The downside to fermented foods

As a follow up to my last post about fermented foods/drinks, I wanted to share one downside to them that I discovered - and did not read about at all prior to increasing my consumption of them. This downside is teeth sensitivity.

Granted, it should be fairly obvious that acidic foods/drinks are hard on one's teeth. It is just not something that crossed my mind until it happened to me.

After drinking a fair amount of vinegar, apple cider vinegar, and kombucha over the past couple years for my digestion and general health I recently started having very sensitive teeth. I thought about what might have caused this sudden, extremely painful change in my health and realized that the likely culprit is all of the acidic things I have been drinking lately!

So this past month I started using sensitive toothpaste and cut way back on my vinegar and kombucha consumption. And do you know what happened? I got a cold!

Unfortunately, now I need to work on finding another way to increase the probiotics in my life besides relying so heavily on acidic drinks like kombucha.