Alzheimer's now known as type 3 diabetes

Alzheimer's is a type of mental disease which causes memory loss and Neuro-degeneration. It causes problems with memory, thinking, recollection and behavior. Dementia is a general term for memory loss. Alzheimer's is progressive disease, I.e. It worsens overtime, especially gets accelerated due to aging.

Causes of Alzheimer's disease:

Over 70 per cent of Alzheimer's disease is caused due genetic factors wherein multiple gene mutations in the brain are involved. Other factors include hypertension, head injury and depression. The disease is associated with formation of beta amyloid plaques

Symptoms of Alzheimer's disease:

1. Forgetting things occasionally

2. Minor short term memory loss

3. Misplacing things or not remembering where the things have been kept

4. Forgetfulness

5. Not remembering own name or names of the family members

6. Confusion in understanding

7. Thoughts that are stuck up

8. Forgetting address phone number and other details

9. Dementia can also lead to forgetfulness of eating. The patient may not know how to eat.

10. Problems with sleep

11. Lack of concentration

12. Anxiety

Alzheimer's disease is irreversible, that it cannot be reversed. Some people have a condition called Mild Cognitive Impairment ( MCI) which involves memory problems which are mild and they do not cause any impairment in day to day activities

Latest research reveals that Alzheimer's disease results from resistance to insulin in the brain. Progression of Alzheimer's disease is linked to resistance to insulin like growth factors, which reveals its typical symptoms, giving it a title of type 3 diabetes. It is also known as brain diabetes. It causes neuro degeneration due to deficiency or resistance to insulin in the brain leading to multiple complications

Characteristics of Alzheimer's disease:

1. Insulin resistance in brain

2. Memory loss

3. Neuronal damage

4. Hyperphosphorylated cytoskeletal protein in neuronal peri karya and dystrophic fibers

5. Increased beta amyloid protein precursor