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Bioengineered chewing gum may offer a way to fight HPV and other microbes

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Re: Bioengineered chewing gum may offer a way to fight HPV and other microbes

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Post by cubefox »

AlanYx wrote: post #56
cubefox wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

>Gardasil 9 seems to be the best available HPV vaccine. Only in high income countries. The 4-valent version is still the dominant version available worldwide.

For Gardasil 9, some lower income countries also use just a single dose rather than two, due to cost.

Re: Bioengineered chewing gum may offer a way to fight HPV and other microbes

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Post by bubblegumcrisis »

wnmurphy wrote: post #57

In case this is useful for anyone, this study on high-risk HPV and medicinal mushrooms blew my mind: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25271984/ In 88% (36 out of 41) of patients with high-risk HPV, taking reishi + turkey tail mushrooms daily for 2 months cleared the virus, versus 5% clearance (1 out of 20) in the control group. I suspect that 88% clearance rate would be higher if they continued for longer than 2 month…

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Post by volkl48 »

wnmurphy wrote: post #57

In case this is useful for anyone, this study on high-risk HPV and medicinal mushrooms blew my mind: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25271984/ In 88% (36 out of 41) of patients with high-risk HPV, taking reishi + turkey tail mushrooms daily for 2 months cleared the virus, versus 5% clearance (1 out of 20) in the control group. I suspect that 88% clearance rate would be higher if they continued for longer than 2 month…

Sorry, but no. This does not pass the smell test in the slightest.

This is:

- A single author paper with no academic affiliations.

- A search on the internet for this author finds them also pitching essential oils and a wide variety of other "alternative medicine" on the Youtube/Podcast grifter circuit and not the sorts of alternative medicine anyone seriously thinks might have some merit.

- The address listed for his supposed place of practice appears to be a roadside "clini-spa" advertising beauty treatments.

- This could only get published in some low-impact journal that's solely about the purported benefits of mushrooms, even though if true this would be a pretty revolutionary finding that would be of interest to far bigger journals.

Can I prove it's fraud? No, especially since I'm not paying $25 to look at the paper details.

But unless this finding replicates from someone with credibility, I don't think this means much of anything and I certainly don't think you should be taking anything in this paper as a fact.

Re: Bioengineered chewing gum may offer a way to fight HPV and other microbes

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Post by m463 »

wxw wrote: post #7

Tangentially related, apparently xylitol gum can reduce cavity risk by killing off bacteria (which cannot digest but cannot differentiate xylitol from regular sugar) in the mouth.

By the way, you should know some people have trouble with the *-itols, causing a range of uncomfortable gut problems.

not only xylitol, but sorbitol, mannitol and maltitol. Also related are lactose, fructose, and *saccharides.

the keyword is FODMAP, look up low-FODMAP diet.

maybe: https://www.med.unc.edu/medicine/gi/faculty-staff-website/wp...

Re: Bioengineered chewing gum may offer a way to fight HPV and other microbes

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Post by scantron4 »

kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #54
rustystump wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

it originated way earlier as a way to help people who have naturally small nasal passages. i guess both mewing and chewing help widen passages. The book breath goes into details but from the perspective of health and not looks. This has been known for like 100 years but mostly dentists payed attention to it. The fact is mewing and chewing do make a measurable difference…over time. Tiktok promotes extremes as they get…

> Similar sad nonsense It's amazing how they normalized fillers to the point of being hideous and convinced themselves that that's a beautiful aesthetic. The consensus seeking hive mind at work.

Thats also partially because they were told fillers dissolve and to keep getting them, when actually fillers migrate and continue to absorb water and grow, leading to puffy "pillow face".
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