“There’s a growing trunk of evidence linking elevated blood carbohydrate to retention problems.”
Mainstream media is catching on, folks. The quote above, taken from profiling a famous chef who is using a low-carb, high-fat diet to struggle dementia. (Shout out to liberal run of butter abd MCT stone oil inwards her morning time coffee!)
The NPR article is pretty good. It gets the indicate across acre existence rattling succinct – a feat I own got proven I am totally incapable of. What I similar best most it is that it references this paper, the telephone substitution finding of which is that elevated blood glucose may live a adventure for dementia even at levels lower than the diabetic range. This is non tidings to me, in addition to in all likelihood non to you, but it’s prissy to encounter this getting out to the full general public, amid whom it in all likelihood is news. (Or should own got been a few years agone when this came out.) It’s non tidings to us because you lot in addition to I already know that hyperinsulinemia alone—not high glucose, but high insulin—is an independent adventure element for developing Alzheimer’s disease. In fact, compared to people alongside “normal” insulin levels, those who are not diabetic but are hyperinsulinemic own got double the adventure of developing AD.
But dorsum to the newspaper discussed inwards the article:
The written report subjects had the next characteristics:
N (total discover of subjects) = 2067, of which 232 were diagnosed diabetics in addition to 1835 were non-diabetics.
Age range: 71-81
Race: 1863 Caucasian, 100 Black, 67 Asian, in addition to 37 “other”
Treated for hypertension: 1437 subjects, split upwards every bit follows:
Non-diabetics*: 1248 out of 1835 (68%)
Diabetics: 189 out of 232 (81.5%)
*For the non-diabetics, my hunch is that although they were non diagnosed “diabetics,” peradventure they had raging hyperinsulinemia. As I wrote most in the insulin series, for many people, glucose in addition to A1c volition live the last things to alarm a MD every bit to the presence of metabolic abnormalities stemming from chronically elevated insulin. Oddly enough, otherwise “idiopathic” hypertension is a big clue that comes commencement for many people. [Too bad approximately doctors own got no clue.] Almost 24% of these “non-diabetics” every bit good had coronary artery illness in addition to 11% had cerebrovascular disease. Just sayin’.)
According to the study:
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In both diabetics in addition to non-diabetics, higher blood glucose is correlated alongside higher adventure for dementia. |
“During a median follow-up of 6.8 years, dementia developed inwards 524 participants (74 alongside diabetes in addition to 450 without). Among participants without diabetes, higher average glucose levels inside the preceding five years were related to an increased adventure of dementia (P = 0.01); alongside a glucose bird of 115 mg per deciliter (6.4 mmol per liter) every bit compared alongside 100 mg per deciliter (5.5 mmol per liter), the adjusted risk ratio for dementia was 1.18 (95% confidence interval [CI], 1.04 to 1.33). Among participants alongside diabetes, higher average glucose levels were every bit good related to an increased adventure of dementia (P = 0.002); alongside a glucose bird of 190 mg per deciliter (10.5 mmol per liter) every bit compared alongside 160 mg per deciliter (8.9 mmol per liter), the adjusted risk ratio was 1.40 (95% CI, 1.12 to 1.76).”
Bottom line: higher blood sugar, higher adventure for dementia. Is this an association? A correlation? Yes. But every bit you lot tin imagine, if I didn’t own got a rattling potent suspicion there’s approximately bird of causation there, I wouldn’t own got written a mass most it. And I own got an fifty-fifty stronger suspicion that if they had measured these subjects’ insulin levels, at that spot would own got been an fifty-fifty stronger correlation. (How many of you lot would bring together me inwards wagering coin that these people own got what Dr. Kraft calls "diabetes in-situ"?)
The NPR article cites there’s something sinful in addition to unforgivable most consuming juicy, fatty, delicious creature flesh.
I am starting to encounter that the withdraw for my mass is much, much greater than I had whatsoever appreciation for.
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