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Haha I tossed together that sentance before running to a meeting. I simply know the topic to such detail and intimately that I didn't think to make it simpler. If I had known it was going to be tossed at ChatGPT I would have fleshed it out more. The key thing that ChatGPT missed in its summary was that the entire PVN is often downregulated in Alzheimer's. This is where you get all of the other comorbidities that don'…
What is PVN?
Scientists discover links between Alzheimer's disease and gut microbiota
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I'm a fermentation freak so I have to highlight how uncooked fermented foods like sauerkraut and the aforementioned kefir play into anti-inflammation [0]. [0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8147091/
What about Ayran (that salty turkish thing)?
What about pickles? Do pickles fit into the nutrition profile we're looking at (Please, think of the pickles.)
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#63how does antibiotic medication affect our gut microbiota generally, and our alzheimer’s disease risk specifically?
This is asking the wrong question: for example, there are antibiotics you are prescribed for IBS because generally they tend to have a balancing effect on the gut microbiome. I've done a course every year or two when things get unmanageable, since it's a good reset. In this context, a treatment which reduced risk would likely be a combination of antibiotics and probiotics to try and shift the biome to a different one…
This is antibiotic marketing bs. There are antibiotic that harm pathogenic or prone-to-overgrowth bacteria harder than others, but they ALL lead to a state of dysbiosis and susceptibility to subsequent colonization/overgrowth/dysregulation
And this is the exact reason whymost of the time, GI problems come back or are replaced with different symptoms after antibiotics, and why we need more Fecal Microbiota Transplant research.
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#64how does antibiotic medication affect our gut microbiota generally, and our alzheimer’s disease risk specifically?
tl;dr: Long-term harm that might happen to kill off whatever's harming you in the process, but don't count on it.
Long version: It depends on specific antibiotic- generally, they wipe a portion of the strains completely, suppress most of the rest, and give anything resistant the opportunity to grow out of control, a state which persists for weeks to months during which you're extra susceptible to external pathogens, food poisoning, etc. A healthy microbiome is resilient, and sadly if you don't have one, FMT is the only way to do it.
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#65I thought it was gum disease? Or was it herpes?
It's all of those things. Infectious disease increasingly seem to be behind or involved in most neurodegenerative, neurodevelopmental, chronic fatigue, severe psychiatric disorders.
Herpesviral reactivation specifically seems to be involved in everything a little, but my hunch is that this is often secondary to other immune system burden.
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#66does this mean anal sex could theoretically transmit Alzheimer's?
Extremely unlikely and you'd have to be doing a threesome+. Gut bacteria are present throughout the entire digestive tract, and you can't really reach very far into the anus no matter what you've got.
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Fatty fish, most nuts (that don't have high omega-6, which is inflammatory), fruits high in antioxidants like berries and dark fruit in general, colorful vegetable, cooking with olive/avocado/sunflower oil, *kefir* which is the champion of all good microbiota inducers As for avoiding : red meat (high in omega-6), gluten (chickpea, rice, lentil pasta instead of wheat), cooking with hydrogenated oils, preservatives, pr…
Among inflammatory substances, alcohol is the elephant in the room. Cutting out alcohol is the lowest hanging fruit in this garden. Unfortunately, people convince themselves that it is perfectly healthy when consumed in small quantities every day. Anybody who monitors their health/fitness parameters with a smart watch will notice how damaging alcohol is.
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What does processed even mean? Unless I run out in the field and bite a cow, that meat is going to be processed. Likewise with potatoes, I'm going to be eating unpalatable starchy uncooked potatoes.
Industrial processing. As a simple rule, the longer the list of ingredients on the food label, the more processed. The ingredients aren't something you'd normally think of as food? More processed.
Keep in mind that if you buy a bunch of "let's pretend it's not processed" "healthy" foods and use them to cook a meal, you're a) creating an ultra-processed meal, and b) it now has a long list of ingredients, you're just not writing it down.
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What about Ayran (that salty turkish thing)?
What about pickles? Do pickles fit into the nutrition profile we're looking at (Please, think of the pickles.)
Good news, pickles are fermented, so they are good for your gut!
Ayran, on the other hand, contains a lot of salt which probably isn't the best.
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The usual. The way we evolved: Avoid processed foods and move (i.e., exercise). Obviously, only take antibiotics when absolutely necessary.
What does processed even mean? Unless I run out in the field and bite a cow, that meat is going to be processed. Likewise with potatoes, I'm going to be eating unpalatable starchy uncooked potatoes.
I found this list really helpful to understand:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/articles/what_is_ultra-processed_...