High Blood Sugar Linked to Poor Brain Health and Cognitive Function

Maintaining healthy blood sugar (glucose) levels may be important and not just for people with diabetes. New research links good glucose levels with good brain health as we get older. Lapses in memory, brain fog and senior moments sometimes increase in people as they age. The study below suggests that as blood sugar levels rise when we age, it could lead to more memory lapses, compared to people who maintain healthy blood glucose levels.

The study also suggests that “exercising to improve blood sugar levels could be a way for some people to stave off the normal cognitive decline that comes with age.”

Blood Sugar Linked to Good Brain Health

“By improving glucose metabolism, physical exercise also reduces blood glucose. It is therefore possible that the cognitive enhancing effects of physical exercise are mediated, at least in part, by the beneficial effect of lower glucose on the dentate gyrus.”