Peter Attia: What if we’re wrong about diabetes?

As a young Emergency Room doctor, Peter Attia really felt ridicule for an individual with diabetes. She was obese, he believed, as well as thus accountable for the truth that she required a foot amputation. However years later, Attia got an unpleasant medical shock that led him to ask yourself: is our understanding of diabetes right? Could the precursors to diabetes mellitus create obesity, and also not the other method around? A check out exactly how assumptions may be leading us to wage the wrong clinical battle.

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