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Can BLIS K12™ Fight Gum Disease?

Your eyes may be the window to the soul, but your mouth is a window to your body's health. The state of your oral health can offer lots of clues about your overall health. Oral health and overall health are more connected than you might realize.  Your mouth is normally teeming with billions and billions of bacteria that are mostly beneficial.
Please note that this is not meant to scare you but to simply state the available emerging evidence. While it is known that diseases of the oral cavity (mouth), throat and upper respiratory tract can have serious acute and chronic effects on human body, there is now emerging evidence that microorganisms implicated in inflammatory diseases of the oral cavity such as gingivitis, periodontal diseases and poor oral hygiene might also be linked to cardiovascular, preterm labour, pulmonary and diabetic diseases.

The Surgeon General estimates 85 percent of Americans have gum disease — which make it one of the major risk factors for heart attacks and strokes.Indeed, the plaque in our mouths is the same as the plaque in our arteries, so if you have bleeding gums, that stuff is entering your bloodstream.

Cardiovascular disease kills more Americans than cancer. Whilst the scientific basis for the linkages between the oral cavity bacteria and the development of these diseases is not fully determined, it nevertheless raises important questions about the role of "microflora" and how this may be manipulated with bacterial replacement therapy.   

What is this to do with BLIS?                                                                              

The mouth is an entry point for pathogens as it comes into contact with billions of bacteria every day! 

A pathogen is anything that causes a disease.  Pathogens include:

(1) Bacteria. A group of microscopic organisms that are capable of reproducing on their own, causing human disease by direct invasion of body tissues. Bacteria often produce toxins that poison the cells they have invaded. Numerous bacteria also live in harmony with the body and are necessary for human existence, such as bacteria that aid in digestion in the gut. Bacterial diseases include "strep" tonsillitis, pneumonia, and meningitis. (example: bacterial meningitis or strep throat)

(2) Viruses.

(3) Fungi (example: athlete’s foot)

We come in contact with pathogens everyday.  Most of the time our body’s immune system destroys them before they can cause harm.

 

The microorganisms in our mouth are the first line of defence against pathogens and an important part of our immune health. If a healthy balance of oral bacteria is affected by stress, exposure to disease or antibiotics, it can quickly lead to problems such as throat infections, ear infections and bad breath.

By promoting a healthy balance of bacteria in the mouth and upper respiratory tract, BLIS K12™ can help protect the gateway to our body's health.

Unlike traditional prescription antibiotic drugs, which are indiscriminate and trend to wipe out the body's bacterial population; both good and bad; BLIS K12™ advanced probiotics produce antibacterial molecules that target certain bacteria within close proximity.

 
These advanced probiotic bacteria will naturally colonize on the tongue and in back of your throat. Once the BLIS K12™ take up residence in your mouth and throat, it has been scientifically shown that they will then offer long term protection from a number of harmful bacteria and season ailments.

 

 

 BLIS K12 is the world’s only probiotic specifically designed to protect the entire oral cavity, which includes the throat, mouth, gums and teeth.