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This dental floss can tell you how stressed you are | Researchers develop a new dental flosser aiming to make it easier to monitor stress by monitoring the chemistry of your saliva.
You already know when you are feeling highly stressed, but low-grade background stress is harder to detect. A new dental flosser from researchers at Tufts University aims to make it easier by monitoring the chemistry of your saliva.
When the thread channels saliva to the eMIP, cortisol molecules gather in the imprint left behind and generate a signal that is sent to a mobile device, like a phone. The researchers believe that the device could one day be made to measure other biomarkers in the saliva, making home health testing a part of something many people already do on a daily basis. For now, should the device come to market, users would have an easy way to monitor cortisol and, if they see it climbing, they could take steps to reduce it through either dietary or lifestyle modifications including exercise, meditation, caffeine moderation, and an increase of omega-3 fatty acids.
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