How To Heal And Regrow Receding Gums

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Today’s 30-Second Summary

If you don’t have time to read the whole email today, here are some key takeaways:

• Receding gums may be helped by massage that stimulates their natural regenerative abilities

  • See today’s video for more on that!

• Some of us can have unfortunate reactions to some compound(s) in tea, but there do seem to be workarounds

  • See today’s main feature for details!

• Pineapple’s enzyme that breaks down proteins and unzips DNA is actually mostly good for us, as it helps fight inflammation

• Summer fun can mean much higher risks of germs and allergies

  • Today’s sponsor, Beekeeper’s Naturals, have a great extra line of defense to offer to keep you and your loved ones safe and comfortable

• On which note (because smoke particles are also bad for the respiratory system), if you’re in NE United States or Canada, you might want to mask up to avoid smoke-related health risks, as wildfires continue to cause problems

Read on to learn about these things and more…

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How to heal and regrow receding gums

Dr. Vivek Joshi offers two gum massage techniques to stimulate the natural regenerative ability of gums:

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If you’d like to skip his intro, you can click here to jump straight to where he gets started explaining how to do the massages

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Have a question or a request? You can always hit “reply” to any of our emails, or use the feedback widget at the bottom!

In cases where we’ve already covered something, we might link to what we wrote before, but will always be happy to revisit any of our topics again in the future too—there’s always more to say!

As ever: if the question/request can be answered briefly, we’ll do it here in our Q&A Thursday edition. If not, we’ll make a main feature of it shortly afterwards!

So, no question/request too big or small 😎 

❝Hey Sheila - As always, your articles are superb !! So, I have a topic that I'd love you guys to discuss: green tea. I used to try + drink it years ago but I always got an allergic reaction to it. So the question I'd like answered is: Will I still get the same allergic reaction if I take the capsules ? Also, because it's caffeinated, will taking it interfere with iron pills, other vitamins + meds ? I read that the health benefits of the decaffeinated tea/capsules are not as great as the caffeinated. Any info would be greatly appreciated !! Thanks much !!❞

Hi! I’m not Sheila, but I’ll answer this one in the first person as I’ve had a similar issue:

I found long ago that taking any kind of tea (not herbal infusions, but true teas, e.g. green tea, black tea, red tea, etc) on an empty stomach made me want to throw up. The feeling would subside within about half an hour, but I learned it was far better to circumvent it by just not taking tea on an empty stomach.

However! I take an l-theanine supplement when I wake up, to complement my morning coffee, and have never had a problem with that. Of course, my physiology is not your physiology, and this “shouldn’t” be happening to either of us in the first place, so it’s not something there’s a lot of scientific literature about, and we just have to figure out what works for us.

This last Monday I wrote (inspired in part by your query) about l-theanine supplementation, and how it doesn’t require caffeine to unlock its benefits after all, by the way. So that’s that part in order.

I can’t speak for interactions with your other supplements or medications without knowing what they are, but I’m not aware of any known issue, beyond that l-theanine will tend to give a gentler curve to the expression of some neurotransmitters. So, if for example you’re talking anything that affects that (e.g. antidepressants, antipsychotics, ADHD meds, sleepy/wakefulness meds, etc) then checking with your doctor is best.

❝Can you do something on collagen and keep use posted on pineapple, and yes love and look forward to each issue❞

Glad you’re enjoying! We did write a main feature on collagen a little while back! Here it is:

We Are Such Stuff As Fish Are Made Of

As for pineapple, there’s not a lot to keep you posted about! Pineapple’s protein-digesting, DNA-unzipping action is well-established and considered harmless (if your mouth feels weird when you eat pineapple or drink pineapple juice, this is why, by the way) because no meaningful damage was done.

For example:

• Pineapple’s bromelain action is akin to taking apart a little lego model brick by brick (easy to fix)

• Clastogenic genotoxicity is more like taking a blowtorch to the lego model (less easy to fix)

Fun fact: pineapple is good against inflammation, because of the very same enzyme!

❝I never knew anything about the l- tea. Where can I purchase it?❞

You can get it online quite easily! Here’s an example on Amazon 😎

❝The 3 most important exercises don’t work if you can’t get on the floor. I’m 78, and have knee replacements. What about 3 best chair yoga stretches? Love your articles!❞

Here are six!

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We turn the tables and ask you a question!

We’ll then talk about this tomorrow:

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What’s happening in the health world…

• Haze from wildfires raises asthma, heart and other health concerns in Canada and Northeast US

• Why some military veterans may be more at-risk of PTSD symptoms

• Health equity is the focus of LGBTQ+ Pride Month celebrations across the US

• Childhood cognitive ability has complex relationship with financial wellbeing in adulthood

• FDA finalizes limit on how much arsenic can be allowed in apple juice

More to come tomorrow!

📖 ONE-MINUTE BOOK REVIEW

How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be - by Katy Milkman

Sometimes it seems that we know everything we should be doing... We have systems and goals and principles, we know about the importance of habits, and we do our best to live them. Yet, somehow, life has other plans for us and things don't quite come together they way they did in our genius masterplan.

So, what happened? And more importantly, what are we supposed to do about this? Katy Milkman has answers, right from the start.

Sometimes, it can be as simple as when we try to implement a change. It's not that there's a "wrong time" for a good change, so much that there are times that are much more likely to succeed than others... and those times can be identified and used.

Sometimes we're falling prey to vices—which she explains how to overcome—such as:

• Impulsivity

• Procrastination

• Forgetfulness

• Laziness

We also learn some counterintuitive truths about what can boost or sabotage our confidence along the way!

Milkman writes in a compelling, almost narrative style, that makes for very easy reading. The key ideas, built up to by little (ostensibly true) stories and then revealed, become both clear and memorable. Most importantly, applicable.

Bottom line: this is a great troubleshooting guide for when you know how everything should be working, but somehow, it just doesn't—and you'd like to fix that.

Click here to check out "How To Change" on Amazon, and get those changes rolling!

May your day give you everything to smile about,

The 10almonds Team