I got sort of twisted around my ankle when I had a comment yesterday. I'm not
gonna read the name, but the person said, Doc, your channel would be a lot more
helpful if you quit shaming people about prediabetes and with prediabetes, and
you talked about more practical ways of dealing with it. If there's any one
simple item that this channel is about and a lot of people think it's
complicated because we've got over 700 videos, but almost all of them come right
back around to one item. And that is this even larger more damaging current
epidemic of prediabetes. So yes, I hammer on that issue. You know that old adage if
you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail. And I'll admit, I'm a hammer in
terms of looking for risk factors and risk associated with hidden undiagnosed
prediabetes. I got sort of twisted around my ankle when I had a comment
yesterday I'm not gonna read the comment or the name. But the person said, Doc, your
channel would be a lot more helpful if you quit shaming people about
diabetes and with prediabetes, and you talked about more practical ways of
dealing with it. So I guess that he'd not seen many of my videos. And I sent him
some videos where we talked about practical ways of dealing with weight,
practical ways of dealing with getting into details in terms of lifestyle, in
terms of managing carbs using a continuous glucose meter, looking at
different tests, and especially where I talked about my own challenges. You know,
I grew up Southern Baptist, and I remember sitting in the back of the
a lot of other Southern Baptists and hearing a lot of hellfire and brimstone
type of preaching. I never really thought of myself as a preacher. And again, that
sort of took me sideways. Janice, who's our health coach and very
very in touch on this issue about health coaching and
shaming, said, no, you don't shame people. In fact, we had talked about it, and I did
a video on shaming, and she was talking about my reaction. She said, you tend to
be open about your own challenges and it may not shame you, but a lot of other
people would feel ashamed some of the stuff that you go through. So again, no
question. A couple of comments and then we'll in the feature part this update on
prediabetes with a video that she took of me a couple of days ago a few days
ago Right there. And then we got Dairy Queen right there where they have the
vanilla ice cream dipped in the hard chocolate shell. What else have you
missed. The boo-boos at Ruth Hunt candy store, bourbon balls, and McDonald's, and
Burger King, and Versailles brew pub. So thank you, Carl. Again, for that viewer
that talked about me shaming others, I've had several videos on my own food
addictions, my sweets addictions. Actually, I've suggested many times I've made more
progress on a lifetime sweets addiction with a supplement called Gymnema
sylvestre. I've done a couple of videos on that recently. Obviously, I'm not gonna
take a fast food tour. But here's what happened. Our son is about an hour away
in Louisville. We visited him. Here's what we did. Janice... I'm comfortable doing
Skype with our son or FaceTime, but she wanted to actually be physically in the
same space as he was. So I agreed. We drove over to a large mall that was
closed. He and his girlfriend got out. They walked about 10 feet away from us
on the other side of the lane in the parking lot. So we walked around and
talked for about an hour on the way back. Here's part of the problem. I'm one of
those people that you see some memes about this. My daughter sent one recently.
It was a sloth so as a funny-looking face. But here's what it was saying. I
just ate my two months worth of food for the shutdown in two days.
I'm hungry recently, very hungry, and as we walked around that mall and we saw
those pictures of Ghiradelli ice cream and cheeseburgers, ah, it was
painful. And then on the way back, we did... we drove by a place where we used to go
to get secondhand bourbon balls Ruth Hunt. I used to be a big addict of
those as well. And I was thinking, gosh, I'm so hungry. There's another thing
actually that... pardon the digression... but it has to do with this one of the things
when I did when I was back at Hopkins. In fact one of my major focus points there
had to do with HIV, and it was focused on addicts. One of the things I learned from
the mental health researchers there at Hopkins about addiction is that addicts
tend to be much better off when they're breaking away from their.. the source or
the substance of their addiction until it's nearby and then they just
break out into a sweat and it becomes a big big deal.
And as I continue to work on my own addictions to sweets, to different food
addictions, it's like that was a major experience in that space. I was actually
okay until all of these ads for junk food got in front of my face, and it was
like, ah, no. I try not to shame people. I do try to get people to be aware of the
challenges that we're dealing with. And sometimes, maybe I have come across this,
like they say, the worst saint is a reformed sinner. So maybe sometimes I did
come across was that old Southern Baptist minister. If I do and if it helps
somebody become aware of this and get warned and start dealing with their
problem, I'll take that hit. So thank you very much. 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.