It had been years since we had an infestation. Probably back to when we lived in St. Louis, but I sensed one coming on this morning.
I rushed to the closet where Monica was getting dressed. I pushed her aside, raised my leg and crashed my foot down to the floor, twisting it into the carpet.
Monica exclaimed, “what was that?!”. Valiantly, I said, “Irish Barking Spider”, and walked off. She stared down at the floor where my foot had been, looking for whatever it was, forgetting momentarily who she was married too. I said, “they can stink, I’d get out of there” disappearing into the hallway.
Some things aren’t what they seem to be. But for example, there’s a research effort going on now to study the diabetes drug Metformin’s influence on reducing Alzheimer’s. This might seem like a good idea. I mean, diabetics are much more likely to suffer Alzheimer’s. Why not look at a diabetes drug for Alzheimers?
Yeah, I mean, what do we know about preventing diabetes?
Our health-care system is like a confusing add that states: Buy one, get the second for the same price. I think, and this is just me, how about we take one step further back and ask, “what do we do to prevent the need for Metformin?”. This is called, “killing 17 birds with one stone”.
Buy one, get the second for the same price: Newer research suggests a significant problem contributing to Alzheimer’s is the glymphatic system. Interesting. Let’s make a drug.
What’s the glymphatic system? It’s a system that removes waste when space increases in the brain. When does space increase? When we sleep.
What helps the system? Exercise.
What exactly changed that we didn’t understand about health? JUST SLEEP! JUST EXERCISE! WE ALREADY KNOW THOSE THINGS!
You eat from a gas station, you make insulin, your cells start to resist insulin, but fat cells don’t care so they scoop up all the energy.
You want to know if you’re at risk of diabetes and therefore Alzheimer's? Well, are you . . . getting . . . less skinny?
Now, there’s research on uric acid and it’s inverse relationship with nitric oxide and direct relationship with insulin. Viagra increases nitric oxide. Viagra appears to reduce Alzheimer's as circulation plays a role in dementias. I’m not sure how I feel about Viagra as a prevention.
If we go down that road, we’d really need people to work from home. I mean, can you imagine how many company keyboards would be destroyed from all the coffee being knocked over by guys preventing Alzheimer's as they turned to say “good morning” to co-workers? All the men pleading, “I SWEAR THIS ISN’T HARRASSMENT, DEMENTIA RUNS IN MY FAMILY!”. My point, before you get “me-too’d” at work, there are steps you can take on your own without Viagra. For example: any time there is an increase in insulin there is a concomitant increase in uric acid. Exercise increases circulation, pulls glucose out of circulation, Quercetin reduces uric acid which allows insulin to get into circulation instead of just build up. Maybe Viagra is your thing though.
According to the WHO: Sep 16, 2022 — In 2019, diabetes and kidney disease due to diabetes caused an estimated 2 million deaths.
I suggest the following: Until everyone takes pharmaceuticals to prevent Alzheimer’s let’s force businesses (small ones) to shut down so nobody can eat at gas stations. Once everyone has taken the drug, regardless of our long-term understanding of the drug, we can open back up again. I’m sure there wouldn’t be any long-term consequences, and we will stop diabetes . . . until people go out again. At that time there will be an explosion of RSV, dramatic drops in student test scores, white matter mass in our kids brains atrophied, permanently impaired immune systems in babies born during the lockdown . . . makes perfect sense.
Here’s some tricks/hacks to help out: Again, eat in a 10-12 hour window that stops feeding by 6 p.m. at the latest. First meal, no carbs. Before you eat take a tablespoon of Apple Cider Vinegar diluted in water. That will reduce the insulin spike and it also pushes glucose into muscle. Anytime you’re compelled to eat something sweet you have to take protein with it to slow the absorption. Eat your greens before the meal to slow absorption as well. At the same time ask yourself, “am I hungry enough to eat broccoli instead of something on the roller at QuickTrip?”. If you aren’t, you aren’t hungry. If you are, keep healthy high fiber/protein food available to avoid crap. Studies show that if you consume whey (protein) before a meal you will reduce blood sugar spikes. One example would be, if you eat a banana eat it with peanut butter (protein) to slow absorption.
Drink green tea with cinnamon. Both help with longer term blood sugar sensitivity. Lemon water helps a bit, you can drink it at night like my obsessive wife does.
Before you eat do sit-ups and body weight squats to get your body ready to do something productive with the energy you’re about to consume. Sleep is critical.
Gut. The biproduct of bad bacteria in the gut is inflammatory and like all diseases, diabetes has an inflammation component. If you’re interested, you can research lipopolysaccharides and diabetes. Two things are important here: don’t use artificial sweeteners because they screw up the gut and eat pre-biotic foods like onions and garlic and onions and garlic, and dandelion greens. Studies show ketone bodies from ketogenic diets modifies the gut in positive ways very quickly.
Lastly, stress ups blood sugar and kills memory.
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