Alzheimer's disease a form of diabetes?

[Argos]

Interesting hypothesis featured on Slate (http://www.slate.com/id/2213755/):

Now some experts are proposing an avant-garde way of approaching Alzheimer's: as a form of diabetes. Some even dub it "type 3 diabetes" or "diabetes of the brain."

[Trakar]

Interesting hypothesis featured on Slate (http://www.slate.com/id/2213755/):

Very interesting indeed!

Thank-you for sharing.

[sabianq]

or a type of mad cows disease?
http://www.nih.gov/news/research_matters/march2009/03092009alzheimers.htm

The prion protein, notorious for causing fatal neurodegenerative disorders such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and mad cow disease, may also be an accomplice in Alzheimer’s disease, according to a new study. In this case, it’s not the infectious misfolded prion protein causing the problem but the cellular form, whose function is relatively unknown.

[HenrikOlsen]

Perhaps this should be taken as a sign that it's starting to penetrate the medical professions that the millions of dollars wasted on not developing working medication based on the prevalent hypothesis for the cause of Alzheimer's just might be a hint that the hypothesis might be wrong.