Re: Economical method for preventing gum disease? Any ideas?

From: Happy Dog (happydog_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 12/10/04 

Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 18:37:55 -0500

<awthrawthr@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> "Idiot. There are numerous antiseptics that bacteria will, likely,
> never
> overcome. But, there are many that have become less useful because
> bacteria
> evolve very quickly. Note "evolve" and not "outfox"."
>
> The essential oils I previously named are but a few of the ones which
> fall into the category of persistent antibiotics. Bacteria are
> incapable of mutating in such a way that the esential oils would become
> ineffective against the new mutated versions.

So what? That doesn't make them effective antibiotics. A point you don't
seem to grasp.

> "There are whole creatures that live in environments toxic to almost
> any "bacteria" you can
> think of. How do you suppose they came to thrive?"
>
> Each living thing from the bacterial level of organization on up is
> protected by their lipidic defense sytem. Note that essential oils are
> rich in lipids.

Again, so what? Unless you can prove that applying or ingesting them works
antibiotic wonders, the observation is unimportant.

moo

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