Norman Swann
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14,464 appearances
150 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2005
last heard Feb 2013
Norman Swann’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Research is coming up with some answers on this, plus a lot more on keeping our minds in order as we age.
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For example, research in Chicago is suggesting that sugar might have something to do with Alzheimer's.
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The sugar story is linked to a destructive chemical that's thought to lie at the heart of this form of dementia.
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It's called beta-amyloid.
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Professor Bob Vassar is at Northwestern University School of Medicine.
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And we should just say here what an enzyme is because it's thrown around a lot.
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You know, you buy it in your washing powder.
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about enzymes all the time.
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But these are chemicals that help a chemical reaction to go along without changing themselves.
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They're a helper to make things go better.
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what's going on here?
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I mean, if you've got poor glucose uptake, I mean, if you were looking at muscles and you were looking at an elderly person and they weren't picking up glucose into their muscle, you'd say, well, they've got prediabetes or type 2 diabetes.
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They're insulin resistant and they're
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the glucose isn't getting across into
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cell.
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So is that what you're seeing inside the brain that in fact they've got a brain form of type 2 diabetes or insulin resistance?
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What do you think is going on here?
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And probably greater in people with Alzheimer's disease than the average person.
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And how sure are you that what you've seen in the mouse happens in the human?
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The next step is to see if they can reverse the glucose problem and fix up the Alzheimer's abnormality at the same time.
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