A Common Cause Of Yellow Teeth & Bad Breath

by FLPTeam on January 26, 2012


Who, What, Where, Why, When & How is always a good start.

Perhaps you are reading this because you have a “Why”. Why do I feel tired? Why do I feel irritable? Why do I get an upset stomach? Why do I seem to suffer some form of IBS or Irritable Bowl Syndrome? Why do I keep getting sick? Why do I have ‘Yellow Teeth & Bad Breath?’ Or, I am worried about someone else.

So, let us be Inspector Clouseau and discover what it is that we need to know, if we don’t already know what we do not know to misquote Donald Rumsfeld.

Who are we talking about? Are they fit, fat jolly or sad? Do they exercise a lot, not much or not at all? Do they eat healthily or unhealthily? Are they stressed or unstressed, are they responsible or irresponsible. Are they receptive to change or stuck in their ways. All of the questions and answers will help to distill, in your mind and that of others, a framework for action.

What happened for a person to get the point where he or she is seeking advice? Probably a niggling challenge and one we could deal with today is yellow teeth and bad breath.

Most people associate yellow or stained teeth and bad breath with smoking, possibly combined with drinking alcohol and poor dental hygiene. These are probably contributing factors but it may not be the whole story. Your mouth is swarming with bacteria and just like in the gut, there is good and bad.

We need to encourage the good so, that they displace the bad. You can think of it as a Robin Hood action. Feared by the bad, loved by the good, Robin Probiotic Hood.

Perhaps the most obvious way to control the harmful bacteria is to brush our teeth after meals or, if this is not practical, at least twice per day together with flossing in between the teeth. A tongue scraper is a good idea too.

Since current estimates report that 50-75% of all Americans have gum disease to a greater or lesser extent, it is possibly true for other countries as well. Our oral hygiene is not what it should be and the bad bacteria are multiplying like crazy and taking over our mouths.

The result of harmful bacteria overgrowth is gum disease which, comes in two main flavours: Gingivitis and Periodontitis.

Gingivitis is the precursor of Periodontitis where the symptoms are swollen or bleeding gums which, if left unchecked, will turn into the more serious Periodontitis.

Periodontitis or pyorrhoea is a set of inflammatory diseases affecting the periodontium, i.e., the tissues that surround and support the teeth. Periodontitis involves progressive loss of the alveolar bone around the teeth, and if left untreated, can lead to the loosening and subsequent loss of teeth.

Periodontal Disease

Periodontitis is caused by microorganisms that adhere to and grow on the tooth’s surfaces, along with an overly aggressive immune response against these microorganisms. A diagnosis of periodontitis is established by inspecting the soft gum tissues around the teeth with a probe and by evaluating the patient’s x-ray films to determine the amount of bone loss around the teeth.

This radiograph shows significant bone loss between the two roots of a tooth (black region). The spongy bone has receded due to infection under tooth, reducing the bony support for the tooth.

Apart from your teeth falling out, there is another more pressing reason why we should care about Gingivitis and Periodontitis and that is that the harmful bacteria associated with these conditions can get into your heart via your bloodstream. It may increase your risk of coronary heart disease or lead to endocarditis which, is an infection of the inner lining of the heart that can damage or destroy your heart valves.

No less so with pregnant women who can pass this destructive bacteria originating in their mouths through the placenta and quite possibly, lead to premature birth.

What to do? See your dentist and make sure that you do not have the onset of Gingivitis or Periodontitis. Follow your dentist’s advice with regard to thoroughly cleaning your teeth every day and seek out lifestyle and dietary changes that can prevent the build up of acidity in your body which fosters nasty surprises down the road.

In the same way that probiotics encourage the proliferation of ‘Good’ bacteria in your gut, using probiotics directly in the mouth will do the same thing. This is not a recommendation but it is what the author does. He breaks open a probiotic beadlet and squeezes it on his toothbrush and thoroughly massages his gums.

Research has shown that an ideal combination of bacteria for good oral health and prevention of plaque forming in your heart valves is are derived from Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium genera.

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Bowel Town!

by FLPTeam on December 8, 2011


Let’s get down dirty to Bowel Town!

Why You Should Know The Three Most Important Things About Crohn’s Disease And Colitis

I know it’s not what you want to talk about, especially over breakfast. So, don’t talk. Just listen… Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin.

What goes up must come down. What goes in must come out. And if you are overweight, then it is likely that you are putting in more than you are letting out. It doesn’t matter what you are putting in, good bad or indifferent, if the equation is not balanced the excess will go somewhere. If you look down, you can probably see where it went.

Ok. You hear it endlessly. You are what you eat. Giving children pizza for breakfast must be the most bizarre, inane and bonkers thing I saw on Jamie Oliver in America. Those children will become as round as a pizza and will not be fit enough to play in your favourite team, ever. They are likely to die young too and it will be the fault of parents who cannot see in front of their collective nose’s. It is they who need to go back to school with their children and learn something about how their body works. You don’t have to be a doctor to understand the basics. Doctors should be paid only when you are healthy and payment withdrawn when you are ill! What a difference that would make, eh? But I digress…

When I say that the pizza babes will die young, it won’t be before they suffer serious, painful disease. For all the protection parents pretend to give their children believing that a child molester is around every corner, their most serious neglect is that of their children’s health. Let’s face it. They are FAT!

One of the most likely causes of premature death is heart and liver disease then complete failure of one or the other. These diseases can be brought on more quickly by conditions termed colitis, ulcerative colitis, piles, hemorrhoids and other conditions of the bowl. IBS (Irritable Bowl Syndrome) or IBD (Inflammatory bowel disease) may include Crohn’s Disease.
Dr Burrill B Crohn

“In 1932 Dr. Burril Crohn, along with two other physicians, published the first article about “regional enteritis” in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Later this condition has come to be known as Crohn’s disease.”

How to avoid premature death for yourself and your children must be of serious concern to us all.

Here is what you can look forward to if you contract these conditions. Typical treatments can be as bad as or worse than the disease itself! Ask anyone who has taken steroids or other medications with mind and body-altering side effects, had major, life-changing surgery or endured chemotherapy. Any disease is tough to combat, but Crohn’s disease sufferers receive a three sided assault on their wellbeing.

Crohn’s can strike any area of the digestive tract from the mouth to the anus but it usually affects the lower section of the small intestine and upper part of the colon. It penetrates deep into your intestinal wall. It’s serious.Picture of Intestines

Chronic inflammation in the intestines can lead to diarrhea, abdominal pain, fever and rectal bleeding. Your intestines become raw and covered with sores. Basically, you need to  prevent yourself and those around you from contracting the condition. If improperly digested food is left in the digestive tract for too long, it turns acidic and literally burns holes in your gut, a condition called ‘Leaky Gut’. This has the unpleasant side effect of a person becoming intolerant to certain foods, or foods that contain large amounts of chemicals or substances that irritate the gut wall further and therefore worsen the condition.

You have heard of Gluten Intolerance? The received wisdom on gluten intolerance is that the level of gluten in wheat has risen by over 100% in the last 100 years. In evolutionary terms, this is like having a pint of beer at 4% alcohol content quickly followed by a pint of 100% alcohol. The body just cannot cope. Gluten has become a major irritant in the gut for 21st century consumers of American wheat in particular. Gluten is an elastic protein in wheat which greatly aids the dough forming process and wheat has been systematically bred and modified to give better dough elasticity for industrial convenience. At our expense.

Do not feed yourself with commercially produced, wrapped white bread. It’s useless and can do more harm than good. All grains contain gluten but in oats, rye and older varieties of wheat like spelt, gluten is less and better tolerated by the body. Bread made of sour dough may be better too but ask your speciality baker first.

Now. The three sided attack:

  • Digestion problems
  • Immune system slaughterer
  • Gluten intolerance

We touched on digestion problems and we mentioned gluten intolerance but attacks on the immune system leave you wide open to many other complaints that may turn more serious.

People don’t die of AIDS. People with AIDS die from more common conditions like pnemonia, for which the body has been denuded of defence.

Crohn’s is an autoimmune condition, meaning your immune system sees normal bacteria or molecules in the intestines as dangerous invaders and launches an attack.

Then, just like clockwork, you fly to the loo with inflammation, pain and diarrhoea.

You have heard of so called “Smart Bombs” (The designers of which have probably never considered themselves or their children to be the target for such devices…) well, you can help fight this immune system slaughterer by making your immune system a little smarter. Get Smart!

Having a strong population of probiotic bacteria in your gut helps to encourage more of your immune system’s natural inflammation-fighting cells to form. In addition,  probiotics help the other cells in your intestinal tract to treat normal molecules as friends instead of enemies….

What has been repeatedly proven to be effective for countless Crohn’s sufferers is the proper combination of foods. Foods that don’t digest well together puts you in danger of developing the condition that allows Crohn’s disease to take hold. When you eat food combinations that break themselves down completely, you get nice, easy, regular bowel movements and help to minimize intestinal irritation.

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