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Rethinking Glucose Role in Alzheimer's Disease Based on the Disease Incidence in Diabetes Type 2 Patients

Amos Gelbard*

In a previous essay, I explained why Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a result of high cortisol levels,  that through time cause defects in the enzymes responsible to the proper peptide of beta-amyloid-alpha, beta and gamma secretases-and consequently to the accumulation of beta-amyloid within the neurons which results in Alzheimer's Disease.