Poor Dental Health and Eating Red Meat Linked to Alzheimer’s Disease

Poor Dental Health and Eating Red Meat Linked to Alzheimer’s Disease: The Research team led by Professor Stjohn Crean and Dr. Sim Singhrao at the University of Central Lancashire (United Kingdom) School of Medicine and Dentistry recently found that there is a connection between dental health and Alzheimer’s disease. They published their findings in the May 2013 Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease titled “Determining the Presence of Periodontopathic Virulence Factors in Short-Term Postmortem Alzheimer’s Disease Brain Tissue.” Ten patients with dementia were compared to ten patients without dementia. All ten of the subjects with Alzheimer’s showed the presence of products from Porphyromonas gingivalis bacteria in the brain, which were absent in those with dementia.