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Or, just use oil pulling with coconut oil. simple, natural and easiest way to reverse and prevent cavities. keeping the oil in the mouth for 20 minutes (before spitting out into the sink) is also a great way to maintain silence, and develop awareness of oral process, as you can't swallow.

More generally, am highly skeptical of this whole genetic modification drive for replacement of undesirable creatures like mosquitos and screw worms and now bacteria. Sure, sounds like a great idea and may work for the advertised benefits, but look who's funding it and how keen they are on developing vectors to human blood and what other tampering may occur that would be undetectable to anyone without millions of dollars of sequencing equipment. It fits in with the biosynthetic technology drive towards transhumanism alongside nanotechnology, worth researching before jumping on the "Homo Deus" bandwagon that paints us as 'hackable animals' whose soul is due to be extinct (quoting the top transhuman posterchild N. Harari). Worth deeply investigating the other side of the story, most clearly outlined by Prof. Anita Baxas, but also see Dr. Edward Group, Dr Ana Mihalchea, Karen Kingston and Dr. David Nixon.




If this is your very first comment, I can't wait for your next one.


What’s your evidence or rationale for the oil routine? Serious question, not trolling


It probably works, but it probably doesn’t work any better than using water or some other pH neutral liquid.

There’s a good chance all it’s doing is rinsing away or diluting existing acid.


Thousands of years of test of time stood with ayurveda. also validated with citations as experiments catch up

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5654187/


>The process of oil swishing is believed to cure or control 30 different types of systemic diseases including headaches, migraine, and chronic diseases such as asthma and diabetes mellitus.

Oh come on.


They forgot to mention, it specifically only works with snake oil.


Thanks for sharing the article, will give it a read.


This went on so many tangents that it came full circle




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