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Ep. 52 Philip Ovadia MD Metabolic Health, Diet, Cholesterol, Heart Disease, and Modern Medicine

The Moral Imagination

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Diabetes Is Diagnosed by High Blood Sugar

If your cells stop responding to insulin, now the sugar just stays in your bloodstream. So this is when we get diabetes. The thing that I find tragic today is that we don't diagnose it as diabetes until we get the high blood sugar. If we were looking at insulin levels, if we were measuring insulin resistance, you can see the signals that this is going to occur years in advance"

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