Doctors warn silent prediabetes may already be damaging your body [Courtesy]
A prediabetes diagnosis is a warning, not a life sentence. It means blood sugar levels are higher than normal but can often be returned to a healthy range through lifestyle changes before progressing to type 2 diabetes.
According to Dr Paul Masinde, prediabetes is the body's early warning that blood sugar regulation is beginning to fail, but there is still time to reverse the process.
"Prediabetes gives us a valuable window to intervene. If people make the necessary lifestyle changes early, many can prevent or significantly delay the onset of type 2 diabetes," he says.
Dr Masinde explains that the main cause of prediabetes is insulin resistance, a condition in which the muscles, fat and liver stop responding effectively to insulin, the hormone that moves glucose from the bloodstream into cells for energy. As the body struggles to compensate, blood sugar levels gradually rise.
