The Bad Breath Blog

Hi Friends,

I hope your new year is off to a great start. How are your resolutions going so far? I bet you made a resolution to yourself to stay healthy this year – and I want to help.

We’re in the middle of the one of the worst cold, flu, and strep throat epidemics in decades. Since I have a background in Microbiology, I’ve been requested by many TV and radio programs to provide important tips on how to stay as healthy as possible in 2013. Because these infectious microbes enter our body through TWO portals (our nose and mouth) I can provide some tools (and deeply discounted prices) to help you out. Click here to read my simple, cold-busting tips AND to SAVE BIG on some of the best products to keep you healthy.

Happy New Year! Most of us will be starting the year with a party, singing Auld Lang Syne whiletoasting and drinking to our heart’s content.New Year’s Eve parties usually mark the end of the year past and the beginning of the coming year, and alcohol is a staple presence in these parties. It is good to keep everything in moderation — you would want to remember that party, and not have the party remember you for the wrong reasons, right?It is still possible to have great fun without losing consciousness and proper judgment. Make sure that you are sober enough to drive when you do go home, or have a sober person drive you home.

One thing that you also have to be aware of is your breath. Alcohol consumption causes bad breath, something that you wouldn’t want to have in any party.

Alcohol is one of the top bad breath instigators — just next to cigarettes. It is a DESSICANT, or drying agent that makes the anaerobic bacteria in your mouth go crazy and party along with those smelly VSC’s or Volatile Sulfur compounds. You are starting the Year of the Rat, not the year of the Dragon Breath! As you know from information in this website and possibly your own personal problem, the dryer your mouth gets – the worse your breath gets.

Here’s how much alcohol (in Percentage and Proof) is contained in the leading products below:

The most common drying agent in food is Alcohol. Alcohol of course is the basis of all “adult” beverages such as Beer, Wine, and Hard liquor. It is used quite often in laboratories to “dry out” hard to reach areas in test tubes and beakers. It is also used, unfortunately in mouthwash, where it only makes the problem worse. If you’re planning to gargle with the same old alcohol-based mouthwash just right before going to that party, or after, before you drive, stop right there.

Your current store bought mouthwash contains ALCOHOL that dries your mouth and SWEETENER that actually feeds the smelly bacteria in your mouth.

That burning sensation you get from regular mouthwash doesn’t kill the bacteria, it just irritates your mouth. We’ll show what WILL do the job quickly and effectively without irritation.

Commercial products are based on outdated theories—That alcohol can stop these problems. In fact, alcohol-based mouthwash may create poor oral health, because it dries out the mouth which in turn causes an increase of dangerous Volatile Sulfur Compounds.

Just a tiny amount of alcohol can make your mouth dry instantly. As we already know, a dry mouth mimics an anaerobic (low oxygen) environment. Now, you’ve already learned what happens when the mouth is dry – it’s a perfect environment for the anaerobes to multiply and create more bad breath! Those strong mediciny or minty tastes are actually put into the mouthwash to mask bad breath – not get rid of it! (By the way, the leading mouthwash contains 27% alcohol – that’s more than a six pack of beer, and believe me, the beer tastes better!) And another interesting point – why do they make their mouthwash blue, green, or brown? What does color have to do with getting rid of bad breath?The answer, is, nothing.

Dr. Katz has created the mouthwash that addresses the root of the bad breath problem.Therabreath mouthwash does not contain alcohol and is the best solution to getting rid of bad breath before and after alcohol intake. It contains aloe vera which is good for gum health, does not contain saccharin (a sugar that feeds the bacteria), and does not leave a stinging feeling in the mouth – falsely believed by many as a sign of great breath. Gargling with alcoholic mouthwash after drinking alcohol is like swallowing ice in a snowy, cold day – it doesn’t make sense. You are merely aggravating the drying effects of the alcohol you drank.

One thing you must also avoid aside from alcohol-based mouthwash is breath mints or gum that are sugar-based. A common “solution” to situational bad breath is to pop a sugar-based breath mint or sugar-based gum. Although you may have a cinnamon-like taste in your mouth, what you’ve really just done is made your bad breath problem MUCH worse. Let me explain:

During your party dinner, you introduced two ‘triggers’ to your mouth (protein and alcohol) that weren’t previously there and made your particular oral environment very eager to begin creating those foul-smelling VSC’s.

Then after dinner, by sucking on that mint, you actually gave those bacteria a food source they LOVE (sugar) to help along the VSC production. Yes, it’s true you TASTE cinnamon or mint, but that’s only a temporary cover up and what people actually SMELL is usually a lot worse.

Dr. Katz has invented a breath mint that really does it job. It’s called Zox — The First Breath Mint To Actually NEUTRALIZE Bad Breath Production.

Dr. Katz created ZOX because he wanted to address the fact that almost all the other ‘breath mints’ on the market DO NOT take into account the principles of halitosis prevention that he’s been studying for the last 10 years. Most of them are created to TASTE GOOD and that’s about it. ZOX was created based on the same clinically proven Zinc/Oxygen/Xylitol principles used by the rest of the TheraBreath product line. It is literally bad breath prevention science packed into a roll of breath mints.

ZOX has no sugar – your breath mint should NEVER have sugar in it. ZOX uses xylitol which is a natural sweetener and has also been proven to have tremendous anti-decay properties.

Dr. Katz also has sugar-free gum alteranatives – Therabreath gum, “French Kiss” (a cinammon flavored gum used in Hollywood) and “Guy” a gum created especially for guys.

So eat, drink, and be merry, but don’t forget to be conscious of your breath.Check out the www.therabreath.com to find the best product that will enable you to enjoy the New Year’s eve festivities (and the entire year to come) without bad breath worries. Therabreath is also available in select stores – please check out the store locator for the location nearest you.