Hair in the Tooth Brush – The Weird Side of the Internet

Hair in the Tooth Brush – The Weird Side of the Internet – by Liam Sweeny.

We have a segment, a new one, called Life on the Cutting Edge: Discoveries and Advancements. It gives you three headlines of cool new discoveries, and the links to the articles, and it maybe it gives you a little hope for the future. This story could’ve gone there, but I figured let’s do it here.

I have always wished I could do something wth my hair. I have very wavy, curly hair, and I’m okay with it; that’s not my wish. My wish is that, when I get it cut, I could do something with it, like give it to people with cancer going through chemo. But no one wants my mop, I’m sure. So what else can I do with it? A researcher at Kings College of London has discovered something I can do.

Researcher Sara Gamea, PhD wrote a paper that pointed out that keratin, one of the main components of hair, skin, and nails, forms a durable protective layer over the enamel of your teeth. So yeah, I can brush my teeth with that hair.

I’m not realy sure how to turn hair into powder, and what you’d combine with it to make a paste. Like I’m not just going to rub hair on my teeth and taste my shampoo. But jokes aside, they’re thinking a keratin toothpaste will be out in the market within a year or two

This is even more fascinating when you pair it with a recent discovery that they can regrow teeth now. Tooth tech is going on now!

What I’m seeing more and more is that stuff that sounds like homey, folky remedies are now being embraced by by science as legit. But the cool part is they’re figuring out why they work. Eventually, science and holistics are going to meet at a crossroads and make a deal with each other.

Hey, maybe astrology isn’t malarkey after all.

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