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I have heard people claim that Alzheimers is type 3 diabetes. Is there any truth in that?
by orangepurple 4y ago
I have heard people claim that Alzheimers is type 3 diabetes. Is there any truth in that?
- bpodgursky 4y agoAnyone who confidently answers this question is lying.
- giantg2 4y agoI'll confidently answer. We don't know.
- borodi 4y agoSo you do know :)
- fswd 4y agoI will take a really risky guess on the premise that there are many different types of causes for Alzheimer's. But one type of them might be caused by parasites. And it's either the body's response or an intended affect of the parasite to enclose the parasite in a type of plague. Kind of like biofilm... or both. Reducing the plague or biofilm could allow the immune system to respond to it by "seeing" it... in some cases. It might also allow the parasite to grow faster if the immune system isn't successful or can't see it. Based on my guess, a treatment plan would involve biofilm/plague "breakers", fasting or behavior changes to reduce and eliminate parasite's life cycle, and anti-parasite medicines that can reach the blood brain barrier. Again, I think there are different types of causes for Alzheimer and this is just one cause.
- orangepurple 4y agoSpirochetes can also form biofilms. I wonder if ticks that carry Lyme disease can cause Alzheimers.
- lief79 4y agoYou would be able to look for correlations with other tick borne diseases. Are there geographic correlations with Alzheimer's. Seems like low lying fruit that someone would have looked into.
- robbiep 4y agoIf you’re saying Lyme disease, at some frequency causes alzheimers, then it should be observable in different incidences in alzheimers between the US and countries that, at least now, are considered free of it such as Australia. To my knowledge there is no difference in incidence
- giantg2 4y agoPlus this. https://www.j-alz.com/content/study-disproves-link-between-lyme-disease-and-alzheimers https://www.j-alz.com/content/study-disproves-link-between-l...
- rnk 4y agoAha. Next you can give the classic "this statement is a lie".
- JamesBarney 4y agoThey just mean that there is some insulin dysfunction with Alzheimer's. They don't really know how important it is both from a symptom or cause standpoint.
- m348e912 4y agoI have read that metals like aluminum, copper, zinc, and iron can play a factor in the onset of Alzheimer's, but that might be related to the amyloid plaque theory. I regularly take zinc and iron supplements and have used aluminum based deodorant, so I hope there's no relationship!
- nunb 4y agoIt would be interesting to see the correlation in families with a history of diabetes, and to correlate it to T2 diabetes or "metabolic syndrome". I have anecdata about this, but I wonder if any studies are being done in family-groups, such as identical twins etc.