{"id":87065,"date":"2019-01-26T02:22:31","date_gmt":"2019-01-26T10:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/the-cause-of-alzheimers-could-be-coming-from-inside-your-mouth-study-claims"},"modified":"2019-01-26T02:22:31","modified_gmt":"2019-01-26T10:22:31","slug":"the-cause-of-alzheimers-could-be-coming-from-inside-your-mouth-study-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/the-cause-of-alzheimers-could-be-coming-from-inside-your-mouth-study-claims","title":{"rendered":"The Cause of Alzheimer\u2019s Could Be Coming From Inside Your Mouth, Study Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-cause-of-alzheimers-could-be-coming-from-inside-your-mouth-study-claims2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the article:<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In recent years, a growing number of scientific studies have backed an alarming hypothesis: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/alzheimer-s-disease\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Alzheimer's\">Alzheimer\u2019s<\/a> disease isn\u2019t just a disease, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/bacteria-could-be-the-key-to-understanding-and-treating-alzheimer-s\">exact mechanisms<\/a> of this infection are something researchers are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-think-alzheimer-s-may-be-caused-by-our-brains-defence-system\">still trying to isolate<\/a>, a litany of papers argue the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/alzheimers-disease-beta-amyloid-source-outside-brain\">deadly spread<\/a> of Alzheimer\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/surgical-tools-could-spreading-alzheimers-proteins\">goes way beyond<\/a> what we used to think.<\/p>\n<p>Now, scientists are saying they\u2019ve got 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<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/new-evidence-reveals-an-unexpected-culprit-behind-alzheimer-s-disease\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/new-evidence-reveals-an-unexpec...-s-disease<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the article: 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, a litany of papers argue the deadly spread of Alzheimer\u2019s goes way beyond what [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":474,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87065","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\/87065","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\/474"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}