Keeping Your Blood Sugar In Check Could Lower Your Alzheimer’s Riskby Jon Hamilton / NPR H
Keeping Your Blood Sugar In Check Could Lower Your Alzheimer’s Riskby Jon Hamilton / NPR HealthBrain scientists are offering a new reason to control blood sugar levels: It might help lower your risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease.“There’s many reasons to get blood sugar under control,” says David Holtzman, chairman of neurology at Washington University in St. Louis. “But this is certainly one.”Holtzman moderated a panel Sunday at the Society for Neuroscience meeting in Chicago that featured new research exploring the links between Alzheimer’s and diabetes.“The risk for dementia is elevated about twofold in people who have diabetes or metabolic syndrome (a group of risk factors that often precedes diabetes),” Holtzman says. “But what’s not been clear is, what’s the connection?”One possibility involves the way the brain metabolizes sugar, says Liqin Zhao, an associate professor in the school of pharmacy at the University of Kansas.Read the entire articleImage above © DOE / Science Source -- source link
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