You're listening to Bulletproof Radio with Dave Asprey.

Today's cool fact of the day is that there's a new study out there that quantified the

link between smuggie air and diabetes.

According to this study, air pollution caused 3.2 million new cases of diabetes worldwide

in 2016.

That's coming from a fine particular matter.

The stuff made by cars and factories and chemical reactions in the atmosphere, the stuff

that hangs around his haze and makes it hard to breathe.

It's already been linked to chronic conditions like heart disease, diabetes, but no one's

really measured the connection.

This is a pretty big study.

They tracked 1.7 million US veterans for almost a decade and assessed their risk of developing

diabetes.

They used data from global studies on diabetes, as well as air quality data from the EPA

and NASA, created equations at this stuff, and they think air pollution is responsible

for 14% of diabetes worldwide.

There's other things like genetics, weight, activity level, and diet that clearly influence

your risk, which is rising globally.

There's about 422 million people now diagnosed with type 2 diabetes up from 108 million in

1980.

That's pretty scary stuff.

It's interesting, it wasn't the same around the globe.

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