How BLUEBERRIES* can** lower the risk of tooth decay*** *Combined berry extracts **Might, possibly, be able to ***Bacterial biofilm growth and excitation in petri dishes Fixed ithttps://twitter.com/MailOnline/status/1082805178984742912 …
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Study is here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/eos.12602 …
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They basically put some berry extracts onto biofilms created with mouth bacteria and measured how well those bacteria did
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So unless you are soaking your teeth in berry extracts - not the berries themselves - I can't see how any of this is even remotely connected to human health
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Preclinical research is fascinating, but to convert "disrupting S. mutans virulence properties without significantly affecting bacterial viability" into "prevents tooth decay" is going to take a LOT of time
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Hmm, yep hydroxy apatite disks, our system is better, but the idea of a berry extract mouthwash is pretty good (eating blueberries not so much)
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See that's my problem. It's an exciting and interesting finding, but creating a product from this particular study is going to take quite a while and won't resemble actual blueberries much (if at all)!
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But "New and effective mouthwash on the horizon" doesn't make as interesting a story as some total nonsense about blueberries, so that's what's reported
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Replying to @GidMK
Agreed (I got the original paper BTW, that goes in the proposal)
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