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Bad Breath Might Start in Your Gut

20 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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Bad breath often comes from changes in your oral microbiome that mirror what's happening in your gut. Your gut bacteria influence your skin, sweat glands, and hormones, which means improving gut health can actually freshen your breath and reduce body odor.

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Bad breath, it's basically a change in the bacteria in your oral microbiome, and it reflects strongly what's happening in your gut microbiome. No way. Or body odor. Body odor can be an indication of bacteria in your gut? Absolutely. Why? Whatever's happening in your gut translates to your skin, your sweat glands, your hormones, and it all comes out. So the interesting thing is after we clean up their gut, they tell me, oh, my breath is so much better. I don't smell as bad anymore.