It used to be widely assumed that the brain was the last bastion of sterility in the human body – it has a blood-brain barrier, for one, which microbes were thought to be too big to pass through – but it turns out that microbes flourish in the brain.
In many – but not all – of the Alzheimer’s brains, says Lathe: “We saw an overabundance of several microbes – the major ones are species such as Streptococcus and Staphylococcus in the bacteria, and in the yeasts it’s things like Candida and Cryptococcus, which are all well known to cause diverse pathologies in humans.” There was also a mysterious algae-related species, but it hasn’t been studied much in relation to human health. “It could be very important, but we don’t know anything about it.”
— Read on www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/dec/01/the-brain-microbiome-could-understanding-it-help-prevent-dementia
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