{"id":244684,"date":"2026-09-30T13:04:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T18:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/alzheimers-might-actually-be-a-third-type-of-diabetes-some-scientists-argue"},"modified":"2026-09-30T13:04:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T18:04:29","slug":"alzheimers-might-actually-be-a-third-type-of-diabetes-some-scientists-argue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/alzheimers-might-actually-be-a-third-type-of-diabetes-some-scientists-argue","title":{"rendered":"Alzheimer\u2019s Might Actually Be a Third Type of Diabetes, Some Scientists Argue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/alzheimers-might-actually-be-a-third-type-of-diabetes-some-scientists-argue.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve probably heard of type 1 and type 2 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/diabetes\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">diabetes<\/a>, but did you know there\u2019s possibly a third option as well?<\/p>\n<p>For just over two decades now, some scientists have <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3233\/JAD-2005-7107\">argued<\/a> that type 3 diabetes is an apt title for what happens in some cases of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/go\/IaO\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">Alzheimer\u2019s<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Not all types of dementia are the same, but emerging evidence suggests that in at least some cases, impaired insulin signaling could be a form of neurodegeneration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019ve probably heard of type 1 and type 2 diabetes, but did you know there\u2019s possibly a third option as well? For just over two decades now, some scientists have argued that type 3 diabetes is an apt title for what happens in some cases of Alzheimer\u2019s. Not all types of dementia are the same, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}