But only if you don’t forget about supplements: combining regular exercise with omega-3 is a great help to combat cavities.
It has everything to do with the immune system: training and supplementing with omega-3 helps you strengthen your immune system and protect against chronic apical periodontitis.
This tooth problem can happen, for example, when Tooth decay extends to the root canal and triggers infection.
If this condition is not treated, the tooth may even need to be removed.
“It is a condition that patients may not even know they have due to its chronic nature, but which can evolve and lead to bone destruction and tooth mobility, explains Rogério de Castilho Jacinto, Brazilian professor of dentistry.
Furthermore, in specific situations, such as a drop in immunity, it can become acute, causing the patient to begin to feel pain, pus forms in the area, the face may swell“, the researcher also guarantees.
Published this year in Nature tested the hypotheses on rats that practiced swimming. The result proved the theory: micro tomography scans of the jaws showed that the animals that swam had less alveolar bone volume loss than the control group. The loss was even smaller in the group supplemented with omega-3.
“To know whether the same would be valid for humans, we would need a clinical study with a significant number of patients.“, says Jacinto. However, in addition to the many proven benefits of physical exercise and omega-3 consumption, this is another important piece of evidence”, he says.
