Bacteria Found in Alzheimer’s Brains

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This may turn out to be signficant;

Researchers in the UK have used DNA sequencing to examine bacteria in post-mortem brains from patients with Alzheimer’s disease. Their findings suggest increased bacterial populations and different proportions of specific bacteria in Alzheimer’s, compared with healthy brains. The findings may support evidence that bacterial infection and inflammation in the brain could contribute to Alzheimer’s disease.

Stay tuned.

19 Replies to “Bacteria Found in Alzheimer’s Brains”

  1. Or it could be that the damaged brains of Alzheimer patients are more friendly to certain bacteria?
    It would be wonderful if we can find a cure, or even a way to slow Alzheimers down. The disease is slowly destroying what makes my Mother, my Mother.

  2. Significant indeed. On the level of “stress causes ulcers”, and possibly a cure for one of the most evil afflictions we know about.
    I only hope Lou Gehrig’s disease is next. RIP scoutmaster Bob.

  3. some day the will find out that a bacterial infection in the brain also causes liberals

  4. Several years ago my wife read and made coconut treats for my Mother in Law who was suffering dementia. She returned to her normal self, was joking and chatting with us.
    My Father and brother in law said stop it because she is gaining weight, and believed the doctors there is no cure… and Mom has totally slipped , not even recognizing them.
    Stupid is as stupid does.

  6. My 66 year old cousin, who has her mother living with them, recently commented that “She’s not ‘Mom’ anymore, she just ‘Your name here'”. Sad.

  7. Johnbrooks > Thank you for sharing this story about coconut significantly reducing your mother’s dementia. FYI, in the past decade I have read half a dozen clinical / medical studies reporting on the positive impacts of coconut oil (in the diet) on several neurological conditions including Alzheimer’s, MS, and Parkinson’s. It doesn’t work on everybody but it works often enough to be taken seriously as a possible dietary intake for anybody with any form of neurological condition.
    NOTE > coconut oil cannot be patented as a chemical compound / Rx drug, so no pharmaceutical company is researching it. In recent years (the past 5+) Costco has been selling large-sized (as always with Costco) containers of coconut oil …and Costco doesn’t sell (for more than a few weeks) ANYTHING that does not get large volumes of repeat purchase. Why would people all of a sudden in the past 5+ years be buying large-sized containers of coconut oil? …BECAUSE THEY HAVE READ THE CLINICAL STUDIES AND/OR HEARD ANECDOTAL EVIDENCE LIKE YOURS, AND ARE a) USING COCONUT OIL AS A ‘NATURAL REMEDY’ OR PREVENTATIVE AGAINST ALZHEIMER’S.

  9. Sorry to hear about your mom. You’re right this is a correlation not a causation. In many auto-immune diseases you’ll find abnormal populations of just about any damn ‘background’ virus like EBV in the lesions. Does not mean they are causing the condition.

  10. Johnbrooks:
    Here is a link to one of the clinical studies indicating positive results from coconut oil versus Alzheimer’s. This study was funded by the government of Spain and it’s write-ups are in Spanish except for this one I was able to find in English. To repeat, it doesn’t work for everybody but it is safe / non-toxic and it HAS worked for enough people to make it worthwhile TRYING coconut oil for any neurological condition, especially for our epidemic of Alzheimer’s. Here’s the link to the results of that Spanish clinical trial:
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26667739?dopt=Abstract

  11. Constant high insulin levels are known to be inflammatory. Damaging the blood vessels.
    https://www.dietdoctor.com/preventing-alzheimers-easier-than-you-think#more-356226
    “Preventing Alzheimer’s Is Easier Than You Think”
    According to the article, Alzheimer’s disease (sometimes referred to as type 3 diabetes) is in large part due to insulin resistance in the brain. This starves the brain of energy and can lead to cognitive malfunction. An illustration of this is that 80% of people suffering from Alzheimer’s either have insulin resistance or full-blown type 2 diabetes.

  12. My Mother passed 25 years ago from Alzeimers. Never smoked cigarettes etc,. rarely drank any alcohol, worked to the normal retirement age at the time of 65.
    The dementia began around 73 years of age steady deterioration of cognitive ability, fell when in a retirement home, broke a Hip was wheelchair bound; bed care an demise at 82.
    Having said the above I became super conscious of dementia around 73 years of age. When hearing the “word” about coconuts started adding a teaspoonful with my morning oat meal. Now approaching 78 years of age less conscious of the forgetting of “things” and reasonably fit.
    My further thought is the realization of the effect of bacteria as a generator of stomach ulcers was not established for many decades as the consensus at the time was, stomach ulcers, is caused by Stress and/or Diet.
    One does not have to wonder very far to realize a contributing factor in delaying the recognition stomach ulcers are the result of a cetain strain of bacteria. The contributing factor once again is the vested interest(s) of not changing the procedures of controlling and treatment stomach ulcers to a harmful bacterial elimination process.
    It will be a tragedy, if the Lobbying and Political Pressure of Special interests delays,, in any manner the treatment of Alzeimers for the rapidly growing number of Baby Boomers reaching their Sixties & Seventies.
    Surely astute Legal Professionals will be able to establish the Why & How the dissemination of bacterial knowledge was impeded and establish the protocols of preventing this happening to any and all studies of bacteria as an affect and/or effect in diagnosis and treatment of dementia an specifically Alzeimer’s Disease.

  13. Google. 🙂
    Can’t remember the article but someone posted it helped his mother, so we tried it as well.
    But my wife’s testimony when she was taking care of Mom for 2 weeks is proof enough.
    Sadly after she left my brother in law came in (his turn) he deemed it quack science and believed the doctor that there isn’t any cure, even coconut oil.
    Needless to say she slipped back into it and doesn’t recognize anyone…
    This isn’t the article but a link.
    http://www.alzheimer.ca/en/About-dementia/Alzheimer-s-disease/Risk-factors/Coconut-oil

  16. It’s the ketones in the coconut oil that provide the benefit. A ketogenic diet (low carb) does the same thing, only better.

  17. Better said, the oil is converted to ketones in the liver. An alternate source of energy to carbohydrates. Also doesn’t raise insulin, which helps alleviate the inflammation of the blood vessels due to continuously high insulin levels from a high carb intake.

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