DR. ALAN MACDONALD ADDRESSES INAUGURAL MEETING OF SAA -LONDON, JUNE 2014
Commentary: Chronic disease accounts for approximately 75% of the health care costs and 70% of the deaths in the United States. One of those diseases, Alzheimer’s disease (AD), is predicted to triple in incidence within the next 30 years. In the following article, Dr Alan McDonald describes the relationship between spirochetes and Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers such as Dr McDonald and Dr Judith Miklossy from Switzerland have found Lyme spirochetes present in biopsies of the brains of Alzheimer’s patients, and hypothesize that chronic spirochetal infections (from Lyme disease and spirochetes in the mouth) in combination with biofilms may play a role in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s.
Please read the 3 links below. The first is a transcript summary of the recent London conference where Dr McDonald spoke on spirochetes and their relationship to AD. The second link discusses a scientific article published in the journal of Alzheimer’s Disease where french researchers in Strasbourg recently discovered that Lyme disease was responsible for Alzheimer’s in over 1% of demented patients screened in their study. The third link is a blog that I wrote for Psychology Today a few months ago discussing how infections and toxins both may play a role in driving dementia and AD. Chronic infections and toxins (in the context of a multi factorial 16 point MSIDS model) are underlying etiological agents in chronic disease that need to be addressed if we are to tackle the health challenges facing us in the 21st century.
DR. ALAN MACDONALD ADDRESSES INAUGURAL MEETING OF SAA -LONDON, JUNE 2014