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you know in the morning i usually bring

my wife coffee and uh usually

i’m up a lot earlier uh 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

um 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

their microbial population

that can dramatically affect their mood

and their breath because you’re altering

these microbial

communities so this is why

one of the big side effects from an

antibiotic is an overgrowth of yeast in

your mouth like thrush that gives off

kind of a bad odor

and if you look at some of the side

effects from antibiotics you could have

psychosis

major depression

anxiety

and even panic attacks now as far as one

reason for this physical reason

we have this spike in cortisol when we

go through panic attacks when we go

through chronic stress we have or worry

we have this spike in cortisol

cortisol it greatly suppresses the

diversity of the different types of

species of microbes that you have and it

basically paralyzes your immune system

which your microbes are a big big part

this is why chronic elevation of

cortisol

can affect your breath because it

destroys the microbes i mean if you even

think about when someone cries for

example

it affects their entire physiology and

the same thing that happens when someone

is actually in a chronic state of

depression so brushing your teeth or

using perfumes or breath mints

are not going to work unless you handle

the source of depression or handle the

source of

anxiety or worry but on the flip side if

you had an antibiotic and that affect

your mood you have to reestablish

this microbial life but one thing you

have to realize and this is something

new for a lot of people is you don’t

just have

strains of bacteria you have a complex

group

of friendly

bacteria

friendly yeast friendly fungus and they

all work together very similar to the

microbes in the soil like when you’re

gardening you need the right ratios of

bacteria to the fungal population if

you’re too heavy in the bacteria and not

enough fungus you’re not going to have

the mobilization of the nutrients and so

we don’t want too much of one population

we want the correct ratio of fungus to

bacteria the same thing in your gut you

should start eating foods that are

fermented for example that have healthy

yeast as well as bacteria like

kefir like sauerkraut things like that

so you have the microbiome okay

that’s all the friendly microbes but you

also have

mycobiome that’s myco biome that is the

population of friendly funguses in your

body so we need

both and so when you take an antibiotic

and you kill off your microbes and then

you get a yeast infection it’s because

these yeast and fungus now become

competitive they no longer are friendly

i wanted to just increase your awareness

that your mood can affect your microbes

and your microbes can also affect your

mood and you want to identify what is

the real cause of that and you can use

your breath as an indicator of what’s

happening to your microbes because the

quality of your breath is directly

related to

mainly your balance of the right

microbes i know i’ve done a lot of

videos on chronic stress

and depression and there can be some

nutritional reasons for that like

vitamin d is the best

nutrient for depression and vitamin b1

is the best antidote for anxiety so you

might want to try that but also just

being out in the sun being out in nature

getting more space

changing your environment is so so so

important versus being stuck in the

house watching the news all day very

very bad to keep your mood up now as far

as exercise goes if you compare physical

work outside to going to a gym on a

treadmill

the physical workout side is going to be

hands down way better as a therapy

because it gets your mind off the stress

way more than being on a treadmill

especially when you’re watching the news

on the treadmill but i do want to say

one of the best exercises that i found

for for mental stress is indoor rock

climbing boy there’s nothing better than

doing rock climbing just to extract you

from your stress

but you can do the same thing with

hiking outside and there’s many of

exercises that will help

now of course your diet is something

that i would really focus on because if

you’re not on the right eating plan and

if you’re doing too many carbs and

you’re not doing the keto or not doing

intermittent fasting especially boy

that’s going to keep you in a lowered

mood for sure but just implementing

intermittent fasting has a dramatic

effect on the cognitive function it’ll

bring you out of anxiety and put you in

a great state of mind now i put some

links down below some great videos that

you can watch on how to re-establish the

friendly flora in your gut

but if you haven’t seen my video

on panic attacks it’s a simple technique

you can do to pull yourself out of not

just a panic attack but any type of

anxiety or stress

check it out right here

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