Blood Sugar Linked To Normal Cognitive Aging

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assuming their statistics are robust and reflect clinical significance and not just statistical significance, the language of blaming blood glucose for memory lapses is misleading and jumping to conclusions.... blood glucose is likely a proxy for a complicated process, like the metabolic derangements of diabetes (lack of insulin, elevated counter-regulatory hormones, and the adipose, muscle and liver not taking up blood glucose....).

How frequently are they proposing to track blood glucose to help a person or a physician track cognitive health? If people crave frequent data, that is a boon for blood glucose monitor manufacturers, and people can stick themselves to their hearts content when the have a senior moment to justify it. But how would that be helpful? Hopefully with a healthy diet and exercise regimen, the monitoring of blood glucose that is already done at health supervision visits is sufficient to catch a problem