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Also, we were not as successful as Chris Kresser in pulling numbers off the top of our head regarding the potential cost of treating type 2 diabetes in the US, so here is that breakdown from Chris himself, summarized below:
$14,000 per year to treat one person for type 2 diabetes If said person is diagnosed and begins treatment at age 40 and lives until 85, that's 45 years @ $14k, which equals $630,000 for 1 person. Take the CDC's findings that 100 million Americans now have prediabetes or diabetes, and you get 63,000,000,000,000 ($63 trillion) just to treat those Americans for diabetes for the remainder of their lives.
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Also, we were not as successful as Chris Kresser in pulling numbers off the top of our head regarding the potential cost of treating type 2 diabetes in the US, so here is that breakdown from Chris himself, summarized below:
$14,000 per year to treat one person for type 2 diabetes If said person is diagnosed and begins treatment at age 40 and lives until 85, that's 45 years @ $14k, which equals $630,000 for 1 person. Take the CDC's findings that 100 million Americans now have prediabetes or diabetes, and you get 63,000,000,000,000 ($63 trillion) just to treat those Americans for diabetes for the remainder of their lives.