Probiora seems similar, but less sticky (it recommends a daily dissolvable tablet instead a once a decade tablet) and instead of producing ethanol, produces hydrogen peroxide.
Gene-Engineered Mouth Bacteria
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#22So are you just drunk all the time instead?
Alas, no.
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#23Charging $20,000 for a dose? Really?
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#24I wonder why it does not happen naturally if they outcompete normal bacteria, though. Bacteria has great speed of evolution.
The added genetic factors may, themselves, be exogenous and genetically modified. Your argument does make sense over thousands of years, however.
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#25I wonder why it does not happen naturally if they outcompete normal bacteria, though. Bacteria has great speed of evolution.
Because there's no downside to the current system they use. They only out-compete if you modify them in other ways to make them more successful in addition to the change you want.
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#26This is certainly an interesting idea, but there's absolutely no way for anyone to judge whether the claim on this page is bulletproof true, something plausible worth researching more, or just total nonsense.
But the fact that there isn't a single link to any scientific paper or evidence whatsoever, or even a single person's name linked to the site (or source of funding or anything), makes me assume this is just spam or a scam.
Apsec112, why did you submit this? How did you find it? Can you give us any context to suggest that anything about this is legit?
And anybody else -- are there actual published results from legit scientists on this? Is this a real thing, or just make-believe?
Because this is an extraordinary claim, and extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Not just 11 sentences.
Edit: I missed that at the very bottom of the page there's a link to a... Google Drive folder? [1] But it's disorganized and not exactly, well, professional. I can't make heads or tails of anything in it, or find anything that suggests credibility.
[1] https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/18ZDSe92LgLmS0sUb...
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#27Looks interesting but too good to be true. No one knows what is the catch? Or why the patent or technology would be stuck for so long if so good?
Also, would it really be safe to change the chimical equilibrium of the mouth?
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#28Great except for the ethanol thing...
>The average human digestive system produces approximately 3 g of ethanol per day through fermentation of its contents.
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#29Probiora seems similar, but less sticky (it recommends a daily dissolvable tablet instead a once a decade tablet) and instead of producing ethanol, produces hydrogen peroxide. https://probiorahealth.com/product/probiora/
What happens when these get into the esophagus and produce oxide species? Extra free radicals can't be great for your DNA. I wonder what the long term cancer outcomes would be.
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#30What if you spit it out? Or what about french-kissing someone, can you give this bacteria to the other person that way?