Jaiwant Rangi, MD, FACEEndocrinologist | Founder, Lower The Dose® | Speaker

The Hidden Toll: How Diabetes Threatens the Mind and Spirit

26 Jul 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief informational talk, Dr. Jaiwant Rangi explains that diabetes harms quality of life far beyond its physical complications. He highlights that diabetes raises the risk of dementia and directly threatens memory, cognition, independence, and personal identity. He also points out that roughly one‑quarter of people with diabetes experience clinical depression, and that depression and poor blood‑sugar control worsen each other in a vicious cycle. Finally, he notes the stigma patients face, often being blamed for both their mental‑health struggles and their glycemic control problems.

These are something that can affect your quality of life, not just dementia. Diabetes increases the risk of dementia. Diabetes does not only threaten the body, it threatens your memory, your cognition, independence, and your identity. And then there's depression, an emotional burden. About 1 in 4 people with diabetes experiences clinical depression. The depression makes the blood sugars harder to control, and uncontrolled blood sugars make depression worse, and the patient gets blamed for both.