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Thank you so much, King Jamaal fx
You have done so much to educate us and even being kind also...
I'm grateful
More grace to do more..
Researchers at the University of Bergen ran a study comparing 213 Sudanese men. Half brushed their teeth with a chewed tree root. Half used a regular plastic toothbrush. The tree root group came out with healthier gums and less plaque.
That stick is called a miswak. The WHO has been quietly recommending it since 1986. In 2011, scientists at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute finally cracked the chemistry.
The active ingredient is benzyl isothiocyanate, a natural plant defense compound from the same family of sulfur molecules that give cabbage and mustard their sharp bite. The compound punches through the outer wall of bacteria that cause gum disease. From there, it dismantles the chemistry that keeps the bacteria alive. The Karolinska team isolated it by running root extracts through a chemical analyzer that identifies individual molecules.
The stick comes from the Salvadora persica tree, which grows in dry parts of Africa, the Middle East, and India. Inside the wood you also find natural fluoride, a gentle abrasive called silica that polishes off plaque, sulfur compounds, and tannins that tighten gum tissue. A separate team at Sweden’s University of Gothenburg ran another trial. They soaked the sticks in a fluoride solution. The fluoride left in the test group’s saliva came out higher than what people got from regular fluoride toothpaste.
A more recent systematic review pulled together a stack of randomized trials. Miswak on its own controlled plaque about as well as a regular toothbrush. Used alongside the toothbrush, it actually beat brushing alone on both plaque and gum inflammation scores. The Princess Nourah University trial from 2024 complicates that. Over two weeks, the miswak group’s plaque held steady while the toothbrush group’s dropped further. And gums in the miswak group got noticeably worse for people who sawed at their teeth too hard. Aggressive horizontal scrubbing tears at the soft tissue along the gum line.
One stick costs under 10 cents in the regions where the tree grows, and a single twig lasts for weeks. In sub-Saharan Africa, herbal toothpastes built around miswak and neem (another bitter chewing-stick tree) made up over a quarter of toothpaste sales in 2023.
The honest caveat is that Western dental literature treats the miswak as an add-on rather than a replacement, mostly because reaching the back molars with a stick is awkward. Used correctly, with soft perpendicular brushing along the gum line and no aggressive sawing, it does what a toothbrush does and adds a low-grade antibiotic on top. For most of human dental history, this is what cleaning your teeth looked like.
A new POS scam is spreading quietly. 🚨
This is how money disappears from the accounts of parents, elderly people, and unsuspecting ones without them understanding how it happened.
When customers visit POS operators to withdraw cash, many casually say their PIN out loud or enter it carelessly. While pretending to count cash withdrawn or assist the customer, an accomplice quickly snaps the front of the ATM card and memorizes or writes down the expiry and 3-digit CVV code.
Weeks later (deliberately delayed after the transaction to avoid suspicion), the fraudsters use the card details and security code to make unauthorized online/web purchases that are extremely difficult to trace back to them.
Because many people use multiple POS agents on a weekly basis, the victims would never be able to pinpoint the exact POS agent who compromised their account.
Please warn your parents and older relatives:
—Never say your PIN out loud
—Shield the keypad while typing
—Never hand over your card unnecessarily
—Always keep your card in sight
—Disable online transactions on cards not used for web payments (if you can get to your bank)
—Use bank transfers for POS withdrawals if you can.
This important awareness could prevent your loved ones from losing their life savings.
Taking care of my late father when he was hospitalized for 6 months taught me the greatest lesson of my life, quite in life: there are things money cannot buy.
In times of adversity, your family is the only people who will never give up on you. Friends, work colleagues, and neighbors will all give up with time. But your family will be there holding your hand no matter the condition till your last breath. Please take your family very serious.
Today, we took our maths evangelism to Scripture Union Academy, Egbu, Owerri.
By February 2027, an average child living in the South East will good in maths.
We are serious about education in the South East.
We will become the greatest workforce in Africa within 10 years.
@Miankyy@__totustuus Her family got her deported by trying to get me deported with false DV accusations that was investigated by social services who found it to be false and it backfired. She’s in Lagos, in her father’s house.
Happy birthday N6. May Heaven shine Favour Upon you & Excel the Works Of your Hands. May you continue to Grow from Strength to Strength. The Grace of The Lord be with you. Anywhere the World struggles you will find Easy Passage. It is well with you. You are Blessed. #May10 🎂🥰🥳