Potential breakthrough in cause of Alzeheimer's Disease

I did a search and didn't find this posted, if I missed it, apologies.

Recently it has come about that Alzheimer's may be a form of diabetes. New terms are now being thrown around such as Diabetes of the brain or type 3 Diabetes. I am no medical expert but I wanted to share this information, I was rather surprised I couldn't find a thread about it on ATS.

I think this is critical to discuss as many families are devastated by this disease and it is occuring at increasingly younger ages. I will leave the discussion and debate to those with more knowledge than myself.

CNN.com

DrOz.com

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This is not good at all. My mom suffers from diabetes and is still watching her sugar weight. Heres to a future cure someday to ease people's suffering. $&F

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Hopefully this will lead to a cure SL, the biggest block with Alzheimers has been not having a clue what causes it.

That actually might make sense. My mother's side - my grandmother and greatgrandmother had diabetes, but my great grandmother also had alzheimer's disease....

It would be great if this helped to find a cure
My grandmother had terrible Alzheimer's for the last 5 or so years of her life, she was nearly 101 when she died, its a terrible thing that slowly steals the person you knew away from you and replaces them with someone who doesn't even know who you are.

Just went through testing with my mother who is 75. My brothers and I were preparing for the worst, because of the symptoms and behavior was manifesting for Alzheimers. Get this, it was severe B12 deficiency, MRI of brain showed no Alz. But B12 deficiency is onset to the condition, and mimics the symptoms identically. A study I read said nearly 100 percent of Alz patients are B12 deficient. 50 percent of Alz is inheritable. Gene testing can determine if you too may be also affected later on. My uncle who has FTD Frontal Temporal Disorder is not considered an Alzheimer patient. His is much more impacting his families lives, total personality shift, lacks empathy and social appropriate judgement. But B12 is SO So treatable, daily injections for week, then weekly, then once a month for the rest of her life. Two weeks have passed, and i am amazed at her improvement. The dr did say there could be some lasting damage given her age and family history, but advised skills and cognitive puzzles, less tv is a must, more computer surfing and gaming. Go figure, Soduko here she comes! Her long term memory is selective, but her short term is shot. But recall has improved tremendously, to the point we are no longer considering next steps, but backed up a step or two, so she is still at home on her own, just writes lots of notes and rereads them too. I can take notes, but geez do I ever go back and read em, uhhhh no?

Just wanted to add this, cause if it can help someone else buy some more time, its worth sharing.

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Originally posted by Kali74

Hopefully this will lead to a cure SL, the biggest block with Alzheimers has been not having a clue what causes it.

There's clues alright and much research..... for example

Google Search Results ~ aluminium flouride alzhiemers

Fluoride Toxicity :: Health-Science.Com :: Aluminum fluoride is very poorly excreted in the urine. It is poisonous to the kidneys. Aluminum salts in the brain lead to Alzheimer's Disease. ...

FLUORIDE COMBINES WITH ALUMINIUM IN DRINKING WATER. 7 Sep 2001 ... ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND DEMENTIA - IMPORTANT NEW STUDY SHOWS GRAVE IMPLICATIONS FROM INTERACTION OF ALUMINUM AND LOW DOSE FLUORIDE ...

Fluoride and Aluminium ( Aluminum ) "bind" in the Brain... oddley enough 40 of the worlds top tranqs are fluoride based... look at ah... Prozac and Lithium ... both do the fluoride ~ aluminium dance.

If you don't know much about Fluoride... research it .... it has NOTHING to do with childrens teeth.... it's outright for medicating and drugging and killing ( rat poison.. pesticides etc )