Memory Loss

A Spoonful of Sugar — Destroys Memory?

By James B. LaValle
February 10, 2009 1 comment

Memory loss
Keeping your blood sugar under control is beneficial for far more than just waistlines and diabetes prevention, it is also important to help preserve your memory as you age.   Yep, that’s right — spiked blood sugar levels actually cause your brain to age prematurely, resulting in more "senior moments” than you’d care to have.

There have been other studies indicating this in the past, but a new study led by Scott A. Small, M.D., associate professor of neurology from the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer’s Disease and the Aging Brain was remarkable because it showed that the activity of an important part of the memory center of the brain (called the dentate gyrus) decreases with elevated blood glucose levels.

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