Two years ago my wife was diagnosed with Alzheimer's by two reputable physicians. For the past two years I read all the horror stories about Alzheimer's. Three months ago by a fortuitous circumstance I developed shingles on my scalp and found benfotiamine on the internet to cure my post neuralgic pain. It worked within a week and the pain was gone. At the same time I was reading about Type 3 diabetes in the brain. My logic was I have a product which I know gets into the brain and is purported to help diabetes, and there is a disease called type 3 diabetes which causes dementia in the brain. I gave some bentiamine to my wife and the results were immediate. Not a cure by a long way, the brain was undoubtedly damaged by two years of dementia. But the hallucinations went away, the speech improved, and I could now sleep nights. The difference is hard to describe, like living with a paranoid schizophrenic compared to a relatively normal person. We can now carry on a conversation although she still has trouble with vocabulary. Her sense of time is getting better. During the Alzheimer phase, I had to keep asking who I was, for a week I was her father who has been gone for 50 years. When we went out to dinner she asked if I was married. I would say the current state is now tolerable. Without benfotiamine it would be intolerable. The current dosage is six 250 mg tablets a day. By accident I used some 100 mg tablets and the symptoms started coming back. Benfotiamine seems to clear the body in around 5 hours. I am still experimenting with dosage. She was labeled as a Type 2 diabetic many years ago, but we have not followed any particular Type 2 diet protocol. I just finished a week of testing her blood glucose with the meter, and she is in the high acceptable range of blood glucose. Lab test was HbA1c of 6.2. I was looking for a link between Type 2 and Type 3 diabetes - haven't found it yet.