Type 2 diabetes more than doubles the risk of mortality and increases the risk of cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and cardiovascular disease.

“so the obvious way to think about this is consider the most extreme state of metabolic dysregulation which should be something like type 2 diabetes so you think of this as a continuum and at one end of the spectrum you have unregulated type 2 diabetes which by definition is a situation in which the patient is completely unable to partition fuel even at the most basic level which is to get glucose out of the circulation in that situation a person's risk of the pillar diseases goes up significantly”