Blog About Bad Breath

There are two entirely different groups of people who follow a high protein diet regime: body builders and dieters. Though both bodybuilders and dieters are as different as chalk and cheese in most respects, both often find them selfs suffering from unusually bad breath. This side effect of bad breath is often the most over looked consequence of following a high protein diet. Remember if you are going to start a special diet, regardless of the reason, you should always consult a qualified expert, though this is not always feasible in real life. Professional sports people, not just bodybuilders, often need to increase muscle mass in a short period of time, while social pressures may force a young person to diet by way of a high protein/low carbohydrate diet that she or he has read about somewhere.

When you find yourself suffering from bad breath after starting a high protein diet is likely to be a signal that a special regimen of food intake has become unbalanced. This could be intentional if the intention is to burn fat quickly, but it is important to keep a body’s functions within limits of normal ranges. Bad breath after starting a high protein diet is due to a specific reason which all sufferers would do well to understand: it occurs because of the build up of ketones in blood. A ketone is a malodorous chemical which your body produces when it uses fat in the absence of carbohydrates. Ketones leave the body through breath, apart from in urine and perspiration, and this is fundamentally why people on high protein diets inevitably suffer from bad breath.

How to Combat Bad Breath Caused by Diet

If you can’t return to a more normal, well balanced, diet it is best to see if some healthy forms of carbohydrates can be added back into your daily meal regimens. It is common to associate high protein with meat and sea food, but the truth is that there are many vegetarian forms of protein, which have healthy proportions of carbohydrates as well. Beans are great examples of this. Adding them to your list of meal ingredients will leave you with plenty of proteins, and just enough carbohydrates as well to prevent the incomplete burning of stored fats. Another approach would be to work in the sun, or to spend time in saunas, so that accumulated ketones use skin pores as alternates to breath in order to escape from the body. Drinking plenty of water will help ketones leave the body through urine, while diluting their concentrations inside mouths at the same time.

It is not recommended to stay on extreme diets on a permanent basis. And if your bad breath originates from a high protein/low carb. diet then simply resuming a more normal, well balanced, diet will cure your bad breath. All diets can be risky followed on a permanent basis; if you planing to do so you must consult a doctor with focused training and experience in diet and weight management.
On a cautionary note a person who suffers from bad breath, could be an undiagnosed or a poorly managed diabetic. Diabetics have a low level of insulin which can also lead to ketones building up in blood, causing bad breath. Untreated diabetes can quickly develop in to a life threatening situation.While I can suggest a couple of temporary measures to keel breath smelling fresh, if you suffer from severe bad breath, also called halitosis, you should always seek the expert attention of a doctor particularly if you are athlete or on a diet to loose a significant amount of weight.

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