This study is a prospective randomized placebo-controlled double-blind crossover study designed to address the hypothesis that dichloroacetate has the ability to re-activate brain glucose metabolism under clamped hypoglycemia. The study population is comprised of intensively treated persons with T1D with frequent exposure to hypoglycemia, who have cognitive deficits under hypoglycemia that could be attributed to changes in brain glucose oxidation. The investigators will test the experimental compound DCA in a mechanistic study that determines whether brain metabolism is restored by this intervention, or whether the drug effect was primarily caused by changes in physiology outside of the brain.
This is a prospective randomized placebo-controlled double-blind crossover study determining the effect of dichloroacetate on brain glucose metabolism under clamped hypoglycemia in T1DM.