Welcome to the Dr. Berg, healthy keto and intermittent fasting podcast. Now your host, the man taking your health to a whole new level. Dr. Eric Berg.

Now, if you're doing commercial toothpaste in the hopes that it will clean your teeth, make your breath fresh, you might want to think twice.

In order for this to make sense, I first need to explain what your spit is made out of, okay?

Your saliva.

You produce a tremendous amount of saliva every day.

It's 1,500 milliliters.

That's over 51 ounces of saliva every day. It's 1,500 milliliters. That's over 51 ounces of saliva every single

day. Now, what's in saliva? Well, you have electrolytes, trillions of bacteria. You have an enzyme

to help you break down starches. You have a protein that helps coat vitamin B12 so that it can pass through the stomach

and get absorbed into the small intestine. There's mucus in there to keep everything flowing.

Then you have sodium bicarbonate. That is baking soda. So the glands in your mouth actually

make baking soda to help neutralize the acids that are

occurring in the fermentation process when you feed your microbes in your mouth too much sugar,

as well as the candida. There's this byproduct of a certain acid. And that pH is important

because if the acid is too acidic,

you're going to develop cavities. In your saliva, there's actually white blood cells,

there's all sorts of antibacterial or specifically antipathogenic factors. And it's important

not to disturb the chemistry of what's in that saliva. Because if it's too

altered to one way, you start getting inflammation in your gum as gingin vitus or periodontal

disease. You start developing cavities. You start getting an overgrowth of yeast or candida on your

tongue. You start developing bad breath, chronic calitosis.

And you can even develop biofilms, which are microbial colonies in slime and calcium in your tonsils.

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