As if you needed another reason to eat healthy
So pretty much everyone has heard of Type-II diabetes and its connection to obesity. The hallmark of Type-II diabetes is insulin resistance. Basically your body...
Tag: Alzheimer’s
How is Type 2 Diabetes Affecting Your Ability to Learn and Form New Memories?
This week, our class discussed the detrimental effects of insulin resistance as seen in Type 2 diabetes mellitus. It has been established that Type 2 diabetes c...
Alzheimer’s Disease: Is junk food putting up road blocks in our brains?
We all know that sweets and fast food are bad for our health. They rot our teeth, add inches everywhere we don’t want them, clog our arteries, and put stress o...
MAPK: The regulator of disease?
Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and Lou Gehrig’s disease. What do these three diseases have in common? Well, according to recent research, all three ma...
Will the MAPK pathway lead scientists to a cure for many common neurodegenerative diseases?
Neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD), Parkinson’s disease (PD) and Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) are a scary thought for many peopl...
The Complexity of the MAPK Pathway
Our article this week talks about how the MAPK pathway is highly linked with several neurological diseases including Alzheimer’s Disease, Parkinson’...
Rethinking reasons for weight loss: Alzheimer’s and type II diabetes
I don’t mean to harp on body image and societal pressures too much. I know that this was my topic last week, but our article this week begs me to write a second...
MAPK: the Wrong Way?
The more I read about neurochemical systems and associated diseases and disorders, the more I get a sense for how vast the problems and intricacies for treatmen...
Insulin and Alzheimer's
5.4 million people of all ages have Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) in the US, 5.2 million of that 5.4 million are ages 65 and older, according to Alz.org. This stati...
Diabetes…An American Epidemic
The number of diagnosed cases of diabetes being classified as type 2 has been rising over the past years in America. The average age of people with type 2 diabe...