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The Diabetes Link to Alzheimer’s Disease

Malnourishment causes cognitive decline, dementia and Alzheimer's disease. Andreas Moritz explains the factors that cause and contribute to Alzheimer's Disease. Too little insulin causes Alzheimer's to develop, which means diabetics are more at risk for developing the disease. Raena Morgan: There are many repercussions health wise to having diabetes, but is there a link to Alzheimer's? Andreas Moritz: There is. Actually, Alzheimer's is a progressive destruction of the cells in the brain, in certain parts of the brain. And you basically have dementia when the mind can no longer correlate to the environment or have access to certain information that you once had stored as memory. RM: Cognitive decline. AM: So that basically means that the brain and nervous system is suffering from severe malnourishment and you will have similar experiences- RM: Malnourishment? AM: -in people that are malnourished. That means you go to countries where people are not getting enough food, they develop all kinds of dementia symptoms. RM: They do. AM: So it is not really a separate illness that we call that; it is progressive malnourishment, and that can be caused by a number of factors. Typically, constipation, chronic constipation, that many of the Alzheimer's patients, they don't go to the toilet. They are holding on to their own fecal matter, the waste products are starting to back up. It's like a river that runs in one direction. You put a dam in front of it, it's backing up, it flows ...