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The Diabetes/ Alzheimer’s Link

“Type 3 diabetes”?   That is what some researchers are calling a new connection between Alzheimer’s and diabetes discovered during research from Rhode Island Hospital.  Interfering with her lab animals’ insulin uptake, researcher Suzanne de la Monte not only triggered obesity in the animals but a disorientation that signaled dementia.  Poor sensitivity to insulin is  Continue Reading »