WEBVTT - Halitosis: Worst Smell Ever? 0:00:00.960 --> 0:00:12.000 Welcome to Stuff you Should Know fromhouse stuff Works dot com. Hey, 0:00:12.600 --> 0:00:21.480 welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark. There's Charles Chucky. 0:00:21.880 --> 0:00:24.159 Do you realize that some people might this might be 0:00:24.200 --> 0:00:28.479 the first episode they listened to and they've already turned 0:00:28.480 --> 0:00:32.400 it off and they're writing an iTunes review? Something's wrong 0:00:32.479 --> 0:00:35.960 with that guy? Yeah? What's up with the manga? I 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:38.880 can't believe they're it's so popular? How does anyone listen 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:43.599 to him? Yeah? What's up with the Yeah? And how 0:00:43.600 --> 0:00:46.879 are they in the top ten? And that guy? It 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:50.000 must be like the a MSR thing? What is that? 0:00:50.400 --> 0:00:53.320 You know? Where that? Uh? People make videos where they're 0:00:53.640 --> 0:00:56.320 like stroking your hair, but it's really they're just moving 0:00:56.320 --> 0:00:59.200 their hand by the camera. They're talking like this, what 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:05.440 really we calming? But there's a subset of humans who 0:01:06.000 --> 0:01:10.560 have a central nervous reaction. I just had one, but 0:01:10.920 --> 0:01:15.039 it's pleasurable. They call him like a brain orgasm, a 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:17.840 a m s R. I think is R A s R. 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:20.080 I think it's a M s R. I don't remember 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:22.399 what it stands for. But it's like a meditative video 0:01:23.480 --> 0:01:27.280 type of thing. I guess to some people, apparently you 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:30.680 have like a reaction to it, and it's very pleasurable. 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:33.560 But it's non sexual. It's it's well when you just 0:01:33.600 --> 0:01:36.480 whisper neurological to me, I had a bad react, right, 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:40.480 I can imagine. So I I don't claim to be 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:42.800 one of those people. Man, oh man, this is getting 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:44.240 off to a good start. But we should do an 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:46.640 episode on that sometime. We people have requested it a 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:48.440 few times. Yeah, I want to. I'm gonna go find 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:49.560 out what it is. Is we have to go to 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:51.760 the trouble writing an article for because there's not one 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:54.000 that's okay. I got a few of those in the 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:56.440 hopper that I'd like to do. I do too, I 0:01:56.520 --> 0:01:58.120 just haven't been able to get around to him. You've 0:01:58.120 --> 0:02:02.880 been lazy. No, I've been busy. I said, we are 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:06.920 you ready? Are you familiar with halitosis? With with hold, 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:10.400 I've got a little intro for this. You've heard the 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:13.359 word halitosi is obviously we're about to do an episode 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:16.359 on halitosis, so I hope so. But even before this, 0:02:16.560 --> 0:02:19.480 you've heard the word halitosis bad breath. It's like a 0:02:19.520 --> 0:02:22.280 clinical term for bad breath. And that is true, and 0:02:22.320 --> 0:02:25.080 it always was a clinical term for bad breath. But 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:28.400 the reason, Chuck, that you and I know that the 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:31.880 word halitosis means bad breath is thanks to a nice 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:35.000 little marketing scheme by the three guys who ran the 0:02:35.040 --> 0:02:39.520 company that made listerine back in the nineteen twenties. Yeah. 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:42.960 We we've talked about Dr Joesph lister before and that 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:47.120 listerine was an antiseptic, surgical antiseptic, yes, and that's and 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:49.920 it was marketed as a surgical antiseptic and then a 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:53.320 household antiseptic. And then they said, you know what we're 0:02:53.360 --> 0:02:55.840 we need to expand our market share, so let's get 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:59.080 into other markets. And so they said mouthwash. We'll start 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:01.760 telling people use it mouthwash. And they made like their 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:05.040 office in turn, put some in his mouth, switch it around. 0:03:05.080 --> 0:03:08.160 He died. So they went and reformulated it a little 0:03:08.160 --> 0:03:11.960 bit at a little water, right, uh, and then bang boom, 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:16.079 they had listering the mouthwash. The problem was, as they said, well, 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:19.000 nobody's going to just start using a mouth wash for 0:03:19.080 --> 0:03:22.640 no good reason. We have to appeal to their low 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:26.639 self esteem. And that's what they did by looking through 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:31.760 a medical dictionary, finding the word halitosis and saying that's it. Yeah, 0:03:31.880 --> 0:03:34.760 it's an age old trick and adds is to prey 0:03:34.840 --> 0:03:38.400 upon your how bad you feel about yourself on a 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:43.360 daily basis. Yeah, and especially using a medical jargon Michelle 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:46.680 who called it the medical gaze, where it was basically like, 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:51.119 if you add something that sounds medically to a problem 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:55.280 that your product can can take care of you, you've 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:58.320 got gangbusters right there. Yeah. And it was an archaic term, 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:02.119 Latin term that had gone away completely. Yeah. It comes 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:06.000 from the Latin halitus for breath and the Greek suffix osis, 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:10.400 which is used to indicate abnormality or a disease state. Yeah, 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:13.400 but prelistering people weren't walking around saying the word halitosis. 0:04:13.600 --> 0:04:15.680 It had gone the way of the dodo as a word. No. 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:18.119 And even still it was kind of like people weren't 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:21.240 really doing a lot to take care of their breath anyway. 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:24.680 It wasn't a thing until this group from the Listering 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:28.040 company said we're gonna make it a thing, and we're 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:31.159 gonna make using mouthwash to combat this thing a thing, 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:34.719 and they did within a decade. It was just basically 0:04:34.760 --> 0:04:37.640 like that's what you did, use mouthwash every morning? Yeah, 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:39.800 and they I thought it was pretty funny and where'd 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:41.919 you get that cracked? Yeah? Correct, Yeah, it was a 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:44.360 great article, and they said they went on to use 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:48.600 other words uh in advertising later on, like homatosis, which 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:51.840 is you didn't have a tract of furniture, and uh 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:55.760 bromodosis if you had smelly feet. Yeah, and I don't 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:57.719 think those that they didn't catch on as well, not 0:04:57.839 --> 0:05:01.360 like halatosis. For some reason, halitosis catch on and as 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:05.200 a result, there are people out there who have haldophobia. 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:09.080 I'm one of them. Oh yeah, not like I don't 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:12.680 need to see a shrink. But um, my first girlfriend 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:16.360 had halitosis. Yeah, And I think I can say that 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:18.840 because I don't think she listens, and I don't think 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:21.120 she knows she was my first girlfriend. Like I never 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:24.720 said you're my first girlfriend, right, But yeah, she had 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:29.359 bad and I say halitos. It's to me, there's a 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:32.440 difference between Everyone gets bad breath occasionally, but there's a 0:05:32.440 --> 0:05:38.800 certain tang that's very identifiable that I call halitosis. And 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:41.040 she had it, and I, you know, I felt like 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:42.840 I had to kiss her and stuff. This is my 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:46.680 first girlfriend. I had to learn how to do that junk. Yeah, man, 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:51.000 And it was. I have dreams to this day, halitosis 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:55.599 kissing dreams that I like, we'll see something like gorgeous 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:56.840 girl in my dream and I go to kiss her 0:05:56.880 --> 0:05:59.800 and she has like this awful rotten breath. Like it's 0:05:59.800 --> 0:06:02.960 a occurring dream. So I guess I have holodophobia. I'm 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:05.599 very aware of it, and that's why I have a 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:08.680 tongue scraper and all that junk. Well, apparently that's one 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:11.000 way to treat it. Yeah, well, we're getting ahead of ourselves, 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:15.000 so spoiler, and I should say I have had a 0:06:15.040 --> 0:06:17.320 mild case of holodophobia. It may or may not have 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:19.680 been warranted. I don't know. I have my own microphone 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:21.800 cover for that reason. I know, but it's not because 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:25.240 you're protecting other people from your halitosis, right, You don't 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:28.520 want your nose and other people's stuff, right, Yes? Okay, 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:31.559 because the microphone cover at one point smells really bad 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:34.760 and I got revolted and I ordered one the next day. Right, 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:39.599 So how halidophobia refers to your fear of your bad breath, 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:44.760 you fearing other people? Yeah, yeah, that's a different thing then. Okay, Yeah, 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:47.680 I was worried I have bad breath. I guess part 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:49.960 of me, like I have that concern because of other 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:53.000 people's bad breath about myself too though. I think that's 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:55.280 why I'm like manic about brushing my tongue. Oh yeah, 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:57.200 that's where I really got it. I sat next to 0:06:57.240 --> 0:06:59.320 a movie I sat next to some dude in a 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:02.560 movie theater once, and like he was facing forward, I 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:05.640 was facing forward and I almost couldn't sit next to 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:08.360 him the whole time because it was that bad. You 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:12.680 should have moved. I don't know why I didn't. Let's 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:15.320 become my self punishing, I guess. No. I used to 0:07:15.360 --> 0:07:17.440 do that, like a concerts. I always said that I 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:22.440 would just always time be next to the most obnoxious 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:25.760 drunk and I used to just bother me and get 0:07:25.800 --> 0:07:27.160 under my skin. But then I was like, you know what, 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:30.040 I'm just gonna start moving. Yeah, this didn't make me like. 0:07:30.080 --> 0:07:32.320 I wasn't mad at the guy. Felt horrible for him, 0:07:32.360 --> 0:07:34.880 almost to the point where like I was going to 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:37.360 get in my car and follow him home, and then 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:40.560 like after he got into his house, I was going 0:07:40.600 --> 0:07:43.080 to come in after him and then sit him down 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:47.000 and then maybe we have like um, some milk or something, 0:07:47.360 --> 0:07:50.200 get him all calmed down. Let him sleep, and then 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:51.760 when he woke up the next morning, I'd still be 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:54.280 sitting in his kitchen table, and then I would say 0:07:54.320 --> 0:07:58.400 to him, I have something to tell you. And then 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:01.920 I would say, you have really bad breath, man, and 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:07.040 he'd say, no, crap, dude, I have a condition. Well 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:10.200 that's why you don't necessarily want to say anything to anybody, 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:15.760 because they may Yeah, so let's get down to this. Garlic, onions, 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:18.960 these are the things that people frequently associate, how it's 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:22.760 hostes with yeah, which is a bunch of bs. Well no, 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:24.840 I mean like it can give you bad breath, yeah, 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:26.960 But that to me, that's the temporary bad breath that 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:29.800 one gets just from food. Yeah. And the reason why 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:32.120 you do get bad breath from, say, like onions in 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:36.480 particulars because garlic, I'm sorry, garlic contains something called allison, 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:40.679 which in the stomach is converted to alle methyl sulfide, 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:44.160 which is not metabolized and which comes back up as 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:46.840 gas from your gut. So when you have bad breath 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:49.920 from onions, it's not onion particles in your mouth still, 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:54.040 that's gas leaking out of your gut into your mouth 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:56.720 and just kind of sticking there. For a couple of hours. 0:08:56.760 --> 0:09:02.000 You ever take garlic bills? Yeah, there they Yeah, I'd 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:04.400 just rather eat garlic any day of the week. Yeah, 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:06.080 I mean I eat tons of garlic. I love it. 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:08.480 But I have taken garlic pills in the past here 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:10.520 and there, and I will forget that I've taken one 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:14.640 and then you broke up like for breakfast. But it 0:09:14.679 --> 0:09:19.520 doesn't taste like good garlic. It tastes aftful. It's medicinal garlic. 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:22.280 I didn't find I mean, the pill didn't taste like anything, 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:25.480 but my burps definitely taste garlic. See, it was for me, 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:28.400 I always. I just thought it was different, tastes different. Yeah, 0:09:28.400 --> 0:09:30.480 I'd just rather like cut the top off of a 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:33.360 whole bulb of garlic, put some olive oil on it, 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:36.200 wrap it and foil, or put it in your clay 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:39.240 garlic baker and put it in the oven for a 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:42.440 little while and show down. Baby. Yeah, just squeeze those 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:45.600 things right into your mouth. Good. Yeah, and it's so 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:51.680 good for you. We're in stinct today. Uh so you 0:09:51.720 --> 0:09:55.000 say you you your bed is that you don't your 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:59.600 garlic and onions don't count to you? No, I think 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:02.520 they're there is bad breath you can just have because 0:10:02.520 --> 0:10:04.880 maybe you forgot to brush, or obviously morning breath, which 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:08.040 we'll get to. And then I think some people, unfortunately, 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:13.199 are have a constant state of uh this very specific 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:16.360 bad breath. Yeah. So I think one in four people 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:21.600 have actual halitosis. Right, that seems a little high. But 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:25.559 maybe people are just doing a good job of masking it. 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:31.160 Maybe so, but some people aren't. So. Um, what it 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:36.160 comes down to, ultimately, chuck, halitosis is as simple as 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:38.800 the bacteria in our mouth. Yeah, the fact that we 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:41.319 have bacteria. It's the same thing as our armpits. Why 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:47.800 they smell bacteria breaking down stuff from our bodies beneficially 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:52.320 in distincty little gases, yeah, and giving off little bacteria 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:59.240 to the The average person has eight hundred types of 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:02.760 bacteria in the mouth, and um, they don't need Like 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:04.280 it's a good thing. They don't tell kids stuff like 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:10.079 this growing up in school because French kissing probably wouldn't happen, 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:13.920 you know, Well, well then maybe they should tell kids 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:17.560 in school there, but it's really kind of a disgusting thing. 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:21.199 Like you don't see people licking armpits. Some people might, 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:24.600 Ben Stiller, Yeah, what was that in Was it Ben 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:27.360 Stiller who was into it? I saw it? Or was 0:11:27.440 --> 0:11:30.120 it a movie? Right? Yeah, I've seen that flirting with 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:33.240 Disaster Ben Still, but I can't remember if it was 0:11:33.280 --> 0:11:36.040 Ben Stiller who was into it, or if it was 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:41.760 Josh Brolin was into Uh, Patricia Arquette's armpits, that's right, yeah, 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:44.360 and Patricia Arquette was married to be still, Yeah, and 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:48.280 she let him lick her armpit. I love that movie. 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:54.360 You Can't Catch the Wind, remember that part um all right? 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:57.720 Back to the mouth and how disgusting it is. Uh. 0:11:57.760 --> 0:12:00.920 They say, if you magnified just a single cell on 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:02.839 the surface of that tongue, you would see about a 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:06.520 hundred types of bacteria just on that cell. So this 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:10.240 this bacteria. When you eat and you swallow food after 0:12:10.320 --> 0:12:15.400 masticating it, which isn't dirty, it means to uh, you 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:18.040 leave little particles in your mouth. It gets stuck in 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:22.920 your teeth there. Maybe it's like you have beginning periodonal disease. 0:12:22.960 --> 0:12:25.120 It might get stuck in your gums along your teeth 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:27.720 a little bit. The very least, it's gonna get stuck 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:30.160 to the back of your tongue and it just kind 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:32.960 of sits there, and the bacteria in your mouth love 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:35.320 this stuff. It's food to them, and they break it 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:37.559 down into particles and particles and they're like, this is 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:39.840 pretty good, but I can't get the energy from it fully. 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:42.760 So I'm gonna break down the amino acids even further 0:12:42.840 --> 0:12:46.320 and then bam. When I do, I'm going to basically 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:52.040 emit sulfur sulfuric gases, and that's where bad breath comes from. 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:55.760 There's sulfuric gases that are again a byproduct of the 0:12:57.120 --> 0:13:00.840 bacteria eating the food particles in your mouth. Yeah, let's 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:04.800 over proteins. Yeah, and it's um. The mouth is a 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:07.240 you know, it's a great breeding ground for it because 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:10.520 it's clammy and warm and it's just got everything that 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:16.720 the bacteria loves to produce those stinky, stinky smells. Um. 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:20.080 But dry mouth can also cause halitosis because that's what 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:22.520 you get overnight and why you have stinky morning breath 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:26.560 because your saliva production decreases when you sleep, Otherwise you 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:29.520 just be a drooling mess. Um. I wonder why that 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:32.520 doesn't work during naps on your school desk. I don't know, 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:34.319 you know, I guess because you don't go to sleep 0:13:34.480 --> 0:13:37.640 enough maybe or if like your face is pressing against wood, 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:41.560 it's a signal of your body to increase wake up, 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:45.040 the teacher is coming. But chronic dry mouth UM is 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:47.680 something that can affect people during the daytime as well. 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:52.920 It's called zero stomia and um. If you have zerostomia, 0:13:52.960 --> 0:13:56.200 you're gonna have a harder time fighting your bad breath 0:13:56.640 --> 0:13:59.000 because your mouth is always dry. Like the mouth the 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:03.080 saliva just acts as a natural mouthwah exactly. Not only 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:05.840 rinses away like food particles, it rints his way bacteria. 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:08.200 It rents is away the dead skin cells and dead 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:12.000 mouth cells that the bacteria also eat. Um. And Yeah, 0:14:12.040 --> 0:14:15.680 the dryer it is, the less that action takes place. 0:14:16.679 --> 0:14:19.040 And you've got stinky breath. Yeah. So if you're on 0:14:19.120 --> 0:14:25.360 anahistamines or um any depressants or painkillers, uh, dry mouth 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:26.920 is a side effect of some of those drugs, so 0:14:27.040 --> 0:14:29.520 you might have a harder time. Uh. And if you're 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:32.320 sick anyway, you're gonna stinky your breath too. Like if 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:37.040 you're fighting a sinus infection, let's say it's gross yes 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:41.200 breath because that mucus trickles back from your sinuses down 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:45.760 to your tongue and sits there and gets eaten up 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:49.720 to nasty stuff. Is this whole thing? I'm just cringing. 0:14:51.000 --> 0:14:53.000 I'm gonna have one of those dreams to it. There's 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:57.120 you could a sninky hello toastis breath dream? Yes, the 0:14:57.120 --> 0:15:00.320 hot girl bad breath. It's always the same. Really know 0:15:00.400 --> 0:15:03.200 you're having dreams about kissing hot girls with bad breath. Yeah, 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:06.840 she thinks it's funny. She thinks it's because of my uh, 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:11.360 repressed religious upbringing, repressed sexuality. Like I won't even in 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:14.640 my dreams allow myself to kiss the model. That's hilarious, 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:17.960 Like she'll have I call it vomit tongue. It's so gross. 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:19.880 Oh yeah, that is pretty bad. Yeah. If they're the 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:21.880 worst dreams, I can't explain to you because they're really 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:25.480 headed in the right direction at first, you know, and 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:28.160 it's terrible. And when you're an old mary man, that's 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:31.920 all you got. I got, you know, vomit tongue. No, 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:34.120 just you know your dreams. You can't be I know 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:37.040 it to me. I'm just can't be assaulted for having 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:40.320 a dream. I guess you could, but that's not a 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:44.880 very nice wife. That give me my dream time. I'm 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:49.080 going to sleep. I'm donna sleeper right now. Let's pull 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:53.600 out with the keyto acidosis. Man, okay, so chuck when 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:58.240 you have um, when you eat onions, when you have 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:00.800 garlicen and food particles, all this stuff that's normal bad 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:05.920 breath stuff. There's also other things, metabolic things often that 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:09.360 can give you, like a a different type of breath. 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:13.200 It may or may not be bad. One bad one 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:17.240 is if you have liver problems, you're liver shutting down, 0:16:17.480 --> 0:16:21.360 you're gonna have what's called mousey breath. Can you imagine 0:16:21.440 --> 0:16:25.600 what mousey breath smells like? Like? Apparently your breath smells 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:30.360 like live writhing mice, mousey breath. I can't think of 0:16:30.360 --> 0:16:32.240 what else it would denote. I don't know what a 0:16:32.280 --> 0:16:37.000 mouse smells like. Uh sure, I mean, have you ever 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:40.040 smelled like a rodent cage? Yeah? But they smell like 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:43.240 cedar and poop? Is that what it smells like? That's 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:48.080 what they mean a cedar? Uh So it is keto acidosis, 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:53.760 the the no carbon effect. Yeah, okay, Yeah, that is 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:56.640 something that will warn you about if you're trying to 0:16:56.680 --> 0:16:59.640 attain what's known as ketosis with like an apkins type 0:16:59.640 --> 0:17:04.200 diet um. Some people, when they are reached that blissful 0:17:04.280 --> 0:17:07.520 level of fat burning, it also takes their it's toll 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:10.159 on their their mouth and their breath. Yeah, it's like 0:17:10.200 --> 0:17:15.360 a fruity, acid tony smell. Okay, that sounds better than mousey. Yeah, 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:19.760 it's it's gonna better than yeah. Yeah, when you're in keytosis, 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:23.880 you when you deprive your body of carbohydrates, it doesn't 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:26.040 have that energy to burn right there, so it starts 0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:29.040 turning inward and going after your fat stores. And when 0:17:29.119 --> 0:17:34.640 the body burns store fat, keytnes are what is released 0:17:34.640 --> 0:17:37.800 as energy or burned as energy. And this, yeah, it's 0:17:38.119 --> 0:17:41.919 the smell from burning keytones is what gives you that 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:45.040 fruity breath. Yeah. I've seen websites, you know that they 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:47.239 now have the articles. Of course, if you're if this 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:48.880 is the diet you want, this is how you can 0:17:48.880 --> 0:17:52.240 help yourself. And one of the things us always eat bread. 0:17:53.400 --> 0:17:55.840 It's like, yeah, but all of a sudden, you're not 0:17:55.880 --> 0:17:59.240 on that diet. Yeah, so that's no solution. Yeah, you 0:17:59.280 --> 0:18:02.320 can get knocked that of quitos is pretty easy. I'm sure. Yeah, 0:18:02.600 --> 0:18:06.080 I think eating bread would do. Uh well, I guess 0:18:06.119 --> 0:18:09.640 we should talk about um after a message break maybe 0:18:09.640 --> 0:18:13.440 how you can help yourself out if you have plitosis. 0:18:17.600 --> 0:18:21.040 All right, so let's say you are sadly just one 0:18:21.040 --> 0:18:25.720 of those people that just has that funky breath one 0:18:25.760 --> 0:18:29.200 in four right, Yeah, if you're among that, it does 0:18:29.240 --> 0:18:33.920 seem high. Yeah doesn't. And that's like chronic halitosis, right yeah, 0:18:34.000 --> 0:18:37.399 where it's not just like you know, brushing your teeth 0:18:37.440 --> 0:18:42.919 isn't gonna do the trick. Yeah, yeah, that sounds like 0:18:42.960 --> 0:18:45.679 a fact brought to us by the Listerine company. It 0:18:45.800 --> 0:18:49.840 might be, but like I said, maybe um of those 0:18:49.840 --> 0:18:52.840 people are really trying their hardest so you don't notice it, 0:18:54.440 --> 0:18:57.240 and other people are just smoking cigarettes and drinking coffee 0:18:57.280 --> 0:19:00.280 all day, which is a bad combination. Yeah, it's pretty 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:03.160 bad combinations. Does somehow they become greater than the sum 0:19:03.160 --> 0:19:07.680 of their party, you know? Yeah, but that's uh, that's 0:19:07.680 --> 0:19:11.320 breakfast for college students, you know. Cigarettes. So what do 0:19:11.359 --> 0:19:13.399 you do if you're if you're gonna battle this stuff, 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:16.680 if it's more than just something like just a breath 0:19:16.680 --> 0:19:19.399 mant can handle what's going to happen here? Well, the 0:19:19.400 --> 0:19:21.760 breath mant just good thing to mention that that can 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:25.040 provide a little temporary relief, but it's just masking the 0:19:25.080 --> 0:19:28.320 funk underneath. Right. She's really not gonna get very far 0:19:28.560 --> 0:19:31.040 as a solution, No, because all it's doing is creating 0:19:31.080 --> 0:19:34.800 the sensation of freshness in your mouth. Yeah, because it 0:19:35.600 --> 0:19:37.960 I get I don't know what breath mints do. Have 0:19:38.400 --> 0:19:45.440 frequently wondered, like, what is like um um mental do 0:19:45.440 --> 0:19:47.920 does that open up your pores? So like the air 0:19:48.040 --> 0:19:50.960 feels colder and fresher? Oh, I don't know, Like what 0:19:51.160 --> 0:19:54.200 creates that sensation? You don't know? That sounds like a 0:19:54.280 --> 0:19:56.080 don't be dumb episode to me, but I think it 0:19:56.160 --> 0:19:59.320 might be. Um. What you want to do is get 0:19:59.359 --> 0:20:02.199 to the root of the problem, which is at bacteria 0:20:02.400 --> 0:20:05.639 and uh, like we said, food particles in your teeth 0:20:06.400 --> 0:20:11.480 um is a big cause. So brushing and flossing and 0:20:11.520 --> 0:20:13.720 the old tongue scraper and brushing the back of the 0:20:13.760 --> 0:20:17.080 tongue you scrape the tongue. Doesn't that make you gag? No, 0:20:17.320 --> 0:20:19.480 it doesn't bother me. I've gotten used to it. I mean, 0:20:19.560 --> 0:20:21.840 you know, occasionally, if I overreached, that might be a 0:20:21.920 --> 0:20:26.159 little but I'm not like retching in the bathroom every morning. 0:20:26.240 --> 0:20:29.560 I think we should keep a webcam in your bathroom 0:20:29.680 --> 0:20:32.119 when you're getting ready, just to catch those times that 0:20:32.200 --> 0:20:39.280 you do just make a comple vine compilation hilarious. Uh 0:20:39.320 --> 0:20:42.359 So attacking the source of the food particles, and you know, 0:20:42.400 --> 0:20:44.680 I have the fake tooth now, so I have to 0:20:44.720 --> 0:20:49.000 be extra careful to really brush along there because why 0:20:49.040 --> 0:20:51.120 I think it would be like they've made it out 0:20:51.119 --> 0:20:56.080 of some new super polymer that like reflects bacteria. Now 0:20:56.160 --> 0:21:00.160 that the tooth itself is not the source, but it's um. 0:21:00.200 --> 0:21:02.280 You know where it meets the gum is not a 0:21:02.400 --> 0:21:05.920 natural tooth. So yeah, I just have to like really 0:21:05.960 --> 0:21:08.560 brush the crap out of that area. My gum, you 0:21:08.880 --> 0:21:11.480 get the crap out. I don't use mouthwash that which 0:21:11.560 --> 0:21:17.119 is interesting. No toothpaste, well apparently, um it's not necessarily 0:21:17.160 --> 0:21:20.680 and plenty of mouthwash is a suggestion for this um, 0:21:20.680 --> 0:21:25.399 specifically types that contain according to the British Medical Journal, uh, 0:21:25.560 --> 0:21:30.320 chloro hexadrine glucinate, chlora hexadrine glucinate or what you want, 0:21:30.560 --> 0:21:34.400 because they kill bacteria. I take issue with this. Yeah, 0:21:34.480 --> 0:21:37.480 one of the main functions of mouthwash isn't to just 0:21:37.560 --> 0:21:41.880 go in and kill bacteria. Although most mouthwashers do that. Um, 0:21:41.960 --> 0:21:45.919 it's the swishing action loosens food particles and gets them 0:21:45.960 --> 0:21:51.879 out from in between your teeth. What I'm saying is 0:21:52.000 --> 0:21:54.960 you don't necessarily need to use a mouthwash that kills 0:21:55.000 --> 0:21:59.120 bacteria because you kind of want healthy bacteria. You want 0:21:59.160 --> 0:22:03.840 what's called the um uh an oral ecosystem in your 0:22:04.480 --> 0:22:09.040 healthy oral ecosystem or ecology in your mouth uh you 0:22:09.080 --> 0:22:14.240 want remember remember the poop Shake episode, the poop transplant 0:22:14.520 --> 0:22:18.440 vehical transplant episode, we ended up talking about the microbiome 0:22:18.800 --> 0:22:22.119 and how important it is to humanityature same thing with 0:22:22.160 --> 0:22:24.000 our mouth. Yeah, you don't want to kill all that 0:22:24.040 --> 0:22:27.040 bacteria now, And there's plenty of bacteria that causes problems, 0:22:27.080 --> 0:22:30.920 like Streptococcus mutans is what gives us cavities. But there's 0:22:30.960 --> 0:22:33.600 also plenty of beneficial bacteria where you would have a 0:22:33.640 --> 0:22:37.560 mouthful of dead skin cells all over your tongue if 0:22:37.560 --> 0:22:40.520 it weren't for this helpful bacteria breaking the stuff down. 0:22:41.000 --> 0:22:44.440 It's your problem. Everybody wants to kill bacteria. That's not 0:22:44.520 --> 0:22:46.480 necessarily a good thing. As a matter of fact, I 0:22:46.480 --> 0:22:48.199 think we're learning more and more that it's not a 0:22:48.240 --> 0:22:52.040 good thing. So I say avoid the mouthwash that kills 0:22:52.119 --> 0:22:56.000 bacteria and just use some sort of mouthwash that maybe 0:22:56.040 --> 0:22:58.960 has a minty flavor, but it's just really just swishing 0:22:59.000 --> 0:23:02.040 the food particles out and getting rid of the bacteria's 0:23:02.119 --> 0:23:09.560 food that's creating their stinky sulfur ducks. Yes, exactly, um. 0:23:09.600 --> 0:23:11.280 And because getting rid of the food is a big 0:23:11.280 --> 0:23:14.320 part of it, I would suggest brushing your teeth after 0:23:14.760 --> 0:23:17.240 lunch too, you know, like don't make it just when 0:23:17.240 --> 0:23:19.840