Building the Shield: Muscle Maintenance and the Mildest Path in Diabetes Management

So in diabetes management, we always try to tell people to maintain their muscle mass, and that's why exercising and strength training is so important, because you do lose muscle mass with age, and if you have accelerated loss for whatever reason, then your risk of this diabetes can be higher as well. And last one that I want to tell you about is mild metabolic disease. Mild metabolic disease is a lucky subtype, you know, mildest form of all 5, and this has got the best prognosis, often caught early through screening. For example, it could be a 58 40-year-old Caucasian teacher with a body mass index of 27. So again, she's not morbidly obese, slightly overweight. A1C 6.6, slightly high on routine screening, and no symptoms, and exercises 3 times a week, eats Mediterranean diet, and has no family history of complications.