Posted on 01/25/2019 4:47:41 AM PST by Sarcasm Factory
“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.”
Yes. I do that twice a day, sometimes with 50-percent. It really does work.
. . . and the encouraging thing - for both of us - is that we remember that.
“get a water-pick and do up a 20-percent solution of Listerine to water”
I do that with my electric Waterpic Flosser, only I use hydrogen peroxide instead of Listerine.
Genes must play a part, too. Mom will be 95 this year, NEVER took good care of her teeth, and has a mind like a steel trap. Her memory puts us kids to shame.
Alrighty then. Debunking 101:
Look up the history of oral hygiene in the US, particularly dentistry.
If this were remotely accurate in hypothesis, those who reached their senior years a century or 2 (or 3 or more) ago would all have been afflicted. “Senior” back then being 50 or 60, with correspondingly-horrible oral health. Dementia should have been eradicated with the evolution of oral hygiene in the 20th century.
Not.
It’s just another “miracle cure”...some researcher pining for grants. More BS.
“I was told by a friend years ago that aluminum causes Alzheimers “
There was a time when “experts” said that aluminum in underarm deodorant could cause breast cancer. I got it in what I understand is a common area — right near the armpit. Who knows?
The aluminum compound in deodorants is applied externally ... are you saying it gets absorbed/passes thru the skin? Haven’t heard that before.
Again, whatever, I’m still gonna mimimize Al in my life where I can. You want to keep putting it in your body, go ahead.
Far from definitive.
Part of the hypothesis is a long latency, time to develop.
People just died before symptoms became obvious.
Even today, only a small number show the symptoms compared to the 1/3 that have the gum disease.
Modern incidence of gingivitis is estimated to be nearly 50% of adults. This, in an era of dental medicine and oral hygiene.
The elderly would have all been institutionalized a century ago if this had any merit whatsoever. Inflammation has much stronger correlation to disease of the brain than poor oral health.
It’s BS. Your “definitive” is straw man; got bias?
“We may finally know what causes Alzheimer’s ...”
Dietary deficiency of fine liquor and tobacco combined with an excess of health food.
But the findings of these early studies weren’t replicated in later research, and experts have essentially ruled out aluminum as a possible cause of Alzheimer's.
However, if you want to eliminate Aluminum from your body, stop putting deodorant containing Aluminum Clorohydrate under your arms. Yes, it can be absorbed just as much as it can be absorbed from using an aluminum frying pan.
I don't worry about aluminum cans, or pots and pans, but if you're going to do something, do it right.
My wife has always taken good care of her teeth, but is in the early stages of dementia. Her mother died of Alzheimers. Her brother has the same problem. Definitely a genetic thing with them.
Wow! This is big!!!!
Dental floss is your friend.
Perhaps the genetic disorder is an inability to fight that disease.
That does not follow from the analysis at all.
Even today, with many more elderly surviving, 50% of the population does not show Alzheimer's symptoms.
About 10% of people over 65 have Alzheimers, about 1/3 of elderly die with some sort of dementia.
We do not know how many people had gingivitis a century or two ago. Certainly people lost teeth a lot faster. Nor do we have good information on how many had dementia a century or two a go.
Your assumption that:
The elderly would have all been institutionalized a century ago if this had any merit whatsoever.Is just an assumption.
I know what you mean. In my first post I said my Mom’s memory is beyond excellent, at 95 y.o., and she didn’t take care of her teeth.
OTOH, my FIL was clinically OCD about his teeth, and had Alzheimer’s in his 80s.
Genes.
CA....
That’s why its best to use a deodorant instead. Preferably a natural one.
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