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@surftohealth88 All true. And more important than high blood sugar (which might be a temporary thing) is the HbA1C test, which shows whether your *average* blood sugar over the past 2–3 months has been elevated.
A high reading is a very strong indicator for diabetes or pre-diabetes, something all of us on hormone therapy have to watch for (since ADT changes our metabolism and significantly increases the type-2 diabetes risk).
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Yes, I check both regularly since I genetically have predisposition for insulin resistance.
My sister did that "23 and me" test and she has it too. When I was about 40 years old I had some damage to lingual nerve and I did a ton of tests inclooding insulin resistance test done on my cell culture in a very special lab in TX. Mind you, at that time I was 136 pounds and 5'7" lol and all labs looked ideal BUT, that very specialized test which was done directly on my cell culture showed insulin resistance ! I know for a fact that if I indulged in eating crap and became fat that I would by now be a diabetic person. There is no question about that. So, for 20 years now I am managing to stay healthy regardless of my "genes".
Yes, we have genetic predispositions but we can evade many illnesses by leading a healthy life. Sometimes all precautions do not work, but mostly they do. We can look at the stats both ways - we can acknowledge that about 50% of obese people have diabetes OR we can laugh it off and say that we know of ONE fat aunt that ate cake till she was 100 and had no diabetes - so ... XP ; )