The Condition That Was Years in the Making - Cardiodiabesity

Why obesity, heart disease and type 2 diabetes are rising together and what your body may be asking for instead.

A colleague recently shared something with me that made me pause.
The medical world has begun using a new term… cardiodiabesity.
It refers to the clustering of three serious conditions:

• Cardiovascular disease
• Type 2 diabetes
• Obesity

When illnesses begin to travel together so frequently that they require a single label, it tells us something important.
This is no longer about individual health struggles. It is about the metabolic wellbeing of an entire population.

While the term may sound new, the pattern itself is not. I have been watching it unfold quietly for decades.

Not dramatically.
Not suddenly.
But steadily.

How Did We Get Here?

The human body is extraordinarily intelligent. It is constantly adapting to the signals we provide. Unfortunately, many of the dominant signals in the modern western world are deeply confusing to our biology. Highly processed foods that barely resemble their original form. Sugar appearing in places we would never think to look.

Eating from early morning until late evening, giving the digestive system very little rest.
Chronic stress that keeps the nervous system on alert.
Chemical exposures that the body must work overtime to neutralise.

None of this is about blame, about not doing the right thing. Most of us have followed guidelines for years, only to find that those guidelines were wrong, completely and utterly wrong.

Most people are doing their absolute best with the information available to them.

But biology always responds.
Over time we begin to see:

Weight that becomes harder to release
Energy that dips
Blood sugar that rises
Inflammation that lingers
Hormones that struggle to find their rhythm

What concerns me most is how quickly this has been normalised.

Midlife exhaustion is expected.
Weight gain is brushed off.
Medication becomes part of the conversation earlier than many ever imagined.

Yet the body is rarely “failing”. More often, it is asking for clearer guidance.

The Encouraging Truth

Here is what forty years in natural health has shown me again and again:
When inflammation lowers, the body softens.
When blood sugar stabilises, hunger often becomes calmer.
When we nourish properly instead of restricting endlessly, the metabolism begins to feel safer.

A body that feels safe behaves very differently from one that feels under constant threat.

This is why I rarely rush people straight into extreme change.

Restoration must come before repair.
Always.

Supporting the gut.
Reducing inflammatory load.
Creating steadier eating rhythms.
Returning to nutrient-dense food.

These are not trends. They are biological necessities.

Then, the body responds beautifully when given the chance. Not overnight. But reliably.

Perhaps The Better Question Is…

Instead of asking why this condition is rising… Maybe we should be asking why we are still surprised. Because when you understand how the body works, the trajectory becomes far more predictable.
The hopeful part?

Trajectories can be changed. At any age. our wonderful body has an extraordinary capacity to recalibrate when we begin working with it rather than against it.

Where To From Here?

Education is powerful. But implementation is what creates change. Inside my membership, we go far deeper into the practical side of restoring metabolic health.

Not through extremes or punishment.
But through structured, supportive steps that help the body remember what balance feels like again.
Because true health is rarely found in a quick fix.

It is built through consistent signals… repeated daily.
Your body is listening to every one of them.

Karen Creighton
Releasing Weight, Reclaiming Vitality — Since 2010