Diet, diabetes, . . . and other stories

ABSTRACT

[...]they were also more likely to have a high body mass index, a family history of diabetes, and to be inactive (Diabetologia doi10.1007/s00125-022-05692-8). Raised without antibiotics As more people realise that using antibiotics in livestock farming contributes to the emergence of resistant strains of microorganisms, the market for meat from animals unexposed to antibiotics is expanding. A registry study from Denmark finds that people taking carvedilol or propranolol, which both readily cross the blood-brain barrier, were less likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease than those taking atenolol, bisoprolol, or sotalol, to which the blood-brain barrier is less permeable (Brain doi10.1093/brain/awac076).