Dr. Paddy Barrett

MARCH 23, 2024

They get the diseases of ageing about 20 to 25 years later than everyone else. It’s not that they don’t get cardiovascular disease, cancer or dementia; they just get it way later than everyone else. Most adults, healthy centenarians included, will die from one of three things: Cardiovascular Disease.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

AUGUST 23, 2024

While I have covered many of these fitness measures individually in previous posts, I wanted to summarise these metrics and how they relate to living longer and preventing major diseases such as cardiovascular disease, cancer and dementia. Let’s start with the most basic measures and then examine increasingly complex ones.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Type 2 Diabetes When it comes to the increasing the risk of major chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease, many cancers and dementia, type 2 diabetes plays a huge role. For example, people with type 2 diabetes are 10 times more likely to develop cardiovascular disease than those who do not have diabetes 10.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

JANUARY 16, 2024

Cardiovascular disease, cancer and dementia account for 60% of all deaths in the US. For those in the ‘Ideal’ category, they were 51% less likely to have either dementia or depression. And less diabetes means less of a driver of the three main leading causes of death - cardiovascular disease, cancer and dementia.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

AUGUST 15, 2023

Insulin resistance is a core risk factor for the three leading causes of death: Cardiovascular Disease Cancer Dementia. Subscribe now Take cardiovascular disease, for example. Main Takeaway Insulin resistance is a core risk factor for all the major chronic diseases that impact us.

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DAIC

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

With more than two decades of research experience, Boden-Albala is an internationally recognized expert in the social epidemiology of chronic disease whose research has focused on eliminating health disparities through defining and intervening on social support, structural and institutional barriers to optimal health.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Lower levels of muscle mass are strongly linked to a shorter life and higher rates of major chronic diseases such as diabetes 2. Cognitive Performance & Dementia. There is also mechanistic data to support its role in preventing dementia, but for now, this is more speculative 10.

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