Welcome to the Doctor Burg, Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast.

Now, your host, the man taking your health to a whole new level.

Doctor Eric Burg.

So today I want to increase your awareness on the term subclinical.

Okay, so let's define what subclinical means.

It's a condition where you have very few of any symptoms and no clinical findings.

That means you go to the doctor and get a blood test, everything comes out normal.

Okay, whereas a clinical disease, you have symptoms and you have clinical findings.

You get a blood test, you find out some problem on your blood test.

What I want to tell you is that a lot of health problems, especially the ones right here, diabetes, hypothyroidism,

adrenal disease, kidney disease, and especially liver disease, start out as a subclinical problem

and then transition into a clinical issue.

So you have the beginning of a liver problem or a blood sugar problem years before it shows up with certain testing.

Now, you may notice some slight fatigue, stiffness, inflammation, but you might consider that normal.

When in fact, it's one of the symptoms of one of these right here.

So let's just take diabetes, for example.

Before you become even a prediabetic, you have insulin resistance.

And there's a great test. It's called HOMA-IR.

This is rarely ever done by your doctor, but it'd be very, very important if diabetes runs in your family.

Because this will pick up insulin resistance and they're going to measure your insulin levels.

Okay, while you're fasting, that's one of the things that they measure.

Which comes way before you become even a prediabetic or diabetic where you have abnormal blood sugars.

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