What prevalence of antiseptic mouthwash use is claimed?

Joy Kong, MDRegenerative Medicine Physician, Educator, and Entrepreneur

The Scary Side Effects of Mouthwash & Fluoride

29 Jan 2025 · 0 min

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A short YouTube video/transcript (presented by Joy Kong, MD) warning that antiseptic mouthwash and fluoride harm the oral and body microbiome, reduce nitric oxide production, raise blood pressure, blunt exercise benefits, and may lead to erectile dysfunction and chronic disease. The transcript notes 2 out of 3 Americans reportedly use antiseptic mouthwash, observes that tongue scraping preserves nitric oxide production, and recommends removing fluoride (use fluoride-free toothpaste and home filtration).

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2 out of 3 Americans (claimed in the transcript).

2 out of 3Americans wake up every day and use antiseptic mouthwash. If you use mouthwash, you destroy the microbiome, you shut down nitric oxide production, your blood pressure goes up, you lose the protective benefits of exercise and eventually you develop erectile dysfunction.
Well, I know people do tongue scraping. Would that cause any problems?
The patients who did tongue scraping actually had the best nitric oxide production.
Oh, wow.
But the problem was the people who were tongue scraping but then used antiseptic mouthwash were the ones we saw the highest increase in blood pressure.
It's the worst.
The other thing is fluoride. The water that's fluorinated that you drink, that you bathe in, that you cook in, is eradicating the microbiome in your body and it's causing enormous damage to the microbiome and shutting down nitric oxide production and causing chronic disease. So you have to get rid of fluoride chloride free toothpaste, get a home filtration system and get rid of fluoride.