{"id":15518,"date":"2020-12-08T14:34:56","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T14:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/squad\/?p=15518"},"modified":"2020-12-08T14:34:56","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T14:34:56","slug":"the-link-between-diabetes-and-cognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/diabetes\/the-link-between-diabetes-and-cognition\/","title":{"rendered":"The Link Between Diabetes and Cognition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You can\u2019t find your wallet, forgot dinner with friends, or missed taking your daily medication. You\u2019re struggling to understand why this is happening. Diabetes type 1 and type 2 can cause a decline in your cognition. You need to be able to analyze information, retain it, and use it in your work or daily life.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Your cognitive abilities are brain-based. Decision-making and problem-solving skills are required for your simplest tasks but also your complex tasks, like following steps to complete a project at home or work. Here is a quick list of cognitive abilities:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The speed at which you process and learn new information<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Verbal memory<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Short term memory<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Abstract reasoning<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Attention to multiple stimuli<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pattern recognition<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b>Diabetes Changes Your Cognition<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Diabetes can damage the small blood vessels in your brain. The blood vessel damage will, in time, affect the brain\u2019s white matter.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Your brain is complex and as you age, your cognition tends to decrease. A study reported by the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC5528145\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">National Institutes of Health<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> disclosed: \u201cDiabetes in midlife is associated with a 19 % greater cognitive decline over 20 years compared to those without diabetes.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Action Steps to Protect Your Cognition<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While there is no cure for dementia or Alzheimer\u2019s, there are action steps you can enact right now to protect your memory. Keep your blood sugar at the correct level by taking your medications and using your medical provider\u2019s advice on your treatment. Get plenty of exercise. Short walks go a long way to keep you sharp. Eat a healthy low sugar and low carb diet. Stimulate your mind with chess, reading, crossword puzzles, and games that involve concentrating.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Losing your wallet isn\u2019t the end of the world, but if you miss your medications, your life could be at risk. Protect your cognition by monitoring your blood sugar.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can\u2019t find your wallet, forgot dinner with friends, or missed taking your daily medication. You\u2019re struggling to understand why this is happening. Diabetes type 1 and type 2 can cause a decline in your cognition. You need to be able to analyze information, retain it, and use it in your work or daily life.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15555,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[753],"tags":[714],"class_list":["post-15518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diabetes","tag-diabetes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}