Pro Triathlete Lionel Sanders diagnosed with prediabetes

Eating carbs and eating TWO POUNDS of sugar in a day are two very different things.

He said he was waking up 8x per night to pee every night for the last 5-6 years. With diabetes being such a big issue in the world, we should really be more informed about the symptoms of elevated glucose and insulin resistance. He didn’t think to see a doc or get bloodwork until now apparently.

LOL
He is a professional Triathlete and never had a blood test done?

That guy needs to learn how to eat properly.

Prediabetes is a scam concocted by the medical industrial complex. Nothing more than profiteering robbery.

Who exactly is making money on a disease with no medication and lifestyle modifications?

Not high carb. Mental health issue. That's enough added sugar for 40 days. Basically over 900 g of added sugar. So either lying, or serious mental health issue.

2 pounds OF PURE SUGAR is crazy. In my highest mileage week I ate 500 or so grams of carbs per day - but a ton from milk, actual fruit (not juice), very low added sugar yogurt, rice, beans, bananas, etc. not almost twice as much just from coke

lol, Dan

I suspect there may be a lot of good athletes who are technically "prediabetic" but never thought to get checked for it, just based on personal experience. I've been a runner all my adult life, typically around 70 mpw with a BMI around 19. Standard bloodwork usually measures fasting glucose but not A1C, and my fasting glucose was always squarely in the middle of the normal range.

Then I got a new primary care physician who decided to check my A1C and it measured 5.7, just into the "prediabetic" range. My diet wasn't the best, but it wasn't terrible. I said OK, I know I'm eating more sugar than is optimal, so I cut way back on sugar and made up those calories largely with fat, remaining at the same weight. One year later my A1C hadn't budged. I decided not to worry about it, but have maintained the lower-sugar diet.

I imagine most lean, fit athletes never get their A1C tested.

…and on related news, Sam Laidlow can’t run 10 minutes without his body shutting down anymore.

Who would have thought that training for and competing in Ironmans can cause long term permanent damage to the body.

I'm guessing the bulk of that sugar is in the form of gels and carbohydrate drinks.

I do think that the running industry (and other adjacent industries) have done a great job of indoctrinating people into thinking that overfuelling (on what is essentially garbage with a sports science-y sounding name) is the right amount of fuelling.

Not in this case. From watching Ari Klau's Youtube video's, he said at one point a 'fuelling tip' he picked up from training with Lionel for a while was to have one of the bottles on his bike filled with just maple syrup for the carbs+sugars, and he was just swigging that straight to fuel him.

Therefore the news in this thread does not surprise me.

Everyone in my family has prediabetes. I keep it under control with running and I eat a healthy diet (which includes a lot of healthy carbs).

There's some level in blood work that at 23 is prediabetic.

Mine was 23 for years. Last blood work it went down to 22.

Live healthy, stay healthy.

And I'm 66 today.

I had read this a while back.

"There is strong evidence that turmeric effectively reduces symptoms of diabetes and could even prevent prediabetic patients from developing type 2 diabetes. Some of these benefits primarily come from turmeric's antioxidant and anti-inflammatory qualities.

Similar for me. I run about 70 miles/week and was eating a lot of carbs. I always stayed away from sugar but had a lot of quinoa, rice potatoes, oats, etc. I had a blood test and my A1C was 5.7. I very significantly cut carbs to under 100 grams a day and tested again 4 months later. My A1C was still 5.7.

My doctor recommended a 2 hour glucose tests and my results were good: 4.5mmol/L (81mg/dL). My bmi is 19.

I'm honestly not sure what to think about all this.

Fasting helps purge diseases. Ivermectin and quercetin help as well.

to the best of my knowledge, the caffeine people are consuming is making their insulin sensitivity worse, making their A1C worse.

i am not saying caffeine is necessarily the primary driver, but it’s playing a role.

caffeine mimics the stress response, mimics a person experiencing a survival emergency. Caffeine elevates cortisol, adrenaline, noradrenaline, so that the body increases breathing rate, increases heart rate, and increases blood glucose.

people somehow are led into the “out of sight, out of mind” excuse for coffee, that once their cup of coffee is consumed, that the chemical impact of coffee is also more or less gone. But the caffeine stays in your system for many hours (keeping you in elevated blood glucose unnecessarily for many hours).

Then they get an A1C test, which measure red blood cell glycation (how coated the RBC’s are with sugar, i.e. how much they’ve been soaking in blood glucose over the last three or four months) and it reads kinda high, which the caffeine habit contributed to.

absolutely nobody wants to hear bad news about their coffee, i get that, but i guess i’m going to be the wet blanket today anyways.

I am