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This came up recently which I’d thought I’d share. Original text is from Cytoplan’s Blog.

Alzheimer’s disease has long been a condition of catastrophic consequences; a condition affecting around 26 million people worldwide, a high number of fatalities and a severe financial burden upon healthcare throughout the Western world. But need this be the case?
Research is categorizing Alzheimer’s disease as being among the “diseases of civilisation” – meaning it is primarily caused by unhealthy modern Western diets and poor lifestyle choices, causative factors that are also relevant to the onset of many of today’s most prevalent chronic diseases, including Diabetes.
In fact, the link between Diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease actually goes far beyond this; in this week’s article we look at how many within this field of science are now suggesting that Alzheimer’s disease is a form of Diabetes known as ‘Type 3’, defined as such because of the role that insulin resistance and glucose metabolism plays in Alzheimer’s three main pathological features.

The full story can be found here

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