Caffeine May Stop Diabetes Memory Loss

Researchers studied mice with type 2 diabetes to show how diabetes can have an impact on the hippocampus area causing memory loss, and why the consumption of caffeine can stop this loss. The scientists showed that the long-term consumption of caffeine reduced weight gain and high blood sugar levels, as well as prevented memory loss, probably due to its interfering with the neurodegeneration caused by toxic sugar levels. When they examined the hippocampus (typically atrophied in diabetics) they found abnormalities that affect memory in the diabetic mice, and which were prevented by caffeine consumption. PLoS May, 2012