Control your blood sugar
Diabetes can damage your blood vessels, according to the Mayo Clinic, increasing your risk for vascular dementia, triggered by reduced blood flow to the brain. Researchers think there may be more to the connection between diabetes and dementia—the Lancet Commission report indicates that insulin resistance interferes with the brain’s ability to clear amyloid proteins, which clump together to form the plaques that can lead to dementia.
It’s important to keep eating healthy food and exercising to avoid getting diabetes in midlife. If you’ve already been diagnosed with diabetes, work closely with your doctors to control your blood sugar and manage the disease.
