Reversal of Hippocampus Atrophy in Advanced T2DM Patients under Restricted Glucose and Gluten-Free Diet and Exercise Regimen

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Eddie Hanley
Reversal of Hippocampus Atrophy in Advanced T2DM Patients under Restricted Glucose and Gluten-Free Diet and Exercise Regimen


         This article discusses research conducted on patients with Type II Diabetes, using an MRI machine, following a period of gluten-restricted and gluten-free diets and exercise and the effects on hippocampus atrophy.  While not having been carried out at the time of publishing (Nov. 30, 2016) Wong is confident that brain imaging testing conducted via MRI would prove that diets restricting or removing gluten all together reverse the hippocampus atrophy associated with Type II diabetes patients. Wong, the author of the article, bases this assertion on previous research he has conducted indicating gluten as a major risk factor T2DM (Type II Diabetes Mellitus) from wheat, rye, and barley. Wong also cites research from 1999 discusses new brain cell growth discovered that occurs naturally in an individual's hippocampus throughout their adult lifetime, noting that the networks they create atrophy if a person does not find something intellectually stimulating to confirm new neural connections. Using a glucose test in conjunction with the MRI, Wong remains confident based on his own research and literature review that restricted glucose diets can help regenerate tissue in the hippocampus as treatment for diabetes 


      Apart from being unique due to its hypothetical nature, as I am used to conducting research involving proven or dis-proven hypotheses, the article interestingly ties into several themes discussed throughout the semester. Metabolism, specifically in terms of digestion, was covered extensively along with diabetes itself and the irregularly of insulin production. More importantly however is the discussion of the hippocampus, the brain-body relationship as it exists in the gastro-intestinal tract and associated organs, and neural connections. The bulk of the article is can only be understood by an individual who understands how such a complex relationship, such as the hippocampus and diabetes, exists, as has been covered in class. This hypothesis proposed by Wong is exciting as it gives great hope for the future as an aggregate of anatomical and physiological research with modern technology. in combination with increasing knowledge on nutrition and gluten, can be used to cure disease. 

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