Does Diabetes 'rewire' the brain? Dr. Eric Nepute explains

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, joining us down to talk a little bit
about more diabetes, how it rewires the brain in a
surprising way. Doctor Eric Naputti joins us. Doctor, welcome back
in thanks for being here.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Good morning. How are you doing today?

Speaker 1 (00:10):
Doing great?

Speaker 2 (00:11):
So?

Speaker 1 (00:12):
Diabetes, I mean, it's known to cause many medical problems
from heart disease to vision and you know, amputations because
of this. Now new studies suggests it could also impact
memory and other cognitive functions. So tell us about the
study and what we can do to get it going
the other way.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
Yeah. Well, first of all, you know this, this study
out of UNLV shows that type two diabetes does not
just affect your blood and your organs, but it also
affects you know, your brain. We're now finding that reduction
of blood supply and potential complications of the wiring and
firing of the brain happens, and patterns of Alzheimer's are

(00:53):
showing up with individuals that have blood triggerase use. Now,
this un l V study really just confirms what we've
already known and other studies over the past two decades
that shows that type two diabetes, if prolonged in the body,
can cause what we're now referring to as type three diabetes,
which is early onsets of Alzheimer's. And it's a very

(01:16):
big deal if you think about this, Some thirty seven
million Americans have type two diabetes, and you know there's
another twenty million or so that are walking around pre
diabetic or undiagnosed. You know, it could be anywhere between
fifty to seventy million Americans that are in this state
moving towards you know, dementia and Alzheimer's because of too

(01:37):
much sugar on the brain. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:39):
Well, you sugar is certainly a culprit in a lot
of things in our body. And you know, the less
you have of it, the better off you can be.
Cancers basically feed off of it and spread. And now
with this knowledge of where we're going with type two diabetes,
and I'm assuming that type two diabetes is certainly self curable,

(02:01):
right unlike type one, Type two, If you get your
act together, clean up your diet, lose some weight, and
get healthy, you can eliminate the drugs that are used
to fight type two diabetes. I've seen it with my
own wife. She's taken action to get going in the
other direction, and she's lost weight and doesn't take the
medicines anymore. Can you reverse the dementia or the Alzheimer's

(02:22):
once it starts?

Speaker 2 (02:23):
Yeah, So that's what's amazing about this, And you're right. So,
first of all, last twenty years i've been in practice,
we've literally helped thousands of men and women reverse their
type two diabetes, and a lot of them came to
us because of neurological and functional decline. And the brain
has this amazing mechanism called neuroplasticity, which means its ability

(02:44):
to adapt and overcome to stimuli and listen. We know
that as we get older, it's harder to stimulate the brain.
But by getting the blood sugars to come down to normal,
by doing the right types of nutrients and maybe even
peptid and sometimes even medications to get the brain to stimulate,
we can definitely get that brain to rewire and refire.

(03:06):
It just takes time. But you cannot get those cognitive
declines to go away without getting the sugars under control first.
That's why it's such a big deal to understand that
too much sugar in the body is going to be
a problem, and too much sugar in the brain can
lead to these neuro cognitive issues which can cause Alzheimer's.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
So that's good news. You can reverse the type two diabetes,
come off the medicine. But at the same time, even
if dementia has started and you've been diagnosed with it,
if you really clean up and get rid of all
the sugar and add some other things like the peptides
and things you said, you can actually reverse that too.
It's not like it's well, had you started doing this
six months ago, we'd be in better shape. Once dementia starts,

(03:49):
it usually doesn't reverse, but in this case, if it's
been brought on by type two, you can reverse it,
is what you're saying.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
Yeah, that's exactly right. I mean, listen, matter, all matter
has limitation. What does that mean? That means every human
being's body is going to heal at a different rate
and it's also going to degenerate at a different rate.
So no two people are the same. But what we've
seen in clinical experiences, first getting the sugars under control,
then helping the body repair itself, and doing the right

(04:16):
things to stimulate the brain, we can absolutely change brain
activity PET scans and improve cognitive function.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
Well, it's some good news there, Doctor Eric Naputty, always
going to catch up with you. Thank you, buddy, I
appreciate it.