Dr Ginni Mansberg

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318 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 15 Jul

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But Are You Happy? · Your Bladder Has Been Trying To Get Your Attention · 15 Jul 2026 podcast

Wow.

And the thing that is really mad, here's a stat for you, 80% of people with pre-diabetes have got no idea that they've got it and of the 20% who know,

most don't realize it's a problem.

So Kath, we're going to talk about what prediabetes is, why so many people have got no idea that they've got it, and whether there's anything you can do about it and even reverse it altogether.

Okay.

Yeah, so it sounds like it's the thing that comes before diabetes, which is generally there's two types of diabetes.

There's one where you don't make enough insulin.

That's an autoimmune condition that tends to start in your teens or even in early childhood.

And then the more common type 2 diabetes where you make enough insulin, at least in the early parts, but your cells don't respond to it.

And as a result of that,

Your sugar levels in your blood go up and those high sugar levels drive a whole lot of changes in your body that increase your risk of chronic conditions like having a heart attack, a stroke, destroying the arteries that actually supply your legs, but other things as well, causing cataracts.

So diabetes, if it's not well controlled, is a major contributor to poor health in Australia.

So pre-diabetes is what comes before you get to diabetes.

It's not inevitable, but it is diagnosed based on numbers.

So if you wake up in the morning and take a sugar level and your sugar is over seven consistently, that probably means that you have diabetes.

There are other blood tests we can do to confirm that.

But if you wake up with a blood sugar level of 5.5 or below, we call that normal.

But what about that gray zone of people who are maybe 6 or 6.2 or 5.7?

They've always been in this gray zone that we didn't know what to call it.

And now we call it pre-diabetes with the higher that sugar level, the closer you are to diabetes, the worse it is and the more likely you are to eventually go on to get diabetes.

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