Diabetes (insuline resistance) increased the risk of Alzheimer's by 4X - July 2025
Insulin Resistance May Speed Cognitive Decline in AD
Study: Adults with diabetes more prone to dementia Sept 2011
For 11 years, Japanese researchers followed more than 1,000 people, ages 60 and older.
They found that those with diabetes at the outset were 35 percent more likely to develop Alzheimer's.
Those with the most severe diabetes had more than triple the risk.
Deficiency of Vitamin D has the following graph
Diabetes is in a vicious circle with vitamin D.
Low vitamin D increases diabetes, and diabetes decreased vitamin D even more.
Vitamin D spirals lower and lower
Overview Cognition and vitamin D
- Cognitive decline, dementia, and Alzheimer's Disease are all associated with low vitamin D levels.
Toward a Theory of Vitamin D Disease Associations includes the following Sept 2011
List of associations seen recently ( more to be in future versions of this page)
- Parkinson's ==> osteoporosis
- Skin wrinkles ==>fragile bones
- Dental problems==> depression (pregnancy)
- Smoking ==> weak bones
- Prostate Cancer ==> Osteoporosis
- No molar ==> 12X increase in Breast Cancer
- Psorasis ==> Metabolic Syndrome on the web
Possible predictions
- Watching TV or reading books ==> myopia
- Lung cancer ==>
- HIV ==>
- Diabetes ==> Depression
- Surgery ==>cognitive problems which last for many months
- Disease ==> Insomnia
- Several diseases now associated with aging (but may be due to low vitamin D) ==>cognitive decline
More on Alzheimer's diabetes from Overview Cognition and vitamin D as of Sept 2012
- Is Alzheimer’s Type 3 Diabetes? New York Times Sept 2012]
Idea has been around since 2005. Brain cells become insulin resistant - first noticed by Dr. Alzheimer
people with diabetes are at least twice as likely to get Alzheimer’s
Dr.Oz on same insulin and Alzheimer's April 2011 - PubMed Alzheimer's AND Insulin in title 79 items as of Sept 2012
Consequences of Aberrant Insulin Regulation in the Brain: Can Treating Diabetes be Effective for Alzheimer's Disease Dec 2011 full text online
Brain insulin signaling and Alzheimer's disease: current evidence and future directions Aug 2012 full text online
short url = http://is.gd/dcognition