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Diabetes and Alzheimers may be connected  - recent research suggests that there may be direct connection between how well blood sugar levels are controlled and the onset of Alzheimers.

For almost half of her life, ever since her last pregnancy 40 years ago, Christine Miller has been a sufferer of Type-two diabetes. Because she was not insulin-dependent, Miller was able to tackle her ailment with pills.

However just over 2 years ago, at nearly 80 years of age, Miller developed another problem — mental confusion. Her family took her to the medical center where she discovered to have The neurodegenerative disease, knoen as ‘alzheimers’.

Was there a link between Miller’s four decades of diabetes mellitus and her alzheimers?

Until relatively recently, medical experts might have disdained such a link as just coincidence.

More recently, it is one of the most important areas of Research on alzheimers. It is also becoming an accepted view among some Alzheimer’s researchers Keep your blood sugar and insulin under control and you can reduce your probability of developing alzheimers disease.

The link has been appearing more and more, both in the study of epidemics and clinical trials that use diabetes medication to treat suferrers from dementia.

But the exact reason that elevated sugar or poorly controlled insulin can cause brain cell death still isn’t entirely clear.

Currently, most of the effort in Research on alzheimers is on beta-amyloid, the protein that rises in the brains of suferrers from the affliction.