How To Treat Pre-Diabetes

How is prediabetes treated?

The first thing you need to do in that setting is worry about your risk for heart disease because most people in that setting have the metabolic syndrome that is a risk for heart attack, stroke, caused by central fat. But, they're also having an increase in blood sugar levels and the way to reduce increasing blood sugar levels is weight loss and exercise. Seems simple, but it isn't and people need to lose about seven percent of their body weight. So it's somewhere between ten and twenty pounds and then you need to keep it off. You need to exercise and exercise five days a week, thirty minutes at a time. Then if that doesn't work, there are some medications that can be taken to prevent progression to diabetes. So, prediabetes, like everything else, can be managed. It can't entirely go away, because even if you go back to completely normal, as you get older, you get more resistant to insulin so it can actually come back. So it's one of those things that you need to be aware of to follow to work with lifestyle changes and then potentially medication to treat and hopefully prevent ever from getting heart disease or diabetes.