Can You ‘Catch’ Alzheimer’s Disease?

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Newly emerging Alzheimer’s disease hypothesis proposes that its symptoms may be triggered by one or more pathogens.

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• Until very recently, it was considered official and proven that Alzheimer’s disease is non-infectious and caused by amyloid plaques.
• Last year, the news came out that the foundational study on Alzheimer’s that had been driving the overall direction of research in the past two decades had been based on fraud.
• The new emerging theory proposes that Alzheimer’s Disease may be triggered by pathogens, and amyloid plaques may form as an immune response.
• However, it is important to remember that even if a pathogen or a group of pathogens is truly involved in triggering the symptoms of Alzheimer’s Disease, the mainstream narrative will be inevitably twisted in favor of pushing for more vaccines.

This story is about the microbial theory of Alzheimer’s disease. Why am I writing about it? I am writing about it because it’s like unraveling a detective plot. There is a disease that they say a lot of people have—and that is caused, they say, by amyloid deposits in the brain. But then it turns out that the currently widely accepted narrative about this disease is based on forged research.