Lower cholesterol....alzheimer's?

We have some strong circumstantial evidence that the three decade old war on cholesterol and fat may well be the direct cause of the Alzheimer’s epidemic. More and more pieces are falling into place.

The final piece of evidence along this line of reasoning is the effect of the ketogenic diet on dementia. A ketogenic diet is a no carb, effectively all animal product diet. It is high in fat, high in cholesterol, and so far, the only treatment that has been shown to improve dementia. That’s right. A draconian cutting of carbs, with a high fat, high cholesterol diet, offers improvement.

There is another angle to the Alzheimer’s epidemic. 

Alzheimer’s is sometime called type 3 diabetes, and for good reason. Glucose management, the hallmark of diabetes, is severely disrupted in Alzheimer’s patients. It tends to be chronically high, and insulin very high as well. This chronically high level of glucose causes sugar related junk to pile up in the brain.

Now the high glucose/high insulin syndrome is caused by the same high carb/low fat diet. This is not supposition. This is fact.  And of course, a low or no carb diet will reverse this.

This is quite a compelling string of evidence at this point, both from the point of view of which actions tend to cause dementia, and which actions tend to cure it.

None of the high priests in the medical profession want to utter anything like: “The diets and meds we have been recommending for 30 years have caused an Alzheimer’s and adult onset diabetes epidemic.” 

None. 

Still, you have to wonder.

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