There is a correlation between the gut microbiota and Alzheimer’s disease

European researchers have just shown that there is a correlation between the gut microbiota and Alzheimer’s disease.

This link had already been mentioned in other studies, but scientists from Switzerland and Italy confirmed it in their work published on November 10 in the “Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease”.

The “Corriere Internazionale” indicated in a report that Swiss and Italian researchers have highlighted a “relationship between an inflammatory phenomenon detected in the blood of people suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, some intestinal bacteria and the disease itself”.

To arrive at these results, the study looked at 89 people between the ages of 65 and 85. Some had Alzheimer’s and some didn’t. The work “has allowed us to demonstrate that this inflammation in patients could constitute a” mediator “between the microbiota and the brain”, according to the “Corriere Internazionale”.

“These results allow us to consider new preventive strategies based on modulating the microbiota of people at risk,” the University of Geneva indicated in a press release.

“Taking a bacterial cocktail to restore the balance of the intestinal microbiota or products that allow you to feed the good bacteria would only be effective in a” very early “phase of the disease,” he explains, however, to put the distance that remains to be traveled for scientists.

According to the Alzheimer’s Society, more than 500,000 Canadians have a neurocognitive disorder, and that number will exceed 910,000 by 2030.