This bacteria may cause Alzheimer’s
it's a very common infection.....
Hey ,
This week’s email is dedicated to Judy K — Happy Birthday, Judy! 🎉
She told me she already knows all my material (and let’s be real, she probably does), so naturally, I took that as a personal challenge.
So here’s something I bet you have not heard me rant about in this much detail:
H. pylori — the stealth stomach bug that may be aging you from the inside out.
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A new study in Alzheimer’s & Dementia just made waves. After thirty years of blaming amyloid plaques for Alzheimer’s, researchers finally admitted what functional medicine has been saying (and blasted for) all along: inflammation is the problem.
But here’s the twist: that inflammation often starts in the gut— not the brain.
Enter: Helicobacter pylori — a nasty bugger..
Why this microscopic critter matters:
H. pylori burrows into your stomach lining like a relative living in your house for a week but they're still there 3 years later. It lowers stomach acid, causes gastritis, and can make you feel like every meal is an act of rebellion. Worse, it may not cause symptoms and your PCP is not testing for it…
First it’s reflux. Then it’s heartburn. Then one day you can’t handle vinegar, citrus, sparkling water, wine, whatever.
That’s not “aging.” That’s inflamm-aging — the slow, invisible fire that spreads from your gut to every other system in your body.
And check this:
H. pylori isn’t just annoying — it’s the #1 cause of stomach cancer worldwide.
Not a “risk factor.” The cause.
Stay with me for the BIG PICTURE:
When your stomach’s inflamed, your immune system gets confused. It starts tolerating the wrong things (like pathogens and toxins) and attacking the wrong things (like your own tissues).
That confusion doesn’t stay in the gut. It reaches your thyroid, your joints, and yes — even your brain.
So while that Alzheimer’s paper is about amyloid and aging, the real takeaway is this:
you can’t fix your brain if your stomach’s on fire.
Here’s where people mess this up:
They kill the bug, but don’t fix the environment.
If your stomach acid isn’t restored, enzymes aren’t working, or detox isn’t flowing — it just comes back.
That’s why we always start north to south. If the stomach’s broken, the gut can’t heal, detox backs up, and your immune system loses tolerance.
So please, before you DM me about probiotics — don’t. You’ll just be painting over rust.
I dove deep for this one, sorry if it was a lot to handle.
Happy birthday, JK— you keep me on my toes.
Stay sharp (and acidic in the best way),
Dr. G
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