The #1 Worst Drink That Dissolves Your Teeth

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let’s talk about the worst drinks that can dissolve your teeth okay i’m talking about dissolving your enamel around your teeth enamel is a very complex substance it is the hardest substance in your entire body it’s harder than bone but if we look at bone the jaw bone is the hardest of all the bones and so the question is what has the capacity to dissolve this enamel and give you cavities is it just the acids or certain things in the foods well we’re going to talk about that let’s first talk about different things that you can drink that are acidic now when i talk about acidic i’m talking about ph and the ph goes from 1 to 14. 14 being extremely alkaline and 1 being extremely acid and right in the middle 7 you have something neutral okay so the higher the ph above 7 the more alkaline it is and the lower things are below seven the more acid things are and so if you were going to talk about a ph of one you’re talking about battery acid and then if you go up one to three we’re dealing with hydrochloric acid and acid in your stomach and when we’re dealing with distilled water we’re dealing with completely neutral seven mineral water is slightly above seven it can actually go up to eight sometimes even nine because of the dissolved minerals and the bicarbonates they’re called which is slightly alkaline now let’s talk about lemon juice lemon juice has a ph between two and three so it’s very very acidic but typically when you drink lemon water you’re going to be putting a small amount of lemon juice into water you’re not going to basically bathe your mouth with lemons necessarily but you might but basically you’re going to take a tablespoon of lemon juice and put it in your water and so if we combine the water plus the lemon the ph actually rises to roughly about 5. 5 now if we take apple cider vinegar which is also very acidic between two and three because of the acetic acid you’re also not going to drink that straight hopefully you’re not going to drink that straight you’re going to dilute it with water and the ph is going to come up to about 4. 5 to maybe 5 depending on if you’re using a tablespoon or a teaspoon and then we get into the carbonated waters right you have carbonic acid and that could fluctuate between five to five point five to maybe even six so carbonated water is slightly acidic and then we have coffee which is acidic it’s a five and t which roughly is about the same but maybe a little bit less acidic so 5 to 5. 5 and then you have beer which is acidic we have 4 to 4.

5 and then we have soft drinks like coke which is roughly between 2. 4 to 3. so that’s actually very very acidic and so when we’re dealing with ph in enamel you start to get demineralization which means the breakdown of minerals on your teeth which are about 96 percent minerals at a ph about 5. 5 but it’s all about how long that your teeth are exposed to these acids so if you’re drinking apple cider vinegar diluted with water or lemon or drinking coffee for a short period of time it’s not nearly as bad as if you’re going to chronically do it all day long so we have one variable of exposure and then we have another variable of how acid something is and then we have another variable that i want to talk about which is actually probably the most important factor and that is your own saliva now your saliva normally should be between 6. 2 to 7.

6 okay with an average of being slightly acidic but not too much i’d say 6. 7 now in slava you have minerals you have sodium you have calcium you have potassium you have bicarbonates that help buffer acids you have antimicrobial factors you have immune factors you have cortisol and you have enzymes so you may drink certain things periodically through the day but really the saliva in your mouth is there chronically it’s always there so the ph of your saliva is a much more important factor to buffering these acids because one of the purpose of saliva is to buffer some of the acids and also reduce the bacterial count and that’s another factor i want to talk about the bacteria in your mouth the bacteria in your mouth it fed certain things like carbs start to ferment these carbohydrates and start to change the ph in your mouth and so the bacteria can keep your ph very acid and the bacteria are usually at the root of this dissolving of your enamel and yes you guessed it it’s the carbohydrates i’m talking about sugar that really makes your mouth very acidic not directly but indirectly because they feed the bacteria that then produce byproducts which are acidic so normally when you drink apple cider vinegar diluted or lemon water it’s not a really big factor unless you also have all these bacteria that are constantly producing these acids in your mouth all that long and so the worst thing that you can drink that will dissolve your teeth is something with acid and sugar at the same time and yes i’m talking about juice especially if you’re a young child or even a baby the worst thing to feed a baby is juice because it’s basically pure sugar with acids and the younger you are the less strong the enamel is babies are very very susceptible to having things dissolve the teeth because enamel has not developed into a very strong layer yet so you never want to give your baby juice not to mention give your baby soda which i’ve seen before which i have to withhold myself because sometimes people are offended if i speak up now since we’re on the topic of children if the child is consuming things like sour candy where you have a stickiness of the candy you have the sugar and then you have these candies that are very very acid like that would be very very bad to give a child and then you have the child that’s sucking on a lollipop right constant exposure to sugar or chewing gum all day which i used to do as a child or what about sports drinks which are basically sugar water or energy drinks which are sugar water or even dried fruit all these things are going to breed more bacteria that are going to acidify your mouth and potentially dissolve your teeth and i also forgot to mention in soft drinks you have a very specific type of acid called phosphoric acid and phosphoric acid is probably the worst acid to dissolve teeth because it starts to leach out the calcium now there’s two other factors i want to talk about number one is that you really want to look at this problem as a systemic problem if someone’s a diabetic or a pre-diabetic or they have insulin resistance because they’re consuming a lot of carbs then we’re dealing with a chronic level of high blood glucose which does come into the teeth indirectly through the roots your teeth have a blood supply so a lot of times people have this idea that it’s just the tooth exposed to sugar in your mouth that is a big problem but what about internally what about the roots of the tooth if you have high blood sugars that’s a systemic cause of a breakdown of your tooth as well but from the inside out and also let’s talk about the socket that the tooth is in the gums okay which require a good amount of vitamin c because it’s all collagen and vitamin c complex help make up collagen and there’s a very interesting relationship between the chemistry of sugar and the chemistry of vitamin c they’re near identical so when someone is consuming sugar all day or exposing their mouth to sugar the body will not absorb vitamin c at the same time so if given a choice the body will always take up sugar uh before vitamin c so in other words sugar blocks vitamin c and what do you think that’s going to do to your gums in fact if you ever look at someone that has bleeding gums or red swollen gums that is a classic vitamin c deficiency it’s a subclinical version of scurvy or even scurvy itself gingivitis and bleeding gums is a symptom of scurvy but in reality nowadays it’s probably just consuming too much sugar and the vitamin c cann