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Now, about 10% of the population gets these little stones in their tonsils, and so today

we're going to talk about how to prevent tonsil stones, and then if you get tonsil stones and

you go to your dentist and they remove them, how to prevent them from coming back. Now,

to understand tonsil stones, we have to understand what the tonsil is. The tonsil is in a first line

of defense. It's a tissue very similar to a lymph node. It's in the back of the throat,

and it's there to prevent pathogens from going deeper inside the body. And tonsils produce

tea cells, which is part of the immune system, and so they will capture, detect, and then start

developing a defense against a certain microbe that might be in your mouth or in your environment.

So that's what the tonsils are. And the stone part are basically something called biofilms,

okay, biofilms. And biofilms are little calcium igloos that microbes, specifically with this

situation, it's bacteria that's living in these little cement-like igloos. And that's really what

they are. They're basically cement houses to protect them from being destroyed by anti-biotics.

And so a biofilm is a shield. It's a defense mechanism to help these microbes survive. And these

microbes also produce a gas, like a sulfur gas. That's why people that have tonsil stones have a

bad odor in their mouth, like sometimes rotten eggs. They might have a metallic taste. They might

get a cough. And these stones usually develop after kind of a chronic tonsilitis or being on

antibiotics for a period of time, because that will wipe out your defenses and then increase your

pathogens. And I keep hitting this point across over and over my videos. You have

all this good bacteria. It's called the microbiome. And you don't want to get rid of it. You don't

want to sterilize it. If you kill it off with antibiotics, you better replace it because these

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