Your teeth can tell if you will suffer from Alzheimer’s & Parkinson’s

You must have heard that your eyes say a lot about your health but did you know that your teeth can be more specific about it? A new study has found that analysis of teeth can hint at the chances that one might suffer from diseases like Parkinson’s  and Alzheimer’s.

Manish Arora, of the Mount Sinai Medical Centre explained that teeth can help measure the chemical exposure to metals in foetal and childhood development. The micro-chemical composition of teeth in relation to defined growth lines provide a chronological record of exposure just like the rings in a tree trunk. Studying iron deposits in teeth to determine the exposure levels was just one application and he further explained that studying teeth and help track the impact of pollution on health.

Are formula fed babies more likely to suffer from these diseases?
The scientists used the dental biomarker technology to distinguish breastfed babies from formula fed babies. This technology can be used to study the link between early  iron exposure and age-related diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s that are associated with abnormal iron processing. Read: 7 things you didn’t know about Parkinson’s disease

While not all formula fed babies will experience neurodegeneration in adulthood, the combination of increased iron intake during infancy with a predisposition to impaired metal metabolism such as the inability of brain cells to remove excessive metals may damage those cells over time.’ Read: Alzheimer’s disease – where does it originate from?

Only now do we have the technology available to use to look back in time at someone’s diet as a child, more than 60 years after they stopped wearing diapers,’ Dominic Hare, a Chancellor’s Research Fellow at the University of Technology Sydney,   said. In the case of baby formula, the need to better understand human iron metabolism has become more urgent with the global popularity of formula and fortified cereals.

Adding iron to formula has been an industry standard for decades, in part because about two billion people worldwide – mostly in developing nations – are thought to have chronic anaemia and iron deficiency.

 ‘While it might seem like drawing a long bow linking what happens in childhood to diseases we think of as associated with growing old, the increasing rates of these diseases mean we need to do everything we can to find out what might play a role in how the disease starts,’ Hare said. ‘Knowing this gives us something to target when designing new treatments,’ Hare said.
Beyond the wide-reaching hypothesis that iron supplementation may increase the risk of neurodegeneration, the researchers think a priority in paediatric research should be the rigorous determination of iron supplementation needs of infants according to their individual iron status.

 

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