Jaiwant Rangi, MD, FACEEndocrinologist | Founder, Lower The Dose® | Speaker

Catching the Quiet Signals of Declining Health

10 Jun 2026 · 0 min

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In this brief segment, Dr. Jaiwant Rangi emphasizes that the earliest signs of declining health are often extremely subtle and therefore easily missed during routine annual physicals that focus mainly on standard blood tests. He points out that clinicians and patients may overlook gradual changes such as an increase in waist circumference that occurs without noticeable weight gain, highlighting the need for more attentive monitoring of non‑obvious metrics to catch health deterioration early.

The earliest signs are rarely dramatic. They're very, very subtle. That's why we often miss them, especially when you do just one yearly physical or exam, basically looking at blood tests to see everything is normal. We're not looking through the things that are not obvious yet, what else could be going on. So these are gradual increase in your waist size, even though your weight gain may not be there, but the waist size circumference can increase.