Researchers at Penn Dental Medicine and collaborators have used a clinical-grade antiviral chewing gum to substantially reduce viral loads of two herpes simplex viruses and two influenza A strains in experimental models.
Good thing we don’t use it in potentially high temperature situations with stuff we directly put into our bodies. Could you imagine?
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Using Teflon on non-stick pans is all but guaranteed to get it in you, either by overheating the pan accidentally, or when the coating begins to flake. The average person isn’t likely to have consistently great heat control of the pan, and eventually the coating degrades and begins to flake even with gentle use IME.
Good thing we don’t use it in potentially high temperature situations with stuff we directly put into our bodies. Could you imagine?
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Using Teflon on non-stick pans is all but guaranteed to get it in you, either by overheating the pan accidentally, or when the coating begins to flake. The average person isn’t likely to have consistently great heat control of the pan, and eventually the coating degrades and begins to flake even with gentle use IME.
Eating teflon is entirely fine.
Breathing the fumes is unhealthy.