Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting Podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight.

You know, in the morning, I usually bring my wife coffee.

And I usually am up a lot earlier after my deep dive in researching and things.

And of course, I always bring up some interesting conversations when she's sort of half asleep.

So this morning I came in there and I said, hey, Karen, have you ever pondered this idea

on the relationship between someone's breath and their microbial diversity?

Of course, she just gives me that look like, what?

And then I proceeded to talk about, is it the microbial imbalance that can alter someone's

mood? Or is it the mood that can affect the microbiome? And her response was, I need more coffee.

So anyway, hopefully you're awake today, and I can talk to you about this.

But the relationship between your mood and your microbiome is very, very interesting.

If you are in kind of a state of anxiety, chronic stress and worry or depression, your microbiome

greatly changes, okay? And your breath changes as well. And this is why

when someone's chronically stressed, their breath can become pretty nasty. When someone is in a

depressed state chronically, they can develop halitosis.

Even the pathogenic microbes that give off that sulfur smell are increased when you're

in that state.

And a lot of the protective friendly bacteria are diminished.

Someone who's even at risk for periodontal infections and disease when they're

under chronic stress. But typically when someone is stressed or has anxiety or some, even a panic

attack, their breath changes dramatically. And on the flip side of that, when someone takes an

antibiotic or an antifungal and they wipe out

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