skin Cream. We use all three. The Cherry Concentrate has proved to be the ultimate sleep aid for me.

The skin cream has a patented product in it that makes it unlike anything else on the market. Using it for one month on an irregular raised brown spot on my leg has made it shrink to a small pink spot. It continues to get smaller. That is because of the special ingredient that you cannot get anywhere else.

The toothpaste...it has been a God send. It is truly remarkable. Even my wife who has great teeth and gums loves it. For me, inflamed gums have plagued me all my life. Well, until I started using this. Mouth washes left my mouth dry when it was time to speak. This is the best of both worlds for me.

An additional benefit noted...upon waking in the morning my mouth no longer feels like a ground hog slept in it during the night.

Let me know how it works for you. In time, I will post other testimonials. So far, everyone who is using it swears by it. However I must mention, swearing is not necessarily an appropriate form of speechmastery. Like me, they are very passionate about it.

Also, it may seem an unusual thing to do and maybe I can get away with it because of being a nurse, it makes for a great gift. One that truly benefits the receiver.

Best wishes on better breath,

Hoping you give a great speech, I remain,

Jonathan

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