I was showing pre-diabetic in my blood work so controlling myinsulin was key
I /had to lose weight to get the pressure off my gut
I swear by it. I have a GP go to every month who measures my blood pressure, weight, and vitals. Every three months I get blood work done. Every six months he does, a comprehensive workup including weird measurements of fatty liver and other stuff that some giant machine he has can someone measure. Every year I get my GI doc to do the annual upper endoscopy.
Bottom line: since I started intermittent fasting / low carb-high fat I've lost over 70 pounds, my blood pressure went from border line hypertension to normal, my A1C went from pre-diabetic to normal, my HDL/Tiglicerides ratio has cratered (that's a good thing). There is no measure of the blood that says I'm anything but optimally healthy. And biopsies of my esophagus have all been normal. I encourage anyone facing diabetetes of other health situations to strongly look into it.
Must have good ins. Medicare/Tricare Life DICTATES what test/treatments and how often. Mammo’s are the 1 they want you to do yearly. Upper Endoscope was yearly, then went to 2 yrs, this year it went to 3 yrs. I watch everything I eat/drink no sodas, limit on coffee and black tea, mostly drink green tea. I don’t need Bezors to form and them starting to chop sections of my intestines out. 2 small meals a day and I do good to do that. Meats are the high intake, but can’t go to high or joint pain goes up.
I have a Cardio, Endo, Gastro, Neurologist, and Ophthalmologist who occasionally has to send me to the Cornea Specialist. Besides the Internist. Endo says Primary’s can’t read the reports correctly, he went to med school 4 extra years just for Endocrine system, where the Internist might get 1 course on it.