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Hefty daily dose of glycine prevents caries
If you are to believe a forgotten animal study from the 1970s, supplementation with glycine can help prevent tooth decay. However, the human equivalent of the dose tested by Salil Das and Robert Harris was on the high side.
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Study
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Salil Das and Robert Harris, two food scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, published an animal study in 1975 in the Journal of Dental Research in which they fed two groups of rats a few weeks old for several months in which they had stopped sugar. As a result, you could expect the rats to develop cavities in their teeth.
One group of rats was given sugary feed and nothing else. The other group received feed in which the researchers had also added extra glycine.
If the rats had been adult humans , they would have consumed 15-20 grams of glycine daily.
Results
Supplementation with glycine reduced the number of cavities in the rats' teeth by 65.7 percent.
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