Go Ahead And Lick Your Wounds: Saliva Heals Cuts Faster

Turns out your instincts have been right all along.

Putting your cut finger in your mouth Definitively heals it faster.

The cool part?

-Once they’ve isolated the most-responsible compounds, like HST 1&2, et al.,

Then they can be put into consumer products that will make Neosporin look silly in comparison.

+++Further out still, similar compounds might even help people with more serious infections that presently require specialized wound-care.

-Neat!


Photo Credits: Megan Fox, Toronto International Film Festival, 2009, by WENN.com


Links:
•Source: FASEBJ-Histatins are the major wound-closure stimulating factors in human saliva as identified in a cell culture assay

•via: (yeah, yeah; -I know…)Oprah.com

•More Coverage: PubMed-Structure-activity analysis of histatin, a potent wound healing peptide from human saliva: cyclization of histatin potentiates molar activity 1,000-fold.