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Exploring links between the microbiome, the heart, and teeth.https://t.co/lpm2bo6aeRbecause bears.
"calcium binding of bacteria in an acidic saliva would lead to demineralization. I'm thinking that calcium floruide's anticavity aspects are actually a sort of bandaid for acidic mouth environments."https://t.co/HpcdRZ2XDp
"Changes to these bacterial communities in newborns have important implications for infection or disease early in life"https://t.co/pzFHJ593vHhttps://t.co/ckZWcdVBmm
Ancient Memes"milk was considered a miracle fluid which could cure people and give wisdom. The mythical figure Philosophia-Sapientia, the personification of wisdom, suckled philosophers at her breast and by this way they absorbed wisdom and moral virtue."https://t.co/tVdJxhrdie
Candidia Albicans can affect enamelhttps://t.co/FUOC6Fk88uAND we've known about Streptococcus Mutans role in tooth decay since 1986https://t.co/jf5NBWm1tDStrains of L. Reuteri fight Candidia albicans and streptococci mutans.https://t.co/8TPv4meHYH
Gerber sells probiotics with a strain of L. Reuteri and Vitamin D.https://t.co/4PZiD2Bz3Zhttps://t.co/v16rRDajkn
"As few as one in five formula-fed babies and one in 20 breastfed babies are getting as much vitamin D in their diets as the nation's leading pediatricians' group now calls for, the CDC says."https://t.co/iWgEHm3GYU
Find yourself a dentist who reads scientific papers on the microbiome."Oral microbiomes: more and more importance in oral cavity and whole body"https://t.co/IxDwCwjbr3 https://t.co/pVg1sWn7Hj
"The effect of periodontal infections on diabetes mellitus is potentially explained by the resulting increase in levels of systemic proinflammatory mediators, which exacerbates insulin resistance"https://t.co/0onOE2i7fr
"Most striking changes in uncontrolled diabetes are reduction in defense mechanism and increased susceptibility to infection leading to destructive periodontal disease."https://t.co/hPM5yB9IWV
"Enrichment of gut microbiota with L. reuteri increases insulin secretion, possibly due to augmented incretin release, but does not directly affect insulin sensitivity or body fat distribution."https://t.co/Pf6Xw2kwbC
"L reuteri was shown to inhibit NO production of macrophages when co-cultured with the other bacteria or when cells were pre-treated with LPS."https://t.co/zMc6IOlL90
"These results show that Kefir has a potential to modulate the immune response and activate peritoneal macrophages in diabetic animals, which suggests that it could enhance the immunocompetence of patients affected by diabetes mellitus"https://t.co/y8cjA1fHUL
I love reading stuff like this. It goes on and on about how processed foods are bad and how we need more nutrients...But then you look at what it recommends and it's all stuff that boosts healthy bacteria. "replenish nutrients" is a red herring?https://t.co/y5R0jTWDmr
The nutrients don't matter if you're destroying your gut microbiome and recreating it with destructive stuff like Strep Mutans. Gotta have both the nutrient profile and the right environment for this stuff to work.https://t.co/kgbZLXGhmD
Toxins destroying teeth, and nutrients restore them.Demons destroying my life energy, and love restores them.https://t.co/JgFsWmzKar
When you realize that 'Chi'/'Chakra' 'energy' combined with herbal medicines may be an alternate conception / model about various body axes.Gut brain axisHypothalamic pituitary adrenal/gonadal axishttps://t.co/JgRRpe8CID
I found some neat associations between oxidative stress + uric acid reduction and some studies reviewing "ancient Chinese" / Tibetan herbal medicine that I had previously noted as having diabetes adjacent virility cures. I'll have to branch down that path later.
Stealmanning history.https://t.co/YqKMzAppRJ
How do you teach a child that if they don't control their stress it will make them poop wrong?https://t.co/nqwEZiCXHv
TFW your culture's notes on ancient dietary habits to avoid disease are turned into a religious belief system. Many such cases.https://t.co/r6CpiM71Pe https://t.co/TuYeeX5y7B
"My fire Chakra would like to eat something other than onion banana juice."https://t.co/dsyezThKGr
Mommy, Why does the sun make my poop hurt?https://t.co/S4pbU23vle
The tooth fairy is a lie-to-children to distract them from the fact that our freaking teeth regularly fall out and then other ones grow in. https://t.co/xlVeM5s2ED https://t.co/ADnxuWpkaW
Rejecting cultural narratives, one tooth at a time.https://t.co/dl7GPHtSfK
The best fairy tale? https://t.co/gUG4a9LXHp
The tooth fairy is one of the few rituals we have in modern western society that hasn't been invaded by candy. https://t.co/2WuHQgm4M3 https://t.co/kn4Eh9xGHh
If toothpaste is a western invention promulgated on the back of advertising, what do other cultures do to maintain their teeth?https://t.co/h1soS9m8j5
It makes sense to me that long-term cultural norms around disease would affect the variation in immune system genetics. There's tons of strange papers on the ways religions have basically been at the core a way for society to deal with disease ala ritual https://t.co/LpayfvNsPM
George Washington's teeth didn't rot out of his head as we understand it. He actually used some of his own teeth as part of his dentures (they weren't made of wood)? Maybe he had gum disease?Whoa.https://t.co/QA60oxEnTW
The guy ate cornbread pancakes every day for breakfast?https://t.co/0Q3R1nIIwZ
How much do you not understand, and assume is a fairy tale?https://t.co/j1G36srBIN
@loremasterLuigi @SupaMalaman We draw dog faced people on a map. thinking they are figments of inventive minds.https://t.co/Gmoy4gSBj2Meanwhile, in indonesia, somewhere between India and Sumatra there are a people who sharpen their teeth taht could be describd as dog-like. https://t.co/FlW32BlLNX
How much do you not understand about fairy tales?https://t.co/JyQ6EowNkr
Have you tried to Grant the Premise?https://t.co/VqZaOk1R5x
Or considered alternate uses of a culturally imbued mythos past on from generation to generation as a learning aid?https://t.co/ymECXPmsDk
"No one would have predicted this."huh... https://t.co/m1xe4gymAehttps://t.co/J78bMxjE2I https://t.co/gHqeTy0kfy
@chaosprime @deafitist @GENIC0N @rivatez I have hyperthymesia.I saw Streptococcus in that article and my brain pooped out dog rose.Not sure why it happens."Streptococcus mutans"+"Candida Albicans" are probably synergistic, and dog rose fights the biofilm formation.https://t.co/EQCI7Pj7Dw
I don't just predict these things, I literally act as if this is the normative model that bacterial/fungal biofilms operate.https://t.co/GaqbHHykeA
"Their emergent intelligence and the evolutionary defence strategies are very similar to how organized human communities respond to society-level insults. […] key to our battle against biofilms could lie in understanding how bacterial societies function" https://t.co/NzYHLUPsNu
Just keep isolating strains and testing them without looking at how they interact. What could go wrong?https://t.co/ckGORRDnyl
Pull the worm from the tooth.https://t.co/kdq9SUp4py
What circumstances lead to bacteria and fungus to team up and wander around the tooth landscape? Is it like slimemold shifting to their slug phase to find food?https://t.co/Z53Ubm60fO
If you really think about it. Biofilms are kinda like a structure extruded by bacteria and fungus. Like keratin or bone, or shell, or dead skin cells, or silicon, or... This is a primitive body. A Bivouac.https://t.co/gNnXiHsHS3
These things are everywhere.https://t.co/g4UDwHeuYc
@MMMalign @DouglasKeeth "systems, these organizational structures, that allow a lot of autonomy to sensing units — to sense and respond to the environment without constantly going up to a central controller — are ubiquitous in nature. They are the most adaptable kind of systems." https://t.co/tX6bUrtRsO
Cleaning teeth by analogizing them to other surfaces prone to collect biofilms.https://t.co/sK7Y1o3fGx
I meditate about toilets while sitting on the toilet. But also while musing about complex nonlinear interactions of the dynamics of biofilm formation (at the colony level) in response to antibacterials+fungalcides and applications of combination therapy. https://t.co/GHC6CGCRm3
Can't wait until we see what kind of biofilms we are harboring in our gut."Dental biofilms from symptomatic COVID-19 patients harbour SARS-CoV-2 RNA and might be a potential reservoir with an essential role in COVID-19 transmission."https://t.co/Qdtsn6K4UV
So many biofilms, so little time.https://t.co/x6iA8FQZVU
I wonder what kind of mouth wash I can make to clean my teeth of biofilms awhile preserving health oral microbiota?https://t.co/Al4Ef6mwDR
@RahmSJ @TylerAlterman @seconds_0 I'd also be worried about spill over into other species if we are dosing it orally. Many of the ones we want to harbor in our gut for normal digestion of foods use biofilm formation to protect themselves. Hard to only target one species using a pharmaceutical approach.
Teamwork makes the dream work.https://t.co/xY9ghoCuae
The bacterial carrying capacity of your oral landscape.https://t.co/CiZXQwvl5G
"advances that underscore the roles of [bacterial-fungal interactions] across relevant habitats and ecosystems. A particular focus is placed on the understanding [...] within complex microbial communities and in regard of the metaorganism concept." [2018]https://t.co/ZX2Wb7FSh3
"Who does the measuring? What we find depends on what the observer is capable of seeing."https://t.co/weCBvnTPFv