My understanding of alzheimer’s is that its another variation on the theme of high sustained sugar levels in the blood which induces inflammation—which causes cardiovascular diseases—and also neurodegenerative brain diseases. So too little nitric oxide would make for more breaks all over the cardiovascular system.
Naturally, I’m of two minds about Schizophrenia—but I’ll bet that special ops warriors have few cases of Schizophrenia. My theory has always been that these guys are people who like to dilute high levels of testosterone with adrenaline. That is, the pressure helps them regulate their internal chemistry. But it could be that they’re also trying to dilute nitric oxide with adrenaline. The work forces them to stay focused. My wag is that there are whole groups of people who thrive under pressure because the pressure enables them to to regulate their own chemistry.
I have a peculiar perspective on Alzheimer’s.
For years, dentists have noted that a high percentage of patients also have longstanding gum infections. This and other factors led them to suspect that the five types of common oral spirochete bacteria have been fed directly to the brain from these infected gums without having to cross the blood/brain barrier.
And the brain is not conducive to them, and they rapidly die, possibly forming the plaque associated with Alzheimer’s over the course of years.
But dentists also know that ordinary baking soda is deadly to these spirochetes. And that a combo of soda and table salt used to be common for brushing the teeth. It fell out of favor with modern toothpastes. And it was a decade or two later the number of cases of Alzheimer’s started to skyrocket.
So their recommendation was to use normal toothpaste four days a week, to get rid of tartar and dental plaque, and alternate with dry baking soda three times a week. The concentration of soda in ‘baking soda toothpaste’ isn’t strong enough.