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.
Or add salt and baking soda to the baking soda tooth paste you are using and do it daily...it will taste better that way anyway.
Sounds like a good daily rinse with bicarb might also be efficacious. Flossing with some baking soda around the gums would work pretty good. Arm and Hammer has a few baking soda toothpastes, one of which adds peroxide to its mix.
Interesting.
There is also a strong correlation of cardiovascular disease with gum disease.
The increased incidence of gum disease also coincides with the increased ingestion of sugar—especially since the 1970’s when graphed sugar increase consumption curves went nearly parabolic.