What causes prediabetes? Your pancreas produces a hormone called insulin. Insulin allows blood sugar (glucose) into your cells so your body can use it as energy. In prediabetes, your cells don’t respond to insulin as they should. What happens in the prediabetes cycle?
1. The cells become sluggish or have a low response to insulin causing insulin resistance.
2. The pancreas tries to get the cells to respond by producing more insulin.
3. For a while, the extra insulin makes up for the weak response. Blood sugar levels stay normal. 4. Eventually, your pancreas can’t keep up production. Extra glucose stays in your blood instead of entering your cells.
5. Your blood sugar keeps rising. At this point, a blood test may show
6. If you ignore prediabetes you are likely to develop Type 2 diabetes in the future. So it is time to act.
Prediabetes can be diagnosed with a fasting plasma glucose test (100 to 125 mg/dL), oral glucose tolerance test (140 to the history of type 2 diabetes *Having a sedentary lifestyle *Previous history of GDM in women How can you manage Prediabetes? Healthy choices of lifestyle can help manage the condition of prediabetes or at least keep it from rising toward the levels seen in type 2 diabetes. Can prediabetes be prevented?
