Dr. Vonda Wright

Alzheimer's disease is thought of as the third phase of diabetes, right? And so everybody is aware of diabetes and it means you don't process sugar and you have glucose intolerance and your pancreas is no longer functioning and the bad sequela that can come with that. What people are not aware of as much, at least as people who come to my clinic, is pre-diabetes.

Alzheimer's disease is thought of as the third phase of diabetes, right? And so everybody is aware of diabetes and it means you don't process sugar and you have glucose intolerance and your pancreas is no longer functioning and the bad sequela that can come with that. What people are not aware of as much, at least as people who come to my clinic, is pre-diabetes.

And if you don't mind me diverging a little bit, because it's so important to this question you just asked me, and can we prevent it? And if we got to choose, what would we choose? But I have people coming into my office all the time and I look at their labs and they have a fasting glucose. They've had their labs drawn. They've done what we've said, get in front of your critical decade.

And if you don't mind me diverging a little bit, because it's so important to this question you just asked me, and can we prevent it? And if we got to choose, what would we choose? But I have people coming into my office all the time and I look at their labs and they have a fasting glucose. They've had their labs drawn. They've done what we've said, get in front of your critical decade.

They've had their fasting glucose drawn and it's 110%. I'm going to tell you. And their hemoglobin A1c is nearing six. So fasting glucose is the glucose that remains in your blood after you haven't eaten for 12 hours. In a normally functioning pancreas metabolic system, we want our fasting glucose to be around 85. Right? That's normal. It means we eat something healthy.

They've had their fasting glucose drawn and it's 110%. I'm going to tell you. And their hemoglobin A1c is nearing six. So fasting glucose is the glucose that remains in your blood after you haven't eaten for 12 hours. In a normally functioning pancreas metabolic system, we want our fasting glucose to be around 85. Right? That's normal. It means we eat something healthy.

Insulin comes out of our pancreas, the sugar is put into our muscle, and then the blood sugar is around 85. If it's staying up 110 consistently, we know from the literature that you have a 70 to 100% chance of developing full-blown diabetes within 10 years. But what I see in people coming into my office is I'll say, did anybody ever tell you you were pre-diabetic?

Insulin comes out of our pancreas, the sugar is put into our muscle, and then the blood sugar is around 85. If it's staying up 110 consistently, we know from the literature that you have a 70 to 100% chance of developing full-blown diabetes within 10 years. But what I see in people coming into my office is I'll say, did anybody ever tell you you were pre-diabetic?

And either the answer is no or the answer is, oh, yeah, somebody told me they said just make a few, you know, focus more on your exercise. And what I think the reaction to the diagnosis of prediabetes should be is running and screaming to get healthy.

And either the answer is no or the answer is, oh, yeah, somebody told me they said just make a few, you know, focus more on your exercise. And what I think the reaction to the diagnosis of prediabetes should be is running and screaming to get healthy.

Because if we know that with a consistent blood sugar in the pre-diabetic range, and we're casually told by our health care provider, oh, just go try to exercise more, you know, just casually approach this, don't eat so many carbs, that is not serious enough.

Because if we know that with a consistent blood sugar in the pre-diabetic range, and we're casually told by our health care provider, oh, just go try to exercise more, you know, just casually approach this, don't eat so many carbs, that is not serious enough.

Because we know from a preventative standpoint, from a precision longevity standpoint, which is all about prevention, we can prevent you from getting to diabetes in the next 10 years if we're really, really serious. about lifting weights, about cardio health, about anti-inflammatory nutrition, following.

Because we know from a preventative standpoint, from a precision longevity standpoint, which is all about prevention, we can prevent you from getting to diabetes in the next 10 years if we're really, really serious. about lifting weights, about cardio health, about anti-inflammatory nutrition, following.

So I don't view prediabetes as a casual thing at all, because if in 10 years you're going to get diabetes and in 10 more years you're going to have Alzheimer's disease, and I could have prevented that by paying attention when I was 40, It's almost inexcusable that we're not paying more attention to it. 96 million people in the United States have prediabetes. 96 million?

So I don't view prediabetes as a casual thing at all, because if in 10 years you're going to get diabetes and in 10 more years you're going to have Alzheimer's disease, and I could have prevented that by paying attention when I was 40, It's almost inexcusable that we're not paying more attention to it. 96 million people in the United States have prediabetes. 96 million?

96 million, according to the American Diabetes Association. I just gave a talk at their annual convention. 96 million have a preventable characteristic that we can prevent them from becoming diabetic and getting Alzheimer's disease, and yet it is too casually spoken of.

96 million, according to the American Diabetes Association. I just gave a talk at their annual convention. 96 million have a preventable characteristic that we can prevent them from becoming diabetic and getting Alzheimer's disease, and yet it is too casually spoken of.

I was an endurance athlete, and I don't have it today. It ran out. But I'm a little obsessed with continuous glucose monitoring.

I was an endurance athlete, and I don't have it today. It ran out. But I'm a little obsessed with continuous glucose monitoring.