Why Microglia Are Key to Brain Health (And What Nootropics Miss)
The brain-booster industry optimizes neurotransmitters while ignoring the immune cells that actually decide whether your synapses survive.
Neuroinflammation
Brain Fog After 40: Microglia, Not Just Hormones, May Be the Cause
The word-finding slips and mental static after 40 may come from primed microglia, not just hormones — and that changes what actually helps.
Microglia and Brain Health: Functional Medicine Insights
Your brain has its own immune system, and the cells running it are called microglia. What you eat, how you sleep, and whether you move determines if they protect or destroy.
Oral Bacteria's Two Routes to Your Brain | Quiet Inflammation
New research maps exactly how bacteria from gum disease travel to your brain through your bloodstream and your gut — and what you can do about it.
How Gum Disease Drives Neuroinflammation and Brain Decline
New research maps how oral bacteria trigger brain inflammation through the oral-gut-brain axis — and it’s not just about Alzheimer’s.
Oral Bacteria Sabotage Your Gut-Brain Connection
New research reveals how oral bacteria hijack your gut’s tryptophan metabolism through the kynurenine pathway — and it changes everything about the gut-brain connection.
Mouth Breathing Triggers Brain Inflammation Overnight
How sleeping with your mouth open fuels brain inflammation through the oral-gut-brain axis.
Neuroinflammation: How Gut Inflammation Becomes Brain Fog
The immune pathway from gut inflammation to brain fog runs through cytokines and microglial activation — and it’s more direct than you think.
Gingipain Inhibitors: The Alzheimer's Drug That Was Reborn
The rise, fall, and resurrection of a drug designed to block gum disease bacteria in the brain tells you everything about where Alzheimer’s research is heading.
Oral Microbiome Signals Your Brain via Vagus Nerve
Your mouth isn’t just where digestion begins — it’s an active signaling hub that talks to your brain through nerves, metabolites, and immune sensors you didn’t know you had.
Oral-Gut-Brain Axis: How Mouth Bacteria Affect Brain Health
Your mouth is the starting point of a pathway that reaches your brain — and most people have no idea it exists.
Gum Bacteria and Alzheimer's: The New Drug Target
A pharmaceutical company is running clinical trials on a drug that blocks toxins from gum disease bacteria found in Alzheimer’s brains — and the implications go far beyond the drug itself.