Lead study researcher Ewan McNay told Medical Daily, “High levels of insulin swamp this enzyme so that it stops breaking down amyloid. If you said insulin, then you’ve been paying attention. And I’ll give you one guess what it is that causes those enzymes to start misfiring in the first place. The scientists say those plaques are the direct result of a short-circuited enzyme building up in the brain, rather than breaking down the proteins as they would in a normal non-diabetic brain. The rodent’s noodles were riddled with those amyloid plaques I mentioned earlier. Later, when they took a look at the rat’s brains, they quickly spotted the problem. They found that as the rats diabetes became worse, so did their scores on the memory tests. They then gave the clever little critters some memory tests. This game-changing discovery was made when researchers gave a group of lab rats diabetes by feeding them a junk food diet. Elevated insulin poisons your brain cells Eventually those super-high insulin levels lead to the tangled up brain proteins we know as beta amyloid plaques.Īnd those plaques, of course, are the hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease. Once there, it is wreaking havoc, disrupting brain chemistry and knocking critical chemicals out of balance. The research team believes that the excess insulin produced by diabetics is finding its way into the brain. And this finding would help explain why up to an estimated 75 percent of type-2 diabetics do eventually end up with an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. But this is the first time research has connected diabetes and Alzheimer’s so closely that they’re believed to be different stages of the very same disease.Īccording to researchers at the University of Albany in New York, Alzheimer’s is actually an advanced stage of type-2 diabetes. We knew they were linked, but we just didn’t know how, exactly. This isn’t the first time we’ve connected high insulin levels and the debilitating form of dementia known as Alzheimer’s.
Other memory supporting nutrients you might want to add to the mix are Ginkgo Biloba, vitamin B-12, Vinpocentine, DMAE, and inositol.ĭiabetes and Alzheimer’s one of these diseases isn’t just like the other-scientists say it may actually BE the other. But to really boost your levels consider taking a supplement. You can get more vitamin E in your diet by eating almonds, sunflower seeds, and leafy greens like spinach, chard, and turnip greens. It turns out that the seniors who had high serum vitamin E levels were less likely to suffer from memory disorders than their peers with lower levels. According to a new study, published in the journal Experimental Gerontology, if you’re a senior you now have another reason to get more of the vital vitamin into your diet.įor eight years Finnish scientists followed 140 volunteers who were over 65, and who had no memory impairment at the start of the study. Well, when it comes to supporting our brains, it turns out that vitamin E doesn’t quit there. If you missed that issue, click here to catch up. Researchers showed that the simple vitamin worked better than a popular Alzheimer’s’ drug at preserving people’s ability to perform everyday life tasks longer. Just a couple of weeks ago I sang the praises of vitamin E as a weapon against Alzheimer’s disease. It’s hard to not wonder if those little memory slips aren’t the first sign of something far more serious down the road. Sure, brain burps might be common, but that doesn’t make them any less troubling when they happen. You forget a friend’s birthday, flake out on an important appointment, or blank on where you parked your car. It happens to all of us from time to time.
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