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Sounds like an ad. "Eat this gum, it is so healthy."
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...

I wonder if chewing mastic would be as effective?
Alternative form of delivery required for Singapore.
Not worth the time of day until it can be demonstrated that there is a net health benefit. Precautionary Principle FTW.
I'm just over here wondering how/where/when I can buy this
I'm curious. HIV has been largely conquered, so why hasn't HPV been conquered yet? Same goes for shingles.
There's been a lot of failed attempts at therapeutic vaccines and the like, but nothing has proven effective. It seems that the virus is quite hard to detect and target in the skin.

That, plus a lack of urgency due to the effectiveness of preventative vaccines, leads to a lack of urgency on the issue.

Chicken pox is conquered. We went from 95% to <1%. Shingles will see a similar plunge.
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.
apparently it helps reduce risk of mouth cancer..... what im hearing is rotate this and zyns in my mouth, see what happens.
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 months.