I'm prediabetic with two T2 parents and a T2 grandparent and my primary care doctor is entirely unconcerned about it.
My lowish tech solution to delay (and hopefully prevent!) the onset of T2 is to use a glucose monitor every 2 hours, every day, and create a database of foods with my postprandial blood sugar reaponse at 1.5 and 2 hours. I also keep track of how exercise affects my blood sugar.
Over the last couple years, I have gotten great data on the foods which spike me and the foods which are neutral to my blood glucose.
A lot of foods doctors/the internet tout as "diabetic friendly" (like beans, lentils, corn in any form, brown rice, buckwheat groats, non-granny-smith apples) spike me like crazy. Other foods are totally fine (bananas, snap peas, nuts, steel cut oatmeal, fermented dairy, fish).
Having an autoimmune disorder on top of the prediabetes, I've learned that the only one who cares about my health and longevity is me. My doctors care about my inflammatory markers and nothing else.
My lowish tech solution to delay (and hopefully prevent!) the onset of T2 is to use a glucose monitor every 2 hours, every day, and create a database of foods with my postprandial blood sugar reaponse at 1.5 and 2 hours. I also keep track of how exercise affects my blood sugar.
Over the last couple years, I have gotten great data on the foods which spike me and the foods which are neutral to my blood glucose.
A lot of foods doctors/the internet tout as "diabetic friendly" (like beans, lentils, corn in any form, brown rice, buckwheat groats, non-granny-smith apples) spike me like crazy. Other foods are totally fine (bananas, snap peas, nuts, steel cut oatmeal, fermented dairy, fish).
Having an autoimmune disorder on top of the prediabetes, I've learned that the only one who cares about my health and longevity is me. My doctors care about my inflammatory markers and nothing else.