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103: Shawn Wells, Biochemist, Dietitian and Formulator: “A New & Better Caffeine Is Here - And The Rumor Is It Doesn't Mess With Your Sleep?!"

The Sleep Is A Skill Podcast

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The Role of Metabolic Syndrome in Alzheimer's Disease

If you get six and a half or less hours of sleep chronically, now you're running into metabolic syndrome. And so basically Alzheimer's is type three diabetes. So the glucose that you're looking for doesn't even get into the cell as well. There's actually insulin resistance. You're an insufficient cellular energy states. It's called ice is the acronym in the brain. The same idea: Not getting enough fuel into the cell.

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