The Truth About Diabetes, Insulin Resistance, and Weight Loss That No One Told You

Diabetes Isn’t What You Think It Is — It’s Worse

Why Is Diabetes So Common Now?

I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in the early 1990s when I was probably at my heaviest. At that time, I was the only person I knew with diabetes. Now? Almost a BILLION people worldwide have it.

I followed my doctor’s advice, took the meds, watched my sugar, ate “healthy” carbs—and I even lost a pile of weight.

But in 2022, I almost lost my foot to an infection that spread to the bone. And yet, my doctor told me my blood sugars had always been “pretty good.”

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The Real Predator: Insulin Resistance

Here’s what happens:

  • You eat. Your body releases insulin to move sugar into your cells.
  • Over time, your cells stop responding.
  • Your body pumps out even more insulin, trying to force sugar where it no longer fits.
  • The sugar has nowhere to go.

It starts turning into fat — fat in your belly, fat around your organs, and most dangerously, fat in your liver.

This is happening long before your blood sugar ever spikes.
But doctors don’t routinely test insulin levels.
They only test blood sugar — often after the damage has already started.

So when your doctor says, “You’re fine,” what they often mean is: “You’re fine — for now.”
But make no mistake: The fire is already burning.

Fatty Liver Disease: The Hidden Killer Behind Diabetes

Almost every person with type 2 diabetes and prediabetes — already have non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).

Fatty liver is silent.
You usually feel nothing.
No warning signs. No alarms.
Until it’s too late.

By the time you’re diagnosed with diabetes, the liver damage has often been progressing for years.

  • Nerve damage
  • Heart disease
  • Kidney failure
  • Blindness
  • Amputations
  • PCOS
  • Dimentia

These are not “complications” of diabetes.
They are consequences of long-standing insulin resistance and fatty liver disease that were allowed to smoulder unnoticed.

The Truth About Insulin Resistance (Nobody Told You This)

Insulin resistance is the real disease.
It takes decades for insulin resistance to turn into full-blown type 2 diabetes.

If you were diagnosed with diabetes in your 50s, the clock didn’t start ticking last year. You didn’t just wake up one day and BANG! You had diabetes. 
It started in your 20s or 30s — you just didn’t know it.

If you’re overweight and your doctor told you, “Good news, you don’t have diabetes,”
what they really mean is:
Your insulin is still managing to keep up. For now. But that doesn’t mean you’re healthy.
It means your body is fighting a losing battle — behind the scenes — and your fasting insulin levels would likely tell the real story.

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