story: Alzheimers is type 3 diabetes
Interesting story - I hadn't heard this link before. Evidence that Alzheimer's might be related to diabetes - at least as a correlated factor, and perhaps as contributing. The connecting factor being that the brain has many insulin receptors governing brain glucose uptake.
http://bigthink.com/devil-in-the-data/alzheimers-is-type-3-diabetes
Interesting read in any event.