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88% of American adults have some degree of insulin resistance.

High blood pressure is an early sign of insulin resistance.

Fat gain, obviously, difficulty losing weight.

Brain fog or fatigue, frequent carb and sugar cravings, sometimes elevated triglycerides.

All of those are going to be those really, really early signs.

And I was like, where's your diabetes medications? Because you have amputations. You have a history of

diabetes. You're not taking any medications. Oh my gosh, let me check your blood sugar because

it's probably raging high. And he's like, I don't need them anymore. I got off of them.

I was like, oh. And he's like, well, I just changed my diet finally. And I stopped eating

a bunch of garbage and I started eating low carb and I reversed my diabetes. And I was like, good for

you. What motivated you to do that? And he's like, I didn't want him to take my other foot because

then I couldn't live independently anymore. You're never too, quote unquote, far gone. It's never too late. You can always change. And for the love of

Pete, if you don't want to do it for yourself, do it for your loved ones. Because there are people

who care about you. There are people who worry about you. And they want the best for you.

So want the best for yourself. Morgan, when somebody's on the insulin resistance continuum, which can last up to 20 years

before they develop full-blown type 2 diabetes, what are the symptoms they're going to notice

when things are happening in a negative way inside the body?

Of course.

So I think one thing would be high blood pressure.

Often that's one of the earliest signs of insulin resistance.

If you're tracing somebody's medication chart, sometimes that blood pressure medication

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