Peter Attia· MD
Hyperinsulinemia is a problem, even absent T2D or abject IR.
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Hyperinsulinemia is a problem, even absent T2D or abject IR.
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my hope is that as time goes on more and more physicians will realize that hyperinsulinemia per se independent of what's happening at the level of glucose in other words you have a patient with a quote-unquote normal hemoglobin a1c but their hyperinsulinemic that that is taken as seriously as we would take diabetes absolutely