Why Alzheimer’s Is Called Type 3 Diabetes

They're calling Alzheimer's now type 3 diabetes. Type 3 diabetes is insulin resistance in the brain. Our brains get so crack addicted to sugar that even most endocrinologists don't know that the brain manufactures its own insulin. Only the problem is, when you get insulin resistance in the brain, unlike the body, where we can actually store sugar in a stored form called glycogen, we can store it in the liver, we actually store it in the muscles. It takes that stored sugar in the form of something called glycogen and puts it back into the bloodstream as something called glucose. The brain doesn't have that exchange. And so there are these little spaces all throughout the brain called the neurosynaptic junction. These little voids where nerve endings don't touch, but they stop and signals jump across this gap. And when these gaps fill with amyloid plaques, and when you get things called neurofibrillary tangles, we say, well, that's the genesis of Alzheimer's. But the truth is, the genesis of it was insulin resistance.