Every year around twenty million people die from heart disease and ten million die from cancer globally. Fifty million people globally now have Alzheimer's disease, and roughly 1/2 billion (or 500 million) have diabetes. While these diseases, and several others that follow close behind (like kidney disease, liver disease and cirrhosis or fatty liver), seem to be somewhat unrelated, they all have one thing in common (in varying degrees) - and that is insulin resistance, which is either causing the problem or making it worse.