Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

The Alarming Rise in Childhood Type 2 Diabetes

30 May 2025 · 1 min

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Aaron Hartman, MD (speaker) discusses a marked rise in childhood type 2 diabetes, claiming that by 2000 he diagnosed his first case and that currently maybe 10–15% of children have some form of type 2 diabetes. He asserts up to 60% of the population is insulin resistant and links rising autoimmunity/inflammation to increases in PCOS (framed here as an autoimmune-spectrum disorder), noting PCOS tends to affect younger women.

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By 2000.

"Maybe 10 to 15% of kids" (speaker's claim).

"Up to 60% of population is insulin resistant" (speaker's claim).

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By 2000, I was diagnosing my first case. And now, depending on what you read, maybe 10 to 15% of kids have some type of type 2 diabetes. Up to 60% of population is insulin resistant. So it's a big deal. And that's part of this blowing up of PCOS and autoimmunity. PCOS is an autoimmune syndrome spectrum disorder. And so as we see autoimmunity or inflammation go up, particularly if you experience these things early on in your hormonal life cycle. PCOS tends to be an issue of younger women versus older women.