Aren't all gum based basically plastic? Including natural ones? So chewing any gum is just going to fill your body with microplastics right? I wonder if the risk offset is worth it.
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#32Alternative form of delivery required for Singapore.
Chewing gum in Singapore is a bit like medical marijuana was in California.
Possession and use of chewing gum is legal. Importation for personal consumption is also legal. Selling and importing in commercial quantities are banned.
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#33Aren't all gum based basically plastic? Including natural ones? So chewing any gum is just going to fill your body with microplastics right? I wonder if the risk offset is worth it.
Those are some great leaps of logic.
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#34I wonder if chewing mastic would be as effective?
I started chewing mastic gum a few years ago as a jaw-shape maintenance measure. An encouragement for anyone who's curious about it: I like the taste and stiff texture of mastic more than normal gum these days.
I tried it, but it goes through some weird changes while you chew it.
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we owe the dairy industry to this phenomena, and also a lot of fetishes
I mean some fetishes have science behind why they exist. For example, the part of the brain that process feet is located next to the area that processes genitals. At least, some are explainable. Some are not.
Well, if natural selection had a say, the only fetish anyone would have would be an impregnation fetish. (Only half joking.)
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#36This is the future I wanted.
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I started chewing mastic gum a few years ago as a jaw-shape maintenance measure. An encouragement for anyone who's curious about it: I like the taste and stiff texture of mastic more than normal gum these days.
Can you explain what you mean by a maintenance measure for your jaw shape? Is the idea.. a jaw workout?
The looksmaxxing thing is a real reason mastic gum as a jaw workout is promoted. Won't deny that.
My use of it comes from early 2010s era paleo-food community observations about hunter gatherers having less crowded jaws than agriculturalist and modern peoples, hypothesized to be due to both micronutrient intake and also eating tougher foods. Cramped jaws and facial structures lead to both malocclusion and also nasal breathing issues, and mouth breathing also reinforces those pathological facial changes. Granted, this stuff is from sources that I've heard wildly varying opinions on (Weston A Price; Mike Mew). Jaw and facial structure continues to change into adulthood. I needed extensive orthodontics in my youth and have struggled with sleep apnea in adulthood. This broad set of hypotheses made sense to me, and chewing mastic gum was the easiest way to get a full dose of "chew tougher food" in my life. I try to snack on raw carrots too.
Speaking to attractiveness, there's an uncomfortable photo of identical twins in one of the Weston Price books, one given orthodontic treatment that widened their facial structure and one was not. The one with the widened facial structure was more attractive. The difference wasn't gigantic, but it wasn't small either.
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#38I'm curious. HIV has been largely conquered, so why hasn't HPV been conquered yet? Same goes for shingles.
Adding to my sibling comments: It also has been conquered in some sense of the word. There are effective vaccines for the 9 most problematic HPV types: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HPV_vaccine . It is worth getting, regardless of your gender.
Gardasil 9 seems to be the best available HPV vaccine. I guess the chewing gum is mainly intended for people who were already infected with some HPV strain before they got the vaccine, or where the vaccine didn't work (because it doesn't offer complete protection).
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Xylitol is really cool that way. The bacteria waste energy trying to convert it to a form they can use, but they just end up with at a dead end with xylitol-5-phosphate. Once they realize that they need to get rid of it, they convert it back to xylitol (so it can cross the membrane easier and probably to keep the phosphate). Of course, that means the xylitol is back to fool some other nearby bacteria into wasting its…
Sounds interesting, indeed. Just dug up this review [1] that claims there were no adverse effects from any of the interventions, and that after 2.5 to 3 years of use, a fluoride toothpaste containing 10% xylitol may reduce caries by 13% when compared to a fluoride-only toothpaste. I wonder how well bacteria will adapt long term in your mouth to Xylitol exposure through bubble gum based adminstration. [1] Xylitol-cont…
Couldnt find any (relatively recent) studies that looked at bacteria over multiple years, but some earlier ones (1&2), or shorter period ones(3), that touch on it (aswell as caries, as that is the prevalent subject)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2758793/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1810656/
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/nutrition/articles/10.3...
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Can you explain what you mean by a maintenance measure for your jaw shape? Is the idea.. a jaw workout?
The looksmaxxing thing is a real reason mastic gum as a jaw workout is promoted. Won't deny that. My use of it comes from early 2010s era paleo-food community observations about hunter gatherers having less crowded jaws than agriculturalist and modern peoples, hypothesized to be due to both micronutrient intake and also eating tougher foods. Cramped jaws and facial structures lead to both malocclusion and also nasal…
I'm just hear to commiserate with the only person I've come across online in decades mentioning Weston A Price and his book of dental studies, which no doubt dates us. (The side-by-side jaw images left an impression on me as well). I'm guessing you were also part of the Price to Nourishing Traditions cookbook pipeline? Everyone I knew had at least the cookbooks back in the day.