In recent studies at Northwestern University, researchers have found that insulin and insulin enhancing drugs can slow, decrease or eliminate the onset of Alzheimer’s Disease.
The hippocampus is the area of the brain that holds the brain/body’s memory cells. If a person has Alzheimer’s Disease, the neurons in this area of the brain are attacked by toxic protein cells called ADDL’s, which are responsible for memory loss.
In a normal situation there is plenty of insulin attached to brain cells, however when the cells are attacked by ADDL’s there is an extremely marked decline in insulin. Researchers also discovered that by treating the hippocampus neurons with new insulin and the insulin sensitizing medication rosiglitizone, which binds to the cells in the hippocampus keeping the insulin with them and keeping them from deteriorating, thus keeping them healthy and keeping the individual’s memory in tact.
It is an amazing discovery that the treatment for diabetes can also be used to treat Alzheimer’s Disease. In fact, researchers are now calling Alzheimer’s Disease a type of brain diabetes. This provides hope that there will be help in the fight against Alzheimer’s, which is such a devastating disease.
Since diabetes affects the entire cardiovascular system, using insulin on its own or with an insulin enhancing drug will help the effects of the brain which has many blood vessels. The fact that insulin is able to slow Alzheimer’s Disease is amazing in and of itself. The fact that insulin can prevent Alzheimer’s Disease altogether is an unexpected miracle.
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