If you bled when you brushed your teeth this morning, you might want
to get that seen to. We may finally have found the long-elusive cause of
Alzheimer’s disease: Porphyromonas gingivalis, the key bacteria in chronic gum disease.
That’s bad, as gum disease affects around a third of all people. But
the good news is that a drug that blocks the main toxins of P. gingivalis
is entering major clinical trials this year, and research published
today shows it might stop and even reverse Alzheimer’s. There could even
be a vaccine.
