Stress and poor lifestyle habits raise cortisol, which increases insulin resistance and leads to weight gain. Most people lack biometric feedback to know if their medications actually work, and half of prescribed patients never start them or quit within six months.
Reducing stress in whatever ways are possible is clearly can be beneficial to some people. But that's complicated, right? I mean, that involves mental state and mental health, as well as sort of lifestyle factors. Jobs and lifestyles generally have higher weight gain, generally have poorer sleep oftentimes. And so those things also raise cortisol levels, can raise insulin resistance and generally lead to weight gain. So what's the only realistic way for someone to say, sort of get confirmation that to say, look, I should keep taking this medicine because it's actually helping me? The only realistic way is to see data of their numbers getting better and staying better. And that really doesn't exist. That feedback loop doesn't exist with current standard of care, cuff measurements and blood pressure. So almost half of the people who get prescribed medications either never take them or stop taking them within six months. It's a huge problem.
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