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Do these drinks dissolve your teeth? Well, as you know, gut health is certainly trending, but we tend to overlook the very important microbiome in our bodies, in our mouth, the oral microbiome.

And it's the first contact your body has with the outside world, so it's critical to keep your oral microbiome healthy.

So let's take a look at the three worst drinks for your teeth and mouth.

Soda, yes, even diet soda. Soda is loaded with acid and phosphates that are really good at dissolving in NAMM number one.

I grew up in Omaha, Nebraska, and my next door neighbor was a professor of chemistry at the University of Nebraska, Omaha.

And he used to do a fun experiment for his son and me in his kitchen, and he would take a bottle of Coca-Cola, and he would take a tooth that he got from dentists in the local area, and put the tooth into the glass of Coca-Cola, and watch to our shock that the tooth would be eaten away by the Coca-Cola.

That made a tremendous impression on me for a little while, and then, of course, as a surgeon, I began drinking eight glasses of Diet Coke a day.

I guess I forgot that lesson, but these things are really good at dissolving in NAMM plus the phosphates in many of these sodas have been implicated in producing osteoporosis, and who wants that?

And remember, almost all diet sodas not only have that acid load, but they're also loaded with artificial sweeteners which destroy your gut microbiome.

So if you want to destroy your mouth and your microbiome simultaneously, have all the sodas and diet sodas you want.

Juice, now juice is just another fancy way for mainlining sugar, particularly fructose.

We now know that bacteria in our gut, and yeast in our gut, Candida, absolutely feasts on fructose, they prefer fructose even more than glucose.

So juices are loaded with fructose.

They also impair the ability of your white blood cells to engulf bacteria, and we want our white blood cells to be able to engulf bacteria, obviously.

So just drinking juice fills your mouth and your gut with fructose gives bad bacteria, bad fungi, the things they want, and then impairs your immune system's ability to fight those bad bacteria that you unleash.

Interestingly enough, long ago, my wife and I practiced a raw food diet for about a year, and quite frankly, got to know a lot of raw foodists, a lot of very famous raw food chefs.

Many, not all of these raw foodists and chefs, gave up raw food because so much of a raw food diet is fruit based.

And these people had huge dental cavities, had huge amounts of gingivitis because of the amount of fruit that they had in their diet.

And it's always reminded me that be careful that we are not frugavores, we are not supposed to subsist on fruit, and fruit is a really good way of destroying your gums and your teeth.

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