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Posted by Glenmore 2011-10-05 19:19|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 It has long been known that the spirochete bacteria of syphilis can cause dementia, but it has been recently suggested that about half a dozen other common oral spirochetes may take advantage of gum infections to take a direct path to the brain.

If this is the case, the specific preventative treatment would be simply to brush teeth on a biweekly basis with ordinary baking soda, which kills such spirochetes within 5 seconds. Combined with a water pic, to disrupt colonies of those bacteria hidden beneath the gums.

Ordinary toothpaste would not do this, but is also important to use against plaque and to provide fluoride.

Dentists long suspected a connection with Alzheimer's and chronic gum infections, and scientists have found a much higher percentage of spirochetes in the brains of Alzheimer's patients. Such bacteria do not have ready access, usually, because of the blood-brain barrier, but a gum infection gives them a direct path.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-10-05 22:36|| 2011-10-05 22:36|| Front Page Top

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