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Re:Scientists May Have Found Mechanism Behind Cognitive Decl... by jacquesm on Sunday July 30, 2023 @07:00AM (#36929908)
It's better to think of your body as a walking city of interlinked organisms of different species than a single organism. They need you as much as you need them. Killing off some of those symbionts can have negative effects for the other party (you).

Mouthwash is indiscriminate in that it kills of a huge amount of bacteria, but some of those are actually useful.

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Re:Scientists May Have Found Mechanism Behind Cognitive Decl... by txtxtatmos on Sunday July 30, 2023 @07:38AM (#36930129)
> It's better to think of your body as a walking city of interlinked organisms of different species than a single organism. They need you as much as you need them. Killing off some of those symbionts can have negative effects for the other party (you).

> Mouthwash is indiscriminate in that it kills of a huge amount of bacteria, but some of those are actually useful.

> It's better to think of your body as a walking city of interlinked organisms of different species than a single organism. They need you as much as you need them. Killing off some of those symbionts can have negative effects for the other party (you).

> Mouthwash is indiscriminate in that it kills of a huge amount of bacteria, but some of those are actually useful.

Not true https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35946140/

Also some of those are quite harmful https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34666923/

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