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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 and your breath changes as well and this is why when someone's chronic

least 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

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