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If you're one of the over 100 million adults who's currently suffering from pre-diabetes, this is going to be one of the most helpful podcast episodes that you could possibly listen to.

Welcome back to the Nutrition Science Podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Adrian Chavez,

and today we are going to be discussing how to reverse pre-diabetes. Now, I know those are some

bold claims, but I feel confident in making them for a variety of reasons. So first off,

pre-diabetes is the topic that I specialized in during my PhD. I spent four

years reading, researching, writing papers, answering comprehensive exam questions, which were

intense all around this topic of how can we improve and prevent and reverse pre-diabetes, metabolic dysfunction, insulin resistance,

whatever you want to call it. There's a lot of overlap between those specific terms.

But pre-diabetes is the easiest way to define this. So I spent my entire PhD. I was there for four

years. I was reading pretty much every paper available on the topic of nutrition and exercise

and lifestyle habits in order to improve prediabetes, improve blood sugar control,

reverse pre-diabetes, prevent the progression of pre-diabetes into type 2 diabetes.

I got really interested in this topic during my master's degree before I

started my PhD, I read a paper that was called the diabetes prevention program. And this paper showed

that a lifestyle intervention with individuals who were diagnosed with prediabetes was able to

reduce their progression to type 2 diabetes by 60%, which

was better than medication. It was better than any other way to approach it. And this was eye-opening

to me because it showed me that this combination of nutrition and exercise and lifestyle could

have profound effects on people's health. And so I got really interested in that topic

during my PhD. That's all I studied. I've talked about it quite a bit after my PhD as well.

I've worked with lots of clients with pre-diabetes, type 2 diabetes on improving their blood

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