I’ve heard dental hygienist recommend we brush our teeth before eating breakfast because it removes all the bacteria that was built overnight before interacting with the food we eat.
I’ve also heard people recommend we brush our teeth after eating breakfast because it cleans our mouth entirely— both overnight bacteria and breakfast.
There’s more evidence to support the idea of brushing teeth before breakfast as it’s better at maintaining our oral health. Yet that doesn’t stop people from brushing teeth until after breakfast due to superstitions.
Why is it easier to follow a popular belief over the proven advice of experts? And why do most of us ignore it?
Did we stop believing in experts all of sudden? It is because there’s too much information that makes it difficult to ascertain?
It’s wise to trust our instincts and do our research, but most experts built their lives around such research— it‘s wise to listen to what they have to say.
Give it some thought and decide for yourself.
We’re at the mercy of ourselves, not others.
Here’s my quote for the day:
From the very beginning, make it your practice to say to every harsh impression, ‘you are an impression and not at all what you appear to be.’ Next, examine and test it by the rules you possess, the first and greatest of which is this—whether it belongs to the things in our control or not in our control, and if the latter, be prepared to respond, ‘It is nothing to me.’
— Epictetus