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Insulin Resistance: Your Doctor Might Miss This #shorts

3 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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In this short video, two clinicians discuss how conventional medical practice often fails to screen for insulin resistance and pre‑diabetes. They note that routine labs ordered in OB‑GYN or family practice rarely include specific metabolic markers; the only test sometimes offered is a hemoglobin A1C, which only confirms overt diabetes and does not reveal insulin resistance or early pre‑diabetes. The speakers also highlight that test ordering in traditional medicine is heavily influenced by what insurance companies will cover, leading to missed opportunities for early detection and intervention.

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Absolutely. And the saddest part is that these are the labs that are not getting drawn at all in conventional medicine when you're going to an OB-GYN or family practice, or they might, if you can talk them into it, do a hemoglobin A1C, but that is going to only tell you if you actually have diabetes. It's not going to tell you if you have insulin resistance, and prediabetes isn't even acknowledged, or at least it wasn't when I was in conventional medicine. So can you explain that a little bit to patients?
Yeah, yeah. So I also worked in the traditional world for so long, and that's another commonality that we have that I just— I think we connect and we get it so well because of that. But a lot of, like, complete transparency, a lot of the testing that we order in the traditional world is based on what the insurance companies are recommending or what they will cover.