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Insulin: Impacting More Than Just Diabetes
Those impacted by Alzheimer’s disease (AD) has reached an alarming number of 5 million individuals as of 2015 in the United States alone. AD has no cure, which is why the diagnosis can often be so hard...
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Alzheimer’s Linked To Diabetes
The topic in our Neurochemistry class this past week was Alzheimer’s Disease and how it is linked to Type II Diabetes Mellitus, T2DM. The science behind this link is that if there is either a...
View ArticleMental Decline-A Societal Problem
Modern medicine is nothing short of a miracle. If you take a moment to stop and appreciate just how good we have become at not dying it is pretty mind blowing. This is clearly a great thing. Without...
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Humans Are Not Immortal
Biologically speaking, humans are not meant to live forever. People age for a variety of reasons; but a few of the main issues are the amount of free radicals produced by your body as you age from...
View ArticleMore Than Just A Treatment: Insulin
What is insulin? Insulin is almost always associated with diabetes as a treatment, but is that really the only function? Insulin is a hormone that is made in the pancreas and one of its more known...
View ArticleObesity, What Is The First Domino?
Obesity is clearly a huge problem in the United States and abroad, I won’t spend any time trying to convince you of this, I assume you already recognize this as an issue. It is interesting because our...
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Good News For Meredith Grey? An Investigation Into The Mechanisms Of...
For all of the Grey’s Anatomy fans out there, in season 9 we discover that Meredith does in fact carry the gene for Alzheimer’s—inherited from her mother. The discovery is dire. And while we were...
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Overeating As A Cause For Alzheimer’s Disease
We all know that eating too much can cause obesity, stroke, heart failure, cancer and a load of other problems for our body, but does overeating have adverse consequences for our brain? When we consume...
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Another Year, Another Misplaced Memory: Aging And Alzheimer’s Disease
Where are my keys? “Oh no, I misplaced my keys yet AGAIN this week. My memory must be going. But wait. Does this mean..Could I possibly have..It couldn’t be..Alzheimer’s Disease?” Alzheimer’s disease...
View ArticleOvernutrition And Alzheimer’s Disease?
Here we go again, another blogger harping on the importance of proper nutrition and the consequences that accompany bad food choices. Nowadays, it seems like every health issue boils down to what we...
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