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Why would a genetic tendency towards insulin resistance be correlated with a family history of poverty or subsistence farming? Is there any research on that? Which specific genes are involved? Which tests were used to diagnose your insulin resistance?


I don't know the details. This was just something that I was informed after I was speaking to a specialist about a separate issue at a world-class medical campus, who happened to also be studying the effects of insulin on the thing I was actually there to get examined and after some testing and calculations that are more used in research than clinicals.


Given the context an epigenetic factor is also plausible.




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