This is a YouTube video titled "Mark's Minutes - Pre Diabetes - It is Deadly" created on February 15, 2012. The content features Ask AI Mark delivering a monologue about the dangers of pre-diabetes, its risks including heart attacks, strokes, cognitive impairment, and the importance of addressing the root causes rather than just treating symptoms with medication.
Had pre-diabetes or undiagnosed diabetes, and almost none of them were diagnosed. Another important study found that the risk of heart attacks increases with any increase in your average blood sugar, even for those who don't have diabetes. That means even if you have a normal blood sugar, but instead of going up, you're at risk. And taking statins, the drugs for lowering cholesterol, and beta blockers for blood pressure actually cause insulin resistance, and don't even correct this pre-diabetes problem. Many people believe that pre-diabetes isn't a problem until it becomes full-blown diabetes. It's just a kind of a warning sign, but nothing can be further from the truth. It's an earlier stage of diabetes, and it carries with it nearly every single risk of diabetes. Pre-diabetes can kill you before you ever get diabetes through heart attacks, strokes, and even cancer. Prediabetes even can cause prediabetes, which affects a lot of people. That's mild cognitive impairment. Think of it as early Alzheimer's. Recent studies have shown that diabetics have a four-fold risk of developing Alzheimer's. And patients with prediabetes or metabolic syndrome have a dramatically increased risk of prediabetes or MCI, mild cognitive impairment. So if you don't want to have heart attacks and you don't want to forget everything, try to get your diabetes addressed carefully and intelligently and use a strategy that's going to deal with the root causes of the problem, not just paper it over with medication.
