The INCREDIBLE Payoff for Delaying Diabetes
If you don’t know where your blood sugar levels stand, it’s time to get them checked.
It’s estimated that one in three adults has prediabetes, yet 80 percent of these folks have NO IDEA they’re in this category.
That’s a BIG problem because most people will develop type 2 diabetes within just five years of being prediabetic unless they do something about it.
Well, it’s time to do precisely that.
Because new research reveals how it could quite literally save your life.
A recent study showed that delaying the onset of type 2 diabetes by just a few years could improve the quality and quantity of your life.
It’s estimated that having type 2 diabetes shaves about six years off of your life.
And the years that you do have are likely to be riddled with complications like nerve damage, skin conditions, vision loss, kidney disease, heart disease, and more.
But the longer you delay the onset of type 2 diabetes, the better your long-term health will be.
Back in the 80s, 540 volunteers with prediabetes were recruited. For six years, researchers evaluated the impact of following a healthy diet, exercising, or doing both.
The researchers continued to track participants for over 30 years.
What they found was that people who delayed the progression to type 2 diabetes by at least four years had a significantly lower risk of dying or experiencing a cardiovascular event compared to those who progressed to type 2 diabetes more quickly.
But here’s the thing…
If you have prediabetes, your focus shouldn’t be on delaying the inevitable. Instead, it should be on getting your blood sugar levels back into the normal range.
And that starts with getting your blood sugar tested to know where you stand.
From there, take the steps necessary to never progress to type 2 diabetes in the first place.
P.S. Prediabetes fix SLASHES diabetes risk 73%! (Study)
SOURCE:
Xin Qian, Jinping Wang, Qiuhong Gong, et al., Non-diabetes status after diagnosis of impaired glucose tolerance and risk of long-term death and vascular complications: A post hoc analysis of the Da Qing Diabetes Prevention Outcome Study. PLOS Medicine, 2024; 21 (7): e1004419 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1004419