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Quick reduction of hba1c and risk of dementia

chrisjohnh said:
Just to throw another spanner into the works in this fascinating thread (apologies Mods!) I was consumed yesterday in reading a paper giving evidence that those like me who are in our older years and have reduced A1c a great deal in a short time have thereby doubled our risk of dementia. Great! I don’t think Prof Taylor thought to do MRI on brains as well to monitor this. It’s all enough to make one crazy (well, look at me). I think I will now have my third tiny morsel of chocolate in two years and do a self-test with the Times crossword.
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Gawd, I reduced mine from 134 - 43 in a few months, although crept up to 52 being more relaxed in diet.
 
bulkbiker said:
Do you have a link to the paper?

How had they reduced the HbA1c in a short time?
Drugs or some other method?
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I reduced mine by going low carb, not sure why that worked SO rapidly
 
TriciaWs said:
But the inference from both papers is that the population they studied were T2s on medication - otherwise, how did they see hypos in the study groups? There was a correlation between high blood glucose and dementia, and a possible correlation between sudden decreases in blood glucose that they linked to hypos - nothing about people like me who have never taken any diabetic meds.
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Its people like you that destroy a good hypothesis. Indeed, all the papers so far have reflected the way life used to be, *( Eatwell, insulin and sulfonyl medications) and not the recent movements that actually provide a nutritional approach to bgl control. I lie there, because one of the papers I read did use Low Carb intervention, but dismissed it from their analysis. I can believe that severe hypo's that require medical intervention may well cause neurological damage, and lead to dementia. But that is a treatment issue,not an HbA1c problem. I note that in one of the studies, they excluded T2D in nursing homes (the HK one) presumably because a caring regime might skew the results
 
I suspect the damage is really from high and very low sugars. But my own unresearched hypothesis is that Statins have a big say in Alzheimers.
 
ajbod said:
I suspect the damage is really from high and very low sugars. But my own unresearched hypothesis is that Statins have a big say in Alzheimers.
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Yes. And a whole lot of other problems. Muscle weakness, muscle damage. I took them a very short time ago a while ago and stopped after two hamstring injuries. Now take 3000 mg omega 3 fish oil. That’s brought cholesterol from 7.9 to 4.5 in about 6 months. Anything putting pressure on fine blood vessels in or around brain - isn’t good. I’ve also had TMS (transcranial magnetic stimulation - no side effects) - for depression and that appears (anecdotally) to have also helped my brain function/ clarity short term.
 
He has disappeared from the 'blue' forum too I don't know if he was banned there as well as here.
His Tweets are hardly ever about Diabetes these days, and are what I consider extreme.
 
Picking this up late, but when it talks of rapid reductions of BG is it talking about improved control, or about hypos?
Two very different things.
 
ianf0ster said:
He has disappeared from the 'blue' forum too I don't know if he was banned there as well as here.
His Tweets are hardly ever about Diabetes these days, and are what I consider extreme.
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Gosh that shocks me, he seemed so well informed.
 
ianf0ster said:
He has disappeared from the 'blue' forum too I don't know if he was banned there as well as here.
His Tweets are hardly ever about Diabetes these days, and are what I consider extreme.
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Just found his pic on x he looks totally different from what I expected. Would be nice to have him back .....please :bored:
 
ianf0ster said:
He was banned from here!
Probably from the blue forum as well, but don't know for sure!
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Well after looking at the posts from him elsewhere, I am not surprised!
 
Lainie71 said:
Just found his pic on x he looks totally different from what I expected. Would be nice to have him back .....please :bored:
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Lainie71 said:
Well after looking at the posts from him elsewhere, I am not surprised!
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So maybe banning was the right decision after all.
You don't see deleted posts because they were, well, deleted.
 
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