Elevated palmitoleic acid (POA) levels in childhood or at age 50 predict future health problems like diabetes, even in individuals who were healthy at the time of measurement.

“there have been a couple of studies recently coming out looking specifically at what we're talking about poa — and it's marker for future problems and predictor of future diabetes and other issues one was a study recently published called the panic study looking at levels in childhood and seeing how they translate to health consequences you know decades down the road and then there was another study i believe it was from the netherlands — where they looked at poa levels at 50 to correlate them with c-reactive protein levels at age 70”