Metabolic Health

Why 442 Million People Live Diabetic and What We Can Do About It

An invitation to see the big picture of how lifestyle choices can lower the suffering of metabolic disorders like type II diabetes

Dr Mehmet Yildiz (Newsletter)
EUPHORIA
Published in
12 min readJun 11, 2022

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Suffering from Diabetes in the 21st Century

Diabetes is one of the leading causes of death in the 21st century. Currently, 442 million people live with diabetes. It is a serious matter for society.

1.5 million people die from diabetes, 17.9 million from cardiovascular diseases, and 9.6 million from cancers each year.

We must be doing something wrong in the 21st century as we did not have such scary stats in previous centuries.

Diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and cancers have commonalities. They all relate to human metabolism. Obesity and metabolic syndrome are caused by malfunctioning metabolism.

CDC informs that more than 34 million Americans have diabetes and another 88 million US adults have prediabetes.

So, around one out of three people in a developed country are affected by a disease whose cause, diagnosis…

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Dr Mehmet Yildiz (Newsletter)
EUPHORIA

Scientist, Technologist, Inventor, focusing on HEALTH and JOY. Founder of ILLUMINATION, curating key messages for society. Connection: https://digitalmehmet.com