Our poor metabolic health is commonly associated with metabolic syndrome, especially as we age.
If you are carrying extra body fat, you are at an increased risk of high-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels, high fasting blood sugar, sluggish liver function and gut dysbiosis.
As well as your body weight, there are five more ways to measure the symptoms of your metabolic health risk.
High blood pressure (greater than 130/85 mmHg)
High blood sugar (fasting blood glucose over 100mg/dl)
Waist-to-hip ratio (over 0.85 in women, 1.0+ for men)
High triglyceride levels (above 2.3mmol/L)
Low levels of good cholesterol, or HDL (below 1mmol/L)
When only treated with medicine for more than ten years, these are risk factors that are the consequences of not addressing the root cause of your symptoms and will lead to metabolic syndrome and or metabolic disease, autoimmune, inflammatory and heart disease.