What is Prediabetes: Key Symptoms, A1c Levels, and Essential Lab Values
Diabetes Digital Podcast by Food Heaven
Wendy Lopez, Jessica Jones
4.9 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Today, we're excited to kick off our new series on prediabetes, a condition that affects approximately 96 million U.S. adults. In this comprehensive episode of the Diabetes Digital Podcast, hosts Jessica Jones and Wendy Lopez delve into everything you need to know about prediabetes. We start by explaining the difference between a prediabetes and diabetes diagnosis, highlighting that many people with prediabetes may not experience any symptoms. Common signs include thirst, frequent urination, fatigue, and blurred vision, while women may also notice specific symptoms like PCOS, irregular menstrual cycles, and unexplained weight gain. We then break down A1c levels, what they mean, and cover other essential lab values such as Fasting Blood Glucose, Lipid Profile, and Blood Pressure. Finally, we provide practical advice on managing and potentially reversing prediabetes through self-care and diet. Tune in for valuable insights and check out our prediabetes conditions page and quiz for more information.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back everyone. We are thrilled to bring you another episode of the |
| 0:05.2 | diabetes digital podcast and today we're going to be talking about a condition |
| 0:10.8 | that affects so many people and that is pre-diabedes and I want to |
| 0:15.0 | emphasize that it affects so many people because oftentimes when people get a |
| 0:19.3 | pre-diabities diagnosis they start freaking out they They're like, oh my God, I'm going to get diabetes, it's the end of the |
| 0:26.7 | world, especially if they have a family member who maybe had uncontrolled diabetes at some point and they had complications it just |
| 0:35.0 | becomes really scary and people start to panic and we want to talk about |
| 0:40.5 | pre-diabilities because the great thing about pre-diabilities is that you still have opportunity to reverse it and get it back to the normal range and we're going to be talking about that today and there's also a lot of resources available to you. |
| 0:55.1 | A lot of resources online, a lot of resources available through us if you don't |
| 0:59.5 | already know we do offer nutrition counseling for pre-diabilities and for diabetes specifically and it's as |
| 1:07.2 | simple as filling out our pre-diabilities quiz which is on our website, diabetes digital.co and we can see what your needs are, if you have insurance, what |
| 1:16.9 | your benefits are, if it's going to cover counseling, which for most people it does. So make sure that you check that out. |
| 1:24.0 | Welcome to the diabetes digital podcast I'm Wendy and I'm Jess and we're best friends |
| 1:30.0 | registered dieticians and diabetes educators. |
| 1:32.8 | Through our telehealth platform, diabetes digital.co, |
| 1:35.9 | we offer accessible and personalized virtual nutrition counseling |
| 1:39.3 | for people with diabetes and pre-diabilities. |
| 1:41.6 | Visit diabetes digital.co, that's CO. diabetes and |
| 1:43.7 | pre-diabilities. To book your first appointment. |
| 1:46.4 | We accept insurance and offer affordable self-pay options. |
| 1:49.6 | Now let's get into today's episode. |
| 2:00.1 | This episode is part one of our four-part pre-diabetes series. And the reason we're doing the series |
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