Metabolic dysfunction and the health of your brain.

If you're insulin resistant, chances are so is your brain. Metabolic illness doesn't just cause weight gain and impact our muscles, liver, heart, and blood pressure. It also impacts our brain health. And right now, we’re facing two parallel epidemics.Rates of type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome continue to rise globally. And at the same time, conditions like depression, ADHD, bipolar disorder, and disordered eating are becoming increasingly common. People with serious mental illness are dying 10 to 20 years earlier than the general population—largely due to metabolic disease.Are these really separate conditions?Or are they different expressions of the same underlying dysfunction?