Alzheimer's Disease

Avoid Ultra-Processed Foods and Control Your Insulin Levels Use a continuous glucose monitor at home or blood testing from your healthcare provider to identify food and lifestyle choices that are spiking your blood sugar (and thus potentially your insulin levels) so that you can make adjustments to what you eat and the timing of your meals. Why should you care about insulin and blood glucose? There is growing evidence that high levels of insulin (hyperinsulinemia) may (along with other factors such as genetics) contribute to elevated risk for all four of our primary threats (cardiovascular disease, neurodegenerative disease, cancer and of course, metabolic disease) due to the inflammatory nature of insulin. There is evidence that what we eat (ultra-processed foods and a diet high in refined sugars) in combination with how frequently we eat leads to hyperinsulinemia and thus exposes us to a whole host of risks (see references below). ...

Support Your Brain Health To minimise your risk from a range of neurodegenerative diseases focus on your cardiovascular health, insulin levels, exercise and on getting good quality sleep. However, you should also book an eye test and a hearing test because loss of sensory input is a big risk factor for dementia and is often overlooked Want to look at the science later but, right now, you are just interested in some actions to take? ...