Type 3 Diabetes: Can the Brain Be Diabetic?
What happens if the brain becomes diabetic: an overview of hyperglycemia and insulin resistance in the brain
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When we submitted an opinion paper with a compelling hypothesis titled “Can the Brain Be Diabetic” to a peer-reviewed journal in the early 1990s, it was rejected. The collaborators of the paper were not ordinary academicians. I shared my thoughts about rejections in a recent story titled How a Revolutionary Paper Rejected 7 Times Changed Our Understanding of Biology and Genetics.
They comprised a neuroscientist, a metabolic health specialist, a distinguished nutritionist (MD/PhD), and a cognitive scientist. When the dean of the faculty asked for further feedback on the rejection, the journal editor informed him that they did not publish pseudoscientific papers or conspiracy theories.
Fast forward to 2024, the CDC says, “If your blood sugar levels fall outside of your normal range, it can throw your command center off balance. In the same way that diabetes can cause nerve damage to your eyes, feet, and hands, it can also affect your brain by damaging nerves and blood vessels. This can lead to problems with memory and learning, mood shifts, weight gain…
