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Can a Mouth Wash Really Help You Lose Weight?

When you're using beetroot juice or some other form of dietary nitrate, you're hoping it's going to enhance your performance. What you're trying to do is facilitate nitric oxide production. The conversion of nitrate to nitrite is fully dependent on the bacteria that reside in your oral cavity. And so if you use a really strong, anti bacterial mouth wash, you will wipe out those coloniesf of bacteria in your mouth. There's actually interesting research that people who use mouth wash regularly, their blood pressure is just a couple points higher,. Even looking at like, big population level data, which is pretty interesting.

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