The Secrets of Sugar (the fifth estate)

first aired: 2013-10-03

at 29:14 …

CBC:

In this lab the belief now is that Alzheimer’s is really diabetes of the brain, linked to insulin levels, which can be affected by too much sugar.

Professor Suzanne de la Monte: (!?)

Insulin resistance we now know can occur in any organ. It can occur in the muscles. That’s what diabetes is. It can occur in the liver. That causes fatty liver disease. It can occur in the ovaries. That’s polycystic ovary disease. And it can occur in the brain. We think that’s Alzheimer’s.
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Roy Scranton: We Broke the World


presentism: “a strong belief that the future will be much like the present and a tendency to forget how different the past was”

presence-ism: “a belief that whatever exists is and was and will keep on being”

“presence-ism and presentism obscure from us the horrifying truth that mass extinction is happening all around us and has been happening all around us: our world is a graveyard, and we Homo sapiens are the blight that has made it so”

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