Why Does the Current Medical Paradigm Dismiss People as Non-Diabetic Until a Great Deal of Their Pancreatic Beta Cells are Gone? A Great Tragedy of Our Times: The Absurdity of How Late Diabetes is Diagnosed.

I've previously covered this in several other posts, however I'll re-iterate it is the point of this blog and an imperative mission for me in the time that I have: to bring to light the absurdity of the diabetes epidemic across the globe. Diabetes is diagnosed far too late. 

This blog is an urgent effort to assist "non-diabetics" as much as diabetics. Recently, I had to laugh when I saw Jennifer Lawrence in the Netflix film Don't Look Up screaming on the news "We're all gonna die!" because a comet is hitting Earth and no one cares. I definitely related. As I've previously stated, the CDC is predicting 1 in 3 Americans will be full blown diabetics by 2050. Go to the International Diabetes Federation website and the first thing you'll see (currently) is "Diabetes is Spiralling Out of Control" in big letters. An unprecedented 537 million people are living with diabetes, and that number is expeditiously rising. Just six days ago, I came across a Business Insider article titled People with Type 2 Diabetes Could be at Higher Risk of Developing up to 57 Other Conditions, Including Cancers, Scientists Say.

The HOMA-IR or Homeostasis Model Assessment of Insulin Resistance test is considered "a simple and useful method for evaluating insulin sensitivity." I believe an insulin resistance test should be included in basic health panels beginning at a young age as it will illuminate the systemic presence of insulin resistance, which, for decades, can precede diabetes. This is important because by the time full-scale diabetes is diagnosed, your pancreas has atrophied, or shrunk, significantly to a fraction of its size and at least half of your pancreatic beta cell function has been destroyed. 

The 2013 AJMC paper Targeting Insulin Resistance: The Ongoing Paradigm Shift in Diabetes Prevention so perfectly states: "The battle against diabetes will only be won when we recognize that the disease we need to identify and aggressively treat is insulin resistance. Diabetes is the end state to be prevented, not the jumping-on point for our medical system." 

"As we look forward to the future, we need to start in the pre-diabetic state," says Ralph DeFronzo, MD, the Chief of the Diabetes Division at the University of Texas Health Science Center. "I hate the term pre-diabetes. If your A1c is 6.4, you're pre-diabetic. You think that's any different from 6.5? We've shown in multiple studies that the exact same pathophysiologic disturbances are present in pre-diabetic and diabetic patients. I'm a strong believer that the earlier you start, the better off you are going to be in terms of getting patients controlled and preventing both the micro- and the macrovascular complications."

I am of the opinion that an insulin panel coming up irregular would provoke many to pay more attention to their diet and to the diets of their children, and consequently improve the quality of the foods they are ingesting prior to marked pancreatic damage occurring.