Are you a Metformin and are you asking yourself does Metformin cause dementia? ANSWERS coming up!!
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Metformin and if you want a link to the first video in the series looking at Metformin
and side effects click on this link above. Can diabetes cause dementia? What you should know
is that diabetes is associated with a one and a half to two times increased risk of dementia and
cognitive decline especially with increasing age. Researchers think there's a higher association
with vascular dementia rather than alzheimer's dementia. Diabetes causes your blood sugar
levels to be higher than normal. Normally, the pancreas produces a hormone called Insulin to
decrease the increased glucose level. Now what happens in diabetes is your body fat cells,
liver cells and muscle cells do not respond well to insulin. This is called Insulin
resistance. The higher blood sugars are associated with an increased risk of dementia; in other words
the higher your blood sugar levels are the higher the risk of cognitive decline.
One study also correlated very severe low glucose levels (also called hypoglycemia)
with an increased risk of dementia. So make sure you're taking care of your blood sugars.
All of this makes sense. Your brain cells need sugar to function and if there's too much sugar
or too little sugar they don't work that well. If there are prolonged episodes of high blood sugar
or low blood sugar this in turn damages your brain cells. Now to the main question:Can Metformin
cause dementia? Metformin can cause B12 deficiency and if you want a link to a previous video I
did on this subject click on this link above. Vitamin B12 deficiency affects your brain cells
and nerve cells. The protective covering around your nerve fibers called myelin is damaged, this
causes a variety of symptoms such as dementia, forgetfulness, insomnia, depression, irritability,
peripheral sensory deficits and psychosis. B12 deficiency results in an increase of an amino acid
in your blood called homocysteine. Elevated levels of homocysteine lead to brain shrinkage.
Doctors refer to this as brain atrophy. When we get older our brains shrink. However, with
neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease this is accelerated. In Alzheimer's
disease as well as other neurodegenerative diseases homocysteine levels are elevated.
Elevated homocysteine levels increase the risk of neurodegenerative diseases. Therefore when taking
your Metformin make sure your B12 levels are checked given that it can cause B12 deficiency.
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that notification bell and that subscription button as well. In the past years there have
been some studies showing Metformin slows down cognitive decline on the screen you'll see two
of those studies and you can see the links in the description below.A recent Australian study just
published in November of this wonderful year 2020 in the journal Diabetes Care
concluded all the adults receiving Metformin have slower cognitive decline and dementia risk.That's
quite a statement and a stunning headline, don't you think! This study was, however,
an observational study. Observation studies cannot prove that one thing causes another only that
they are linked. The study authors did write that larger more randomized studies in people
with and without diabetes should be performed. In my opinion we have to be careful drawing
any broad conclusions regarding these studies and other recent similar studies
as they are not the gold standard of studies. The gold standard of studies are randomized
control studies. What I would conclude that if your blood sugars are better controlled with diet
and lifestyle changes including taking your diabetic medications to achieve better
blood glucose control that these measures contribute to decreasing cognitive decline
and decrease the chances of dementia. In this way you're taking control of your health and thinking
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