Deans' stroke musings: Healthy Glucose Levels Key to a Healthy Aging Brain

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My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Friday, September 8, 2017

Healthy Glucose Levels Key to a Healthy Aging Brain

Fairly useless information with no suggestion as to how you as a layperson can determine if your level is ok.
http://neurosciencenews.com/glucose-brain-aging-7381?
New research has found blood glucose levels even at the normal range can have a significant impact on brain atrophy in ageing.
Dr Erin Walsh, lead author and post-doctoral research fellow at ANU, said the impacts of blood glucose on the brain is not limited to people with type 2 diabetes.
“People without diabetes can still have high enough blood glucose levels to have a negative health impact,” said Dr Walsh from the Centre for Research on Ageing, Health and Wellbeing (CRAHW) at ANU.
“People with diabetes can have lower blood glucose levels than you might expect due to successful glycaemic management with medication, diet and exercise.
“The research suggests that maintaining healthy blood glucose levels can help promote healthy brain ageing. If you don’t have diabetes it’s not too early and if you do have diabetes it’s not too late.”
Dr Walsh said people should consider adopting healthy lifestyle habits, such as regular exercise and healthy diets.
“Having a healthy lifestyle contributes to good glycaemic control without needing a diabetes diagnosis to spur them into adopting these good habits,” she said.

“The research suggests that maintaining healthy blood glucose levels can help promote healthy brain ageing. If you don’t have diabetes it’s not too early and if you do have diabetes it’s not too late.” NeuroscienceNews.com image is credited to Erin Walsh.

“It helps to keep unhealthy highly processed and sugary foods to a minimum. Also, regular physical activity every day can help, even if it is just a going for walk.”
The research is part of the “Too sweet for our own good: An investigation of the effects of higher plasma glucose on cerebral health” project led by Associate Professor Nicolas Cherbuin, which is part of the longitudinal PATH through life study led by Professor Kaarin Anstey at ANU.
“The work would not be possible without being able to longitudinally explore blood glucose in members of the general public,” said Dr Walsh.

About this neuroscience research article

Source: Kate Prestt – Australian National University
Image Source: NeuroscienceNews.com image is credited to Erin Walsh.
Original Research: The study will appear in Diabetes & Metabolism.

Cite This NeuroscienceNews.com Article

Australian National University “Healthy Glucose Levels Key to a Healthy Aging Brain.” NeuroscienceNews. NeuroscienceNews, 30 August 2017.
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