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The Three Pillars Behind Almost Every Modern Illness
Heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer's, and most of what we call getting old. Different diseases, same three roots.
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The three pillars
Why these three →Heart disease, type 2 diabetes and Alzheimer’s look like separate problems. Follow each one down far enough and you arrive at the same three failures — which reinforce each other.
- 01Chronic inflammationInflammation that never resolves. Implicated in cardiovascular disease, diabetes, autoimmune conditions, several cancers, and cognitive decline.
- 02Insulin resistanceCells stop responding to insulin, and the body compensates by making more of it. It can hide behind normal blood sugar for a decade or more.
- 03Mitochondrial dysfunctionThe cell's power plants produce less energy than they used to. The tissues that need the most energy feel it first.
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