welcome to Houston life great to be here this is terrifying I keep doing this that's a great weight off of your hand oh no your weight the way to test your breath is lick the back of your hand Oh like perfect yeah let it dry off a computer lick it and then sniff that and the reason that works is because the real cause of bad breath are bacteria that live in the back of your tongue throat and tonsils they blend with your saliva and the sulfur compounds that they make mix it in with the saliva
once the liquid evaporates the sulfur sticks to your hand interesting yeah so this is so this doesn't do anything No so people you're telling us people could be walking around with really stanky breath and have no idea that's the reality you cannot smell your own breath it's a process called acclamation where you get used to your own odor so the stinky guy at work I'm not gonna say his name walks walks it shows up at nine o'clock and everything goes and he does not know that his breath stinks at all so that is the answer
to the question we all have that's the answer yeah people don't know they get used to their own odor and because your mouth is so close to your nose at least mine is you don't you don't realize you get used to that odor you think it's zero because I've treated couples we we have we have a clinic in Los Angeles where we treat people with bad breath and we have couples and they both have bad breath when they come in to be tested because other people tell them your breath stinks they register like a thousand
on my machine here my limiter and they have extremely bad breath but they both have it so they don't know yeah this is so crazy okay first of all you're a graduate of UCLA School of Dentistry no groans yeah and this all started because of your teen daughter at the time yes many years ago out 25 years ago she was 13 years old on the way home from school her friends would always offer her gum and mints to the point where she finally got the hint that she had bad breath so she came home and
Here I am a dentist he says daddy do I have bad breath and because I also have a degree in bacteriology from UCLA I talked to some friends of mine about what could be the cause because we used all those strong nuclear mouth washes nothing helped Hey so I got a hold of this machine which measures the amount of sulfur in your breath and it turns out that the bacteria that live in the back of your tongue throat and tonsils produce what are called volatile sulfur compounds they're chemicals ones hydrogen sulfide that's the rotten egg
smell another is called cadaverine another is called Putra singh and smell of rotting flesh and that's what that's what comes out of your mouth when you have bad breath and because her mouth was dry she was in the girls basketball team okay and when your mouth becomes dry those bacteria go nuts and produce bad breath like when you have morning breath when you're dehydrated or if you're fasting your breath becomes horrendous and that's what happened to her and you mentioned couples having a reading of a thousand which is off the charts I understand anything higher
than 100 is considered bad breath yeah we call it your breath sucks it's a technical term we use in the office let's do it okay let me ask you this why you get sent out doctor have you ever noticed so I have like my breath it may not be or not I've never noticed that you have bad breath have you ever noticed that at all but you're always popping Listerine tabs Derek mints is what my kids Listerine tabs cause is the trick to getting rid of bad breath is introducing oxygen that's the natural enemy of
the bacteria that cause bad breath those don't have oxygen but will show your products that you have oxygen but now it's not like that okay Derek Derek will go for it oh I breathe into the straw you don't like this let's take your tongue out and hold your breath hold my breath hold your breath I'll hold you it has a vacuum it sucks up your breath air give it a few seconds and let's see what we have there well not bad a 4949 so bad okay I'm relieved so you claim you brush your teeth beforehand
which is very helpful I did brush it very hell worry about this segment Cortney do you brush yours and I do every day at that time okay I I did okay now one of the trick to see if your breath is fresh or not take a look at your tongue in a well-lit mirror if it's pink and yours is pink that's good that's good that means you're plenty of saliva saliva is key if it's white that means you're over producing sulphur compound okay holding my breath hold your breath and stick your tongue out this is
so pretty to look at coordinate this oh you're really great you're good look at that 1908 well 23 it's still excellent excellent let's say for example you're at that Super Bowl party right and there's a salad there with onion in it no you did not just do that Wow doctor that's a California onion and it's bad oh wow so you've got a little bit of onion Oh No okay let's look at this reading oh it's going 9121 1/5 Oh almost 200 Oh over 200 230 a little bit of onion so we'll be doing our clinics
this is the TheraBreath mouthwash and it's at HEB and vera brass they're both like therapy for your breath okay what's in and I smell it yeah sure it has very light naturally a very nice like spearmint yeah whoo it is nice yeah okay I'm just gonna rinse a little bit okay yes of course and while you do this I have a question for you about alcohol in some of these really intense mouth washes because I've heard that the alcohol content in it a lot of people like the feeling of their mouths burning well but that
gonna have the reverse effect right rained many years ago to think that the burn is good it's not bad it can cost sloughing inside the mouth if you're diabetic the alcohol makes the mouth dry which makes it worse okay so be very careful with alcohol there's alcohol a mouthwash there's alcohol even in some toothpaste obviously drinking a six-pack of beer will not freshen your breath I've done that research to bad breath and you're saying doctor that that dry mouth can be exacerbated by alcohol use of yes smoking that's an obvious even medications antihistamines and to
depressants have blood pressure medicine all have dry mouth as a side effect so if those are a problem again we have specific therapist products for dry mouth okay so doctors gonna look at his breath reading now but remember the foods that give you bad breath onions garlic curry they already contain those sulfur compounds which is what we're reading here look at that after the drop to the 30s ya know you say you know Valentine's Day is right around the corner right so we love the treants or the kids get the train - yes classroom but
the sugar the sugar problem sugar feeds all types of bacteria the bad breath bacteria the cavity bacteria the gum disease bacteria sugar is not going to get rid of bad breath what's interesting as many of the so called breath mints yeah it kind of come in two tins that taste really strong they have two types of sugar it has sucrose and glucose in it it's candy it's not gonna fact no worse it well it's gonna feed the bacteria so after you get that burst of myth eNOS thinking oh my god am i fresh the bacteria
going to work and five minutes later you've got more sulfur compounds so it's just it's an illusion you what you want to do is attack the bacteria and stop them from creating the bad breath and is it really all is it basically how we're made up or is it just made up in what we're eating that's a good question everyone has these pecked here you need them because they help break down proteins and foods that you eat technically what happens is the bacteria break down the proteins extract the sulfur and then create those sulfur compounds
so if your friends are on those high-protein diets they're going to have bad breath because they're overdoing the proteins now you need a balanced diet obviously but overdoing proteins can lead to bad breath I remember a colleague and I worked with back when the Atkins yes yes yes yes horrible horrible I can I empty stomach sort of like mothballing that's exactly yeah that's exactly what I do die once dumped a guy because it was like a mothball II thing that I could have remarked at work we're tight on time dr. Katz but very quickly so
I understand the concept of avoiding mouth washes with obviously sugar or alcohol or other drying agents what if you're on the go though and you'll need a mint that's not going to just give you that temporary burst right so we've got these Lawson jizz they contain a natural flower extract which stimulates more saliva and again that's at HEB and walmart target all the drug chains have all these product number one the brand on Amazon as a matter of fact if you're really stuck you have nothing near you drink water you got to be between six
and eight glasses of water a day look for fruits and vegetables which have a lot of liquid and because it's Valentine's Day coming up we actually have some freebies for your viewers they can call my office 800 five five seven six nine six zero everyone in Houston was know fantastic oh I love it and listen even if we don't have bad breath or you ask her you know we ask our partners I'm not smelling anything we can still use this it's just gonna pour this because then using because attacking those sulfur compounds are excellent for
your gums and keeps your teeth whiter because the sulfur stain dirt Keith as well the less cellphone you have the better your mouth that's and the better your overall system there's a link between high incidence of gum disease and heart attacks and strokes I don't get into too depressing Shepard now but your mouth is the doorway to the rest of your body like the cleaner you keep your mouth the healthier you're going to be fantastic dr. Harold hats also known as the bad breath guru yeah not too good with bad breath we registered under a
hundred more info by the way is on our website absolutely we have stuff for dogs too Oh Sarah breath calm we have products for dogs ok perfect let's go I'm gonna quest next liter I love it
