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What is the relationship between diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease?

Becoming a diabetic will double your risk for Alzheimer’s disease, a disease for which there is no treatment. Elevated blood sugar attaches to proteins in the body and this process dramatically increases the production of both free radicals and chemicals involved in inflammation. Both of these are strongly involved in damaging the brain in Alzheimer’s as well as Parkinson’s and multiple sclerosis.