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Researchers Find More Evidence For the Strange Link Between Sugar and Alzheimer's (sciencealert.com)
schwit1 shares a report from ScienceAlert: People with high blood sugar stand to experience worse long-term cognitive decline than their healthy peers, even if they're not technically type 2 diabetic, new research suggests. The findings are not the first linking diabetes with impaired cognitive functions, but they're some of the clearest yet showing blood sugar isn't just a marker of our dietary health -- it's also a telling predictor of how our brains may cope as we get older. "Our findings suggest that interventions that delay diabetes onset, as well as management strategies for blood sugar control, might help alleviate the progression of subsequent cognitive decline over the long-term," explain the researchers, led by epidemiologist Wuxiang Xie from Imperial College London. The researchers sourced their data from the English Longitudinal Study of Aging, an ongoing assessment of the health of a representative sample of the English population aged 50 and older, which began in in 2002. For its analysis, the team tracked 5,189 participants -- 55 percent women, with an average age of 66 years -- assessing their level of cognitive function between 2004-2005 to 2014-2015, spanning several waves of the ELSA study. The findings are reported in the journal Diabetologia.
...you get Alzheimer's. If you use artificial sweetener you get dementia. Either way you're fucked.
I forget that sugar is bad for me, so I overdose not so infrequently.
... would be that between this, and Leptin resistance.
As in: Is it a result of something related to long-term high blood sugar, or a result of somthing that's a precursor to long-term high blood sugar?
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God damn. Can you get paid for this?
This is little more than confirmation of what was already known:
Diabetes damages your vascular system. Even if your blood glucose control is excellent, you will still get periods when your BG goes high and your blood vessels will get deposits on their walls and hence restrict supply of oxygenated blood to the tissues that require it.
The results are systemic. If you don't get enough oxygen to tissues that need it, they will die. That includes not only the well recognised bits that get damaged by diabetes: retinas, kidneys, feet etc. but stuff that most medics don't recognise: the rest of your body including your brain.
I speak with some experience: I'm an insulin-dependent diabetic. I've got a loss of feeling in my feet although my retinas are still reasonable.
Yet there must be ongoing damage to the fine vasculature in my nut. My experience of living with people who have dementia is that the effects are insidious and you don't initially notice it. It's effects have an exponential progress, IMO.
I'm 55 now but I reckon within 10 years, I'll be too bonkers to put finger to keyboard. I hope to die before then.
The Machine stops.
Presumably, the brain tissue is changing all the time. I wonder, perhaps the human brain "on sugar" changes more frequently, or, quicker, such that bad habits or a living a life with a lazy sophisticated intellect or maybe a dulled emotional life have the effect of leading to an impaired brain in the long run I am wondering, as people get older, more lazy, or perhaps. Thinking that, as senility sets in (simply getting old, unlike 'dementia'), the brain facing a more stumped life with less impulses, less interests and less appeal, eventually defaults back to itself, as if the brain had to try relying on a basic way of functioning, simply by relying on a caricature or an abstract of sorts of the way the brain once was.
I would like to know how many people that can truly be said to have lived a full life (family life, personal life, intellectual life, and an interesting life) still end up with that which is understood as being Alzheimer's disease.
Isn't this something that has been reasonably well understood for some time?
For example, see here:-
http://neuro.hms.harvard.edu/h...
IIRC, the brain is pretty much the only organ in the body able to directly ingest and consume glucose from the blood stream; all the other parts of the body have to wait for glucose to be broken down into simpler compounds which they can then use. However, it's also been widely known that an overdose of glucose in the blood can be unhelpful/harmful. But it's one of the reason that people who conduct intellectually demanding work - i.e. work with a dependency on lots of cognitive processing - have a sweet tooth.
Not sugar, not carbs ... fasting blood sugar levels. Not the same fucking thing.
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First sugar?
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More research into artificial sweeteners: Splenda specifically.
...and keep telling yourself that sugar is the *real* demon.
Try the Wim Hof method for beneficially stressing your vascular system. Check out the book What Doesn't Kill Us...
The result is not surprising. Glucose is a chemically reactive molecule, it binds with various tissues in the body, harming them in the process. The process is called glycation.
With diabetes, glucose levels are always high, and the damage is maximum. But even without diabetes, more glucose spikes will cause more damage . It is not surprising the brain also takes its toll in the process.