Colorado researchers theorize that fructose metabolism could be the driving pressure behind Alzheimer Illness pathology. Diets excessive in sugar and excessive glycemic index carbohydrates would exacerbate the issue. Salt might also play a task. Fructose is an easy sugar (a monosaccharide) sometimes present in fruit, honey, and a few greens. Desk sugar is sucrose, a mix of fructose with a glucose molecule. Excessive-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is added to many processed meals as a bulk-sweetener. From the article linked above:

An historic human foraging intuition, fueled by fructose manufacturing within the mind, could maintain clues to the event and potential remedy of Alzheimer’s illness (AD), in accordance with researchers on the College of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

The examine, printed lately in The American Journal of Scientific Vitamin, provides a brand new method of a deadly illness characterised by irregular accumulations of proteins within the mind that slowly erode reminiscence and cognition.

“We make the case that Alzheimer’s illness is pushed by food regimen,” mentioned the examine’s lead creator Richard Johnson, MD, professor on the College of Colorado Faculty of Drugs specializing in renal illness and hypertension. The examine co-authors embrace Maria Nagel, MD, analysis professor of neurology on the CU Faculty of Drugs.

Steve Parker, M.D.

PS: The Mediterranean food regimen is linked to decrease threat of dementia.