We do not offer medical advice here, only information for education purpose. Alzheimer’s Disease scares many older people, as there is no cure for it, and it is truly frightening to contemplate one slowly mentally disintegrating. Tehre are YouTube videos about the country singer Glen Campbell going down like this, struggling to get out one final concert, not being able to remember the lyrics to his famous songs.
That being so, the mainstream view is that Alzheimer’s Disease is caused by amyloid plaques. There have been numerous drugs devised to deal with this, but everything has failed. However, there is some alternative thinking that the amyloid plaques are an effect and not a cause, and that the real cause are pathogens, the plaques being a response to the infection. That could be a good working hypothesis as a Nobel Prize was given for the discovery that the bacteria Helicobacter pylori was causally related to duodenal and gastric ulcers, gastric cancer, and gastric mucosa associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphoma. The big question is what is actually the bug responsible for this, or could ther be multiple causes?
