Andrew Huberman· PhD
Cuts on skin often heal with a scar. Cuts in our mouths often heal sans scar & often faster too
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Cuts on skin often heal with a scar. Cuts in our mouths often heal sans scar & often faster too
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the oral cavity also can take cuts and burns and things like that unfortunately those things occur but with rare exception heals up with nearly zero scarring sometimes there's a scar but nearly zero scarring which is remarkable why well it's basically an open wound with a bunch of bacteria in it and it's warm and it's moist so clearly there's something special going on in this thing that we call the oral cavity
the oral cavity also can take cuts and burns and things like that unfortunately those things occur but with rare exception heals up with nearly zero scarring
if we get a cut on the inside of our mouth, >> which is loaded with bacteria and >> warm and moist and in contact with the outside world all day long, it tends to heal >> with either zero or much less of a scar. >> There has to be something in the mouth. >> Fascinating. healing and I believe people are studying this but someone's got to figure this out >> and it could be saliva