Metabolic syndrome is a constellation of five conditions: increased blood glucose, abdominal obesity, high triglycerides, low HDL, and high blood pressure.

“metabolic syndrome is a constellation of five things if you take the ATP definition it's the increased blood glucose which we've talked about but also abdominal obesity high triglycerides low HDL and high blood pressure”

“i think the quickest and easiest and dirtiest way to define metabolic health is probably to use the criteria for metabolic syndrome so metabolic syndrome is basically defined in a somewhat binary fashion which is you have three or more of the five criteria or you don't those five criteria are truncal obesity high blood pressure high fasting glucose high fasting triglycerides and low hdl cholesterol”

“we're now defining truncal obesity as a waste circumference of more than 40 inches in men more than 35 inches in women we're defining elevated triglycerides as over 150 milligrams per deciliter we're defining low HDL cholesterol is below 40 milligrams per deciliter in men below 50 in women we Define elevated blood pressure as above 130 over 85 or taking medication for high blood pressure over 120 over 80. and fasting glucose is greater than 100 milligrams per deciliter and the the syndrome is defined as having three or more of these”