In this informal, conversational video Samir Gardner shares two primary natural strategies to eliminate persistent bad breath despite maintaining general healthy habits. First, he recommends daily coconut oil pulling: swishing a teaspoon of coconut oil in the mouth for 5–20 minutes each morning before brushing to reduce oral bacteria, whiten teeth, and “wash” the mouth, thereby neutralising odour. Second, he stresses the importance of stopping mouth breathing. He advises training oneself to breathe through the nose as much as possible, explaining that nasal breathing keeps the nasal passages clear while mouth breathing leads to dryness and worsened breath. To enforce nasal breathing during sleep, he uses inexpensive mouth‑tape, which he says improves sleep quality and prevents the morning‑time foul breath that results from sleeping with an open mouth. The video’s tone is casual, supportive, and enthusiastic, positioning these habits as simple, low‑cost life‑hacks that can dramatically improve oral freshness and overall wellbeing.
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If you've been taking care of yourself, you know, doing the good habits, the healthy habits, you know, being on self-improvement, but you still got a bad breath, then bro, I got you, okay? There's two ways I can tell you right now that is actually gonna really change your— how your breath smells. Now first of all, coconut oil pulling, okay, or oil pulling or whatever. I use coconut oil. So what you do— me, what I like to do actually is every day in the morning before I brush my teeth. I should do it right when I wake up. Okay, I put 1 teaspoon of coconut oil into my mouth and I just swish it around. Me, for 20 minutes, but you can do 5 minutes. You can start with 5 minutes and just swish it around for 5 minutes, and then maybe you can do 10 minutes, maybe you can do 20. I think 5 minutes will be good. Okay, now what does it help? Helps get rid of the bad bacteria. Yeah, also like whitens your teeth. And bro, it actually makes your breath doesn't smell bad because what happens is it's kind of like you're just washing your whole mouth. So you're not going to have the bad breath. It's like your bad breath is in your mouth and you're just getting rid of it with liquid basically. It's just like you're washing every part of your mouth so how can your breath smells? And then the second tips, which is actually life-changing, not only for the breath, but like in life in general, is stop mouth breathing, okay? This is very, very important. Me, I try to actually breathe like 24/7 with my nose, okay? The way to be able to breathe through your nose as much as possible, maybe like literally 24 hours a day, is first of all, you gotta breathe through your nose even though like you can't breathe through your nose. Like I'm not saying, you're running out of breath, but if you have like a small opening, then keep breathing through your nose because as you breathe through your nose, your nose will actually clear up. Because when you breathe through your mouth, bro, your nose gets clogged up. That's how it happens, okay? If you always breathe through your nose, then your nose is not gonna be clogged up. So this is very important. And the second way will be to breathe like 24/7 through your, is to have a mouth tape when you're sleeping. Okay, I have a mouth tape. I don't know if you can see it, but I put it in my mouth every night. You can buy a cheap mouth tape. And what happens is I sleep better because I'm only breathing through my nose. I'm not breathing through my mouth. And when you breathe through your mouth, first of all, you get bad breath way more than if you just breathe through your nose. Okay, like, because when you wake up, basically, your breath smells okay, but when you wake up after literally like sleeping with your mouth open like the, the whole night, bro, actually like, like your breath smells even worse, okay? Using a mouth tape will actually improve your sleep, and also, bro, your breath is gonna smell better. Like, literally breathe through your nose as much as you can.
