Insulin receptors are found throughout the central nervous system. Fascinating fact: “insulin affects distinct cognitive processes, e.g. by triggering the formation of psychological memory contents.” As the authors of this paper published recently in the journal Diabetologia state: “metabolic and cognitive disorders such as obesity, type 2 diabetes mellitus and Alzheimer’s disease are associated with resistance of central nervous structures to the effects of insulin…” They go on to conclude: “Enhancement of central nervous insulin signalling…has yielded encouraging results that bode well for the successful translation of these effects into future clinical practice.” Targeted tests are available to determine how you can best take care of your brain by managing blood sugar and insulin.

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It’s distressing when a patient’s oncologist refuses to recognize that their chemotherapy or radiation treatments can cause cognitive dysfunction as a serious side-effect. As stated in this paper published recently in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet: “Treatment-induced CNS [central nervous system] toxicity remains a major cause of morbidity in patients with cancer…subtle changes such as progressive cognitive dysfunction are increasingly reported after radiotherapy…or chemotherapy.“ Everybody needs a strategy for brain health, all the more so with these demanding interventions.

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