
How to Clean Your Tongue
What is the best technique and the best frequency for tongue scraping?
What is the best technique and the best frequency for tongue scraping?
Tongue scraping can boost the ability of the good bacteria in our mouth to take advantage of the nitrates in greens to improve our cardiovascular health.
Tongue cleaning should be carried out gently with low pressure to avoid unnecessary tissue trauma.
What causes bad morning breath, and what can you do about it?
Tongue scraping and tongue brushing have been practiced for centuries in many continents around the world, but do they do anything?
Most bad breath is due to the decay of sulfur-containing proteins.
A high-fiber meal is put to the test to reduce bad breath.
When oil pulling was put to the test for teeth whitening, halitosis, and dental enamel erosion, the results were no better than rinsing with water—or even worse.
Too much choline—a compound concentrated in eggs and other animal products—can make bodily secretions smell like rotting fish, and may increase the risk of heart disease, due to conversion in the gut to trimethylamine.
Beeturia, the passage of pink urine after beetroot consumption, is a reminder that phytonutrients circulate throughout our bloodstream—explaining the connection between “garlic breath,” and the use of garlic as an adjunct treatment for pneumonia.