Pre-Diabetes is the Silent Death Trap: How to Spot and Combat It | Ep 6

When it comes to metabolic health, high blood sugar isn’t the only cause for concern. If your blood sugar is in between normal and diabetic, you’re prediabetic and at risk for heart attacks and other challenges.

Prediabetes doesn’t have overt symptoms, so it’s really easy for it to be missed. That’s what makes it so dangerous. Unless you’re intentional and vigilant about checking for it, the condition can fly under the radar of your health.

Like diabetes, prediabetes is a reflection of the metabolic condition of your body. Genetics and even ethnicity are risk factors for prediabetes, but the good news is it can be prevented and even reversed once you have it.

What causes prediabetes? Can we stop prediabetes from becoming diabetes? In this episode, I talk about how to combat a condition a lot of people don’t know they have.

One of the problems with prediabetes is that it has no symptoms. Unless you or your healthcare provider go the extra mile to identify it, it can be easily missed. -Dr. Deepa Grandon 

Three Things You’ll Learn In This Episode 

-The dangerous thing about prediabetes

Prediabetes doesn’t have symptoms making it really easy to get missed. Who is at the highest risk of having it? How do you know you need to get screened for it?

-The most powerful ways to correct prediabetes

How do we dial in our diet and exercise in order to combat insulin resistance, inflammation and other metabolic abnormalities? 

-How to use fasting to mitigate prediabetes

Intermittent fasting has a plethora of benefits that aid in the prevention or even reversal of prediabetes. What makes it so effective at tackling prediabetes risk factors?

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