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Re:Aren't we all somewhere on the spectrum of disease? by Jommi on Saturday July 18, 2020 @09:58PM (#23886394)
As far as I understand, this kind of thinking is especially visual with Diabetes.

People have different levels of insulin sensitivity, which changes over time with thing such as diet and excercise.

Then magically one day you cross some arbitrary barrier, and you have type 2 diabetes. Crazy.

Only recently has this even been taken under scrutiny, and the phrase "pre diabetic" is used more. But it's clearly not enough.

I think the key to unlocking this is getting more people into measuring their insulin sensitivity through products like Veri[1]

[1]https://www.veristable.com

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Re:Aren't we all somewhere on the spectrum of disease? by phnofive on Saturday July 18, 2020 @10:37PM (#23886566)
Great example of that barrier is gestational diabetes, which may as well be called secondary type two diabetes.

It’s not a rubicon, either, since it’s so commonly reversible (though this isn’t trivially easy).

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