so I have a very important and interesting video on how to get rid of this Dental plaque tartar situation that you might have I did a video on this before but it wasn't fully complete so this would be like a part two because there's something very very important to add to this formula to get rid of plaque okay and this involves vitamin C now we have the vitamin C complex that in nature comes with a lot of different things one being a part of the vitamin C complex called ascorbic acid and many times you'll see
vitamin C is ascorbic acid but it's really not it's just a part of the vitamin C complex however you can use ascorbic acid in helping get rid of plaque but I want to First give you some background on vitamin C in relationship to oral health now you've probably heard of scurvy which is a severe vitamin C deficiency and all the different effects that can be created Sailors at one time developed scurvy and they had a lot of problems because they basically were lacking any food with vitamin C and then over time they found that you
can give a sailor limes lemons onions even potatoes to supply the vitamin C and that seemed to cure skirting so what is it about this vitamin that is so important well if you don't have enough vitamin C you cannot make collagen okay vitamin C is essential to make collagen and I'm talking about collagen in your skin in your bone tissue including your teeth in your ligaments in your tendons in your muscles in your joints in all of your arteries including the capillaries so when you don't have enough vitamin C for example in your capillaries you
get blood going through the capillary wall creating bleeding and so one of the big indicators to know that your vitamin C deficient is when you get bleeding gums anything like gingivitis or a periodontal disease is usually related in some way to a vitamin C deficiency now you probably already know that sugar is bad for your teeth and gums and so the sugar then feeds the bacteria that develop acids that cause cavities inflamed gum tissue and plucking and tartar so what actually is tartar tartar is biofilms okay what's a biofilm biofilms are colonies of microbes that
have band together and they develop these calcium igloos or shelters to hide from your immune system so in nature like 90 to 95 percent of all these bacterias start to form biofilms in fact if you were to walk through a little stream for example you notice if you step on a rock it's very slippery there's slime that's the formation of biofilms so in nature one of the defense mechanisms that these microbes use is these kind of a protective shell and so biofilms form tartar in your teeth they form the plaquing in your arteries also they
form these calcium deposits in your joints so biofilms are around us everywhere and I do want to touch on the relationship between vitamin C and biofilms in just second but first let me just complete my thought on vitamin C and its function in your body without vitamin C you actually get really bad breath okay because you have this overgrowth of bacteria vitamin C suppresses pathogens including viruses bacteria yeast fungus mold and of course biofilms vitamin C also helps to act as an antihistamine so in the body when you have histamines it's related to allergies and
this is why vitamin C is good to take is to reduce the sneezing the runny nose the mucus production so vitamin C as I already mentioned is involved an essential in generating and making connective tissue and collagen vitamin C also tends to make active folate so in the pre-inactive form of folic acid that converts into folate vitamin C is necessary vitamin C is also a necessary in converting cholesterol into bile salts it in converting tryptophan into serotonin in converting dopamine into epinephrine so there's a lot of neurotransmitter type functions that vitamin C is involved with
also making adrenal hormone steroids like cortisol you need Vitamin C and as you already know vitamin C is very important in fighting off an infection and decreasing the duration of how long you get an infection and also increasing your resistance to infection when you're low in vitamin C you're susceptible to getting biofilms okay so another interesting point about this is that we know vitamin C saved the sailors but also there's another problem related to Sailors that I want to cover which is actually interesting the ships developing these things called Barnacles and these Barnacles underneath the
ship would add tremendous amounts of weight and resistance when traveling through the sea and these Barnacles are basically collections of organisms um like even like clams and lobster and even smaller organisms with this calcium shell so if you have a ship with all these Barnacles you're going to basically add like a third more fuel because of the weight and so there's a lot of problems and the name that they assigned to Barnacles would be called Marine following and so they've tried a lot of things to get rid of these these growth of these biofilms they
try different paints with chemicals and of course all this is very toxic but in 1990 this guy who was a sailor had this brilliant idea why I was eating a sandwich with he had this uh Red Hot Chili Peppers in it and he had this idea that he said I wonder if these Chili Peppers would kill off these Barnacles right well he found out that they did effectively kill off these microorganisms so he developed a type of paint using Chili Peppers right and it worked great and there's one thing about Chili Peppers Chili Peppers not
only have certain active compounds that are going to kill biofilms but Chili Peppers are very very high in vitamin C and even one of the byproducts that vitamin C turns into is hydrogen peroxide which is another anti-biofilm chemical in fact your body even makes hydrogen peroxide to protect against too many biofilms which is another interesting point in my first video I gave you a formula that you can use when you're brushing your teeth to help reduce plaquing tartar but I did not include vitamin C in this formula okay so I'm going to kind of just
explain what I'm going to recommend the first ingredient to this new formula Edition which is only four ingredients would be to take uh one fourth of a teaspoon of baking soda and dissolve it in a half a cup of water okay warm water dissolve it completely and then add a fourth of a teaspoon of hydrogen peroxide three percent okay because hydrogen peroxide is a great mouthwash and a very powerful anti-biofilm compound but then I'm going to recommend something else a fourth of a teaspoon of non-GMO ascorbic acid now all you're going to be doing is
you're going to be brushing your teeth with this um once a day and you're going to spit out this material and you're probably going to have one of the most powerful anti-biofilm compounds around but I recommend brushing your teeth all around inside and outside and then spitting it out and rinsing out your mouth now you can also add mints peppermint clove as a great essential oil to help as well and so it doesn't taste so bad and it can leave your breath smelling a little bit better but on top of that just to understand What
vitamin c does and the effects of vitamin C deficiency for oral health is huge you should be consuming things that are high in vitamin C on a regular basis and that would include several Foods Peppers both red peppers hot peppers mild peppers green peppers green vegetables okay pretty much all the green vegetables are low with vitamin C okay the next thing would be limes and lemons in your diet realize that if you're getting lemon juice or a lime juice in a glass or some container it's been pasteurized and vitamin C is very sensitive to oxygen
and heat so there's really little vitamin C unless you're using an actual lemon or lime and of course fermented cabbage as sauerkraut has a ton of vitamin C all right so now that your more educated in vitamin C I really want you to understand the difference between natural vitamin C complex versus just the synthetic version of ascorbic acid this would be very very important for you to have the full picture so I created this video and put it up right here for you check it out
