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Matt Lovell
Cardiologist London – Dr Ravi Assomull
How does nutrition affect metabolic health?
Diet plays a central role in metabolic health by influencing blood sugar balance, inflammation and energy regulation. Nutritional practitioner Matt Lovell discusses how improving diet quality can support better metabolic function and contribute to overall cardiovascular wellbeing.
Transcript
Metabolic health is a series of symptoms, really, that we want to avoid from progressing too much. And metabolic syndrome is a collection of these symptoms altogether. And it includes things like being overweight, having a high waist-to-hip ratio, possibly having poor blood lipids, so poor cardiovascular profile, high blood pressure, poor insulin control, and sugar management. So together, if you think about all those things, these are things that go wrong in humans, and actually when we look at society, we've got poor metabolic health across the board, and statistics don't make for very good reading.