{"id":283,"date":"2013-05-30T05:39:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T05:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drmirkin.com\/2013\/05\/30\/alzheimers\/"},"modified":"2019-10-09T15:43:06","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T15:43:06","slug":"alzheimers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/drmirkin.com\/?p=283","title":{"rendered":"Preventing Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A study from Brown University Medical School showed that Alzheimer\u2019s disease may be another form of diabetes, and all the recommendations for avoiding diabetes may also protect your memory (<em>Journal of Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease<\/em>, November 2005).<\/p>\n<p>Like the pancreas, the brain produces insulin. Professor Suzanne M. de la Monte showed that brain levels of insulin and insulin receptors fall during the early stages of Alzheimer&#8217;s and continue to drop progressively as the disease progresses. Other features of Alzheimer&#8217;s, such as cell death and tangles in the brain, could be caused by abnormalities in insulin functions.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, lack of insulin lowers brain levels of the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, which is seen regularly in Alzheimer&#8217;s disease. This would explain why every factor known to increase risk for heart attacks also increases risk for Alzheimer\u2019s disease. Even though these studies are preliminary, it is a good idea to reduce susceptibility to developing diabetes by markedly reducing your intake of sugar and flour; increasing your intake of fruits, vegetable, whole grains, beans, and nuts; avoiding weight gain and exercising regularly. See <a href=\"https:\/\/drmirkin.com\/diabetes\/1555.html\">Who is pre-diabetic<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/drmirkin.com\/weekly-ezine-page\/diet-shown-to-reduce-risk-for-dementia.html\">Diet Shown to Reduce Risk for Dementia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Checked 3\/12\/17<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study from Brown University Medical School showed that Alzheimer\u2019s disease may be another form of diabetes, and all the recommendations for avoiding diabetes may also protect your memory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1023,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-morehealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/drmirkin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/drmirkin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/drmirkin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drmirkin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drmirkin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/drmirkin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drmirkin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/drmirkin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drmirkin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drmirkin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}