Tea at Trianon: The Cure of Probiotic Bacteria

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Sunday, January 15, 2023

The Cure of Probiotic Bacteria

From BBC Science Focus:

To address the effectiveness of these bacteria, scientists looked through research databases for relevant clinical trials published up to February 2021. In total, they analysed studies including 278 people aged between 19 and 70. In these studies, bad breath was defined by levels of volatile sulphuric compounds detected in the mouth using the Oral Lichen Planus (OLP) score – a measure of breath odour at various distances from the mouth.
The data from these studies showed a significant reduction in the OLP scores of those given probiotics, compared to the control groups. Similar results were found in the other measure of bad breath, with lower levels of volatile sulphuric compounds being detected, however these results were relatively short lived with no noticeable difference after four weeks. While there was a reduction in smell, there was no significant change in plaque or dirt on the tongue – two common factors in bad breath. This suggests that the probitoics may inhibit the decomposition of amino acids in the mouth, curbing the production of smelly by-products. (Read more.)