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let’s talk about the worst drinks that

can dissolve your teeth okay i’m talking

about dissolving your enamel around your

teeth enamel is a very complex substance

it is the hardest substance in your

entire body it’s harder than bone but if

we look at bone the jaw bone is the

hardest of all the bones and so the

question is what has the capacity to

dissolve this enamel and give you

cavities is it just the acids or certain

things in the foods well

we’re going to talk about that let’s

first talk about different things that

you can drink

that are acidic now when i talk about

acidic i’m talking about ph and the ph

goes from 1 to 14.

14 being extremely

alkaline and 1 being extremely acid and

right in the middle 7 you have something

neutral okay so the higher the ph above

7 the more alkaline it is and the lower

things are below seven the more acid

things are and so if you were going to

talk about a ph of one you’re talking

about battery acid and then if you go up

one to three we’re dealing with

hydrochloric acid and acid in your

stomach

and when we’re dealing with

distilled water we’re dealing with

completely neutral seven mineral water

is slightly above seven it can actually

go up to eight

sometimes even nine because of the

dissolved minerals and the

bicarbonates they’re called which is

slightly alkaline now let’s talk about

lemon juice

lemon juice has a ph between two and

three so it’s very very acidic but

typically when you drink lemon water

you’re going to be putting a small

amount of lemon juice into water you’re

not going to basically bathe your mouth

with lemons necessarily but you might

but basically you’re going to take a

tablespoon of lemon juice

and put it in your water and so if we

combine the water plus the lemon the ph

actually rises

to roughly about 5.5 now if we take

apple cider vinegar which is also very

acidic between two and three because of

the acetic acid

you’re also not going to drink that

straight hopefully you’re not going to

drink that straight you’re going to

dilute it with water and the ph is going

to come up to about 4.5

to maybe 5 depending on if you’re using

a tablespoon or a teaspoon and then we

get into the carbonated waters right you

have carbonic acid and that could

fluctuate between five to five point

five to maybe even six

so carbonated water is slightly acidic

and then we have coffee which is acidic

it’s a five and t

which roughly is about the same but

maybe a little bit less acidic so

5 to 5.5 and then you have beer which is

acidic we have 4 to 4.5 and then we have

soft drinks like

coke which is roughly between 2.4 to 3.

so that’s actually very very acidic and

so when we’re dealing with ph in enamel

you start to get demineralization which

means the breakdown of minerals on your

teeth which are about 96 percent

minerals

at a ph about 5.5 but it’s all about how

long

that your teeth are exposed to these

acids so if you’re drinking apple cider

vinegar diluted with water or lemon or

drinking coffee for a short period of

time it’s not nearly as bad as if you’re

going to chronically do it all day long

so we have one variable of exposure

and then we have another variable of how

acid something is and then we have

another variable that i want to talk

about which is actually probably the

most important

factor and that is your own saliva now

your saliva normally should be between

6.2 to

7.6 okay

with an average of being slightly acidic

but not too much i’d say 6.7 now in

slava you have minerals you have sodium

you have calcium you have potassium

you have bicarbonates that help buffer

acids you have antimicrobial factors you

have immune factors you have cortisol

and you have enzymes so you may drink

certain things periodically through the

day

but really the saliva in your mouth is

there chronically it’s always there so

the ph of your saliva is a much more

important factor

to buffering these acids because one of

the purpose of saliva is to buffer some

of the acids and also reduce the

bacterial count and that’s another

factor i want to talk about the bacteria

in your mouth the bacteria in your mouth

it fed certain things like carbs start

to ferment these carbohydrates and start

to change the ph in your mouth and so

the bacteria can keep your ph very acid

and the bacteria are usually at the root

of this

dissolving of your enamel and yes you

guessed it it’s the carbohydrates i’m

talking about sugar

that really makes your mouth very acidic

not directly but indirectly because they

feed the bacteria that then produce

byproducts which are acidic so

normally when you drink apple cider

vinegar diluted or lemon water

it’s not a really big factor unless you

also have all these bacteria that are

constantly producing these acids in your

mouth all that long and so the worst

thing that you can drink

that will dissolve your teeth is

something with acid

and sugar at the same time and yes i’m

talking about juice especially if you’re

a young child or even a baby the worst

thing to feed a baby

is

juice because

it’s basically pure sugar with acids and

the younger you are the less strong the

enamel is babies are very very

susceptible to having things dissolve

the teeth because enamel has not

developed into a very strong layer yet

so you never want to give your baby

juice not to mention give your baby soda

which i’ve seen before which i have to

withhold myself because

sometimes people are offended if i speak

up now

since we’re on the topic of children

if the child is consuming things like

sour candy where you have

a stickiness of the candy you have the

sugar

and then you have these candies that are

very very acid like that would be very

very bad to give a child and then you

have the child that’s sucking on a

lollipop right constant exposure to

sugar or chewing gum all day which i

used to do as a child or what about

sports drinks which are basically sugar

water or energy drinks which are sugar

water or even dried fruit all these

things are going to breed more bacteria

that are going to acidify your mouth and

potentially dissolve your teeth and i

also forgot to mention in soft drinks

you have a very specific type of acid

called phosphoric acid and phosphoric

acid is probably the worst acid to

dissolve

teeth because it starts to leach out the

calcium now there’s two other factors i

want to talk about number one

is that

you really want to look at this problem

as a systemic problem if someone’s a

diabetic or a pre-diabetic or

they have insulin resistance because

they’re consuming a lot of carbs

then we’re dealing with a chronic level

of high blood glucose which does come

into the teeth indirectly

through the roots your teeth have a

blood supply so a lot of times people

have this idea that it’s just the tooth

exposed to sugar in your mouth that is a

big problem but what about internally

what about the roots of the tooth if you

have high blood sugars that’s a systemic

cause of a breakdown of your tooth as

well but from the inside out and also

let’s talk about the

socket that the tooth

is in

the gums okay

which require a good amount of vitamin c

because it’s all collagen and vitamin c

complex help make up collagen and

there’s a very interesting relationship

between the chemistry of sugar and the

chemistry of vitamin c

they’re near identical so when someone

is consuming sugar all day or exposing

their mouth to sugar the body will not

absorb vitamin c at the same time so if

given a choice the body will always

take up sugar

uh before vitamin c so in other words

sugar blocks vitamin c and what do you

think that’s going to do to your gums in

fact if you ever look at someone that

has bleeding gums or red swollen gums

that is a classic vitamin c deficiency

it’s a subclinical version of scurvy or

even scurvy itself gingivitis and

bleeding gums is a symptom of scurvy but

in reality nowadays it’s probably just

consuming too much sugar and the vitamin

c cannot be absorbed so should you be

concerned about drinking apple cider

vinegar and lemon in your water if it’s

diluted well not necessarily if you’re

on a low carb diet but you can always

just use a straw to avoid the exposure

of your teeth and then when you’re done

with these drinks you can always just

drink some water to flush out some of

these acids but your saliva has a job of

buffering these acids so an average

person produces about like three cups of

saliva every single day and for my

friend in germany dennis who still is

trying to figure out what that converts

into

milliliters one cup which is actually

less than this is about

750 milliliters or 25

ounces now that you have more awareness

on what can affect the enamel on your

teeth

i think it’s really important to

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