Type 2 Diabetes is an epidemic
- Harsh Mota
- Jun 30
- 2 min read
589 million people worldwide are living with type 2 diabetes right now.
That's 1 in every 9 adults on this planet.
In US alone, 97.6 million people have prediabetes.
That's 38% of all adults.
That's almost 2 in 5 people walking around with a ticking time bomb they don't even know about.
80% of them? Completely unaware.
#️⃣ Here are the shocking stats from 7 major economies:
- USA: 97.6 million with prediabetes (most don't know it)
- China: 140+ million with diabetes (world's largest population)
- India: 77 million affected (earning the title "diabetes capital")
- UK: 4.3 million living with it
- France: 3.5 million diagnosed (plus 500K-800K undiagnosed)
- Germany: 6.7 million affected
- Australia: 1.9 million, with Indigenous populations hit 3-4x harder
Why does this matter?
Economic cost?
$1 trillion globally in 2024 alone.
But beyond the money, there's something deeper happening here. We're looking at a completely preventable epidemic that's hiding in plain sight.
Prediabetes is reversible.
Let me say that again.
IT'S REVERSIBLE.
Yet 8 out of 10 people who have it don't even know they're at risk!
Every single country is showing similar trends:
- Rising rates year over year
- Massive gaps in diagnosis
- Preventable progression from prediabetes to full diabetes
- Disproportionate impact on minority and lower-income populations
This isn't just a health crisis. It's a systems failure.
What's really going on here?
The diabetes epidemic shows something fundamental about human behavior and systems thinking.
We're incredibly good at treating symptoms and terrible at addressing root causes.
We spend trillions treating diabetes but pennies preventing it.
We build healthcare systems that profit from sickness, not wellness.
We create food environments that make healthy choices harder and processed foods cheaper.
Here are the head scratchers:
→ If we know prediabetes affects 97.6 million Americans and is reversible through lifestyle changes...
→ If we know early intervention can prevent the progression to full diabetes...
→ If we know the economic burden will reach unsustainable levels...
→ Why aren't we treating this like the emergency it is?
Answers?
→ It's more profitable to keep people sick than to keep them out of the healthcare system.
→ It's more profitable to feed people processed foods and dumb the populations down than to help them eat cleanly and question the systems.
→ Technology is making us lazier by default, and making smart choices co-existing with technology takes immense discipline.
What can you as an individual do to own your health?
✅ Sleep 7+ hours each night. No questions asked
✅ Prioritize 30g protein each meal
✅ Move 10 minutes every 50 minutes of your working day
✅ Drink 2-3L water per day
✅ Eat clean, unprocessed and single ingredient foods 80% of the time
✅ Build Muscle - strength train 3-4x a week
✅ Walk 10 mins post meals
90 days of this consistency and you'll change your life.
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