{"id":208345,"date":"2025-03-11T11:21:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T16:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/researchers-reveal-breakthrough-in-alzheimers-disease-and-the-shocking-place-it-might-originate-in-your-body"},"modified":"2025-03-11T11:21:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T16:21:40","slug":"researchers-reveal-breakthrough-in-alzheimers-disease-and-the-shocking-place-it-might-originate-in-your-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/researchers-reveal-breakthrough-in-alzheimers-disease-and-the-shocking-place-it-might-originate-in-your-body","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Reveal Breakthrough in Alzheimer\u2019s Disease and the Shocking Place It Might Originate in Your Body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-reveal-breakthrough-in-alzheimers-disease-and-the-shocking-place-it-might-originate-in-your-body2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although it\u2019s not the first time this was hypothesized, this study is the first time researchers looked at the presence of gingipains within the brains of diseased patients. Even more, the patients themselves were never even diagnosed with Alzheimer\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur identification of gingipain antigens in the brains of individuals with AD and also with AD pathology but no diagnosis of dementia argues that brain infection with P. gingivalis is not a result of poor dental care following the onset of dementia or a consequence of late-stage disease, but is an early event that can explain the pathology found in middle-aged individuals before cognitive decline,\u201d the authors explained.<\/p>\n<p>While this isn\u2019t a one-size-fits-all answer to what causes Alzheimer\u2019s, it\u2019s a step in the right direction to finding the reasoning behind this life-altering disease.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although it\u2019s not the first time this was hypothesized, this study is the first time researchers looked at the presence of gingipains within the brains of diseased patients. Even more, the patients themselves were never even diagnosed with Alzheimer\u2019s. \u201cOur identification of gingipain antigens in the brains of individuals with AD and also with AD [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208345","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\/208345","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}