Vasectomies Can Cause Dementia! : Why is this being downplayed!
Key Point: Testis have a blood barrier like the brain does.
It’s very frustrating to see a highly reputable research institute (Northwestern University) publish a report that would implicate a medical procedure that effects millions of people as a high risk factor for a life threatening disease like dementia. Testis have a blood barrier just like the brain does. When this barrier is broken sperm mixes with blood and antibodies are formed that cause the immune system to attack a persons own sperm cells. Vasectomies break this barrier and antibodies form in 70% of men who have the procedure. Sperm cells are the only cells outside the brain that have a particular protein that is attacked by these antibodies. That means the antibodies resulting from the vasectomy can attack brain cells. Keep in mind that Parkinson’s occurs in men at a much higher rate than women. Then The Northwestern research paper makes a very strong case for vasectomy-dementia connection (link below). I contacted the researcher at Northwestern who made the observation and she confirmed that after 10years nobody has funded a highly needed follow up study on her observations. Why? There is no economic incentive, doctors make a fortune for 10minutes of work, governments would have a major fly in the population control ointment and somewhere somebody might be held accountable for concealing knowledge. Opposite of the way the medical community downplays the issue men should consider the weight of the evidence as vasectomies significantly increase the chance of dementia until the medical community gets responsible and conducts a study that says otherwise. The really disturbing thing is that a nationwide study would be comparatively cheap as medical research goes! Read about the Northwestern study below.
VASECTOMY MAY PUT MEN AT RISK FOR TYPE OF DEMENTIA February 13, 2007 | by Marla Paul
https://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2007/02/vasectomy.html
Antineuronal antibodies in Parkinson's disease.
van de Warrenburg BPC, et al. Mov Disord. 2008.