Can you still calcify or shrink black with prediabetes numbers my numbers seem stuck in the
low 100s taking metformin is additional medication required went to a ketogenic diet well the number
one priority is diet number two priority is diet number three priority is diet then you get
exercise one of the components of diet has to do with body fat you need to really again that's what
some of this testing does it helps you understand how much of an impact things like body fat are
having on you now metformin decreases we don't really understand all the different things that
metformin does we know that metformin decreases gluconeogenesis meaning glucose newly made
in the bloodstream that's what your liver does and metformin does decreases that but it does other
things too it impacts the gut biome well how do we know that because you get gas and diarrhea at
least one out of five people do when they start metformin but did you know that the gut biome
is very much associated with whether or not you have prediabetes I'm not going to spend more
time going down that bunny trail but look it up I've got some videos on it so metformin does a
few things the key the root cause issue does not appear to be that much impacted by metformin and
that is the sensitivity of the insulin receptor to insulin now there is a drug while we're talking
about drugs there is a class of drugs that does that they're called thiazolidinediones the most
common the most well-known is pioglitazone the early trade name for pioglitazone since we've
blown advertising we're just going to go ahead and mention commercial names anyway you'll recognize
it better it's called Actos that was the an extremely popular drug 20 years ago there are two
very clear ways to increase your insulin receptor receptivity to insulin one is losing body fat
another is decreasing cortisol with sleep and stuff like that but on a reliable dependable
you can watch it happen basis decreasing body fat is the most common thing that I see the second big
item I see is the people that start pio it's a prescription drug it's got some significant
side effects one of them is it's been associated with bladder cancer it's been associated with
some water weight gap so you should take two or three looks and investigate deeply before you go
on to something like pio I will tell you I take it I don't take it every day but here's why the
probability of side effects on something like that even one of the more dangerous prescription level
drugs is minuscule compared to a 10 or 20 percent probability of having a heart attack or stroke
over the next decade or two and those are the kind of numbers that we're talking about so yep
I come on and I talk about a drug I'm gonna get a lot of haters so be it you gotta know the facts
so I'd like to talk with you a minute about the webinar people don't understand what the webinar
is it's actually a great way to get some access to health care that you're just not going to
get any other way you actually get the lab tests yourself for at a local lab a Quest lab near you
for the inflammation panel and the OGTT and the insulin survey these are things inflammation and
prediabetes that your doctor just does not know about and here's the thing Harvard Health and many
others have said look sudden death is not always so sudden the Hollywood picture that it's a bolt
out of the blue is not realistic it's more like real lightning preceded by clouds wind and rain
stop that metabolic storm before the lightning strikes and here's where that metabolic storm
comes from it's inflammation and it has to do usually with prediabetes so again we actually
get labs we go over them in the webinar and then you can start finding out how you can
prevent that heart attack others said that you couldn't even predict we can show you how thanks