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Hi...I have been following this forum for a while but now I finally decided to make a post. I guess everybody here have few clues or points, and I always hesitated to post my points as I was always afraid of mentioning anything not completely proven as I didn't want to mislead anyone.

Please understand that what I myself post is just what I have come to reasonably experience without 100% assurance, as I get double thoughts/confusion myself. So here we go:

- has anyone tried eating carrots and notice the whiteness decreases on your tongue? (which could be excess keratin build up) vitamin A/beta carotene at work here...I asked an oral pathologist I visisted about this and he confirmed that beta carotene in carrots can be at work here.

- now another area...more specifically the gums. here comes vitamin c, etc. i have bad gums (improving now), i would easily bleed when i brush...so i found out the vitamin c defieciency causes gums to bleed. so i started eating an orange every day. what i noticed was if i didn't eat an orange someday, usually my gums would bleed the next day. now i also noticed another thing. if i drank any juice with added vitamin c (vitamin c not occurring naturally), my gums would still bleed the next day. another thing i noticed. if i drank orange juice using from a bottle such as tropicana which contains vitamin c naturally (not added) my gums won't bleed the next day when i brush, but if the bottle is opened once and i use it the next day to drink juice, my gums would still bleed the day after (maybe because vitamin c is very susceptible to oxidation once its exposed to air: http://www.smartskincare.com/treatments ... deriv.html )

now i have read some peopel having success with taking vitamin c pills while others have not..mayeb that is only for peopel with gum diseases, i dont know..but i was just wondering if anyone tried getting their vitamin c from natural sources and fresh.