Approved Senior Network Presents: Dementia and Type 2 Diabetes
Sponsored by Home Care Matters of Flowery Branch, GeorgiaHello everyone. We did this a few minutes ago and no one had sound. Thank you B live. But now it appears that we do have sound. So if you can hear me, give me a reaction, give me a thumbs up, a heart, a love of something and let me know that you can hear my voice. Okay. My name is Valerie bamboo ven and today I'm putting on my registered nurse hat and we're going to talk about type two diabetes and dementia. And I picked this subject matter because it's near and dear to my heart. My father is 70 years old and each 40 he was diagnosed with type two diabetes and it went uncontrolled for many, many years and now at age 70 he is in a care facility because he has vascular dementia.This is something that affects people of all ages and it takes many years for it to really take its toll on your body, but it will. So let's talk about dementia and type two diabetes. Also, if you want to visit our website, it's approved senior network.com you can go there, find free guides for all kinds of different subjects. You can find care, you can talk to professionals, so please be sure and visit our website. All right, let's talk type two diabetes. That's the first order here. For those of you who aren't sure what type two diabetes is or you've heard about it, but you need a little refresher. Nearly 21 million Americans in the United States have diabetes, a disease that makes the body less able to convert sugar to energy, more than 6 million people don't even know they have type two diabetes. That's why it's so important that you go have those annual checkups, get that blood drawn and make sure you know what your numbers are.Most people with diabetes have type two which is linked to lack of exercise and being overweight. This is the type of diabetes that you get as an adult when diabetes is not controlled too much sugar remains in the blood. Too much sugar causes so many problems. It can cause damage to organs, including the brain. He can feed cancers. There are so many things that sugar attributes to sugar is very addictive and it is one of the things that can hurt us over the course of years and years and years. So let's talk about diabetes and Alzheimer's disease.Yeah.All right. So scientists are finding more evidence that could link type two diabetes with Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia and the seventh leading cause of death in the United States. That is huge. Several research studies following large groups over many years suggests that adults with type two diabetes have a higher risk of later developing Alzheimer's disease. And we can see that if you, you have a grandparent who has had type two diabetes for a long time and now they have Alzheimer's disease, we can see so many correlations with this. So what is the Alzheimer's Diabetes Link? Now I will tell you that doctors don't yet know what causes Alzheimer's disease, but in the last several months and weeks we have seen a lot of progress on Alzheimer's disease and I hope that soon there will be some breakthrough and some treatment for those who have Alzheimer's disease. Um, so we keep our fingers crossed every day, right?Um, [inaudible] we don't know how Alzheimer's and diabetes are connected, but we do know that high blood sugar or insulin can harm the brain in several ways. Diabetes raises the risk of heart disease and stroke, which hurt blood vessels and the heart damage. Blood vessels in the brain may contribute to Alzheimer's disease. The brain depends on many different chemicals which may be unbalanced by too much insulin. Some of these changes may help trigger Alzheimer's disease and high blood sugar causes inflammation. If you read a lot online about health, there's been a lot of discussion in the last few years about inflammation in our bodies helping cause different things like cancer and just you kn
