3) THE BASIC CAUSES OF TYPE 2 DIABETES
g) Diabetes, Protein Poisoning and Cognitive Thinking
Excess sugar crosses the brain barrier and poisons the proteins in the brain. These poisoned nerve proteins simply don't work. And since nerve cells do not reproduce or regenerate, the poisoning tends to be cumulative and only very slowly reversible. Nerve cells in the brain are the basis for thought and intelligence. It is another extremely good reason to control type 2 diabetes; no one wants to lose their ability to think.
A very well done study of the relationship of diabetes and the ability to reason and think is "Diabetes and Cognitive Function in a Middle-aged Cohort" by Meena Kumari, PhD and Michael Marmot, FRCP. This study found that in inductive reasoning tests of 5,600 men and women (average age, 56) failure rates were 145% higher in men and 83% higher in women with advanced type 2 diabetes than in healthy subjects. The change is enormous, men have only 40% of their inductive reasoning left and women only have 60% left after several years of uncontrolled type 2 diabetes!
Recent research has established definite links between pre-diabetes and Alzheimer's disease. Swedish researchers found that people with only borderline diabetes were at far greater risk for developing Alzheimer's. For elderly borderline diabetics these researchers found a 70% increase in the risk of late onset Alzheimer's. Rachel A. Whitmer, PhD, of Kaiser Permanente's division of research in Oakland, Calif., found similar relationships with people who have active diabetes. Doctor Whitmer found that the control exerted over the diabetes by the patient correlated with dementia, with better blood sugar control giving better outcomes. Diabetes drugs also seem to have beneficial effects on the incidence of Alzheimer's. The diabetes drugs Avandia, Actos and Glucophage all seem to lower the probability of Alzheimer's. Considering that a major component of the "plaque" deposits found in the brains of Alzheimer patients is poisoned protein (glycated protein), this should not be any great surprise.
Current Chapter: 3) THE BASIC CAUSES OF TYPE 2 DIABETES
a) Underlying Mechanism of Type 2 Diabetes
b) Symptoms of Type 2 Diabetes
c) Tests for Diabetes
d) Insulin Resistance
e) The Complexity of Diabetes
f) Poisoning of Body Protein
g) Diabetes, Protein Poisoning and Cognitive Thinking
h) Protein Poisoning and A1c
i) Well Cooked Meat and Protein Poisoning
j) Beta Cell Death in Type 2 Diabetes
k) The Hypoglycemic Spike Effect
l) The "Dawn Phenomenon"
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