Diabetes drugs help prevent Alzheimer's Disease

[SWUSA_]

Many of you may have already seen this article but I wanted to make sure it was easily available to any who have not yet seen it.
http://www.nhs.uk/news/2016/06June/...seful-for-Alzheimers-mice-research-finds.aspx

It is of special interest to me because I have diabetes and my mother has Alzheimer's Disease.

 

[mirenova137]

Thanks also omega 3 and tea is good for both Alzheimer and diabetes

 

[SWUSA_]

Thanks also omega 3 and tea is good for both Alzheimer and diabetes

Thank you.

 

[kokhongw]

Not sure if you have come across this...
Can Ketones Help Rescue Brain Fuel Supply in Later Life? Implications for Cognitive Health during Aging and the Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease

Several different ketogenic interventions including prolonged fasting, a very high fat ketogenic diet containing no MCT, or a regular diet to which MCT or ketone esters all have a broadly similar neurological/cognitive benefit (Table 6). The cognitive benefit of ketones is observed under different conditions including in the presence of chronically impaired brain glucose availability or utilization due to disease (i.e., MCI or AD), or when the brain glucose deficit is acute, i.e., severe hypoglycemia experimentally induced by insulin infusion and starvation (Owen et al., 1967). The wide range of ketogenic conditions that protect cognition suggests that ketones themselves (rather than MCFAs) are central to their beneficial effect but this needs to be confirmed along with determining the actual mechanism. At present, a keto-neurotherapeutic approach is a safe and scientifically well-supported strategy to bypass deteriorating brain energy metabolism arising during aging; time will tell whether it is truly clinically effective to limit the onset or progression of cognitive decline in AD.

http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnmol.2016.00053

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