Type 2 Diabetic? Your Brain Could Be at Risk!

When it comes to the damaging effects of high blood sugar, nothing is off limits—including your brain.

That’s right… years of out of control blood sugar can wreak havoc on your thinker.

Besides impacting things like short-term memory, attention, and verbal learning, having type 2 diabetes DOUBLES your risk of cognitive impairment and dementia.

Fortunately, researchers have found a way to BOOST brain health for people with type 2 diabetes.

I’ll tell you everything you need to know…

Researchers studied 1,100 type 2 diabetics to evaluate the impact of diet, exercise, and weight loss on the cognitive function of type 2 diabetics.

I have good news and bad news.

The good news is that reducing blood sugar levels improved cognitive test scores. The greater the reduction, the greater the improvement.

In fact, they found that lowering blood sugar from the diabetic range to the prediabetic range was as beneficial as lowering it from prediabetic to normal.

Weight loss brought about similar improvements, with people who lost more weight improving factors like short-term memory, planning, impulse control, and attention.

Now for the bad news.

People who were obese at the beginning of the study (as opposed to simply overweight) showed little-to-no improvement in cognition.

The researchers called it “too little, too late.”

Those who were obese from the get-go also benefited less from exercise as well.

There’s a lot we can learn from a study like this one.

Type 2 diabetes is never JUST about blood sugar. Your entire body is at risk. (I’ve told you this before.)

If you’re already suffering from type 2 diabetes, please work with your doctor to get your blood sugar AND your weight under control.

You don’t want to reach the point of no return.