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A lot of, a lot of the metabolic illness is related to insulin resistance, and that is tied to nutrition and choices about food groups that we eat, in particular carbohydrates and starches and, you know, high glucose.

And not recognizing that is a big problem, uh, for people in their diets about how harmful sugars and refined carbohydrates and, and junk food in general, but how, how bad those can be.

And if I can just give an example, the Type 2 diabetes is, uh, the most common type of diabetes, and it, it, it's exploding now.

It just came out a report a few months ago that fully one-third of teenagers, of adolescents, are now pre-diabetic in the United States.

The adult numbers are even higher, diabetic or pre-diabetic.

And this is...

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I feel like we haven't really made the advances that we should have done to keep people well.

Yeah, yeah, totally.

I mean, you know, some of your audience may be thinking, wait a minute, you're being critical of Western medicine or, you know, allopathic medicine, but you're part of the problem, right? You were in medical school, you're teaching that, you're the problem.

And My book is very critical of Western medicine and what we're talking about, it is gonna be critical of Western medicine, but I think in the 20th century where you and I grew up, essentially Western medicine was magical.

It transformed the lives of humanity, truly around the world, the pills and surgeries that were developed made the world a better place.

I mean, largely through public health measures, certainly, but indeed it really transformed and elevated the life of everyone around the world.

And even today, you know, if I get hit by a car, I'm going to want to have that blood transfusion.

but it's going back to the basics and this is what your book does because it sets out all these chronic diseases like heart disease and osteoporosis and like you say even mental health non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and to specialist people they would think they're all very separate conditions but once you get down to the root cause thinking about in a cellular level what's going wrong in the body it makes sense to fix that rather than wait for the diseases to happen and then, like you say, medicalize them all.