How diabetes type 2 can be predicted much earlier
Looking for early signs of type 2 diabetes usually involves measuring blood glucose – either fasting or after drinking a glucose load. However, this misses a much earlier sign – elevated insulin, signalling insulin resistance (i.e. the main abnormality in type 2 diabetes).
Here’s a long and fascinating post on a true pioneer of this topic, Dr. Joseph Kraft:
Dr. Jeffry Gerber: Diabetes is a Vascular Disease – More on Joseph R. Kraft, MD
Earlier
Type 2 Diabetes is a Fully Curable Disease
The First Drug to Reduce Mortality in Type 2 Diabetes Revealed! And it’s Low Carb in a Pill!
Diabetes Nation – One in Two Americans Have Diabetes or Pre-diabetes
But in the spirit of Gary Taubes science means doing everything you possibly can to falsify an attractive hypothesis before you allow yourself to believe it. The explosion of diabetes (and hyperinsulinemia) over the very same time period that CVD incidence and mortality nosedived is sobering for the Kraft hypothesis I think. I'll stick with low carb . . . but I suspect there's an awful lot about CVD we still don't understand.
I just have to think that the under-reporting of pre-diabetes and diabetes which we still see today was also the case historically and needs to be considered. Today I see cardiac patients who are overtly type 2 and they nor their previous docs knew it. It creeps me out every time! The epidemiologist would have reported them as non-diabetic.
...and what is your evidence?
"...Our body can generate high insulin levels even when you are not insulin resistance. .."
I am honestly interested in your observation, could you link me to any supportive data please?; is this your own clinical observation?
This might help a little: http://jaha.ahajournals.org/content/4/4/e001524.full.pdf+html
As might this :-) http://www.thefatemperor.com/blog/2015/9/22/kraft-konfirmed-the-bizar...
Association Shmassociation - the mechanistic evidence screeches also, and the experimental when you rack up carb....
best
Ivor