{"id":91573,"date":"2019-06-03T10:22:51","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T17:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/brush-your-teeth-postpone-alzheimers"},"modified":"2019-06-03T10:22:51","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T17:22:51","slug":"brush-your-teeth-postpone-alzheimers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/brush-your-teeth-postpone-alzheimers","title":{"rendered":"Brush your teeth\u2014postpone Alzheimer\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brush-your-teeth-postpone-alzheimers2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have determined that gum disease (gingivitis) plays a decisive role in whether a person develops Alzheimer\u00b4s or not.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe discovered DNA-based proof that the <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/bacteria\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">bacteria<\/a> causing gingivitis can move from the mouth to the brain,\u201d says researcher Piotr Mydel at Broegelmanns Research Laboratory, Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen (UiB).<\/p>\n<p>The bacteria produces a protein that destroys <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/nerve+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">nerve cells<\/a> in the brain, which in turn leads to loss of memory and ultimately, Alzheimer\u00b4s.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2019-06-teethpostpone-alzheimer.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have determined that gum disease (gingivitis) plays a decisive role in whether a person develops Alzheimer\u00b4s or not. \u201cWe discovered DNA-based proof that the bacteria causing gingivitis can move from the mouth to the brain,\u201d says researcher Piotr Mydel at Broegelmanns Research Laboratory, Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen (UiB). The bacteria produces [\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-91573","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\/91573","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=91573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}