Andrew Huberman· PhD
but that something about that the inflammation of that trigeminal nerve pathway maybe it breaches the blood brain barrier in certain people and then it sets off a cascade that we eventually call Alzheimer's
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but that something about that the inflammation of that trigeminal nerve pathway maybe it breaches the blood brain barrier in certain people and then it sets off a cascade that we eventually call Alzheimer's
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Yeah, I've heard um you know here and there uh about data linking um herpes virus to Alzheimer's for instance um and you could imagine how uh it might not be directly related to the the symptoms or the pathology of of herpes virus but that something about the neural inflammation caused on the trigeminal nerve which is where the herpes virus lives that's why people get cold sores this is HSV1 um which is very common right I think um and most people just combat it and they don't get cold sores