Research has shown links between major conditions and the Pg strain
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MOST people know drinking, smoking and diet can affect whether or not you get Alzheimer’s, hardened arteries, and other diseases.
Could that be because they help set Pg on a rampage?
Emerging research would suggest that is the case.
Cigarette smoke, for instance, has been shown in studies to help Pg invade body cells.
Alcoholics have been found to have more Pg in their mouths than the average person.
Intriguingly, exercise, known to lower the risk of Alzheimer’s and heart disease, also relieves gum disease, mostly by reducing inflammation — which is involved in all these our waistlines may suffer, we won’t have a heart attack or dementia?
Maybe not. We haven’t been able to observe what happens in Pg’s absence. Unhealthy lifestyles will probably trigger inflammation without Pg’s help — fat cells, for example, release inflammatory molecules.
And other species of bacteria may cause havoc. The bacteria that cause acne, for example, are being linked to eroding spinal discs and prostate cancer.
‘Time may prove to us that P. gingivalis does not act alone and that a cluster of microbes work together to create pathology,’ says Pg expert Sim Singhrao, who is based at the University of Central Lancashire in England. ‘Yet more research is needed.’