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Are you Metabolically Healthy?

Are You Carb/Calorie Camp or Insulin Camp?

Dr. Chad Larson here... Where do I fall in the continuum if the carbohydrate-insulin model is on one end of the spectrum, and the caloric model is on the other end?

I’m slightly off of the center toward the insulin model, but I’ve got a very particular reason for that. The reason is that there’s a great study that was published a couple years ago, and it explains to us that only 12% of adults in the U.S. are metabolically healthy. That means 88% are metabolically unhealthy. What do we mean by that?

• We mean that the 88% of people who are metabolically unhealthy have got blood sugar dysregulation, or they might have some degree of heart disease, or their triglycerides are probably elevated.
• Their waist circumference is above 40 inches in men and 35 inches in women, and they probably have high blood pressure.

Any one of those symptoms or signs puts somebody in the metabolically unhealthy camp. And this research actually includes 20 year olds. Twenty year olds are typically healthier than 45 year olds or 60 year olds, so I think their inclusion in this study dramatically influences those percentages. If we actually kept the study to people aged 40 years and older, that 88% would probably go to something like 98%. In other words, we’d probably find that only two to five percent of adults ages 40 and older are metabolically healthy. So it’s a big, big problem in the U.S. It’s major. I think it’s the problem of our time, especially as a healthcare provider.

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