Take Good Care of Your Tongue

What happens in your mouth at night while you sleep? There's a soiree going on and the toxins are partying like rock stars. Of course, you brushed and flossed before bed to remove the SLUDGE from the day. Good Start! Sweet Dreams...

The alarm goes off. Rise and shine. First, take in a few deep breaths to get the oxygen going, maybe an easy going forward bend to release the back? Now, head straight to the bathroom and clean your tongue! Using your magnificent ergonomically correct tongue scraper, tongue wand, tongue cleaner whatever you want to call it, scrape your tongue. Tongue scrapers are designed to clean the bacterial build-up, food debris, fungi, and dead cells from the surface of the tongue. The tongue is a nesting ground for bacteria and at night while you rest, everyday toxins, bacteria etc make their appearance and settle into the many tiny crevices in your mouth. The last thing you want to do is to let those toxins and bacteria start to make their way back into your body. If you tongue scrape first thing, you can get rid of a lot of those irritating toxins that settle in the night, so they don't drip back into your system throughout your day.

Tongue hygiene has roots in the tradition of Ayurveda, the practice of traditional Indian medicine. In Ayurvedic practice it is recommended that tongue cleaning be part of one's daily hygiene regimen, to remove the toxic debris, known as Ama.

Along with cleansing toxins from your mouth, tongue cleaning also improves the sense of taste and regularly cleaning your tongue also stimulates the secretions of digestive enzymes. So scrape away!

There are a variety of tongue scrapers on the market.
Visit your local health food store or shop online.
THIS IS A GOOD ONE!

xoxo, Doce Vida Fitness