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These approaches overlap, as we’ll see: reducing cardiovascular risk by targeting specific lipoproteins (cholesterol) may also reduce Alzheimer’s disease risk, for example, though not cancer. The steps we take to improve metabolic health and prevent type 2 diabetes almost certainly reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, cancer, and Alzheimer’s

Insulin resistance from biological aging now affects nine in ten Americans, who fall somewhere along the spectrum of pre-diabetes to full-blown type 2 diabetes (see “The Insulin-Signaling Pathway” under “Hallmark 1” in Chapter 4

As devastating as it is, cirrhosis is not the only end point I’m worried about here. I care about NAFLD and NASH—and you should too—because they represent the tip of the iceberg of a global epidemic of metabolic disorders, ranging from insulin resistance to type 2 diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is technically a distinct disease, defined very clearly by

We often think of disease states as binary—you either have an illness or you don’t. Instead, a more typical evolution is like a low, smoldering flame that will grow into a full-blown forest fire if left unchecked.