I found I was prediabetic four years ago with fatty liver, ED, etc. I went low carb Keto then zero carb carnivore. I’m 75 this month and very healthy now.
I’m 74, and found out I was diabetic 22 years ago, and am still only on oral meds after all these years. I see the eye doctor once a year, and he sees no evidence of diabetic damage to my eyes. I do have small cataracts in both eyes, but he says I may never have to have cataract surgery. I’ve been watching my diet for many years, because after having my first colonoscopy at age 50, I was diagnosed with diverticulitis, a hiatal hernia and Barrett’s esophagus. Despite strictly following my doctor’s specific orders when it came to what I could, and couldn’t eat, I ended up with a perforated bowel in 2010, and had to have a temporary colostomy, which was reversed 3 months later. In 2012, I had to have an incisional hernia repaired in the area where the stoma had been. In 2015, they surgically removed my gall bladder. Since the lockdown, while other people were gaining weight, I lost over 22 pounds. Other than the fact that I have bone on bone in my knees, and am nursing this tibia fracture, I’m doing great. As my father always used to say: “I’m in good shape, for the shape that I’m in.” Everybody in my family smoked but me. They all died between the ages of 51 and 74. Three died of lung cancer. Since I’m 74, I do at times think I’m living on borrowed time, and although I didn’t ever smoke, I have had health issues that no one else in my family ever dealt with.