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Pre diabetes


What is prediabetes?
This is a condition when a person's blood sugars are mildly elevated, an early stage of diabetes mellitus. This would be defined one of three sugar testing methods
2. Hemoglobin-A1c testing of 5.7% to 6.4%

What causes pre-diabetes?


Who is at risk?
2. Are you gaining weight and is your body mass index higher than 24?  Calculate here

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What is the treatment for pre-diabetes?
As an example of the importance of this time-dependent-weight-loss:  think of being overweight (a body mass index with a more than 24) activates diabetes genes which promote insulin resistance.  Imagine an insulin receptor like a "door" with "hinges". The ease at which the "hinges" work is the insulin resistance. The fat on you acts like "rust" on the "door hinges". Weight loss has the effect of improving insulin resistance like clearing off the "rust" from the "hinges".  If you let the "rust" stay for a long period of time then hinges break and the sooner diabetes mellitus will happen.  The sooner you remove the "rust" the better the function of the receptors, the longer you will be free of diabetes. 

What are the consequences of pre-diabetes?

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