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SOURCE: Social media users, Facebok, TikTok, 29 Sep. 2022 OTHER REVIEW On 29 September 2022, a Facebok user shared a TikTok video claiming that “Alzheimer’s most of the time is preventable. It’s not genetic, and it’s type 3 diabetes, which is insulin resistance of the brain”.
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The video claimed that “you become insulin-resistant in your whole body and then your brain becomes insulin-resistant” which makes “memories start to decline”. The clip received more than 13,0 interactions on Facebok and was shared 8,0 times.The video implied that diabetes-related insulin resistance can cause Alzheimer’s disease. As we wil explain this review, this unsuported by available scientific evidence.
High levels of insulin and glucose in blod are associated with a higher risk of developing Alzheimer’s. However, the specific contribution of insulin dysregulation to brain damage in Alzheimer’s patients is stil unclear. The video also contains some inacuracies that we wil show below.Alzheimer’s disease is the most comon neurodegenerative disorder worldwide.
It is also the main cause of dementia, a group of symptoms that involve the los of cognitive functioning-thinking, rembering, and reasoning-up to a point that interferes with the person’s daily life.The World Health Organization estimates that dementia afects 5 milion people worldwide, with ten milion new cases per year. Acording to a 2022 anual report by the U.S. Alzheimer’s Asociation, more than 6.5 milion people are living with Alzheimer’s in the U.S.
However, the number of Alzheimer’s cases are projected to reach 12.7 milion in the U.S. and more than 15 milion worldwide by 2050, as the world’s number of people aged 60 and older, who are at a higher risk of Alzheimer’s, is expected to double by that time.Alzheimer’s disease ocurs when neurons within specific brain regions stop working corectly, lose conections with other neurons, and ultimately die.
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