“Metabolic Reflections: Blurring the Line between Trauma and Diabetes”
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In “Metabolic Reflections: Blurring the Line between Trauma and Diabetes”, Emily Mendenhall argues for clinical studies of diabetes to recognize the impacts of chronic stress and trauma on metabolism. In her anthropological research, she has identified how lines between trauma and diabetes are blurred and violence and subjugation may irreversibly impact metabolism, even across generations. Thus, changes to diet and exercise alone will not solve the global and local undercurrents of the diabetes epidemic.