Does it bleed after removing? Is it mostly on the sides? That's thrush.
Bacterial overgrowth looks different, it's more hairy and food material easily gets trapped and colors the tongue accordingly. Milk leaves a whitish layer, coffee more yellowish and so on.
You say it can be removed. That's bacteria. Does it help to swish your tongue with a bicarbonate solution? If so, that's additional evidence of your tongue's coating to be bacterial in origin.
Bacterial overgrowth looks different, it's more hairy and food material easily gets trapped and colors the tongue accordingly. Milk leaves a whitish layer, coffee more yellowish and so on.
You say it can be removed. That's bacteria. Does it help to swish your tongue with a bicarbonate solution? If so, that's additional evidence of your tongue's coating to be bacterial in origin.
Ray Peat said:Local bacteria are usually involved in the white tongue, but typically the problem is mainly in the intestine. I have experimented with the old-fashioned "intestinal disinfectant" camphoric acid (it used to be a common pharmaceutical, 80 to 100 years ago), and when I would swallow about 100 to 200 mg of it in the evening, I would wake up with a perfectly clean tongue, not a bit of the white. Bamboo shoots, raw carrot, and flowers of sulfur are other antiseptics that can reduce the white tongue.
Ray Peat said:They aren't necessary [FIBER], for example milk supports abundant bacterial growth that creates bulk, but when there are digestive and hormonal problems because of bad intestinal flora, the fibers of carrot and bamboo shoots have a disinfecting action. The carrots must be raw for that effect.