I'm Dave Asprey and this is Biohacker News, a segment of Bulletproof Radio.

Biohacker is the art and science of changing the environment around you and inside of you so

that you have full control of your own biology. The first piece of Biohacker News is that

gum disease is now linked to an increased risk of Alzheimer's disease. According to a new study

out of Taiwan, if you want to protect your brain, you should do it your grandmother and your mother

said which is brush your teeth. Researchers determined that if you had periodontitis or chronic

gum inflammation, you were more likely to get Alzheimer's disease. They specifically looked at

people over the age of 50 and accounted for other factors that it could influence your Alzheimer's

like heart disease or stroke. Based on their findings, if you had gum disease from more than 10

years, you had a 70% better chance of developing Alzheimer's. You might be wondering what your teeth

have to do with your brain. The researchers weren't able to determine if Alzheimer's caused gum disease

or gum disease caused Alzheimer's but I'd be willing to bet it's the latter. Previous studies have

associated gum disease with an increase in inflammation throughout your body. Chronic

inflammation is a problem because it causes your cells to release inflammatory chemicals which

cause systemic irritation everywhere from your gut to your brain. And I wrote about this in my book

Headstrong that your mitochondria, the battery packs, power plants in your cells are very vulnerable

to inflammation. If you want to delay the effects of aging, you want to keep as many of your mitochondria

intact as possible and you want to produce more mitochondria. These new findings show that your

dental health and your brain health are really closely related. One of the best things you can do

to maintain your cognitive ability is to reduce inflammation and diet plays a big role in that. So

stop eating, sugar, eliminate processed foods, eat more omega-3 fats from whole food sources like

wild-cut fish, follow a low toxin anti-inflammatory diet like the buloprov diet on top of that

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