Metabolic Health
Here’s Why You Need These 7 Tests for Blood Sugar and Insulin Ailments.
An overview of essential tests to monitor glucose and insulin to lower the risks of metabolic disorders, especially diabetes
Diabetes is a critical condition, affecting 442 million people globally. As informed by CDC, over 37 million US adults have diabetes as the seventh leading cause of death. 20% don’t know they have it. Diabetes is the №1 cause of kidney failure, lower-limb amputations, and adult blindness.
In the last 20 years, the number of adults diagnosed with diabetes has more than doubled. As documented by WHO, “obesity is one of today’s most blatantly visible — yet most neglected — public health problems. It has nearly tripled since 1975. Almost two billion people are overweight.”
I have written numerous articles about diabetes, metabolic disorders, obesity, and insulin resistance. Unfortunately, some readers of my articles are either suffering from these conditions or concerned that they might be prediabetic, given the millions of undiagnosed cases worldwide.
Diabetes is prevalent in my family, with several younger relatives suffering. In my mid-20s, I was also prediabetic due to unhealthy lifestyle…