Alcohol-based mouthwashes deplete nitric oxide production, providing a reason to avoid them in favor of supporting the oral microbiome.

“these alcohol-based more typical over-the-counter mouthwashes by the way this is not a scare tactic against mouthwashes I'm sure that if you use mouthwashes you're still producing some nitric oxide but I think nowadays many hopefully all of you are interested in doing whatever you can to improve your mental health physical health and performance and if there are things that you are doing that are inhibiting those in any way that you'd potentially want to at least think about those maybe remove them from your protocols especially if there's a cost to them that you can remove in other words you can save on costs”