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

As a young Emergency Room doctor, Peter Attia felt contempt for a patient with diabetic issues. She was obese, he assumed, and also hence in charge of the reality that she needed a foot amputation. Yet years later on, Attia got an undesirable clinical shock that led him to question: is our understanding of diabetes mellitus right? Could the precursors to diabetes mellitus cause excessive weight, and not the other way around? A check out just how presumptions might be leading us to salary the incorrect clinical battle.

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