Excerpt from a YouTube conversation (Ben Greenfield and others) discussing how antiseptic mouthwashes (e.g., chlorhexidine) can kill oral bacteria that convert dietary nitrates into nitric oxide, with possible consequences for cardiovascular function (including reported increases in blood pressure) and tooth remineralization. The speakers note scientific literature showing blood-pressure effects after use of antibacterial mouthwash.
Because I think what you were saying is if you nuke all these bacteria in your mouth that convert nitrates into nitric oxide, you could theoretically affect cardiovascular function.
Oh, yeah. And it has been shown in the literature you can do that. You can take mouthwash that is chlorhexidine, which is like an antibiotic, mouthwash, and you can give it to people and literally raise their blood pressure by killing the bacteria in their mouth with that mouthwash.
I've heard that that might actually impede tooth remineralization. Glycerin. But yet you've got it in your products.
Yep. You and everybody else so fully expected this question, and I'm really glad you brought it up. This is what you call misinformation. So it has four different benefits. It keeps its preservation, so it keeps our formula from drying out in the tube texture, of course, because most individuals do prefer to brush with something that is pleasant. It's a binder though, too, so it helps equally distribute our active ingredients and keeps them bound together. And finally, it is bacteriostatic.
