What Does Your Tongue Reveal About Your Health?
Have you looked at your tongue recently? If not, get a mirror and poke out your tongue. What do you see? Is it smooth and pink? Ideally that’s how your tongue should look. If you’ve overindulged in food and alcohol recently, your tongue may have a white, yellow or brown coating. Sounds very unappealing, but there’s a lot you can do to clean it up.
Your tongue is a great indicator of the health of your digestive tract and liver. Having a coated tongue usually means you have poor digestion or too many bad bugs/yeast in your bowel and/or a sluggish liver. It may also cause bad breath of which you may be unaware. Thankfully there is plenty you can do to resolve these problems.
Having a coated tongue usually indicates that you don’t digest food very well and because of this, bad bowel bacteria and yeast such as Candida are allowed to overgrow. Your liver helps you digest fat by producing bile. If you have liver or gallbladder problems, you may not be able to produce enough bile for adequate digestion. This can leave you feeling bloated and physically and mentally tired. Taking an ox bile supplement can help to restore healthy bile levels in your intestines.
A coated tongue and bad breath can also be indicators that your stomach is not producing enough hydrochloric acid. This can leave you unable to digest protein rich foods such as meat, seafood, eggs and poultry. Therefore food can sit in your stomach for too long, leaving you feeling bloated and excessively heavy. Stomach acid is also a brilliant disinfectant. It helps to kill bad bugs in your digestive tract. If you don’t make enough stomach acid, you won’t be experiencing these antiseptic benefits. This is also very relevant in people who take acid suppressing drugs for indigestion or heartburn.
Because bad bacteria and yeast tend to overgrow in people with poor digestion, the toxins they produce can lead to bloating, gas and indigestion, as well as bad breath.
Nearly everyone will get a coated tongue while they have a cold or flu, if they are smokers or if they are dehydrated. This is normal because toxins are building up in these situations. However, people with chronic sinus problems, usually have a coated tongue all the time. These people are prone to chronic and/or recurring infections.
How to clean up your tongue so it looks attractive and you feel well
- Firstly you need to stop eating foods that promote sluggish digestion and overgrowth of bad bowel flora. Sugar is fertilizer for bad bugs everywhere in the body. Diabetics are much more prone to all sorts of infections, but you don’t need to be a diabetic to have an overgrowth of bad bowel bugs from eating too much sugar. Sugar is found in so many processed foods that don’t even taste sweet; it is easy to eat a lot of sugar without even realizing it. It is also advisable to stop eating yeast while trying to fix your digestive system. Yeast is mostly found in some bread, mushrooms and some alcohol. Yeast allergies are very common.
- Make sure you are having regular bowel movements. Most people eat at least three times a day; therefore you should be having a bowel movement at least once a day. If you don’t go regularly, the waste you’re not getting rid of will become food for all sorts of bad bugs, yeast and Candida. Drinking eight to ten glasses of water or herbal tea each day is helpful, and exercise helps to promote intestinal contractions (peristalsis) that move food along your digestive tract.
- You may need Intestinal Parasite Cleanse capsules. These capsules help to get rid of parasites such as E. coli bacteria, Candida, Giardia, worms and a host of other unfriendly micro-organisms that may exist in your intestines and use the nutrients from your food. You may have contracted them from traveling overseas, in the school yard, unclean hands used to prepare your food, or contaminated food and water. Common symptoms of intestinal parasites include fatigue, abdominal bloating, gas, diarrhea or burping.
- Drink raw vegetable juices as these detoxify your liver and gut. Avoid fruit juice because it is too high in sugar. The best vegetables to juice are radishes, leafy vegetables like kale and lettuce, fresh herbs like cilantro, basil and arugula; celery, red onion, capsicum, carrot and cucumbers. For recipe ideas, see the book Raw Juices Can Save Your Life.
- Take a powerful liver tonic. If you have a coated tongue, your liver definitely needs some help. Cleaning up your diet will certainly help, but that is a long term process. Taking a good liver tonic will help you feel and look better much sooner. Livatone Plus contains the nutrients your liver needs to make it more efficient at detoxification and supports the production of healthy bile, which is a great way to eliminate toxins via the feces.
- Avoid mucus forming foods. As I mentioned, chronic sinus problems can cause a coated tongue, bad breath, as well as headaches and generalized aches and pains. Ice cream, cream, margarine, cream cheeses, deep fried foods and sugar are very mucus forming foods; they promote excess phlegm, infections and allergies. Any food you are allergic to will also promote excess mucus production.
- Avoid excess alcohol. Alcohol compromises your liver function and it certainly promotes bad breath and a coated tongue the next morning.
These tips should help get your tongue looking pink and clean. Have you looked at your partner’s tongue recently? You may want to inspect their tongue before you kiss them again! Yes a 4 to 6 week cleanse of your gut and liver can be great for your tongue, breath and complexion, helping you to feel happy and confident.
The above statements have not been evaluated by the FDA and are not intended to diagnose, treat or cure any disease.
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Psoriasis is an autoimmune condition and it is often accompanied by low Vitamin D. Low vitamin D also worsens inflammation and pain which would be contributing to the fibromyalgia.
As you have an autoimmune condition we recommend following the protocol in Dr Cabot's book: 'Healing Autoimmune Disease'.
After completing the Cleanse, we recommend you remain on this style of eating and you can then begin the Maintenance plan that is available at the same website.
Your symptoms are also consistent with SIBO, you may find this article helpful:https://www.liverdoctor.com/could-you-have-small-intestinal-bacterial-overgrowth-sibo/
Supplementation is to benefit your condition, lower antibody levels and allow you a life with few flares, and Dr Cabot prescribes
Selenomune Designer Energy – 1 capsule daily to increase your selenium levels to lower autoimmune antibody levels and reduce autoimmune disease activity.
Vitamin D 5,000iu – 1 capsule daily. Please have a Vitamin D blood test to ensure this dose is sufficient.
N-Acetyl-Cysteine (NAC 600mg) – 1 cap twice daily for 2 weeks and then increase to 2 capsules twice daily well away from food, if any upset occurs take at the beginning of your meals. NAC should be taken with a whole glass of water away from food. Do not take just before retiring to bed. NAC can be strong on the stomach, and this is why you need to take it with a whole glass of water. This supplement works well with Livatone Plus to get your liver better faster. This supplement is the precursor nutrient of glutathione; the body’s strongest anti-oxidant.
Bactoclear - 2 caps twice daily in the middle of meals to eradicate the bad bacteria and toxins.
You may purchase these supplements and Dr Cabot’s books athttps://shop.liverdoctor.com/
Kind regards,
Jessah Shaw
Nutritionist
Is probably nothing to worry about. If they get worse have a liver function blood test and a full blood count.
Livatone Plus will help your liver to repair and function.
Regards,
Dr Sandra Cabot McRae MBBS
This is classic geographic tongue and can occur if the gut bacteria are out of balance or the liver is over loaded. I recommend you take Livatone Plus 2 capsules twice daily and follow a diet high in vegetables and protein and avoid high carbohydrate foods.
Regards,
Dr Sandra Cabot McRae MBBS
This lump needs to be biopsied to see what it is.
To reduce risk of cancer in Barret’s esophagus you should take a selenium supplement
Regards,
Dr Sandra Cabot McRae MBBS
You may have inflammation and/or infection in the gallbladder so please check with your doctor. Your diet is important so watch my videos on the gallbladder to learn how to eat. If you have RA (rheumatoid arthritis) you need to go on a grain free diet. we have a book called HEALING AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE and that would help you. I assume you are on immuno-suppressant drugs which have caused candida = your white coated tongue.
I also recommend you take NAC one capsule twice daily inbetween meals with a whole large glass of water and my THYROID HEALTH CAPSULES 2 daily with food.
I also recommend my MAGNESIUM ULTRAPOTENT POWDER 1/2 teaspoon daily in water
Let me know how you get on
Dr Sandra Cabot
Make sure your blood level of vitamin D is at top of normal range.
Your son would benefit a lot from my MAGNESIUM ULTRAPOTENT POWDER one tsp daily in water or juice.
He could have herpes virus causing the sores and burning tongue and for this I recommend my SELENOMUNE one capsule daily.
Make sure he drinks plenty of water
let me know how he gets on
Dr Sandra Cabot
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You may find these articles helpful:https://www.liverdoctor.com/fibromyalgia/
https://www.liverdoctor.com/rosacea/
To reduce inflammation in the body we recommend Dr Cabot's 15 Day Cleanse - Two weeks to begin your journey toward improved overall health and function, utilising both supplements and a tasty, easy to prepare dietary regimen. Please go to www.drcabotcleanse.com to place an order.
After completing the Cleanse, we recommend you remain on this style of eating and you can then begin the Maintenance plan that is available at the same website.
This is an anti-inflammatory, liver friendly dietary style that is beneficial to hasten the healing of a congested liver and to boost liver health and your vitality.
When inflammatory disease is present, the liver is usually affected and Dr Cabot prescribes
Livatone Plus – 1 to 2 capsules twice daily, to improve liver function.
N-Acetyl-Cysteine (NAC 600mg) – 1 to 2 capsules twice daily well away from food, if any upset occurs take at the beginning of your meals. As you will see from the attached pamphlet this supplement works well with Livatone Plus to get your liver better faster. This supplement is the precursor nutrient of glutathione; the body’s strongest anti-oxidant.
MSM + Vitamin C – ½ to 1 teaspoon twice daily in vegetable juice or water to reduce oxidation, inflammation and boost liver health.
As you will see from the articles, those with Fibromyalgia are usually deficient in Magnesium, and Dr Cabot prescribes
Magnesium Ultrapotent – ½ teaspoon twice daily in a little water.
or
Magnesium Complete – 2 tablets twice daily.
You may purchase these supplements and Dr Cabot’s books athttps://shop.liverdoctor.com/
Kind regards,
Jessah
the white tipped tongue with red spots indicates a possible viral infection.
Open mouthed sleeping is not a good idea, the main reason to keep the mouth closed is that the dryness often extends to the gums, and you can experience receding gum disease which can lead to the roots of your teeth being exposed, which makes them more vulnerable to damage.
Sinus congestion often leads to open mouth sleeping to allow good breathing, so we recommend you begin taking Bacto Clear to keep your sinuses clear and to remove your likely viral infection of the tongue tip.
Kind regards
Victoria
Naturopath for Dr Sandra Cabot MD