The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
in all countries insulin resistance is the main driver of cardiovascular disease if you are insulin sensitive you are doing really well but the problem is doctors are not checking this they don't understand how to read fasting insulin reference ranges
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and I think this is really important because it indicates where our blind spot might be in Western medicine you know if if if cardiologists are being trained and we're not looking by we I mean you because you're the cardiologist I'm not a cardiologist if cardiologists are being trained then we as a medical group of Physicians are not looking at insulin resistance more carefully and we're seeing obese people or people with hypertension or people with high triglycerides and low HDL and not realizing they're insulin resistant man we can do a lot of good if we fix those people
I think that Western medicine is grossly underestimating the proportion of people that are insulin resistant and so we're leaving Millions hundreds of millions of people out in the cold you know you know symbolically speaking we're leaving them at the risk of higher cardiovascular events by not focusing on their insulin resistance and not understanding what causes their insulin resistance and not trying to help them treat that that I think is where the problem is