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Gene-Engineered Mouth Bacteria

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Re: Gene-Engineered Mouth Bacteria

#32

This 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 spa…

Hi! These are friends of mine. There is much more detail in the Google Drive (linked from the About page): https://drive.google.com/drive/u/2/folders/18ZDSe92LgLmS0sUb...

Re: Gene-Engineered Mouth Bacteria

#33
Call to action is to give them my email to learn more, but no description of what I'd actually get.

I'd love to see links to papers, news articles, or some description of what they plan to do next.

Re: Gene-Engineered Mouth Bacteria

#34

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. https://probiorahealth.com/product/probiora/

Interesting product, but the site has one of the worst GDPR controls ive seen - silently redirects to Google if you attempt to view the site from an EU IP address. Thought my computer is going nuts

Re: Gene-Engineered Mouth Bacteria

#35

This sounds like great additional protection, but I would still like to brush and floss to get the remaining food grime out of my mouth. Meaning it really doesn’t change my life all that much. It would certainly be a game changer for lower income families.

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Re: Gene-Engineered Mouth Bacteria

#37

This sounds like great additional protection, but I would still like to brush and floss to get the remaining food grime out of my mouth. Meaning it really doesn’t change my life all that much. It would certainly be a game changer for lower income families.

Good choice. Gingivitis is a deeper problem than cavities. Without your gums you lose not just your teeth, but it can become a systemic infection. And it's much harder to fix than a cavity.

Re: Gene-Engineered Mouth Bacteria

#38
post #17

Small price to pay

Tooth decay or brain and liver damage? Or reducing sugar?

Our body can assimilate 1 Alcoholic Unit per day without any problems. I doubt those bacteria would produce anything in that order of magnitude so I truly don't understand your reply. Did you just blindly write: "alcohol therefore bad"?

Re: Gene-Engineered Mouth Bacteria

#39
post #29

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. 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.

Hydrogen peroxide producing bacteria are far more of a known factor than ethanol producing bacteria where it comes to long-term interactions with human mucosa, the former being a natural part of human vaginal flora.

Re: Gene-Engineered Mouth Bacteria

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post #34

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. https://probiorahealth.com/product/probiora/

Interesting product, but the site has one of the worst GDPR controls ive seen - silently redirects to Google if you attempt to view the site from an EU IP address. Thought my computer is going nuts

Not just EU, Switzerland too.

That tells me everything I need to know, the site owner simply wants to steal my personal data and use it against me.

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