WEBVTT - SYSK Selects: Halitosis - Worst Smell Ever? 0:00:01.760 --> 0:00:04.880 Good morning everyone. I hope you've brushed your teeth, because 0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:08.280 if not, you may have stinky breath. And this is 0:00:08.280 --> 0:00:10.640 not about stinky breath from not brushing your teeth. This 0:00:10.680 --> 0:00:14.000 is about halitosis, which is a real thing and people 0:00:14.040 --> 0:00:16.480 that are afflicted with it. I can't help it. It's 0:00:16.480 --> 0:00:21.080 really kind of sad. So from a please listen to 0:00:21.239 --> 0:00:27.360 halitosis colon Worst Smell Ever. Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, 0:00:27.520 --> 0:00:37.400 a production of I Heart Radios How Stuff Works. Hey, 0:00:37.479 --> 0:00:44.839 welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles W. 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:48.720 Chuck Bry. Do you realize that some people might this 0:00:48.800 --> 0:00:52.680 might be the first episode they listened to and they've 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:56.280 already turned it off and they're writing an iTunes review? 0:00:56.720 --> 0:01:00.640 Something's wrong with that? Guy? Yeah, let's hope with the manga, 0:01:00.800 --> 0:01:03.520 I can't believe there is so popular? How does anyone 0:01:03.560 --> 0:01:08.319 listen to him? Yeah? What's up with the Yeah? And 0:01:08.360 --> 0:01:11.560 how are they in the top ten? And I guy, 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:14.920 it must be like the a MSR thing. What is that? 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:18.680 You know where that people make videos where they're like 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:21.399 stroking your hair, but it's really they're just moving their 0:01:21.400 --> 0:01:24.200 hand by the camera. They're talking like this and what 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:30.200 really wet and calming. But there's a subset of humans 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:34.680 who have a central nervous reaction. I just had one, 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:39.760 but it's pleasurable. They call him like a brain orgasm, 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:42.280 a a M s R. I think is R a 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:44.440 s R. I think it's a M s R. I 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:46.160 don't remember what it stands for. But it's like a 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:51.160 meditative video type of thing. I guess to some people. 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:54.600 Apparently you have like a reaction to it, and it's 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:58.280 very pleasurable, but it's non sexual. It's it's well when 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:01.360 you just whisper neurological. To me, I had a bad right, 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:05.400 I can imagine, so I I don't claim to be 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:07.720 one of those people. Man, oh man, this is getting 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:09.160 off to a good start. But we should do an 0:02:09.160 --> 0:02:11.560 episode on that sometime. We people have requested it a 0:02:11.560 --> 0:02:13.320 few times. Yeah, I want to. I'm gonna go find 0:02:13.320 --> 0:02:14.480 out what it is we have to go to the 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:16.679 trouble of writing an article for because there's not one 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:18.920 that's okay. I got a feel of those in the 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:21.359 hopper that I'd like to do. I do too, I 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:23.000 just haven't been able to get around to him. You've 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:27.760 been lazy, No, I've been busy, I said, we are 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:31.840 you ready? Are you familiar with halitosis? With with hold, 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:35.280 I've got a little intro for this. You've heard the 0:02:35.320 --> 0:02:37.800 word halitosi is obviously yes, We're about to do an 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:41.239 episode on halitosis, so I hope. So, but even before this, 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:44.400 you've heard the word halitosis bad breath. It's like a 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:47.160 clinical term for bad breath. And that is true, and 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:50.000 it always was a clinical term for bad breath. But 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:53.320 the reason, Chuck, that you and I know that the 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:56.799 word halitosis means bad breath is thanks to a nice 0:02:56.800 --> 0:02:59.840 little marketing scheme by the three guys who ran the 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:04.400 company that made listerine back in the nineteen twenties. Yeah. 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:07.880 We we've talked about Dr Jodgeph lister before and that 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:12.000 listerine was an antiseptic, surgical antiseptic, yes, and that's and 0:03:12.080 --> 0:03:14.800 it was marketed as a surgical antiseptic and then a 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:18.120 household antiseptic. And then they said, you know what we're 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:20.760 we need to expand our market share, so let's get 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:24.000 into other markets. And so they said mouthwash. We'll start 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:26.400 telling people use it as mouthwash. And they made like 0:03:26.520 --> 0:03:29.480 their office in turn put some in his mouth, swish 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:32.640 it around. He died. So they went and reformulated it 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:35.040 a little bit at a little water, right uh, and 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:39.560 then bang boom, they had listering the mouthwash. The problem was, 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:42.760 as they said, well, nobody's going to just start using 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:46.240 a mouthwash for no good reason. We have to appeal 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:50.200 to their low self esteem. And that's what they did 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:54.240 by looking through a medical dictionary, finding the word halitosies 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:58.120 and saying that's it. Yeah, it's an age old trick 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:02.360 and ads is to prey upon your how bad you 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:06.000 feel about yourself on a daily basis, and especially using 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:10.240 a medical jargon. Michief who called called it the medical gaze, 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:12.920 where it was basically like, if you add something that 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:18.400 sounds medically to a problem that your product can can 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:21.840 take care of you, you've got gangbusters right there. Yeah. 0:04:21.839 --> 0:04:24.360 And it was an archaic term, Latin term that had 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:28.480 gone away completely. Yeah. It comes from the Latin halitus 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:32.000 for breath and the Greek suffix osis, which is used 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:36.040 to indicate abnormality or a disease state. Yea, but prelistering 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:38.599 and people weren't walking around saying the word halitosis. It 0:04:38.680 --> 0:04:40.599 had gone the way of the dodo as a word. No, 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:43.039 And even still it was kind of like people weren't 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:46.120 really doing a lot to take care of their breath anyway. 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:49.560 It wasn't a thing until this group from the Listering 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:52.960 Company said we're gonna make it a thing, and we're 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:56.080 gonna make using mouthwash to combat this thing a thing, 0:04:56.400 --> 0:04:59.800 and they did within a decade. It was just basically like, 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:02.640 that's what you did, you mouthwash every morning? Yeah, and 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:04.760 they I thought it was pretty funny. And where'd you 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:07.039 get that? Cracked? Yeah? Cracked? Yeah, it was a great 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:09.440 article and they said They went on to use other 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:13.960 words in advertising later on, like homatosis, which is if 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:18.120 you didn't have a tract of furniture, and uh, bromodosis 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:20.800 if you had smelly feet. Yeah, And I don't think 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:23.640 those they didn't catch on as well, not like halitosis. 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:26.799 For some reason, halitosis did catch on, and as a result, 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:31.040 there are people out there who have haldophobia. I'm one 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:34.200 of them. Oh yeah, not like I don't need to 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:40.239 see a shrink, but um, my first girlfriend had halitosis. Yeah, 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:42.279 And I think I can say that because I don't 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:44.120 think she listens and I don't think she knows she 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:46.640 was my first girlfriend. Like I never said you're my 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:50.719 first girlfriend, right, But yeah, she had bad and I 0:05:50.800 --> 0:05:55.640 say halitosis to me, there's a difference between everyone gets 0:05:55.680 --> 0:06:00.840 bad breath occasionally, but there's a certain tang that's very 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:05.320 identifiable that I call halitosis. And she had it, and I, 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:06.520 you know, I felt like I had to kiss her 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:08.640 and stuff. This is my first girlfriend. I had to 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:12.640 learn how to do that junk. Yeah, man, And it 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:16.640 was I have dreams to this day halitosis kissing dreams. 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:20.080 Do you really that? I like, we'll see something like 0:06:20.120 --> 0:06:21.640 gorgeous girl in my dream and I go to kiss 0:06:21.640 --> 0:06:24.279 her and she has like this awful rotten breath. Like 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:27.680 it's a recurring dream. So I guess I have heldophobia. 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:30.240 I'm very aware of it and it that's why I 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:33.200 have a tongue scraper and all that junk. Well, apparently 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:35.440 that's one way to treat it. Yeah, we're getting ahead 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:38.599 of ourselves, soap boiler, and I should say I have 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:42.000 had a mild case of heltophobia. It may or may 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:43.880 not have been warranted. I don't know. I have my 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:46.200 own microphone cover for that reason, I know, but it's 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:49.800 not because you're protecting other people from your halitosis. Right, 0:06:49.839 --> 0:06:53.680 you don't want your nose and other people's stuff, right, yes, Okay, 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:56.479 because the microphone cover at one point smelled really bad 0:06:56.560 --> 0:06:59.640 and I got revolted and I ordered one the next day. Right. 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:03.440 So how how odo phobia refers to your fear of 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:08.000 your bad breath? You fearing other people breath? Yeah, yeah, 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:10.320 that's a different thing then. Okay, Yeah, no, I was 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:12.800 worried I had bad breath. I guess part of me, 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:15.480 like I have that concern because of other people's bad 0:07:15.480 --> 0:07:18.280 breath about myself too, though. I think that's why I'm 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:20.720 like manic about brushing my tongue. Oh yeah, that's where 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:22.559 I really got it. I sat next to a movie 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:25.160 I sat next to some dude in a movie theater once, 0:07:25.240 --> 0:07:28.320 and like he was facing forward. I always facing forward, 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:31.040 and I almost couldn't sit next to him the whole 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:33.880 time because it was that bad. You should have moved, 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:38.000 I don't know why I didn't. Yeah, let's become my 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:40.480 self punishing, I guess. No. I used to do that, 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:43.720 Like at concerts. I always said that I would just 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:48.360 always the time be next to the most obnoxious drunk place, 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:50.920 and it used to just bother me and get under 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:52.040 my skin. But then I was like, you know what, 0:07:52.080 --> 0:07:54.760 I'm just gonna start moving. Yeah, this didn't make me 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:57.240 like I wasn't mad at the guy. Felt horrible for him, 0:07:57.280 --> 0:07:59.840 almost to the point where like I I was gonna 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:02.640 in my car and follow him home, and then like 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:05.600 after he got into his house, I was going to 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:08.720 come in after him and then sit him down and 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:11.880 then maybe we'd have like, um, some milk or something, 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:15.120 get him all calmed down, let him sleep, and then 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:16.680 when he woke up the next morning, I'd still be 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:19.200 sitting in his kitchen table. And then I would say 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:23.320 to him, I have something to tell you, And then 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:26.800 I would say, you have really bad breath, man, and 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:31.960 he'd say, no, crap, dude, I have a condition. Well 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:35.080 that's why you don't necessarily want to say anything to anybody, 0:08:35.120 --> 0:08:38.600 because they may Yeah, so let's get down to this. 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:43.400 Garlic onions. These are the things that people frequently associate 0:08:43.520 --> 0:08:47.040 how It's hostes with, yeah, which is a bunch of bs. 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:49.720 Well no, I mean like it can give you bad breath, yeah, 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:51.880 But that to me, that's the temporary bad breath that 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:54.680 one gets just from food. Yeah. And the reason why 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:57.000 you do get bad breath from, say, like onions in 0:08:57.040 --> 0:09:01.400 particulars because garlic, I'm sorry, garlic, it contains something called allison, 0:09:01.880 --> 0:09:05.599 which in the stomach is converted to all methyl sulfide, 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:09.080 which is not metabolized and which comes back up as 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:11.720 gas from your gut. So when you have bad breath 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:14.839 from onions, it's not onion particles in your mouth still, 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:18.960 that's gas leaking out of your gut into your mouth 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:21.559 and just kind of sticking there for a couple of hours. 0:09:21.679 --> 0:09:26.439 You ever take garlic pills, Yeah, it's there they Yeah. 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:29.319 I'd just rather eat garlic any day of the week. Yeah, 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:31.000 I mean I eat tons of garlic. I love it. 0:09:31.040 --> 0:09:33.400 But I have taken garlic pills in the past here 0:09:33.400 --> 0:09:35.439 and there, and I will forget that I've taken one. 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:39.160 And then you burp up like lasagna, not for breakfast. 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:42.120 But it doesn't taste like good garlic. It tastes softful. 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:46.320 It's medicinal garlic. I didn't find I mean, the pill 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:49.400 didn't taste like anything, but my burps definitely. See it 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:52.280 was for me, I always I just thought it was different, 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:54.959 tasted different. Yeah, I'd just rather like cut the top 0:09:55.000 --> 0:09:57.640 off of a whole bulb of garlic, put some olive 0:09:57.679 --> 0:10:00.320 oil on it, wrap it and foil, or put it 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:03.720 in your clay garlic baker and put it in the 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:06.480 oven for a little while and show down baby. Yeah. 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:09.920 Just squeeze those things right into your mouth. Good. Yeah, 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:14.880 and it's so good for you. We're in synct today. 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:18.360 Uh so you say you you your bed is that 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:23.760 you don't your garlic and onions don't count to you? Hals, No, 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:26.719 I think there are There is bad breath you can 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:29.080 just have because maybe you forgot to brush, or obviously 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:30.920 morning breath, which we'll get to. And then I think 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:37.040 some people, unfortunately, are have a constant state of uh 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:40.320 this very specific bad breath. Yeah. So I think one 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:45.839 and four people have actual halitosis. Right, that seems a 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:49.280 little high. But maybe people are just doing a good 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:55.720 job of masking it. Maybe so, but some people aren't. So. Um. 0:10:55.760 --> 0:11:00.439 What it comes down to, ultimately, chuck. Halitosis is as 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:03.520 simple as the bacteria in our mouth. Yeah, the fact 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:06.040 that we have bacteria. It's the same thing as our armpits. 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:11.000 Why they smell bacteria breaking down stuff from our bodies 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:16.400 beneficially in distincty little gases. Yeah, and giving off little 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:22.760 bacteria too. Yeah. The the the average person has eight 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:27.120 hundred types of bacteria in the mouth, and um, they 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:28.560 don't need like it's a good thing. They don't tell 0:11:28.640 --> 0:11:32.560 kids stuff like this growing up in school because fringe 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:37.920 kissing probably wouldn't happen, you know, Well, well then maybe 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:41.040 they should tell kids in school there. But it's really 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:43.520 a kind of a disgusting thing. Like you don't see 0:11:43.600 --> 0:11:47.720 people licking armpits. Some people might. Ben Stiller, Yeah, yeah, 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:50.320 what was that in? Was it Ben Stiller who was 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:53.839 into it? Or was it a movie? Right? Yeah, I 0:11:53.920 --> 0:11:57.439 seen that flirting with disaster ben still, but I can't 0:11:57.480 --> 0:11:59.440 remember if it was Ben Stiller who was into it, 0:11:59.559 --> 0:12:03.520 or if it's it was Josh Brolin was into Uh, 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:07.880 Patricia Arquette's armpits, that's right, Okay, Yeah, And Patricia Arquette 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:10.120 was married to Ben Yeah, and she let him look 0:12:10.160 --> 0:12:14.640 her armpit in the Love that movie You Can't Catch 0:12:14.720 --> 0:12:20.120 the Wind, remember that part? Um, all right, back to 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:23.120 the mouth and how disgusting it is. Uh, they say, 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:26.360 if you magnified just a single cell on the surface 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:28.440 of that tongue. You would see about a hundred types 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:32.360 of bacteria right just on that cell. So this this bacteria. 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:36.080 When you eat and you swallow food after masticating it, 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:41.280 which isn't dirty, it means to uh, you leave little 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:44.200 particles in your mouth. It gets stuck in your teeth there. 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:47.880 Maybe if like you have beginning period donal disease, it 0:12:47.960 --> 0:12:50.160 might get stuck in your gums along your teeth a 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:52.720 little bit. The very least, it's gonna get stuck to 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:55.200 the back of your tongue and it just kind of 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:58.360 sits there. And the bacteria in your mouth love this stuff. 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:00.760 It's food to them, and they break it down into 0:13:00.800 --> 0:13:03.000 particles and particles and they're like, this is pretty good, 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:04.880 but I can't get the energy from it fully. So 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:07.840 I'm gonna break down the amino acids even further and 0:13:07.840 --> 0:13:11.640 then bam. When I do, I'm going to basically emit 0:13:12.160 --> 0:13:16.920 sulfur sulfuric gases, and that's where bad breath comes from. 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:21.960 There's sulfuric gases that are again a byproduct of the 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:25.320 uh bacteria eating the food particles in your mouth. Yeah, 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:29.720 leftover proteins, yeah, and it's um. The mouth is a 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:32.160 you know, it's a great breeding ground for it because 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:35.440 it's clammy and warm, and it's just got everything that 0:13:35.480 --> 0:13:41.640 the bacteria loves to produce those stinky, stinky smells. Um. 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:44.960 But dry mouth can also cause halitosis because that's what 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:47.400 you get overnight and why you have stinky morning breath, 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:51.439 because your saliva production decreases when you sleep, Otherwise you 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:54.439 just be a drooling mess. Um. I wonder why that 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:57.400 doesn't work during naps on your school desk. I don't know, 0:13:57.559 --> 0:13:59.240 you know, I guess because you don't go to sleep 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:02.560 enough be or if like your face is pressing against wood, 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:06.440 it's a signal of your body to increase wake up 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:09.920 the teacher is coming. But chronic dry mouth um is 0:14:09.960 --> 0:14:12.559 something that can affect people during the daytime as well. 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:17.800 It's called zero stomia and um. If you have zerostomia, 0:14:17.840 --> 0:14:21.080 you're gonna have a harder time fighting your bad breath 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:23.920 because your mouth is always dry. Like the mouth, the 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:27.680 saliva just acts as a natural mouth wash exactly. Not 0:14:27.760 --> 0:14:30.720 only renses away like food particles, it rents a way bacteria. 0:14:30.760 --> 0:14:33.080 It rents is away the dead skin cells and dead 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:36.880 mouth cells that the bacteria also eat. Um and Yeah, 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:40.600 the dryer it is, the less that action takes place, 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:43.960 and you've got stinky breath. Yeah. So if you're on 0:14:44.000 --> 0:14:50.240 anahistamines or um antidepressants or pain killers, uh, dry mouth 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:51.840 is a side effect to some of those drugs, so 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:54.400 you might have a harder time. Uh. And if you're 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:57.040 sick anyway, you're gonna have stinky your breath to Like 0:14:57.080 --> 0:15:00.240 if you're fighting a sinus infection. Let's say it's gross, 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:05.840 yes breath, because that mucus trickles back from your sinuses 0:15:05.920 --> 0:15:10.200 down to your tongue and sits there, Yeah, and gets 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:14.640 eaten up to nasty stuff. This whole thing. I'm just cringing. 0:15:15.880 --> 0:15:18.200 I'm gonna have one of those dreams tonight. There's you 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:22.240 could a sninky hell toasts breath dream. Yes, the hot 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:25.200 girl bad breath. It's always the same. Does Emily know 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:28.080 you're having dreams about kissing hot girls with bad breath? Yeah? 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:30.440 She thinks it's funny. She thinks it's because of my 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:36.160 uh repressed religious upbringing, repress sexuality. Like I won't even 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:39.520 in my dreams allow myself to kiss the model. That's hilarious, 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:42.840 Like she'll have I call it vomit tongue. It's so gross. 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:44.800 Oh yeah, that is pretty bad. Yeah, if they're the 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:46.760 worst dreams, I can't explain to you because they're really 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:50.360 headed in the right direction at first, you know, and 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:53.080 it's terrible. And when you're an old mary man, that's 0:15:53.080 --> 0:15:56.800 all you got, I got you, you know, vomit tongue. No, 0:15:56.960 --> 0:15:59.040 just you know your dreams. You can't be I know 0:15:59.080 --> 0:16:01.920 it to me. I'm just can't be assaulted for having 0:16:01.960 --> 0:16:05.200 a dream. I guess you could, but that's not a 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:09.800 very nice wife that give me my dream time. I'm 0:16:09.840 --> 0:16:14.200 going to sleep. I'm down to sleep. Let's pull out 0:16:14.280 --> 0:16:18.640 with the keyto acidosis. Man. Okay, so chuck. When you 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:23.600 have um, when you eat onions, when you have garlicquen 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:26.360 of food particles, all this stuff that's normal bad breath stuff. 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:31.640 There's also other things, metabolic things often that can give you, 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:35.040 like a a different type of breath. It may or 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:38.880 may not be bad. One bad one is if you 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:42.880 have liver problems, your liver shutting down, you're gonna have 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:47.280 what's called mousey breath. Can you imagine what mousey breath 0:16:47.320 --> 0:16:52.040 smells like like? Apparently breath smells like live writhing mice 0:16:53.360 --> 0:16:55.720 interesting mousey breath. I can't think of what else it 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:57.880 would denote. I don't know what a mouse smells like. 0:16:59.640 --> 0:17:02.440 Uh sure, I mean, have you ever smelled like a 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:05.879 rodent cage? Yeah? But they smell like cedar and poop? 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:08.560 Is that what it smells like? Just what they mean 0:17:08.600 --> 0:17:14.960 a cedar? Uh? So? Is keto acidosis the the no 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:19.200 carb effect? Yeah? Okay, Yeah, that is something that will 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:22.080 warn you about if you are trying to attain what's 0:17:22.119 --> 0:17:26.280 known as ketosis with like an Atkins type diet um. 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:29.800 Some people, when they are reached that blissful level of 0:17:29.840 --> 0:17:32.760 fat burning, it also takes their its toll on their 0:17:32.880 --> 0:17:35.680 their mouth and their breath. Yeah, it's like a fruity 0:17:36.000 --> 0:17:40.280 acid tony smell. Okay, that sounds better than mousey. Yeah, 0:17:40.280 --> 0:17:43.400 it's better. It's gotta be better than Yeah. Yeah, when 0:17:43.440 --> 0:17:48.040 you're in ketosis, you when you deprive your body of carbohydrates, 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:50.399 it doesn't have that energy to burn right there, so 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:53.520 it starts turning inward and going after your fat stores. 0:17:53.560 --> 0:17:58.240 And when the body burns store fat keytones are what 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:02.480 is released as energy. You're burned his energy and this, Yeah, 0:18:02.480 --> 0:18:06.679 it's the smell from burning keytones is what gives you 0:18:06.720 --> 0:18:09.760 that fruity breath. Yeah, I've seen websites, you know that 0:18:09.800 --> 0:18:12.000 they now have the articles. Of course, if you're if 0:18:12.000 --> 0:18:13.600 this is the diet you want, this is how you 0:18:13.640 --> 0:18:16.600 can help yourself. And one of the tips that's always 0:18:16.600 --> 0:18:20.200 eat bread. It's like, yeah, but that all of a 0:18:20.240 --> 0:18:23.320 sudden you're not on that diet more. Yeah, so that's 0:18:23.320 --> 0:18:25.399 no solution. Yeah, you can get knocked out of keytoast 0:18:25.520 --> 0:18:28.359 is pretty easy, I'm sure. Yeah, I think eating bread 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:55.679 would do it. So let's say you are sadly just 0:18:55.680 --> 0:18:59.119 one of those people that just has that funky breath 0:19:00.359 --> 0:19:03.760 one in four right, Yeah, if you're among that, it 0:19:03.800 --> 0:19:06.479 does seem high. Yeah, I doesn't it. And that's like 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:11.199 chronic calitosis right yeah, where it's not just like you know, 0:19:11.359 --> 0:19:17.000 brushing your teeth isn't gonna do the trick. Yeah. Yeah, 0:19:17.040 --> 0:19:19.359 that sounds like a fact brought to us by the 0:19:19.400 --> 0:19:22.520 Listering company. It might be, but like I said, maybe 0:19:22.760 --> 0:19:26.840 um of those people are really trying their hardest so 0:19:26.840 --> 0:19:30.239 you don't notice it, gotcha. And other people are just 0:19:30.480 --> 0:19:33.119 smoking cigarettes and drinking coffee all day, which is a 0:19:33.160 --> 0:19:36.600 bad combination. Yeah, it's pretty bad combination that somehow they 0:19:36.640 --> 0:19:40.800 become greater than the sum of their part. Yeah, you know, yeah, 0:19:40.920 --> 0:19:44.040 but that's uh, that's breakfast for college students, you know, 0:19:44.720 --> 0:19:46.720 coffee and cigarettes. So what do you do if you're 0:19:46.800 --> 0:19:49.080 if you're gonna battle this stuff, if it's more than 0:19:49.119 --> 0:19:52.840 just something like just a breath mat can handle what's 0:19:52.840 --> 0:19:55.600 going to happen here? Well, the breath mat just good 0:19:55.600 --> 0:19:57.919 thing to mention that that can provide a little temporary relief, 0:19:57.960 --> 0:20:01.880 but it's just masking the underneath. Right, So you're really 0:20:01.920 --> 0:20:04.560 not gonna get very far as a solution, no, because 0:20:04.560 --> 0:20:07.919 all it's doing is creating the sensation of freshness in 0:20:07.960 --> 0:20:11.719 your mouth. Yeah, because it I get I don't know 0:20:11.760 --> 0:20:14.679 what breath of mints do have frequently wondered, like what 0:20:14.880 --> 0:20:21.000 is like um um mental too? Does that open up 0:20:21.000 --> 0:20:24.880 your pores so like the air feels colder and fresher? Oh, 0:20:24.920 --> 0:20:28.240 I don't know, like what creates that sensation? You don't know? Yeah, 0:20:28.400 --> 0:20:30.199 that sounds like it don't be dumb episode to me, 0:20:30.240 --> 0:20:33.200 but I think it might be. Um. What you want 0:20:33.200 --> 0:20:35.360 to do is get to the root of the problem, 0:20:35.400 --> 0:20:39.280 which is at bacteria and uh, like we said, food 0:20:39.280 --> 0:20:43.280 particles in your teeth. Um is a big cause. So 0:20:44.560 --> 0:20:48.040 brushing and flossing and the old tongue scraper and brushing 0:20:48.040 --> 0:20:50.800 the back of the tongue you scrape the tongue. Doesn't 0:20:50.840 --> 0:20:53.320 that make you gag? No, it doesn't bother me. I've 0:20:53.320 --> 0:20:55.159 gotten used to it. I mean, you know, occasionally if 0:20:55.160 --> 0:20:59.119 I overreach, that might be a little but I'm not 0:20:59.200 --> 0:21:01.280 like retching in the back. I remember morning. I think 0:21:01.359 --> 0:21:04.840 we should keep a webcam in your bathroom when you're 0:21:04.840 --> 0:21:07.880 getting ready, just to catch those times that you do. Yeah, 0:21:09.960 --> 0:21:14.919 just make ample vine compilation be hilarious. Uh So attacking 0:21:15.080 --> 0:21:17.240 the source of the food particles. And you know, I 0:21:17.280 --> 0:21:19.639 have the fake tooth now, so I have to be 0:21:19.720 --> 0:21:23.919 extra careful to really brush along there because why I 0:21:24.000 --> 0:21:25.960 think it would be like they've made it out of 0:21:26.040 --> 0:21:31.040 some new super polymer that like reflects bacteria. Now that 0:21:31.119 --> 0:21:34.920 the tooth itself is not the source, but it's um. 0:21:34.960 --> 0:21:37.080 You know, where it meets the gum is not a 0:21:37.160 --> 0:21:41.080 natural tooth. So I just have to like really brush 0:21:41.119 --> 0:21:43.479 the crap out of that area my gum, you know, 0:21:43.640 --> 0:21:46.320 get the craft out. I don't use mouthwash that which 0:21:46.320 --> 0:21:51.040 is interesting. No, I just toothpaste. Well apparently, um, it's 0:21:51.080 --> 0:21:55.080 not necessarily and plenty of mouthwashes a suggestion for this 0:21:55.240 --> 0:21:59.639 um specifically types that contain, according to the British Medical Journal, 0:22:00.359 --> 0:22:05.080 chloro hexadrine glucinate, chlora hexadrine glucinate or what you want, 0:22:05.320 --> 0:22:08.680 because they kill bacteria. I take issue with this. Yeah, 0:22:09.280 --> 0:22:12.280 one of the main functions of mouthwash isn't to just 0:22:12.320 --> 0:22:16.680 go in and kill bacteria, although most mouthwashers do that. Um, 0:22:16.720 --> 0:22:20.719 it's the swishing action loosens food particles and gets them 0:22:20.720 --> 0:22:26.679 out from in between your teeth. What I'm saying is 0:22:26.680 --> 0:22:29.400 is you don't necessarily need to use a mouthwash that 0:22:29.480 --> 0:22:33.639 kills bacteria because you kind of want healthy bacteria. You 0:22:33.680 --> 0:22:38.439 want what's called the um uh an oral ecosystem, in 0:22:38.440 --> 0:22:43.600 your healthy oral ecosystem or ecology in your mouth uh 0:22:43.720 --> 0:22:48.200 you want Remember remember the Poop Shake episode, the poop 0:22:48.320 --> 0:22:52.520 Transplant vehical transplant episode, we ended up talking about the 0:22:52.520 --> 0:22:56.760 microbiome and how important it is to humanityature, same thing 0:22:56.800 --> 0:22:58.719 with our mouth. Yeah, you don't want to kill all 0:22:58.720 --> 0:23:01.840 that bacteria now, and there's plenty bacteria that causes problems 0:23:01.840 --> 0:23:05.720 like Streptococcus mutans. Is what gives us cavities. But there's 0:23:05.720 --> 0:23:08.359 also plenty of beneficial bacteria where you would have a 0:23:08.400 --> 0:23:12.320 mouthful of dead skin cells all over your tongue if 0:23:12.359 --> 0:23:15.320 it weren't for this helpful bacteria breaking the stuff down. 0:23:15.760 --> 0:23:19.200 It's your problem. Everybody wants to kill bacteria. That's not 0:23:19.280 --> 0:23:21.240 necessarily a good thing. As a matter of fact, I 0:23:21.240 --> 0:23:22.960