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There's a lot more to the relationship between pathogens and neurological conditions. This article has some good information: https://return.life/2022/05/endemic-pathogens/ (Please ignore the clickbaity tone, there's actually good stuff here).

We know there are a ton of correlations. We don't have causal links, although there is quite a bit of speculation about inflammation.

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Not related to a pathogen, but there have been studies in seeing if untackled celiac disease causes dementia through inflammation: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/news/nr/sheffield-coeliac-diseas...

I have a personal interest in this as my dad had celiac disease, refused to obey the diet, then within a few years had vascular dementia, cerebral amyloid angiopathy, and three strokes! Inflammation -> brain problems feels like a natural connection to me whether through pathogen or immune reaction.

I've had issues with inflammation for most of my life and this line of thinking has always worried me. I just had to do a full blood panel last week for a new doctor in my quest to understand the inflammation throughout my body. I have been feeling less and less mentally acute lately and I wonder if the inflammation is finally having a neurological effect.

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