Image: Bing Fang | Written by: Liu Hulu | Editor-in-Charge: Ke Xin
Hello everyone, I'm Amo.
Some time ago during the Spring Festival holiday, I was strongly appointed by my cousin to an anti-ghost toothpaste, which is said to be able to eliminate Helicobacter pylori, which has been mentioned countless times on the hot search list.
Can toothpaste be antibacterial? Although I didn't know much about this toothpaste at the time, this gimmick really made me wonder: This kid, before he made money, wouldn't he start paying taxes?
That's right, I'm talking about IQ taxes. Although it is already 2022, the endless stream of IQ tax products has made many people pay taxes one after another.
In order to find out whether this anti-ghost toothpaste is IQ tax, and whether other recently popular but questionable products are useful, we invited Six Gourd Doctors to open the first wave of IQ tax identification in 2022!
Anti-ghost toothpaste
What what? Did I hear you correctly? When will Helicobacter pylori be able to be removed with toothpaste? Do you need to swallow toothpaste when brushing your teeth?
People infected with Helicobacter pylori will have Helicobacter pylori in their saliva or mouth, but only brush their teeth to remove, which is equivalent to a person's arm hit by an arrow, the doctor only use scissors to cut off the arrow feathers outside his skin. But the arrow is still in the meat, can this be cured?
Think about it, this toothpaste claims to be able to "remove" Helicobacter pylori, but this is a "bacterium" that can be removed without antibacterial drugs? Does that mean that a broad-spectrum antibiotic has been added to the toothpaste?
The oral cavity is an environment in which various bacteria coexist, and if topical antibiotics are used for a long time, they may destroy the oral flora, resulting in the death of beneficial bacteria, which in turn leads to redness and swelling of the oral mucosa and even ulceration.
What's more, the article "Toothpaste Cannot Treat Diseases" published by the State Food and Drug Administration on the website on 2022-01-07 clearly pointed out that toothpaste claims to be "anti-Helicobacter pylori" lack scientific basis.
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That being the case, how can Helicobacter pylori be prevented/treated?
Helicobacter pylori is a rod-shaped gram-negative bacterium, micro-aerobic environment survival, mainly deposited in the gastric pylorus, it is currently believed that it is the most common cause of chronic gastritis, but also easy to lead to duodenal bulb ulcers, gastric ulcers, and even lead to chronic atrophic gastritis, intestinal metaplasia, there are about 1% of Helicobacter pylori infection will lead to gastric cancer in patients, and studies have shown that Helicobacter pylori infection is associated with lymphoma.
Helicobacter pylori is mainly transmitted through the "fecal-oral" route, the "mouth-to-mouth" route, and the iatrogenic route.
China is a big country with Helicobacter pylori infection, the average Helicobacter pylori infection rate is 59%, which means that about 6 out of 10 people are infected, so I see that the recent physical examination items of people around me have more HP tests.
For health reasons, prevention and timely treatment are correct, although toothpaste can improve oral health, but it does not act on the stomach, nor can it kill Helicobacter pylori stored in the stomach.
If you want to treat Helicobacter pylori infection, you can only take medicine honestly:
Standard triple therapy: proton pump inhibitor (PPI) plus clarithromycin + amoxicillin, or PPI + clarithromycin + metronidazole.
Bismuth quadruple therapy: bismuth + PPI + 2 antibacterial drugs.
In order not to be infected with Helicobacter pylori, we need to pay attention to using public chopsticks when eating as much as possible; using disinfectant or carefully cleaned tableware; cleaning after defecation, washing hands before meals, gargling after meals, and using the most clichéd hygiene defenses to resist the most common viruses and bacteria.
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Stem cell cosmetics
What are stem cells? Stem cells are "universal cells", a class of multi-potential cells with self-renewal ability, which can proliferate and differentiate into other types of cells under certain induction conditions.
Sounds very high, is it like a home planet that can launch all kinds of warriors?
It seems that many skin care products in the circle of friends claim to "contain stem cells", which can "intelligently adjust" the state of your skin according to the needs of your skin and the degree of aging, so as to maintain eternal youth.
Unfortunately, on 2021-9-13, the State Food and Drug Administration issued an article "Stem Cell Cosmetics is a Pseudo-Concept", which clearly pointed out that in the "Catalogue of Used Cosmetic Raw Materials", some cosmetic raw materials of plant origin are included, which may belong to plant stem cells, but can only differentiate into other types of plant cells, and cannot differentiate into human cells.
Not everyone is "Miss Sitten", we ordinary people can't do the symbiosis between the human body and the plant body!
As for oral stem cells, sorry, your stomach acid has digested it and it doesn't work either.
So, don't buy it, save money to swim and fitness may still be useful.
Eyelash growth fluid
Human beings, not worried about hair, or worried about eyelashes, and then worried about armpit hair and leg hair, I once asked my girlfriend curiously, why do you shave off your leg hair, and then plant eyelashes, you also have to go to plant forehead hair, if your leg hair grows on your forehead, is it that you are not bothered, and then hit the pillow...
As a girl who doesn't like makeup, I actually don't quite understand why my friends around me shave off their eyebrows and then draw their eyebrows on top of the meat.
Having gone too far, let's talk back to eyelashes.
There are many eyelash growth liquids on the market, how to choose? Choose from a wide range of ingredients, relatively speaking, minoxidil and prostaglandins are still safe, if you buy related ingredients, you can try it.
Minoxidil can improve hair loss, but cosmetics are prohibited to add, there are similar products abroad but very few, do not encourage everyone to take the hair growth of minoxidil directly to apply eyelashes, eyelid skin is thinner, the drug may penetrate too much and other side effects appear.
Prostaglandin components are because prostaglandins and their analogues can prolong the growth period of eyelashes and delay the entry of hair follicles into the rest phase.
However, adverse reactions include red eyes, darker eyeballs, pigmented eyelids, and it seems that it is not worth the loss to become panda eyes for long eyelashes.
Hulu I checked most of the commercially available eyelash growth fluids and did not contain prostaglandins. And those so-called unclear ingredients of the eyelash growth liquid, or less use is better.
propolis
Propolis is really gusts of wind blowing, and all kinds of effects have been publicized, right? Antibacterial, antiviral, regulate immunity, increase resistance, antitumor...
The current data are such that someone's data results showed validity, and some people's data results showed a comparable to placebo (abbreviated as ineffective).
In short, there is no definitive evidence that propolis is good for health, but there is also no conclusive evidence that propolis is harmful to health, so further "hammer" studies are needed to give convincing data to fill the current theoretical gap.
As for propolis fans, give evidence, not to mention "my neighbor" and "my cousin" are effective, which cannot be used as valid evidence in the face of science.
Quantum water
Some people say that quantum water can cure diabetes, and some people say that quantum water can prevent tumors and treat arthritis...
I was stunned by the miraculous effects, what is quantum? But when you go to school, a physics teacher can't say such a thing, right?
A quantum is a physical quantity, and if there is a smallest unit that is not continuously divided, it is said that the physical quantity is quantized, and the smallest unit is called a quantum, which can be photons, atoms, electrons, elementary particles.
Simply put, you are exposed to quantum every day, you sleep in a quantum bed every day, covered with a quantum quilt, holding a quantum mobile phone in your hand, and eating a quantum dinner... Everything tangible you touch can be refined into "quanta."
At present, the technologies related to "quantum" in the true scientific sense are quantum communication, quantum computing, and quantum measurement.
As for the rest of the so-called quantum products, the most basic unit of their "inventors" is also "quantum", can it be called "quantum human"?
It is not that the more terms are piled up, the more powerful the scientific and technological society, the data speaks, I hope that all friends will not be deceived.
The hardest thing in the world to escape is the IQ tax.
Although many routines have been well known to everyone, there are also many new forms and new routines of IQ tax that have appeared with the current hot spots, which makes people invincible.
And what we can do is to think more and discern before blind consumption.
Well, today's IQ tax appraisal is here, if it helps you, remember to like oh, or share with relatives and friends with one click.
If you also have a more suspicious product in mind, welcome to leave a message. We arrange the next wave~
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