Leafy greens are loaded with folate, especially spinach. If you have a juicer, you can juice a crap load of anything that' s green and swish that around your mouth. My favorite juicing greens are green peppers, Pok Choi, Rapini, and spinach. Romaine Lettuce also has a crapload of folate.
Vitamins A, C, & K which are also in abundance in leafy greens are also known anti-inflammatories.
Intrestingly enough, I just finished reading a paper on the emission of Volatile Sulfuric Compounds from the mouths of healthy people and people with periodontal disease. The emission levels of methyl mercaptan (pathogenic compound) from the mouth of people with periodontal disease was 5x higher than control and the tongue coating was 4x as thick.
Folic Acid and B12 are intrinsically involved in sulfur metabolism, particularly in the breakdown/rearrangement of sulfur linkages. This jives with the Folic Acid reduction of periodontal disease symptoms if it does so by breaking down methyl mercaptan. Swishing around some B12 lipospray wouldn't hurt either I suppose. Brushing the tongue to reomove the tongue coating seems very important too. jv
Re: Folic Acid
Vitamins A, C, & K which are also in abundance in leafy greens are also known anti-inflammatories.
Intrestingly enough, I just finished reading a paper on the emission of Volatile Sulfuric Compounds from the mouths of healthy people and people with periodontal disease. The emission levels of methyl mercaptan (pathogenic compound) from the mouth of people with periodontal disease was 5x higher than control and the tongue coating was 4x as thick.
Folic Acid and B12 are intrinsically involved in sulfur metabolism, particularly in the breakdown/rearrangement of sulfur linkages. This jives with the Folic Acid reduction of periodontal disease symptoms if it does so by breaking down methyl mercaptan. Swishing around some B12 lipospray wouldn't hurt either I suppose. Brushing the tongue to reomove the tongue coating seems very important too.
jv