I hate hate HATE red bubbles. I cannot stand them.

I'm using the apple mail app for my business email, and it's showing 8 unread messages when I have 3. It's a discrepancy between gmail & apple. I've doubled checked, and they're one thread emails so it just doesn't make sense.

How do I fix this? Really, I can't do the red bubbles. I need that number to be smaller.