4 wks ago was diagnosed with pre-diabetes; 56 y/o North American caucasian F/. No family hx of diabetes; FBS 123; A1c 6.5; BMI <20. Never over weight. I eat a lot of grains; I do not eat enough fruits and vegetables. Do not eat fried foods, meat, or junk food. Drink cow’s milk for years. Walk a LOT– no car.. Any ideas of cause of pre-diabetes?
I am a 45 yr old male that was just diagnosed with pre-diabetes as well.
I wish I had known sooner to be honest.
My Dr. now is treating me as if I have full diabetes. She mentioned my weight is probably partly to blame. I am 6′2 and 240lbs…but my frame is large. I would like to drop off 20 lbs however.
My sugar levels have been at the highest 142. I am currently taking metformin X-2 a day. Plus lisiniprol to protect my kidney’s.
I was adopted so family history is out….I don’t smoke or drink and don’t eat much sweets either.
I want to get it under control. I work in a hospital now and see many dialysis patients come in and don’t want to have to do that.
Besides, diabetes can cause other worse things as well.
Looks like we are in the same boat! Good luck!
Most of the time diabetes has no known cause. i am older than you, eat worse than you, am overweight…do not have diabetes or pre-diabetes. Have had friends like you who do have it. One Theory (among many ) is that sometimes it is caused by a virus. In other words, "Sometimes bad things happen to good people." or "pre-bad "things! Ya know, if you live to be over 50, things start going wrong! Sounds like you are getting good care. FBS of 123 is just barely high. Just keep living healthy.
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I am a 45 yr old male that was just diagnosed with pre-diabetes as well.
I wish I had known sooner to be honest.
My Dr. now is treating me as if I have full diabetes. She mentioned my weight is probably partly to blame. I am 6′2 and 240lbs…but my frame is large. I would like to drop off 20 lbs however.
My sugar levels have been at the highest 142. I am currently taking metformin X-2 a day. Plus lisiniprol to protect my kidney’s.
I was adopted so family history is out….I don’t smoke or drink and don’t eat much sweets either.
I want to get it under control. I work in a hospital now and see many dialysis patients come in and don’t want to have to do that.
Besides, diabetes can cause other worse things as well.
Looks like we are in the same boat! Good luck!
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One hundred years ago, diabetes did not exist. It is all this crap they put in our food now that is making everyone sick. The number of people diagnosed with heart disease is going up, cancer is going up, stroke is going up, diabetes is going up. People are not getting better they are getting sicker. Prior to 1920 heart disease was rare, cancer was rare, stroke was rare diabetes was rare. Just forty years ago, you never heard of children or young adults developing diabetes. Only the elderly got it. Today teenagers are becoming diabetic. Adults in their 20’s, 30’s and 40’s are diabetic.
Prior to 1920 look at what people ate. They did not eat processed foods. They did not eat fruits and veggies with pesticides. Go to the store and pick up a packaged food. Look at the ingredients. Half of the ingredient I cannot pronounce.
When our grandparents and their grandparents were young the ice cream they ate did not have, Propelne Glycol, cellulose gum, mono and diglycerides, guar gum, carrageenan, polysorbate 80.
Their foods did not have MSG, additives, flavorings. They did not eat Aspartame or Splenda. They did not eat partially hydrogenated soybean oil or canola oil or cottonseed oils or corn oil. They did not eat margarine or the vegetable spreads.
Their meats, eggs and dairy were from pasture-raised animals eating green grass not in confinement factory farms never seeing sunlight and standing in their own manure and injected with hormones and antibiotics. They ate real butter, cooked with lard, olive oil, chicken fat, tropical oils and took cod liver oil. They ate liver and onions once a week. They ate cultured foods.
I remember the milkman use to deliver fresh eggs and whole milk. You do not see the milkman anymore. Now people drink soymilk thinking that it is healthy for them.
Years ago, many babies died at birth, today you do not hear many babies dying at birth. Many mothers died in childbearing, today you do not hear young women dying in childbirth. Now they are dying from breast cancer.
Many children and adults died of infectious disease and accidents; this brought the average age at death down to around forty years of age. However, if one were able to avoid these deadly pitfalls, there was no bar to living to a ripe old age. People in the 1800’s, 1700’s and earlier who avoided these deadly pitfalls lived in their 70’s, 80’s and 90’s. Moreover, they did not have the chronic diseases that are so rampant today.
I blame diet as the main cause for diabetes.
People did more physical labor and worked outside getting vitamin D from the sun. Today most people have sedentary jobs and work inside and are vitamin D deficent. Vitamin deficencies are partly to blame for chronic diseases.
Just 30 or 40 years ago it was rare to see an obese person or obese children. Go to you local shopping mall and look at the people. About every 3rd or 4th person you see is either overweight or obese. Is everyone just overeating and don’t exercise? Or is there something in the food that is causing it. I read the MSG (which is in all processed foods) stimulates your pancreas to produce a lot of insulin. Other flavorings in food I also read is addictive. Soy, which is all processed foods not disrupts you endocrine system. All though our government continues to deny this more and more studies point to soy to cause hormone imbalances. The pesticides in our foods also seem to cause hormone imbalances. So it is not surprise obesity is so rampant.
So I hope this helps you understand why you now are pre-diabetic. My suggestion is stop eating all processed foods and start eating they way our grandmothers ate or great grandmothers ate and hopefully you can beat this before you get worse.
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