{"id":150795,"date":"2022-11-22T12:25:03","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T18:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/the-cause-of-alzheimers-could-be-coming-from-inside-your-mouth"},"modified":"2022-11-22T12:25:03","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T18:25:03","slug":"the-cause-of-alzheimers-could-be-coming-from-inside-your-mouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/11\/the-cause-of-alzheimers-could-be-coming-from-inside-your-mouth","title":{"rendered":"The Cause of Alzheimer\u2019s Could Be Coming From Inside Your Mouth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-cause-of-alzheimers-could-be-coming-from-inside-your-mouth2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In recent years, a growing number of scientific studies have backed an alarming hypothesis: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/go\/IaO\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">Alzheimer\u2019s<\/a> disease isn\u2019t just a disease, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-cause-of-alzheimers-could-be-coming-from-inside-your-mouth\/scientists-identify-a-virus-and-two-types-of-bacteria-that-could-be-linked-to-alzheimer-s\">it\u2019s an infection<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While the exact mechanisms of this infection are something researchers are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-cause-of-alzheimers-could-be-coming-from-inside-your-mouth\/scientists-think-alzheimer-s-may-be-caused-by-our-brains-defence-system\">still trying to isolate<\/a>, numerous studies suggest the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-cause-of-alzheimers-could-be-coming-from-inside-your-mouth\/alzheimers-disease-beta-amyloid-source-outside-brain\">deadly spread<\/a> of Alzheimer\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-cause-of-alzheimers-could-be-coming-from-inside-your-mouth\/surgical-tools-could-spreading-alzheimers-proteins\">goes way beyond<\/a> what we used to think.<\/p>\n<p>One such study, published in 2019, suggested what could be one of the most definitive leads yet for a bacterial culprit behind Alzheimer\u2019s, and it comes from a somewhat unexpected quarter: gum disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent years, a growing number of scientific studies have backed an alarming hypothesis: Alzheimer\u2019s disease isn\u2019t just a disease, it\u2019s an infection. While the exact mechanisms of this infection are something researchers are still trying to isolate, numerous studies suggest the deadly spread of Alzheimer\u2019s goes way beyond what we used to think. One [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150795","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\/150795","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}