Hi, Steve (@stallen)

I should have heard of metabolic syndrome before (and I probably had, but like so many things, it must have just zipped by). You and John (@johnbishop) have given me lots to read up on. Tomorrow, my weekly no-Internet day, I was planning on starting Zadie Smith's new novel, but now it looks like I'll be reading up on metabolic syndrome. 🙂

To answer your questions, Steve, my PCP found my blood pressure to be on the "high side," but not alarmingly so, and that diagnosis was 20-30 years ago; I have been taking a script medication for blood pressure ever since, but most days now the cuff tells me I'm a textbook "norm" (120/80). To the best of my knowledge, my cholesterol is fine (I can't recall my PCP ever saying it's not); I'm 99% off of all refined sugars (I quit cold turkey in 1976 when I read William Dufty's "Sugar Blues"); and my waist is "about right" (in my opinion): a little bulgier than it was in my running days, but nothing that would put a strain on my car's seatbelt (I'm 6'0" and weight 160-164 lbs.).

I'm not discounting the possibility (the jury's out until I read all the studies you've sent), but it doesn't sound like a good candidate for metabolic syndrome right now.

Ray (@ray666)