pre-diabetes is one of the greatest threats to your health that exists today
now i know that that's a pretty bold statement considering all that's going on in the world
but this problem of insulin resistance increases your risk of many severe diseases
you may be suffering from pre-diabetes and not even know it
statistics show that if you have pre-diabetes today you'll likely have full-blown type 2
diabetes in 3-5 years around 100 million people in the u.s are suffering from pre-diabetes today
but here's the catch you don't even know you have it children teenagers young adults people
who are going about everyday life and consider themselves healthy are in fact not healthy at
all a serious prerequisite to disease insulin resistance has already developed in your body
when you're younger your body has the ability to deal with this over abundance of sugar
flooding into your system but once you're in your 40s and 50s and beyond
this issue spirals out of control this is when you go to your doctor who's been monitoring
your health for years now and all of a sudden surprise you have type 2 diabetes now the truth is
is it's not a surprise at all this problem has been developing in your body for years
many doctors are just waiting around for that moment for the moment for this issue to get bad
enough so that they could recommend a medication that would actually cover up the problem
and not get to the real cause the real root cause of this issue of insulin resistance now
your cholesterol goes up inflammation is rampant in your body your risk of heart disease is high
excess weight keeps piling on and you're one of those people you're like i just look at food and
i gain weight then your immune system is impaired leaving you susceptible to viral infections
and your health is really spiraling out of control that's not a reality that anyone wants to face so
let's go ahead and take a look at the 10 warning signs that you have pre-diabetes but before we do
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description below now the first of our 10 warning signs that you may be dealing with pre-diabetes
is this it's extreme fatigue after meals now have you ever eaten lunch and felt that you need a nap
or even an energy drink or a coffee just to keep you functioning well this fatigue is a result of a
huge surge of a metabolic hormone called insulin which is enormously energy demanding stealing
all of your energy this insulin surge of course is a sign that the metabolic process in your body
is broken your body is struggling so if you're eating and those meals are causing extreme fatigue
may be a sign that you have insulin resistance now the next symptom of insulin resistance and
pre-diabetes that we want to look out for is that you're craving sweets all the time and this is an
insatiable craving for sweets that won't go away and the worst part is is that when you crave them
and you eat them all of a sudden you start craving more this hunger for sweets just is insatiable so
what we want to do is take that as a serious sign as well now the next sign is going to the bathroom
constantly what happens when your blood sugar goes high is your body's just basically trying
to survive if the blood sugar was to spiral out of control you would die so essentially what happens
is your kidneys kick in they decide to start doing some of the work and the kidneys start to flush
out all that excess sugar so you find yourself in a position where you're constantly going to
the bathroom and so if you have constant urination that's a sign that you may have insulin resistance
now this is going to lead to another problem and that is if you're running to the bathroom all the
time you're going to be thirsty all the time so if you're drinking lots of water going to
the bathroom a lot those are signs and symptoms of pre-diabetes now the next one we want to look
at is one that many people struggle with and it may be you and this is that you can't lose weight
so maybe you're somebody who's cutting calories you're eating less food that doesn't seem to
really work it's not getting you any results then you start to exercise and that's not really
working efficiently either well you can't lose weight at this point due to your insulin levels
being really high and those high insulin levels are blocking fat loss and this causes a problem in
the body called weight loss resistance so if you find yourself in a position where you just can't
seem to lose weight well then you may be dealing with insulin resistance now the thing that's
very interesting of these top 10 signs of insulin resistance is that they show up prior to you
ever getting a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes so if you can watch out for these you'll be far ahead of
a diagnosis many times you'll see these signs and symptoms before a diagnosis before a test comes
back positive or anything so just pay attention listen to your body trying to stay in tune because
you can be your own doctor when you're listening to your body and then when you understand that
there's a problem take action on it next thing on our list is going to be blurred vision
now this is so interesting because the top cause of blindness worldwide is due to type 2 diabetes
insulin resistance what happens is you get a lot of swelling of the retina
a lot of vessels within the eye start to swell and the thing is eventually if this goes
undetected and no changes are made you could go blind from it and what is even more interesting is
that people that i've worked with have noticed if they have a ton of sugar the night before they'll
wake up the next morning and their vision won't be very good they'll have blurred vision or maybe
they have a day where they just eat a whole lot of sugar through the entire day they'll notice
the following day that their vision is just awful so you can really see these changes start to take
place immediately if you have insulin resistance so watch out for that blurred vision next on our
list is going to be joint stiffness and pain now this was pretty interesting because many
people fall into this category and if you have joint stiffness and pain the reason for it is
because you have an inflammatory problem in your body now i'm not just talking about you having
a little bit of joint stiffness here and there i'm talking your neck hurts your low back hurts
your knees hurt everything is hurting all the time that is due to a huge inflammatory problem
an arthritic problem potentially occurring in the body even possibly an autoimmune condition so
if you see yourself in constant pain all the time make sure that you consider that having insulin
resistance could be a potential possibility now here's the next thing we're going to look out
for and this is pretty cool because we're going to move into some testing now this particular
test you can do right in the comfort of your home now this is going to be a fasted blood sugar test
so what you do is you go to any simple pharmacy and you get the blood sugar testing device you
take a little drip of blood from your finger and you put on the device and it'll tell you what
your blood sugar is what you want to do is fast for eight hours and then test your blood sugar
and if you fall between 100 and 125 that is a sign that you have pre-diabetes this is
information that's powerful for you to take action with your health now there's another test that you
can do and you're going to have to get a blood draw go to your doctor to get this test done
and this is going to be an a1c test now this test is really cool because it kind of shows
you historical evidence of what your blood sugar has been doing over the past three months
it looks at how much sugar is glycosylated to the blood cell and if you fall between a 5.7 and a 6.4
in the a1c test this is also a sign that you have pre-diabetes a very valuable test so what can we
do right now it's important to understand that these problems are very much reversible in western
medicine in most cases people go on medication and they don't ever reverse these at all they sit home
and they wait for them to get worse as they're eating a diet that's causing these problems and so
if you want to start taking action on it today some simple steps that you can do is start
following a no sugar diet a ketogenic style type of diet no sugar but also no grains the
other thing that we can do in order to take immediate action on this problem is we can
start following a non-inflammatory diet because it's important to realize that you know insulin
resistance doesn't just come from eating too much sugar it also comes from an inflammatory problem
in the body so following an anti-inflammatory diet is really key to you getting some great results
here we can also exercise daily because when you exercise you actually start bringing your blood
sugar down so those are a few things that you can take action on today in order to start getting
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