The molecule DIM reduces biofilms causing dental plaque: study
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What OP is implying is not really tinfoil hat material. As one example, one of the reasons parroted (by democrats, actually) that we won't have universal healthcare ever, is that it's going to cause thousands of health insurance jobs to dissapear.
Why defer to a baseless "probably" when you can easily check what is known about the past? Wikipedia doesn't put the blame on refined sugar but rather point to farming as to what correlated with dental issues. Are you familiar with the barber's pole? that's the sign for the location where our ancestors went to be relived from owning teeth.
Regardless of the type of healthcare (nationalized, private, etc..) the dental health industry is still getting paid, the only diffference is who is doing it. The original statement was that a breakthrough in preventive medicine will destroy a large portion of the bread and butter of the dental health industry, which will lead to it being only a fraction of what it is today. Industries fight tooth and nail to keep growing. Guess what they do when their existence is threatened.
No, one difference is who is doing it, another one is the sums being payed. That's why the dental industry in countries with national health care fight to stay out of the general health system. The lucrative compensation of the practitioners lead people to want to go specifically for that. If it were part of national health care it would cease to be sure path to accumulating loads of money, the incentive to become a dentist as well as the power of current practitioner will be similar to that of family doctors or orthopedic specialist. Spoiler alert: in countries with national health care their status is higher then the status of teachers in national school systems, but not by much.
If something works, someone, somewhere in the world would start using it. Hell, people are willing to use stuff that is flat out harmful simply because some people on the internet said so.
The big issue with bio things is that the human organism has a lot of variation and a lot of cures sorta work for some people some of the time. Consequently, a high enough bar to get FDA clearance has to be significantly strong.
(Two good recent examples: A woman died from oxalate overload from drinking green smoothies and Vitamin C and anti-oxidants can spur cancer growth. Does that mean that everybody should stop drinking green smoothies and taking Vitamin C? Obviously no. But it shows that humans vary and that things aren't always straightforward.)
What if it invades the gut?
[0]: https://www.dentistryiq.com/dentistry/oral-systemic-health/a...
Not qualified to argue with your very logical position here but I feel like it might be a longer-term transition and there might still be hold-outs if its only a one-and-done deal like you've described.
Mea culpa tho, I definitely want to believe
Me too. Nothing would make me happier than for someone to show me why I'm wrong here.
Like I said, nothing would make me happier than to be proven wrong about this. But right now my money is on the things-that-sound-too-good-to-be-true-usually-are theory.
In their website they claim that within 30 days the good bacteria will outcompetes the bad one. I don't think you can stop taking the tablets after those 30 days completely to keep tits benefits. Those bacteria might die down over a course of a few months for various reasons.
Then unless your mouth ends up bacteria-free, the good bacteria are by definition not out-competing the bad ones.
Very few products kill 100% of bacteria, even deionised water will still have less than 25 colony forming bacteria per litre in it, although by virtue of being deionised has less in it to help bacteria get established. Acidifying water will make it harder for pseudomonas to get established. But when scientists say they are searching for life on mars or an asteroid, they are referring to bacteria, mainly the bacillus aka rod shaped bacteria as it can survive in radiation 100,000 times more than humans can survive in, and extreme cold like space, so global warming and melting ice at the poles presents new viral and bacterial risks.
Diet can also reduce the body's own immune response, for example calcium disodium ethylene diamine tetra-acetate aka Calcium disodium EDTA found in a variety of products from makeup to food like Mayonnaise chelates zinc reducing zinc's ability to activate GPR39.
Zinc's inability from deficiency or chemicals like the one mentioned above, from being able to activate GPR39, creates a myriad of problems in human health, including reducing saliva production. [1]
There isnt anything wrong with using bacteria to out compete other bacteria, but adaptions occur.
Phages are viruses that kill bacteria, something the Russians developed decades ago as the West when with antibiotics[2]. I would also consider Georgia as a medical destination for some conditions as they are superior to Western options. Some of their doctors do scoff at the Western doctors!
You can find millions if not billions of phages in just 1ml of seawater [3]. The problem with phages is they take time to develop, so you could be dead before the bacterial strain is identified and a phage is developed, so antibiotics are the fastest immediate response, but the gold standard is antibiotics until the phages have been developed and then used as a part of a treatment program, but you'll only get this from very expensive private healthcare.
Of course drinking seawater when one goes surfing is a bit of pot luck, or lucky dip with regards to consuming phages. It makes me wonder if Surfers Against Sewage know about phages. [4]
So lots of different ways to tackle health problems, but medical experts cant always use them due to cost or simply lack of knowledge.
[1] https://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/22/8/3872
[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6203130/
[3] https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210115-the-viruses-that....
https://www.lifeextension.com/vitamins-supplements/item02120...
Last scan by the wayback machine.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230628125533/https://probiorah...
Inoculated person X kisses two people, they go on to kiss two people, etc. Probably too simple a model, but I assume that kissing spreads all manner of microorganisms. How much do you need for the bacteria to take hold?
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32932149/
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342535934_Xylitol_a...
Figure 1 at https://www.mdpi.com/2079-6382/12/6/1017
I hope I’m missing something but that looks like a ridiculous blunder perhaps made to get forward to publishing.
One interesting point I saw was that bleach is unlikely to promote oral cancers, unlike alcohol mouthwash or oxygenating compounds like hydrogen peroxide.
Staining w/chlorhexidine appears to be very individual.
How significant a percentage are we talking about?
Pretty much every dentist I've seen throughout my life has told me that I'm somehow immune to cavities. I don't know how they're figuring this out just from looking in my mouth (I'm not aware of having had any saliva tests or anything like that), but they've all agreed about it.
I wonder if I'm in some less significant percentage of people who foster this bacteria (or something like it) on our own somehow?
My dentist told me there's two types of mouth flora: one that causes cavities, and one that causes calculus. My mouth seems to be of the latter.
There's people that basically never have to brush their teeth, why can't their magical bacteria be used by everyone? I recently asked a dentist in training and they told me the bacteria would die after eating the plaque. Even if you have to regularly re-add the bacteria, it doesn't seem like that big of a deal. You could make a lozenge which you suck on once a week, and it's still less effort than brushing daily.
Though I agree that even if you replace all your teeth you still have to brush somewhat because the gums need the cleanup as well and you can't replace those. Though I'd think I can get away with a much shorter procedure than what I do for several years now (powerful oral shower, interdental brushes, brushing teeth and gums, and Listerine).
Gums and inter-teeth space are still prone to pollution that can easily grow to infections and ultimately nasty stuff like periodontitis (I got operated to be cured of it several years ago).
Like soft drinks, it's pretty much water + additives.
Yet it makes brand name soft drinks look extremely cheap. ;)
Most effective are those Oral B electric brushes that alternately rotate back and forth.
https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-1049/diindo...
> Diindolylmethane might act like estrogen in the body, but might also block estrogen effects.
Right, so don't swallow it?
> People commonly use diindolylmethane for breast cancer, prostate cancer, and many other conditions, but there is no good scientific evidence to support these uses.
Or perhaps do swallow it?
I personally only take small amounts as it seems to up-regulate some repair pathways that can cause pain in some joints. No pain no gain but I'm just lazy enough to stick with broccoli sprouts for DIM and sulforaphane most of the time. I also don't measure serum estrogen and guess as with most things.