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A Five-Day Fasting Diet Could Help Ease Gum Disease Inflammation
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Tibi Puiu
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A small clinical trial suggests that a fasting-mimicking diet may help reduce inflammation in patients undergoing treatment for severe gum disease. While the diet did not accelerate physical healing, it lowered levels of inflammatory molecules in blood and gum fluid.
Periodontitis may begin in the narrow space between tooth and gum. But the immune response it sets off can reach far beyond the mouth.
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