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 Oh good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever you are in the world. I hope you've had a good day or preparing for a good day or in the middle of a good day. So this is a quick February 2026 update. There's a new book out. It's Metabolic Syndrome and Diabetes. Now metabolic syndrome is not a condition in itself. It's a collection of risk factors and a doctor, if they were looking at you or if you're looking at yourself and considering the risk factors, you may decide I need to get tested for these risk factors. So a quick overview. Excess abdominal weight, basically obesity, overweight, sedentary lifestyle, poor diet, those are the risk factors for excess abdominal weight, hypertriglycerin, glycemia. May have pronounced it incorrectly, but what it is, it is elevated levels of triglycerides in the blood which can increase the risk of cardiovascular disease and pancreatitis. That would be a blood test that the the doctor would have to run for you and you can obviously request these these tests to be done, but that is a prominent risk factor for metabolic syndrome. Low levels of HDL cholesterol, that's a low levels of the good cholesterol in your bloodstream and again that's a blood test that your doctor would have to request for you, but that's another prominent risk factor for metabolic syndrome. And elevated blood sugar levels, the elevated levels may not be diabetes, prediabetes, but they may put you in the risk, at risk category and you'll see that later in the update as to what that means. Of course if you had a diagnosis of elevated blood sugar levels that firmly put you in the diabetes category, then yes you're going to be diabetic and high blood pressure. High blood pressure from stress, from heart problems, number of issues, but collectively there's five risk factors for metabolic syndrome and the new book discusses all of those plus diabetes and some of the ways to mitigate these risk factors. These risk factors can occur anytime in life. In my own personal case I wish I had been involved with metabolic syndrome and the risk factors maybe 25 years before I was diagnosed as type 2 diabetics, so that is where preventing the effects of these collective risk factors comes into play.

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 I was diagnosed as a type 2 diabetic in December 2022 and the next screenshot is from the lab report from that blood test which the doctor said Mark you are now a type 2 diabetic. The year before she said I was a pre-diabetic and the risk factors for pre-diabetes were also discussed in the new book and also the relationship between being at risk and eventually being a type 2 diabetic. The point here is that the reading from my hemoglobin A1c test was 11.5 which is firmly in the type 2 diabetes range.

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 I was diagnosed as a type 2 diabetic in December 2022 and the next screenshot is from the lab report from that blood test which the doctor said Mark you are now a type 2 diabetic. The year before she said I was a pre-diabetic and the risk factors for pre-diabetes were also discussed in the new book and also the relationship between being at risk and eventually being a type 2 diabetic. The point here is that the reading from my hemoglobin A1c test was 11.5 which is firmly in the type 2 diabetes range.

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