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How could I have been so wrong? How could the medical establishment have been so wrong? And for so long? For decades, Alzheimer’s, heart disease, diabetes, and arthritis had been thought of as separate diseases. But the evidence Gary and other subsequent books, papers, articles, and studies purported to show is that all are metabolic diseases. In
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My awareness of my own mortality crashed over my head like a rogue wave coming out of nowhere.
-Penncrest reunion in memoriam table
CT scan of my heart to detect calcium in coronary arteries.
Calcium scan
CT angiogram - soft plaque
APOb test
Post cardiologist will prescribe a LDLC test
-APOb tests for significant Lipo protein burden
-LDL
... See moreIn the body, this manifests as elevated glucose due to stress-induced insulin resistance. I see this often, in myself and some of my patients: high overnight glucose on CGM is almost always a sign of excessive cortisol, sometimes exacerbated by late-night eating and drinking.
Peter Attia MD • Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
By the early twentieth century, diabetes was becoming a disease of the masses. In 1940 the famed diabetologist Elliott Joslin estimated that about one person in every three to four hundred was diabetic, representing an enormous increase from just a few decades earlier, but it was still relatively uncommon. By 1970, around the time I was born, its
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