Posted on 01/25/2019 4:47:41 AM PST by Sarcasm Factory
If you bled when you brushed your teeth this morning, you might want to get that seen to. We may finally have found the long-elusive cause of Alzheimer’s disease: Porphyromonas gingivalis, the key bacteria in chronic gum disease.
That’s bad, as gum disease affects around a third of all people. But the good news is that a drug that blocks the main toxins of P. gingivalis is entering major clinical trials this year, and research published today shows it might stop and even reverse Alzheimer’s. There could even be a vaccine.
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(Excerpt) Read more at newscientist.com ...
If anyone wants to take a ‘whack’ on gum disease...just get a water-pick and do up a 20-percent solution of Listerine to water...at least once or twice a week.
This sounds like a huge deal.
eat right (not a lot of sugar or processed foods) clean your teeth regularly floss. easy as that
Regular flossing and brushing also works to prevent it.
point is we dont need another drug to do something common sense can handle. thsat only shows people would rather a drug than have and use common sense.
I like your suggestion! Let’s see what Amazon has in the way of water-driven dental cleaning ....
FWIW, I was told by a friend years ago that aluminum causes Alzheimers ... when I heard that I threw out every aluminum pot, pan, and utensil I had and switched from canned to bottled beer
I’ve still got pretty good memory, just saying
That’s a classic case of “correlation is not causation”. They found unusual levels of aluminum in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients, but ultimately concluded that that was a symptom, not a cause.
Coconut oil specifically targets mouth bacteria. Google “coconut oil dementia cure”
‘If I found my mind slipping like that, I’d just find a quiet corner that could be easily cleaned up and have done with it. -_- “
My luck I would forget where the bullets are.
Antiperspirants contain a large amount of aluminum (aluminum chlorhydroxide). Hat tip to Alton Brown.
Wow, it's a bad one. It's also implicated in heart disease, stroke and rheumatoid arthritus. Wouldn't it be amazing if we could rid humanity of all these diseases at once? Nah, too good to be true.
Whatever, I’m not taking a chance.
I still drink the occasional canned beverage (they’re unavoidable), so I’m probably getting more than enough Al
(BTW looking for bottled beer makes you realize just how hard it is to find - 90%+ of people must drink beer from cans)
About every 2 years we get news of a cure for Alzheimers, a disease that 50% of the country cannot pronounce properly.
I don’t know that I would make decisions based on unfounded rumors. That’s how Amway got people to believe Proctor and Gamble worshiped the devil.
Also, I used to get gum inflamation occasionally. This prevents it. Using this regimen, I only get a cavity (small one)every couple of years.
The downside?
What did you say you threw out?
At least I will be able to hide my own Easter eggs.
Interesting article (potentially Alzheimer related):
How to renew your body: Fasting and autophagy
https://www.dietdoctor.com/renew-body-fasting-autophagy
On October 3rd, the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to Yoshinori Ohsumi for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy.
But what is autophagy? The word derives from the Greek auto (self) and phagein (to eat). So the word literally means to eat oneself. Essentially, this is the body’s mechanism of getting rid of all the broken down, old cell machinery (organelles, proteins and cell membranes) when there’s no longer enough energy to sustain it. It is a regulated, orderly process to degrade and recycle cellular components.
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The consequences of accumulating old junky proteins all over the place can be seen in two main conditions – Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and cancer. Alzheimer’s Disease involves the accumulation of abnormal protein – either amyloid beta or Tau protein which gums up the brain system. It would make sense that a process like autophagy that has the ability to clear out old protein could prevent the development of AD.
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