Brushing your teeth could prevent Alzheimer's disease and other diseases

An Alzheimer's study conducted earlier this year has revealed that the bacteria that cause gingivitis can move from the mouth to the brain, where the enzymes that they excrete can destroy nerve cells in the brain, thus causing the fatal illness. However, a new study from the University of Bergen is the first to identify DNA evidence showing that it is doing so. In the study of 53 people with the disease, 96% were tested positive for the enzyme.

"We have discovered DNA-based evidence that gingivitis-causing bacteria can pbad from the mouth to the brain," says researcher Piotr Mydel of the Broegelmanns research laboratory of the department of clinical sciences of the United States. University of Bergen.

But Mydel says that it is not the bacteria alone that can cause Alzheimer's disease, but that its presence significantly increases the risk of developing the disease and is also implicated in a faster course of the disease. According to the study's findings, Mydel says new drugs may delay the development of Alzheimer's disease, which they plan to test later this year.

Alzheimer's disease is one of the least understood diseases. Scientists believe that for the majority of people, Alzheimer's disease is caused by a combination of genetic, environmental and lifestyle factors that affect the brain over time. However, the exact causes are not yet well understood. What is known and recognized is that it is badociated with brain proteins that do not function normally, disrupt brain neurons and release toxic radicals. When this happens, the neurons that lose the connection between them and eventually die are damaged.

Mydel says it's important, if you have gingivitis and you have Alzheimer's disease in your family, to go to your dentist regularly and brush your teeth well.

Alzheimer's disease is a chronic neurodegenerative disease that affects nearly 44 million people worldwide and is found mostly in Western Europe. According to the BrightFocus Foundation, a person develops dementia every three seconds. The first signs of the disease may be short-term memory loss, and as the disease progresses, a person with Alzheimer's disease will develop severe impairment of memory and lose the ability to perform their tasks. daily tasks.

Another study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association This month, common oral pathogens were detected in 79% of the cerebral blood clot samples from 75 patients with stroke. Previous studies by the University of Tampere team in Finland have revealed the same type of bacteria in patients with heart attacks, coronary stenosis, cerebral aneurysms and venous or arterial thrombosis.

It turns out that your teeth are very important, so take care of it.