Alzheimer’s disease and the insulin resistance

For years it was hypotethised that there is a link between diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease. But, as the latest researches point out, both illnesses got something in common: poor blood sugar management and insulin resistance. Despite the sugar being present in almost everything we eat or drink (yes, even bread, yogurts, cereals, you name it, it is there), our body tolerance for sugar is somewhere around 15–20 grams of single carbohydrates per day. Per day, i said, and keep in mind that just one energy drink with reduced sugar has 24 grams of it. There is also the not so well explained issue about high and low glycaemic index foods. Let’s start with this first.

The higher the glycaemic index is (do not think only about sugar, the starch also has something to do with this — white bread, white rice, potatoes, baking goods) the larger amounts of insulin our pancreas will secrete into the bloodstream, to lower the blood sugar. If this happen too often, our cells will start to resist to the insulin signalling too much blood sugar, in the same way you got used in a very noisy environment (eventually). The noise is there (blood sugar in our case), but you stop reacting too it. And a high level of blood sugar is damaging our body in so many ways. (Find more about this in this article).

Well known effects of the insulin resistance are type 2 diabetes, fatty liver, metabolic syndrome, but also AD (Alzheimer’s disease). There are many pathways that are affected by the insulin resistance. To start with the insulin…