Mark's Minutes - Your Risk of Diabetes Complications Starts at Normal Blood Sugars YouTube sharing

The diagnosis of prediabetes and diabetes is pretty arbitrary. A blood sugar over 100 is considered prediabetes and a blood sugar over 126 is considered diabetes. However, scientists have found that these cutoffs don't really reflect the whole spectrum of the risk you have including heart attacks, cancer, dementia, stroke, and even kidney and nerve damage, which start at much lower numbers, numbers most people consider normal. The DACODE study, which was 22,000 people, it examined the continuum of risk measured not by fasting blood sugar, which is what most doctors do, but by your blood sugar after a big sugar drink, which is actually the best way to diagnose the problem. The study found that even starting at blood sugar levels that were perfectly normal, like 95, there was a steady and significant risk of heart attacks and complications well below the accepted abnormal of less than 140 for pre-diabetes and long before people reached a diabetic cutoff of 200 milligrams per deciliter after the sugar drink. Bottom line, even if you have perfectly normal blood sugar, You may be sitting on a hidden time bomb of disease called diabesity, which prevents you from losing weight and living a long and healthy life.