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In today’s episode, we’re talking about a disease so widespread it touches nearly every family in some way — type 2 diabetes. This is not just a health issue, it's a rapidly expanding crisis. And many people don’t even know they have it.

In the US alone, 100 million face prediabetes, while over 37 million grapple with type 2 diabetes, a serious and chronic condition with life-altering consequences.

Professor Naveed Sattar joins us to shed light on preventing, treating, and potentially reversing type 2 diabetes. Naveed is a medical doctor and Professor of Metabolic Medicine at the Institute of Cardiovascular & Medical Sciences at the University of Glasgow. He’s one of the world’s top 1% most cited clinical scientists and has worked on many clinical trials of lifestyle changes and drugs to prevent and manage diabetes.

Find out your diabetes risk score:
If you are in the UK follow this link https://www.diabetes.org.uk/diabetes-...
If you are in the US follow this link
https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/takethet...

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Timecodes:
00:00 Introduction
01:00 Topic introduction
02:28 Quick fire questions
05:59 What is blood sugar and why does it matter?
07:45 What is insulin and what is its relation to blood sugar and diabetes?
09:32 Why doesn't the body allow sugar to increase in the blood?
11:33 What happens when somebody gets pre-diabetes or type 2?
15:32 What is HBA1C?
18:12 Why has there been such an increase in diabetes?
24:28 How does muscle mass have any impact on diabetes?
26:38 Are risks different between men and women?
28:55 How does ethnicity come into this?
32:55 What other personal risk factors are there?
34:18 What are the symptoms of diabetes?
35:47 When do these symptoms begin?
37:00 What should you do if you have concerns?
38:22 How to find out your own likelihood of risk
40:37 How can we avoid getting diabetes?
44:15 How can we combat genetic risk factors?
46:44 Is it possible to lower blood sugar and reverse the effects of diabetes?
49:42 What is the science behind the new drugs coming on the market?
51:58 Summary
56:09 Goodbyes

Mentioned in today’s episode:

Primary care-led weight management for remission of type 2 diabetes (DiRECT): an open-label, cluster-randomised trial, published in The Lancet
Link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29221...

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