Discovery of the decade? Injection 'could cure Alzheimer's in minutes'

Belfast Telegraph ^ | April 12, 2008

[oprahstheantichrist]

"...Alzheimer’s is another manifestation of type two diabetes in that new memory is created when insulin facilitates the uptake of glucose into a brain cell neuron. Alzheimer’s patients have limited ability to create new memory because of this type of 'insulin resistance.'"

Would this be completely independent of general metabolic Type II?

My understanding from many years ago it that glucose uptake is implicated in ADD as well (lifelong sufferer here). Is there speculation that this "metabolic syndrome of the brain" could be involved in ADD also?

" I have recently developed a novel mechanism for temporarily circumventing the type two diabetic form of insulin resistance and I am optimistic it will have similar effects on the insulin resistance that impedes the formation of new memory in Alzheimer’s patients."

Godspeed my FRiend, and congratulations in advance on your Nobel prize, if that's the case (better not let on you're a Freeper).

[kruss3]

The current definition of type two diabetes is a fasting glucose number over 127 for two consecutive days. Pre-diabetes is defined in the same manner as fasting glucose between 100 and 126. According to the U.S. Surgeon General, 40% of Americans between the ages of 40 and 70 are pre-diabetics. Type two diabetics are much more likely to end up with Alzheimer’s as well. It would seem that the forms of insulin resistance in diabetes and Alzheimer’s are really one and the same. I would speculate that the T2 diabetes and Alzheimer’s are not independent but are both caused by the same underlying phenomena. Genetics would seem to determine how, when, and where the underlying causes
are first observed in the symptoms of T2 diabetes or Alzheimer’s.

[bill1952]

I know mommd. My point is that using the procedure of injecting the spine with a placebo and inversion tilting the patient is unnecessary.

Find another way to test it. - we all know this procedure is painful, to say the least.

[GBA]

Thanks for posting!

Future reference ping to self.

[Joya]

ping