Why do American's call things by the wrong name?
I learned something on Instagram in between practicing my Tiktok dances. The guy said that only Americans still call Alzheimer's - Alzheimer's.
I thought, did I forget something? I mean, I know they call a car boot a trunk, a biscuit a cookie, and a scone a biscuit. But do they have their own terms for diseases too?
It turns out a growing number of scientists believe Alzheimers should be called Type 3 Diabetes 3. So I did some digging.
Mr Alzheimer didn't suffer from Alzheimer's. He was a psychiatrist in Frankfurt at an asylum in 1901. They dealt with a lot of senile patients. But he was interested in pre-senile dementia. His discoveries went under the radar because when he presented his findings at a lecture, the lecturer that followed Alzheimer was to speak on the topic of "compulsive masturbation", which the audience of 88 individuals was so eagerly awaiting, that they sent Alzheimer away without any questions. It still got called Alzheimer's disease though. I'm not sure who the poster boy for the other disease they discussed is.
Diabetes on the other hand was first mentioned on papyrus in 1550 BC, something about "honey urine", (Who was the guy who figured that out?) and it's a problem with sugar and insulin.
Insulin gets sugar into your cells. Type 1 diabetes is when the body can't produce enough insulin, and Type 2 is when the body can't use insulin. Type 3 is when both happen, but in the brain specifically.
In America, Alzheimer's and Diabetes combined are the 3rd leading cause of death, and Dunkin Donuts has 13 000 stores. Coincedence?
So this means sugar is bad, right? Well, the brain's primary energy source is ... glucose. Or sugar. In fact, your brain uses half the glucose in your body. If the brain doesn't get its energy from glucose, your memory starts getting worse than a toddler with a crayon behind his back standing in front of "art" on the wall.
It's all about blood sugar balance. Fortunately, things like inulin, magnesium, grape seed extract, green tea extract, L-arginine, cordyceps, L-glutamine, and vitamin D3 all help balance your blood sugar. Which, and you're not gonna believe this, are in The Daily Shake. And the Sugar free version doesn't have added sugar if you want minimise your intake.
Keep drinking your Daily Shake and hopefully you don't have a disease named after you, unlike Mr Compulsive!
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