The 2024 Levels guide to genetics and metabolic health

As with many aspects of wellbeing, both nature and nurture play a role in determining our metabolic health. Nurture includes things like diet and exercise, and it has a massive influence on metabolic health and risk of Type 2 diabetes. But a portion of this risk also comes from nature: our genes. Studies over the past two decades show scores of genetic variants that influence metabolic health, for example, by affecting insulin secretion. Some of these put us at greater risk of Type 2 diabetes…