Metabolic Syndrome, aka Syndrome X

Metabolic syndrome…Syndrome X…affects the majority of adult Americans. Most have no idea what it is or the fact that it is responsible for most premature deaths. Some of its manifestations include obesity, hypertension, heart disease, Alzheimers, type 2 diabetes  etc. Metabolic syndrome is the cause of most of those cases and metabolic syndrome is treatable and reversible. Seventy years ago most of these diseases were very rare. The talk is not only what is metabolic syndrome but what is causing it and what we can do about it. It is not a diet talk although diet is the answer. That is the story in a nutshell.