Pre-diabetes is not a straight shot to a diabetes diagnosis. It really is just a warning sign and if you take it the right way and take the right steps you can actually use it as a catalyst to regain your health. The most important thing you can do for your long term health if you are in a pre-diabetic condition is to increase insulin sensitivity by changing your diet and physical activity habits but secondly to boost insulin levels so that you don’t spend so much time with high blood sugar levels.
What many people don’t realize is that diabetes is not simply an elevated blood sugar level which is bad in and of itself; it is actually the damage caused by high blood sugar which leads to a deterioration of the body. When blood sugar gets too high during a spike you could easily go into a coma or worse but if your blood sugar levels are merely too high for too long the damage is very slow to accumulate.
For this reason people who have pre-diabetes, those who have full blown type-2 diabetes, and even those who manage their insulin very carefully tend to live shorter lives. This is mostly due to the damage inflicted by high blood sugar levels throughout a lifetime as well as damage due to chronically high insulin levels, which are used to keep blood sugar under control.
When you are first starting to try and reverse insulin resistance however you want to stop the increase in blood sugar and a good way to do that is to have a little more insulin running through your veins and also to not allow your blood sugar to climb high in the first place. The latter can be accomplished by eating the right foods which are typically found on the low end of the glycemic index but a quick increase of insulin production can be accomplished by eating the right foods as well.
Food science has shown us that the average person can boost insulin levels by a statistically significant amount by simply eating more red cherries or in the case of a pre-diabetic by eating red cherry extract. There is a compound in the cherries which has an affect of boosting insulin output and as a result the extra insulin can help keep blood sugar levels under control.
Only after taking steps to lower fasting blood sugar and increasing insulin resistance can you really truly be healthy. You don’t want to have to rely on insulin injection fro the rest of your life. Take the steps you need to reverse the condition today and you will be a much healthier person for a much longer time.
