Doctors from the International Alzheimer Research Center in Switzerland published a study indicating a high probability of a causal relationship, not just an association, between spirochete infections and Alzheimer’s disease. What they discovered was pretty amazing. They found spirochetes in about 90% of Alzheimer’s patients, while the bacteria were virtually absent in healthy age-matched controls. Scientists have discovered that amyloid-beta protein has anti-bacterial properties, indicating that its production may be an adaptive response to infectious organisms, like invading spirochetes. The whole process may work something like this: Spirochetes invade and infect the brain. The brain’s normal defenses become dysfunctional as the macrophages (microglia) become trapped and then attacked within the core of the spirochete plaque. With immune dysfunction setting in, the spirochete infection intensifies involving more and more brain cells. Damaged brain cells produce amyloid-beta protein as an adaptive response to the infection. Amyloid-beta deposits grow and begin to affect brain cell connections and communication highways. With damaged connections and communication highways, dementia symptoms begin and gradually worsen Here’s something amazing: Curcumin helps enhance the engulfing properties of brain macrophages — the same macrophages that are damaged and dysfunctional by the spirochetes. As it turns out, curcumin can bind to amyloid-beta plaques, allowing the brain macrophages to “latch on” and engulf the plaques. The clearing of the plaques can help resolve the infection and reestablish normal brain cell connections and communication highways. blog.lef.org/2013/12/is-alzheimers-caused-by-infection.html
Posted on: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 09:27:01 +0000
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