OK. Besides your sage advice on oral hygiene, am I to extract from this that spirochetes correlates with venereal syphilis, correlates with oral sex, correlates with Alzheimer’s?
No, Oral sex has nothing to do with it. You can get Oral Spirochetes by just living in the world. Eating anything... kissing... talking... they are everywhere. Some people, about 10% of the population, are naturally immune to them. Why? We haven't a clue. But 90% of our patients have naturally occurring oral spirochetes in their mouths. So long as they keep their gums healthy, they shouldn't be too much of a problem. The gums are a natural seal that keeps the only place the skeleton sticks through the skin... the teeth. That's why the edentulous who lost their teeth early are also healthier... no break in the skin means no access!
Oh, If I recall the full article correctly, she did find a correlation with the spirochetes that cause syphilis in AD patients, but it was only 69% while the Oral spirochetes were 95%. It's hard to tell how much was what in those cases... The symptoms of both are almost identical in the tertiary stages...