New Omicron Variant: Only a Concern Because 93% Are Metabolically Sick, New Study Finds
High Intensity Health with Mike Mutzel, MS
Mike Mutzel
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🗓️ 14 July 2022
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
New study finds just 6% of Adults under 65 and only 0.4% of those over 65 have optimal cardiometabolic health, putting them at increased risk for infections.
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| 0:00.0 | In today's show, we're gonna break down a new report |
| 0:01.7 | finding that 93.8% of U.S. adults |
| 0:04.4 | have poor cardiometabolic health, |
| 0:06.6 | setting them up for higher risk of things |
| 0:08.6 | like severe COVID-19, premature mortality, morbidity, |
| 0:12.0 | from heart disease, strokes, and other cerebral vascular issues, |
| 0:16.2 | even dementia and Alzheimer's. |
| 0:17.7 | Now, this is so important. |
| 0:19.4 | What they did actually find is that |
| 0:21.2 | 0.4% of adults over the age of 65 |
| 0:25.4 | have optimal cardiometabolic health. |
| 0:27.6 | So that means basically, virtually no one |
| 0:30.1 | over the age of 65 is cardiometabolically healthy, |
| 0:33.2 | which means we have a lot of work to do, my friends. |
| 0:36.0 | These stats are pretty damning. |
| 0:37.9 | Now, it's important to talk about this |
| 0:39.6 | because the media in the last several days, |
| 0:42.4 | even hours, all of a sudden my news feed is filled up again |
| 0:45.0 | with COVID-19 and the latest subvariance |
| 0:47.5 | and how the new subvariant from the BA5 Omicron |
| 0:50.6 | is as it's called, is even more transmissible. |
| 0:53.3 | So we need to double down on masking and social distancing |
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