Sim Singhrao, Cell biologist and the School of Dentistry, University of Central Lancashire, explaining how improved oral health might help prevent or delay Alzheimer’s disease, on the Humans Stage, at New Scientist Live 2019
Sim's goal is to discover how improved oral health might prevent or delay Alzheimer’s disease. In this talk, she explains how a healthy body embraces diverse classes of bacteria. Hear how our lifestyles can cause shifts in bacterial communities in our mouths and guts because of sensitivities to a change in diet, age and environment. These changes can lead to biological stress and diminished general wellbeing. Maintaining general hygiene, with a nutritious diet containing fibre and micronutrients, physical exercise and sufficient good quality sleep helps to keep both the body and the mind healthy. Sim’s interest in neurodegenerative diseases led to a PhD at Cardiff University. Three postdoctoral positions later, she took up a senior research fellow position at the University of Central Lancashire to develop links between oral health and dementia. Sim is now the School of Dentistry’s research lead. Her goal is to discover causative links of oral health with the development of Alzheimer’s disease to improve oral/general health and even lifestyle behaviours. And ultimately delay, or indeed take the first steps towards delaying or preventing, Alzheimer’s.
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