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The SUPERIOR Homemade Toothpaste (Only 4 Ingredients)

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Get access to my FREE resources 👉 https://drbrg.co/3xZcYaO Watch this episode next: Reset Your Body in 5 Days (With Zero Food) Just so you know, my full line of high-quality supplements is available on Amazon — search Dr. Berg Supplements. Discover why healthy saliva is so important and how your toothpaste may be damaging your health. Here's how to make natural toothpaste right at home. Homemade Toothpaste Ingredients: • 1 tsp coconut oil • 1/2 tsp baking soda • 1/4 tsp hydrogen peroxide (food-grade 3%) • 3 drops cinnamon or clove oil Mix the ingredients above and use as you usually would any other toothpaste. DATA: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Propylene-Glycol%3A-The-Safe-Diluent-that-Continues-Glover-Reed/dafc85eef9334e4ba7c473dc4bc5dd4763270beb 0:00 Introduction: Is toothpaste safe? 0:17 Saliva explained 2:15 The problem with toothpaste 3:32 Homemade toothpaste recipe 4:22 Learn how to prevent plaque! If you're using commercial toothpaste—you may want to think twice. Today, I will explain the benefits of healthy saliva and how toothpaste affects your health. Here are the benefits of healthy spit: • It contains electrolytes • It contains friendly bacteria • It contains an enzyme that helps you break down starches • It contains a protein that helps coat vitamin B12 to support absorption • It contains sodium bicarbonate to help neutralize acids and maintain the correct pH • It contains white blood cells and anti-pathogenic factors It's crucial not to disturb the chemistry of your saliva. If it's altered too much, it can lead to: • Inflammation (gingivitis or periodontitis) • Cavities • Overgrowth of yeast or candida on the tongue • Bad breath (chronic halitosis) • Biofilms on the tonsils Saliva helps clean your mouth, freshen your breath, and even prevent certain diseases. The problem is that commercial toothpaste contains multiple factors that disrupt the chemistry of your saliva and can potentially harm your health. However, you can make DIY toothpaste that's simple, inexpensive, and effective to help avoid problems that are associated with commercial toothpaste. This natural toothpaste has no side effects and will support healthy saliva. Dr. Eric Berg DC Bio: Dr. Berg, age 57, is a chiropractor who specializes in Healthy Ketosis & Intermittent Fasting. He is the author of the best-selling book The Healthy Keto Plan, and is the Director of Dr. Berg Nutritionals. He no longer practices, but focuses on health education through social media. Follow Me On Social Media: Facebook: https://bit.ly/FB-DrBerg Instagram: https://bit.ly/IG-DrBerg TikTok: https://bit.ly/TikTok-DrBerg Disclaimer: Dr. Eric Berg received his Doctor of Chiropractic degree from Palmer College of Chiropractic in 1988. His use of “doctor” or “Dr.” in relation to himself solely refers to that degree. Dr. Berg is a licensed chiropractor in Virginia, California, and Louisiana, but he no longer practices chiropractic in any state and does not see patients so he can focus on educating people as a full time activity, yet he maintains an active license. This video is for general informational purposes only. It should not be used to self-diagnose and it is not a substitute for a medical exam, cure, treatment, diagnosis, and prescription or recommendation. It does not create a doctor-patient relationship between Dr. Berg and you. You should not make any change in your health regimen or diet before first consulting a physician and obtaining a medical exam, diagnosis, and recommendation. Always seek the advice of a physician or other qualified health provider with any questions you may have regarding a medical ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The SUPERIOR Homemade Toothpaste (Only 4 Ingredients)

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Dr. Eric Berg DCThe SUPERIOR Homemade Toothpaste (Only 4 Ingredients). Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.

Now, if you're doing commercial toothpaste in the hopes that it will clean your teeth, make your breath fresh, you might want to think twice. In order for this to make sense, I first need to explain what your spit is made out of, okay? You're sold liva. You produce a tremendous amount of saliva every day. It's 1,500 milliliters. That's over 51 ounces of saliva every single day. Now, what's in saliva? Well, you have electrolytes, trillions of bacteria. You have an enzyme to help you break down starches. You have a protein that helps coat vitamin B12 so that it can pass through the stomach and get absorbed into the small intestine. There's mucus in there to keep everything flowing. And then you have sodium, but carbonate, that is baking soda. So the glands in your mouth actually make baking soda to help neutralize the acids that are occurring in the fermentation process

when you feed your microbes in your mouth too much sugar as well as the candida. There's this byproduct of a certain acid. And that pH is important because if the acid is too acidic, you're going to develop cavities in your saliva. There's actually white blood cells. There's all sorts of anti-macterial or specifically anti-pathogenic factors. And it's important not to disturb the chemistry of what's in that saliva because if it's too altered to one way, you start getting inflammation in your gum as ginger and vitus or parodontal disease. You start developing cavities. You start getting an overgrowth of yeast or candida on your tongue. You start developing bad breath chronic calatosis. And you can even develop biofilms which are microbial colonies in slime and calcium in your tonsils. So I hope now you understand the importance of the saliva and what it's doing to help clean your mouth and keep your breath fresh and prevent

all these other diseases that can happen in your mouth. So think about this. Here you use commercial toothpaste, right? What's in commercial toothpaste? Well, you have fluoride, which is very harmful to both good and bad bacteria. You also have triglycin. Well, actually, they just banned it. That's a chemical that acts as an endocrine disruptor which creates resistance to certain bacteria. And then they put sodium laurel sulfate. The same stuff in your shampoo. They put that in your toothpaste, like a lathering or a foaming type cleaning detergent, which what do you think that does to your friendly microbes? Then you have propylene glycol. The same stuff they put in antifreeze. They put that in your toothpaste, which is a solvent which can also contain something called dioxin, which is a carcinogen. In fact, sodium laurel sulfate can also contain dioxin as well, which like I said is a carcinogen. And on top of everything, let's put some artificial flavoring in there, some artificial coloring, some parabens, which are endocrine disruptors,

chemicals that eventually turn into formaldehyde. And in the icing on the cake, let's put a little carcinogen in there, which creates inflammation in your gut. Here you are thinking you're doing your mouse and good by using this commercial toothpaste. When in fact, it's altering the microbiome and the chemistry of your saliva. So I want to give you a very simple foreign gradient recipe to make your own toothpaste, which is very inexpensive, and that has absolutely no side effects. And it will give you nothing bad or negative. It'll actually support your healthy saliva. You start off with one teaspoon of coconut oil, okay? Then you add a half of a teaspoon of baking soda. Then you add a fourth of a teaspoon of hydrogen peroxide, food grade, three percent. Don't add a 35 percent. Then you simply add three drops of one of those oils, okay? It could be clove, cinnamon. You can also use oregano oil. Of course, the scent might taste like a pizza, but

I think these other ones are really, really beneficial. So this is a slight modification of another recipe I gave in this video on how to prevent placking. Check it out. I just put it up right here.

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