Alzheimer’s disease is often broadly referred to as “Type 3 diabetes,” because it’s thought that glucose processing goes haywire in the neurodegenerative disease, just as it does in diabetes.
A new National Institutes of Health study adds some credence to that theory, finding that glitches in the way the brain breaks down glucose — a process called glycolysis — seem to correspond with more severe symptoms in patients with Alzheimer’s.
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Diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease: Can tea phytochemicals play a role in prevention? https://goo.gl/Aq8GDG. Here’s a study done by us on the above topic.