WATCH OUT! These are the WARNING SIGNS that indicate PREDIABETES and INSULIN RESISTANCE.
Prediabetes is a disease that occurs when you have very high blood sugar (glucose), but it does not become diabetes.
The main cause of prediabetes is insulin resistance.
Insulin resistance is a metabolic disorder in which there is hyperglycemia (high blood glucose) and too much insulin (hyperinsulinemia). But insulin does not work as it should, our body becomes resistant to it.
Symptoms of prediabetes and insulin resistance can be dark spots on the skin of the neck, armpit, elbows, groin. These stains are not removed by bathing. The armpits are darker.
Other symptoms are: hair on the face and hair on the mustache in women (hirsutism), or hair on the nape and back. Baldness in women, signs of virilization, menstrual problems, infertility, amenorrhea. Insulin resistance can be accompanied by fat in the liver (hepatic steatosis), cysts in the ovaries (polycystic ovaries), metabolic syndrome, elevated uric acid, increased triglycerides, cholesterol, and a lot of abdominal fat (fat in the belly or central obesity).
Prediabetes and insulin resistance increase the risk of heart problems, heart attacks, strokes, as well as breast, colon, and uterine cancer.
This disease can be very dangerous!
The causes of insulin resistance are: stress, poor sleep, poor diet, foods with a high glycemic index, some medications such as corticosteroids, smoking, drinking alcohol, and genetic defects.
Increased abdominal circumference causes insulin resistance.
There's great news: prediabetes and insulin resistance are curable, preventable, and reversible.
How to lower blood sugar?
The best foods to prevent and cure prediabetes are fruits and vegetables with a low glycemic index, consuming a lot of fiber, antioxidant and anti-inflammatory foods. Pomegranate is an excellent fruit for this disease.
The difference between prediabetes and diabetes is that the glucose is higher in the blood in diabetes, and this can cause more serious symptoms, such as kidney problems, vision changes, numbness in the hands and feet, yeast infections.
The best way to detect and diagnose prediabetes and insulin resistance is to measure your blood glucose.
Normal blood glucose values ​​are between 70-99mg/dl. If you have between 100-125mg/dl you may have prediabetes.
After eating normal glucose is up to 139, between 140-199 is considered prediabetes.
In some cases it can be treated with bariatric surgery, it depends on each patient (in the morbidly obese).
There is a very good remedy to improve prediabetes and insulin resistance called "metformin".
Video for educational purposes.
Video content:
00:00 ALERT for THESE SIGNS OF PREDIABETES!
00:56 What is insulin resistance and prediabetes
03:38 OBESITY causes INSULIN RESISTANCE and PREDIABETES
05:30 Poor sleep and stress increase blood glucose
06:22 DANGEROUS foods for prediabetes and diabetes
06:59 Medications that cause insulin resistance
07:40 FIRST SYMPTOMS and CONSEQUENCES of prediabetes
09:03 Insulin resistance, inflammation and metabolic syndrome
09:42 ALARM and DANGEROUS SIGNS of DIABETES
10:26 How dangerous is prediabetes?
11:13 How to know you have prediabetes: diagnosis and normal glucose
12:26 HOW TO REVERSE PREDIABETES and INSULIN RESISTANCE
12:32 VERY POWERFUL foods to lower blood sugar
14:53 A surgery for prediabetes yes or no?
15:21 Metformin: the best remedy for prediabetes and insulin resistance
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I am an internist and specialist in nephrology with years of experience (kidney diseases).
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