{"id":129471,"date":"2021-10-24T16:23:31","date_gmt":"2021-10-24T23:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/new-evidence-shows-how-viral-infections-could-promote-alzheimers"},"modified":"2021-10-24T16:23:31","modified_gmt":"2021-10-24T23:23:31","slug":"new-evidence-shows-how-viral-infections-could-promote-alzheimers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/new-evidence-shows-how-viral-infections-could-promote-alzheimers","title":{"rendered":"New evidence shows how viral infections could promote Alzheimer\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I\u2019m convinced a lot of diseases, MS, parkinsons, alzheimers, most cancers, are the result of bacterial or viral infections.<\/p>\n

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Building on a growing body of evidence linking viral infections with neurodegenerative disease, a new study published in Nature Communications<\/i> has demonstrated how certain molecules on the surfaces of viruses can promote the aggregation of toxic proteins associated with diseases such as Alzheimer\u2019s and Parkinson\u2019s.<\/p>\n

The idea that microbial infections can trigger neurodegenerative disease is not new. As far back as the 1950s<\/a> scientists have been postulating ways an acute viral infection can lead to progressive neurological problems years, or even decades, later.<\/p>\n

While evidence for this association is certainly growing<\/a>, the mechanisms by which viral threats can influence the progression of brain diseases are still resolutely hypothetical. A common hypothesis speculates some viral infections may trigger abnormal immune responses<\/a> that subsequently linger for years, ultimately generating neurological damage associated with some brain diseases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m convinced a lot of diseases, MS, parkinsons, alzheimers, most cancers, are the result of bacterial or viral infections. Building on a growing body of evidence linking viral infections with neurodegenerative disease, a new study published in Nature Communications has demonstrated how certain molecules on the surfaces of viruses can promote the aggregation of toxic [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}