We may finally know what causes Alzheimer’s – and how to stop it

a reply to: grey580

If you do, opt out of any root canals. My research shows that dentists can never get rid of bacteria completely. Recipe for disaster.

originally posted by: toms54
a reply to: JimNasium

Just like diabetes it is probably made worse by high fructose corn syrup. Back in the day they did have corn syrup pancake syrup, but not many people actually drank it. Now it is in soda, everything.

To wit:

See what happens to Your skinsuit 1 hr. after drinking a Coke™

therenegadepharmacist.com...

Now after reading that, do You know anyone that drinks them one after another?

Stay Hydrated... (But NOT muni-water laced w/Fluoride™ that just dulls Your Pineal Gland so You can't produce Melatonin naturally and will have to seek out a 'sleep remedy'...) May I suggest something w/out seeds?

a reply to: iplay1up2 I read where 98% of people who die from cancer have had 1 or more root canals which traps anaerobic bacteria in the nerve roots. Interesting to see what % of the population of Alzheimer patients have had multiple root canals. Have to join the ATS teeth brushing and flossing club.

a reply to: toms54

Hell yes...brush your teeth and take care of those gums...

originally posted by: PsychicCroMag
a reply to: iplay1up2 I read where 98% of people who die from cancer have had 1 or more root canals which traps anaerobic bacteria in the nerve roots. Interesting to see what % of the population of Alzheimer patients have had multiple root canals. Have to join the ATS teeth brushing and flossing club.

I'll tell about my husband.....never had a root canal...never had a single cavity his entire life!!! brushed his teeth every day but would not floss...did have some gum disease.....was always healthy almost never got sick....died of cancer several years ago...n root canals...can't speak for anyone else.

to help your gums put a little oreganol oil on your toothbrush on your tooth paste......my gums really improved!

I hate to be a downer, but they thought the same thing a while ago with neurofibrillary tangles. Neurofibrillary tangles consist of abnormal build up of proteins in your brain and were closely linked to Alzheimer's disease. Researchers thought if they were able to get rid of the tangles, that Alzheimer's would be healed or preventable. Turns out eliminating the tangles neither healed or prevented it from worsening.

I am rooting for it to work, because it could be different than the scenario described above. These speculative miracle cures always hit the press hard, but are often never to be heard of again.

originally posted by: toms54
a reply to: rickymouse

So do you see it as a family of closely related diseases or a group of different diseases with similar symptoms like the amyloid plaque?

Here is an article. In the article it is stated that the active form of D3 helps to stop the amyloid plaque. The type listed is actually calcitriol, the hormone version formed after the kidneys convert it from calcidiol from the liver alterations of D3 colecalciferol. They do treat alzheimer disease with a tiny amount of this now. About as much in a pill as exists in one potato. They thought the calcitriol only worked with bones up until maybe a year ago. so a potato can be subbed for a medicine, and you have to eat anyway. www.medicalnewstoday.com...

Read the article I listed paying attention to what it is saying. The omega threes can come from fish, the calcitriol can come from the chips. Fish and chips is actually what the Catholics have been having on friday around here for a long time. Friday fish fry. It can dampen the risk of having alzheimer disease. Highly processed frozen fries might not have this chemistry, but home fries would, cut fresh from the potato. Also, if the place is using a good oil, it can add some omega threes to the mix. Just order the baked potato with the fish fry and avoid the highly spiced fries they sometimes offer.

Getting a highly processed fish stick or patty is not going to actually work well, but it is better than eating a highly processed chicken strip anyway.

On the good news everyone in my family stopped eating sugar.

originally posted by: Indigent
I don't know I have a problem with this, dental care is not homogeneous through the world, if gum problems cause Alzheimer, by logic there should be a bigger incidence of it in rural areas of third world countries with low access to dental care than in the first world, is this the case?

I sense a plot of big dentistry in all this...

Well that woul be true if gum problems were a result of a lack of dental care.

They're not. Gum disease is a result of poor dieting, which is much more commonplace in first world nations.

So ditch the processed foods and refined sugars if you want to rid yourself of those harmful bacterias that the OP talks about. And in the process save yourself a bit of money by not having to buy a cure further down the line.

So look after your wisdom teeth my ATS friends, brush dem toothy pegs! The stats are right about a third of my mates do not brush their freakin teeth so that explains a lot. They say they do but..... we know 😉👍🏼

So mouthwash before brushing?

a reply to: ClovenSky

Really my smile can attest to how corrupt them mother blanks are I went to dentist to get a tooth removed that was bad I did not want a filing so he sent me next door to his partner the oral surgeon who after I was hooked up to anestestia had me sign a release authorising him if he saw anything other than the tree teeth he was supposed to be dealing with he could remove them too when I woke up in a van my mother owned in Wal-Mart parking lot with a bloody surgical mouth covering my face when I pulled down the mask and opened my mouth I liked to have had a heart attack I looked like jigsaw from the saw movies had preformed on my mouth with blood coming from everywhere in my mouth . I legitimately thought I was bleeding out because this clown hammered 9 teeth out of me head. When my mouth started to heal up where I could talk I went and had words with surgeon and threatened him with lawsuit he pulled out consent form so I was stuck looking like and talking like mushmouth from fatalbert cartoon. I could not even get bridge work because guy maxed out my dental insurance. Dentist are jusdt as bad as backwoods mechanic if they see a dollar they will find a problem to fix.

a reply to: TheConstruKctionofLight

Makes me wonder now if there's correlation between dental work and alzheimers.

If the bacteria gets into the blood stream is there a higher chance of that one bacteria getting in the brain and causing inflammation and plaques.

a reply to: grey580

Perhaps but given that alzheimers usually takes 20-30 years to develop it would need to be a chronic problem not a single event.

a reply to: toms54

The amyloid plaque thesis is wrong. Drug companies for 15 years have been trying to figure out a way to reduce amyloid plaque. After billions of dollars, there is another way. This drug has stopped the decline in Alzheimer patients after 52 weeks.
www.neurologylive.com...

originally posted by: Guiltyguitarist
So mouthwash before brushing?

Before, during and after!

Or just drink a lot more booze.

a reply to: tobiasjosias

nice find, gives me hope for if I ever get this disease.

a reply to: Blue Shift

mouthwash martini

a reply to: toms54

That we know of. It could be once infection sets in. If it's not taken care of. It slowly builds up the plaques.

In any case. More study is needed. But I hope that they are on the right track with this and can reverse the effects.

originally posted by: Blue Shift

originally posted by: headorheart
Obviously some research yet to be done, but how crazy would it be that after all this time gum disease could be the culprit.

It's happened before with stomach ulcers. For years, nobody could figure out what was causing it so they made people eat bland food and avoid stomach acid-producing stress and all kinds of things, and that turned out to mostly be due to a bacteria, too, H. pylori.

About 15 years ago. Brutal stomach aches would wake me up in the middle of the night and last all day.
After 6 months diagnosed with H. Plyori. Antibiotics for two months, which messed up my stomach in different ways, but after heavy pro-biotics it resolved. A sound solution is pro-biotics to start with to out-compete the H. Plyori, which took root to begin with after a heavy course of anti-biotics wiping out gut flora.

In the scheme of life that lives upon our skin and inside us, it is balance of powers that determines symbiotic and detrimental. Antibiotics create opportunities for otherwise helpful bacteria to dominate and cause serious issues. Balance of powers. Bomb the middle east and create power vacuums and political opposition becomes ISIS.

It's a paradigm worth contemplating IMO.

Anytime a doctor prescribes anti-biotics, find a credible pro-biotic and take it generously. You can take it at the same time as the anti-biotic is targeted to decrease a given population and the pro-biotic is targeted to increase useful populations.