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

Ignore the Symptoms, Pay with Your Life

25 May 2026 · 1 min

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Dr. Jaiwant Rangi explains why ignoring early health symptoms costs you twice. Untreated diabetes cuts 7 to 12 years off your life and adds $13,000 annually in medical bills compared to people without it.

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If you brush them off or ignore them, we double up our future medical costs and we shorten both healthspan and lifespan. That means for the years you're gonna live, you're gonna be not as well, and the lifespan gets shorter as well. If you have chronic health conditions like diabetes, can affect life by 7 to 12 years depending on the control and what kind of diabetes and your specific situation. People who develop diabetes, they spend almost $13,000 more in per year compared to somebody who does not have diabetes. So I think that is a huge cost to pay. And like I mentioned, you lose about 7 to 10 or 7 to 12 years in your life expectancy if diagnosed with diabetes in midlife. Wow. So I think that's a big cost to pay for brushing off the symptoms earlier on.