Don't Kiss me, Your Breath Stinks! Take the Bad Breath Test.


by Alex D'Arbanville - Date: 2007-01-06 - Word Count: 466 Share This!

Ever woken up gagging from a solid blast of noxious fumes capable of clearing a beanie baby convention? When you stop hacking and your eyes clear you discover with horror that it's not the catbox or the dog's butt, it's emanating from the mouth of your significant other. Dammit, Janet, don't you ever brush your teeth? Ack! And you kiss that mouth!

This is halitosis, baby, and your breath might smell the same way to others.

After you've ruled out death, dismemberment and divorce, you're probably fighting the urge to drag 'em into the bathroom and pour a gallon of paint stripper, bleach or mouthwash into that odiferous cavern. Don't waste your time, there's only one way to really get rid of smelly breath and standard commercial mouthwash isn't it. Run, Forrest, RUN!

No, actually almost all bad breath is caused by a byproduct of the friendly anaerobic bacteria that live in your tongue. Yes, that's IN your tongue, not ON your tongue. These little boogers get by just fine in an oxygen free environment (which is why they're called anaerobic) and the cozy spaces inbetween the papillae on the surface of your tongue create a cool crib for them to hang out.

Before you start thinking antibiotics, bear in mind that we NEED these bacteria to help with digestion, if you kill them all you'll probably shrivel like a prune, so that's out. What happens is the bacteria break down certain proteins in things like mucous and phlegm in your mouth and throat and certain foodstuffs. When the bacteria come into contact with some of the byproducts of this breakdown, the result is a cloud of fumes known as volatile sulfur compounds that waft to the front of your mouth...and voila, you have bad breath.

Lots of things contribute to the health and welfare of these pong producing tongue dwellers, like dairy products, a post nasal drip (lots of yummy mucuous strings to much on), thick saliva, a dry mouth, hormonal changes even diabetes. Some people even rush to a doctor to treat this problem, but many physicians don't know the real causes of bad breath and you can end up financing their vacation home in Malibu before you can say dang, dawg, pop a breath mint. Forewarned is forearmed!

That's all well and good, but how do you put a stop to this bog of eternal stench? According to one of the foremost authorities on halitosis there is only one really effective way to get rid of bad breath forever...and that is to change the sulphurous compounds that cause it into inoffensive compounds that don't stink.

There's a simple way to deal with this, and it isn't what you'd think! Before contemplating murder or suicide, get the scoop on treating bad breath, and forever leave the ranks of the socially unacceptable.


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Alex D'Arbanville is a superfit, buff, phat, obsessive compulsive self proclaimed natural health guru and owner of GentleRx.com. When not working out, climbing mountains, playing polo, racing motorcycles or training attack dogs, you'll find him scrubbing all those nasty germ covered surfaces in his home.

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