Good oral hygiene helps keep your tongue healthy. Scrape your tongue gently while brushing your teeth, along with plenty of hydration, no smoking, and a well-balanced diet containing vitamins and minerals.
Your tongue serves as an easy yet effective tool to reveal your current state of health. Early detection of health issues including nutritional deficiencies, infections and chronic diseases becomes possible through monitoring your tongue’s color, changes, coating texture and shape and size.
Sources:
University Hospitals, “What Your Tongue Can Reveal About Your Health,” February 2024
Cleveland Clinic, “What’s a Normal Tongue Color?” May 2025
WebMD, “What Your Tongue Says About Your Health”
Research on tongue diagnosis and health markers, Frontiers in Big Data, January 2024
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