Posted on 05/24/2022 12:44:40 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
Scientists have demonstrated normal brain aging is accelerated by approximately 26% in people with progressive type 2 diabetes compared to individuals without the disease.
The authors evaluated the relationship between typical brain aging and that seen in type 2 diabetes, and observed that type 2 diabetes follows a similar pattern of neurodegeneration as aging, but one that progresses faster. One implication of this is that even typical brain aging may reflect changes in the brain's regulation of glucose by insulin.
The results further suggest that by the time type 2 diabetes is formally diagnosed, there may already be significant structural damage to the brain.
Their analysis showed that both aging and type 2 diabetes cause changes in executive functions such as working memory, learning and flexible thinking, and changes in brain processing speed. However, people with diabetes had a further 13.1% decrease in executive function beyond age-related effects, and their processing speed decreased by a further 6.7% compared to people of the same age without diabetes.
The team also compared brain structure and activity between people with and without diabetes using MRI scans. They found a decrease in gray brain matter with age, mostly in a region called the ventral striatum—which is critical to the brain's executive functions. Yet people with diabetes had even more pronounced decreases in gray matter beyond the typical age-related effects—a further 6.2% decrease in gray matter in the ventral striatum, but also loss of gray matter in other regions, compared with normal aging.
Together, the results suggest that the patterns of type 2 diabetes-related neurodegeneration strongly overlap with those of normal aging, but that neurodegeneration is accelerated. Moreover, these effects on brain function were more severe with increased duration of diabetes. In fact, progression of diabetes was linked with a 26% acceleration of brain aging.
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Wow. 26 per cent. That’s a pretty exact figure for something that can’t be measured accurately in the first place,
Or....you can get rid of it by proper dosing of chromium and vanadium, and by cutting out the Sad American Diet (SAD).
I am hopeless as far as changing diet, but easily keep my pre-diabetes under control with berberine.
Without a timeframe they eventually are almost always right.
But what do I know, I have a rapidly aging brain.
Thanks ConservativeMind, I guess I better work harder on it.
It’s a good thing my brain started out 200% better than most, now, with my Type 2 and being 73 I’m only at 174%. Now, what was I going to do in my office?
So, was this for all type 2 diabetes or just uncontrolled diabetes. Mine is in remission. Inquiring minds want to know.
I was always a kid at heart.
With Diabetes, I should be approaching my teenage years.
Yet another good reason not to be fat.
I’m screwed.
More and more I am hearing Alzheimer’s referred to as “Type 3 Diabetes”
According to Dr. Annette Bosworth (Dr. Boz on youtube), ketones and sleep can repair a damaged brain. It’s a slow process, like a year or so.
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