Otherwise “simple infections” are (likely, almost obviously) responsible for tons, including dementia, Parkinson’s, more,

and they’re the ones everyone ignores,

or struggle to even get a diagnosis for,

and instead say “it’s normal to not be able to squat once, or have any energy when you’re ‘getting older’!”.

These infections can drive…completely life-changing medical trajectories - without the patient ever noticing.

Everyone just thinks they won the “reverse—lottery” when cancer or dementia finally shows up…I’m becoming less convinced it’s a “chance” thing at all.

We just don’t see, nor monitor the beginnings - and if we do happen upon them, hey, “everybody has Staph, EBV, [insert bacteria or virus here] - nothing to be worried by! Very common!”