Diabetes symptoms you should look out for
Diabetes Digital Podcast by Food Heaven
Wendy Lopez, Jessica Jones
4.9 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we uncover the most common diabetes symptoms, emphasizing the importance of early detection for preventing complications and enhancing quality of life. We also explore common and less common symptoms, diagnostic factors, and even touch on prediabetes signs.
In This Episode We’ll Cover:
- The staggering statistics and disparities related to diabetes
- The impact of systemic bias and racism in healthcare
- Common and less common symptoms of Type 2 Diabetes
- Early detection of diabetes symptoms and what benefits it brings
- Different diagnostic tests that doctors use to diagnose Type 2 Diabetes
- Practical steps to recognize and address diabetes symptoms
- Signs someone may notice if they have prediabetes + MORE!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Diabetes Digital Podcast. I'm Wendy. |
| 0:03.2 | And I'm Jess and we're best friends, registered dieticians, and diabetes educators. |
| 0:08.0 | Through our telehealth platform, diabetes digital.co, we offer accessible and personalized virtual nutrition counseling for people with diabetes and pre-diabetes. |
| 0:17.0 | Visit diabetes digital.co, that's CO, to book your first appointment. We accept insurance and offer affordable self-pay options. |
| 0:24.7 | Now let's get into today's episode. |
| 0:29.5 | Welcome back to another episode of the Diabetes digital podcast presented by Food Heaven. And today |
| 0:35.8 | is part of our diabetes series. We are talking about some of those silent warning |
| 0:42.3 | signs and symptoms of diabetes because as we |
| 0:46.3 | mentioned last week almost one half of the population has pre-diabetes I |
| 0:51.0 | believe the exact stat is about 37 million people and around 11% |
| 0:56.5 | of the population have diabetes and so many people don't even know that they have it. |
| 1:00.6 | So today we're going to talk about some of those warning signs to help us |
| 1:04.4 | understand if we might be experiencing diabetes. I want to also put out a disclaimer that this |
| 1:11.2 | podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be a |
| 1:16.2 | substitute for any medical advice. |
| 1:19.0 | So Wendy, did you know that about one in five people don't even know that they have diabetes? |
| 1:27.0 | I did know that because in creating diabetes digital I am very up to date with the stats and what's even |
| 1:36.9 | more alarming is that more than half of the US population has diabetes or pre-diabetes. |
| 1:44.3 | That is such a significant amount. |
| 1:47.8 | And we know that with all chronic conditions, |
| 1:51.4 | they typically have a disproportionate impact in black and |
| 1:54.9 | brown communities. U.S. adults overall have a 40% chance of developing type 2 |
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