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?

Have you been unwell for so long that you think "this is me now!"? Do you attach all reason and responsibility onto genetics? Or do you truely believe that its a lack of willpower that is ultimately your biggest problem?

Well this episode challenges that mindset, encourages you to stop and think about what a healthy version of you would look like, and asks the million dollar question: are you willing to do what it takes to become that person?

If you've ever jumped onto Facebook and joined a chronic disease group, you're not alone. Millions of others have done the same thing.

But more and more people are disclosing medical information, sharing images and asking for advice on how to manage these conditions from (more often than not) completely or poorly unqualified strangers.

But why? If that' s something you yourself do, then this episode is for you!